Exploring the Leather Library: A Week in Un/Common Sexuality

Risk-Aware Consensual Kink (RACK), the University of Chicago's official BDSM club, and its community partners (LRA and Trident International Windy City) are pleased to announce the upcoming arrival of the Carter-Johnson Leather Library, a 10,000 piece traveling library featuring artwork, books, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, club and event pins, posters, and various other materials that reveal the myriad paths of alternative sexuality from the 1700s to today. The collection covers everything from 18th century writings on the intersection of pain and pleasure to pulp erotica from the 1930s and '40s, on up to complete series runs of LGBTQ and kinky pansexual magazines like Drummer, Cuir Underground, and Black Leather in Color.

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