Mistress Velvet isn’t like the other dominatrixes in the BDSM community. When clients enter her dungeon, not only are they paying for sexual pleasure, but they’re also getting a lesson in Black feminist theory because she has a Master’s in interdisciplinary studies.
At first glance, it might seem like the whole arrangement glorifies racial fetishism. Mistress Velvet initially felt conflicted about the idea when a client phrased her services as “reparations” because for her, the term has always been a meaningful, material thing that involves a redistribution of wealth.
“I started to think about expanding what reparations could look like besides this concept of 40 acres and mule — that reparations could be on a spectrum and have value,” she says. “As a person that experiences a lot of racism, white supremacist things, and is always combating white cis heteronormativity, it started to feel really good to be sustaining my life and survival from the funds I was getting from white men.” Watch her interview in the video below.
Source of the Article : BuzzFeed NEWS & PaperMag.
