Cover Photo: A photograph of an audience listening as if to a speaker. The faces of the audience members are mostly cropped out of frame; the photo focuses on the notebooks in their laps.
Photograph by Sincerely Media/Unsplash

Not Kinky

The audience Q and A begins, and someone asks about the relationship between kink and queerness.

Yes, of course, who is to say what kink is or isn’t. Yes, I too am sexy and transgressive and cool. I am aroused by not Google image searches of the phrase “spanking cartoon.”

fetishspank

kinkBDSM

lived experience

Be more like herBe generous with the art and adorableness of others

that adults

It’s like asking a lesbian if she’d date a man. For us, it’s not a discrete act, or a preference, but a primary means of ascertaining the erotic.

Anne of Green Gables

obvious

the thing

roleplay

awww

Abbey Fenbert is a writer and theater artist in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared online at The Toast, The Offing, McSweeney's, HowlRound and American Theatre.