Sustainability is for our BDSM wardrobe, too
From DIY workshops to latex repair, there are ways to get off without fucking the planet too. WORDS BY JACK WILLIAMS HEADER DESIGN BY ANISA CLEAVER In March this year, Sheffield collective LeatherDyke held their first DIY Kink Gear Workshop.
In preparation, co-founders Holly, Steph and Lily – all “local dykes and self-proclaimed perverts” – visited bike repair shops across the city, sourcing inner tubes and unusable tyres to go alongside the chains, o-rings and carabiners they’d bought from Wickes.
Later that week, LeatherDyke’s club night would create a safe, sexy space to show off the resulting looks. The workshop attracted dozens of eager, curious locals.
Some were experienced at making their own kink gear; others were comparative novices, keen to learn. “We introduced some of the tools we’d brought, and then showed a few examples of gear that we’d made,” Holly tells GAY TIMES. “Then, it was kind of a free-for-all.
