2 chapters across the catalog
A BuzzFeed clip introduces "Mistress Velvet," a dominatrix who incorporates black feminist theory into her BDSM sessions with white men. She requires her "slaves" to write essays on intersectional texts as a way to process their white guilt. The hosts express shock and disgust, arguing that the power dynamic is actually inverted because the white men are paying for a curated experience that makes them feel better.
Mistress Velvet explains that her clients' payments help fund her life and pay back her student loans, which she views as a form of personal reparations. The hosts mock the idea that a white man paying for a "racial domination" fantasy constitutes a clean slate or a solution to systemic issues. They find the re-appropriation of the word "slave" in this context to be deeply problematic.
