Reposted by CuirAsFolk
Nigel Whitfield has now handed over BLUF after 17 years. We spoke about desire becoming infrastructure, the hidden labour behind queer community, and what happens when caring for it consumes the person doing the caring.
blufbear.blog
When Nigel from BLUF Became Nigel Again
For seventeen years, Nigel Whitfield helped turn BLUF, the Breeches and Leather Uniform Fanclub, from a specialist website into an international leather community. As he steps down, he reflects on desire, belonging, gatekeeping, invisible labour and the personal cost of becoming inseparable from the community he sustained.
