sunfishcakes 's review for:

The Color of Kink: Black Women, Bdsm, and Pornography by Ariane Cruz

3.0

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Probably too dense for my level of knowledge on these subjects. I'm not sure how I agree with certain ideas, such as the implicit positioning of sexual queerness as particularly radical, and I was more interested in the first third of the book, but I respect the approach Cruz took in trying to analyze these topics with a nonjudgmental but still critical lens. Though for a book about Black women and sexuality and very explicitly about including them in the discourse, it felt like its scope wandered away from them for significant portions that didn't really pay off.