Building Together
So often in our culture, we stumble into our relationships. We meet, greet, fall in love- and simply expect it to work. Relationships that are built on dominance, submission, power exchange, control and surrender are profoundly radical not because they are non-egalitarian. Non-egalitarian relationships are as old as time itself, and as someone who was raised with firm feminist ideologies, I can clearly see the destructive and corrupt nature of non-equal dynamics. What makes consensually constructed non-egalitarian relationships radical is that they are constructed. They are built. They are designed. With eyes wide open, two or more individuals set out…