Leora Fridman (AB, '07) is author of Bound Up: On Kink Power and Belonging, a work of autotheoretical nonfiction drawing on Leora's experiences as an American Jew experimenting with Nazi kink and roleplay, weaving these with critical theories of gender, queerness, diaspora and memory toward a wider conversation about how sexuality and embodied practices meet historical oppressions. What kind of healing can take place in the relational and physical realm? How can intimacy contradict and complement the process of political reparations? How do we integrate shifts in victim vs oppressor roles as history unfolds?

Leora will be reading from her book at Riffraff Bookstore on 20 October 2024 at 6 pm and will be joined in conversation by DJ, sound designer and curator Micah Salkind. Riffraff is located at 60 Valley Street # 107A, Providence, RI.