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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 07/01/2026

Seattle! We're hosting a leather market at the end of the month! Come give all your money to a bunch of incredible leatherworkers and artists! We'll have some mini workshops and demos, and we'll be selling our zines as well!

A grainy black and white photo of a dyke in black leather pants holding a knife at their side. Text in red reads "T Slur Collective's Seattle Leather Market. Jan 31, 11am to 4:30pm. 18+, masks required and provided, no entry fee. Kink Center, 814 E Pike St."

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 01/07/2025

We've started uploading scans of our small collection of magazines that are important to us as leatherdykes to the Internet Archive, and we wanted to start with Venus Infers Vol. 1 No. 1

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 21/04/2025

While leatherdyke history has been buried by decades of censorship, the role played by trans women in the leather scene has been doubly suppressed. But we've always been here. If you're at IMsLBB this year, make sure to catch chastity vale's talk on trans leatherdyke history!

Another promotional image, this time a bio for chastity vale. From the top of the image to the bottom, there is text reading "presenter chastity vale she/her", then a photo of chastity in a leather jacket sitting on the floor and tying her Sir's boots placed next to the text "chastity vale (she/her) is a white leatherdyke, a submissive, a trans woman, a dyke and a faggot. she is an artist working mostly in fiction and video, a writer, and a leather archivist and historian. her research has focused on trans women, inclusivity in leather, and submission. she believes that honesty about desire can be radical, rebellious, and liberatory. chastity fucks in Seattle, Washington. she flags red, teal, black, and purple on the right."

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 01/02/2025

Thursday night 🥰🥰, Ze always knows what i want

A forearm and hand. The hand has black stiletto nails. The forearm is covered in little round bruises. In the background a leg covered in bruises can be seen

A forearm next to a thigh. The thigh and forearm are covered in perfectly round bruises

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 30/01/2025

Leather, rope, poppers, estradiol.

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 27/01/2025

Supremely worshipful 🙏🙏 (Those indents are due to a spiked crusher hehe)

A trans woman’s clit, semi erect. A series of deep indents can be seen up her clit. In the background several clothespins, several leather belts, and rosary beads on a bed can be seen.

A trans woman’s thigh. Marks can be seen in her flesh. In the background rosary beads are gleaming

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Elise Graves @elisegraves.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

excellent thread full of great sharps advice from a pro

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 20/01/2025

Found a photo by Karlheinz Weinberger while looking for info about Levi's and denim in the leather scene that GOES SO HARD

A black and white photo from the 60s focusing on the crotch of a person wearing loose jeans and what looks like a fringed, suede vest. The crotch of the jeans is held closed by three large nuts and bolts.

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 18/01/2025

i was good on Friday, so i earned some bruises 🙏🙇‍♀️

A trans woman lying on her back on a wood floor, shot from the right. In her thighs are some small bruises. She has tattoos on either hip: on one side a pair of bound hands, on the other a pair of hands holding a crucifix. Her hands are behind her head, with her elbows forward. Her clit is out and uncovered, and a ring is pierced through its head.

A trans woman lying on her back on a wood floor, shot from the left. Similar to the other image, small bruises can be seen in her thighs.

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 13/01/2025

To quote from her essay: "I'm a dyke, woman, female. I love women, other dykes. Some dykes love me."

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 13/01/2025

she was in those debates using the terms they set. She cedes so many points, accepts so many false premises, in the spaces that she needed and needed her. Tala passed away in 2015 and is incredibly important to our class on trans leatherdykes. Her essay Dyke with a Dick is so important to me.

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 13/01/2025

Tala Brandeis is an interesting, polarizing character. She remains incredibly important to me, personally, as someone who walked down the path i follow now. But wow did she have some bad opinions. She was a trans leatherdyke in a time where trans exclusionists set the terms for the debate, and

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 13/01/2025

Her next paragraph, btw, outlines the issue directly, but i'm hesitant to reprint it here. She claims it is fallacious to believe a man could emerge into womanhood fully formed. This is just radfem shit, Tala is being One Of The Good Ones here, and she's assuming her enemies would give her womanhood

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 13/01/2025

Who will grant you your womanhood? Who granted Tala hers? mine was claimed by me, actively choosing it against societal, social, and political pressures obsessed with denying me that. Who granted me my womanhood? me, i did, fuck you.

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 13/01/2025

More than that tho, the focus on there being a class of woman external to the transsexual woman says that she has to assimilate into a type of womanhood. This is pretty counter to a lot of trans experiences of needing to claim womanhood rather than be granted it, esp. in a transphobic society!

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 13/01/2025

Here you can start seeing the problem. This is paragraph 3, and her position is effectively that "dyke" is a rank. That rank is achievable through some sort social recognition as a dyke, but then also that transsexuals must learn to be a woman. If you squint, you can see "male socialization" in that

I'd like to comment on the difference between self-identity and recognition
by others as that entity. One may enter into the psychology of metamorph
woman, what some call transsexual, and implicitly understand gender iden-
tity as an internal representation with an external representation. If that
internal personification has been relatively stable over the whole of one's
life, then presumably a transsexual is woman even if she's never ingested
hormones or had surgical procedures. However (this is a BIG however), for a
transsexual to be accepted by her social peers as female, .sh /how
to interact, how to communicate with the world as a functioning member
of the class of women. She needs to be recognized by dyke
function as same. Some are. Many aren't. Some are still working on it

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 13/01/2025

Damn Tala, same. Sadly, this whole article is sort of a trainwreck, but Tala's words are worth hearing echoing through time. i'm going to critique them as i go here. Tala was an important SF transsexual leatherdyke, and was a party to a lot of our history. And was in Bloodsisters a lot!

Dykes and (Ugh!) male to Female Transsexuals by Tala Brandeis
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an out S/M leather dyke. My sexual relations are with other leather dykes. Some time ago I made a transition from male gender role to female gender role. Claiming identity as woman, as dyke, angers certain lesbian sep-
aratists. Other people are delighted.

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T Slur Collective @leatherdyke.gay · 13/01/2025

The Outcasts! The Outcasts were a descendant of Samois, the legendary SF bay area leatherdyke support group responsible for launching the careers of Pat Califia and Gayle Rubin (and which was founded by the very same. Neat that it calls out to transsexual women specifically!