Our Chosen Ancestry: Those Who Came Before

More Reflections on South Plains LeatherFest, and the incomparable Mama Vi Johnson

At South Plains LeatherFest a couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending a keynote brunch by Mama Vi Johnson. It was inspiring for some very personal reasons (which I will go into later), but it made me think a lot about the kink community as a whole, and how so much of it is a chosen family. Even if we don’t identity as LGBTQIA+, aspects of …