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  20 Years of Kink at the Dallas Fetish Ball

  November 19 at 11:09 a.m.

  Twenty nineteen has been a year of significant milestones for The Church. In July the venue, celebrated its 25th anniversary and this past weekend its signature event, the Dallas Fetish Ball turned 20. As it has been every year the talent assembled was an international affair. Headliners included shibari performer Saki Kamijoo from Kobe, Japan, and an aerial performance by Cervena Fox from London, U.K. The weekend also included performances by Marlo Marquise, Marnie Scarlet, show producer Courtney Crave, Allen Falkner, Edee Yumm, Onyx Fury, Melissa Meaow, Justin F. Credible, Skinny Redhead, Madam Lush and a fashion show by the latex fashion brand Torture Garden. Photos by Roderick Pullum

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  Dallas Fetish Ball Is Back and Will Offer a Spanking Booth, Torture Garden

  November 12 at 4 a.m.

  There aren’t many places in public where people could get away with wearing a gimp suit or fetish wear, but the 2019 Dallas Fetish Ball 20th Anniversary is encouraging people to squeeze into the sluttiest, freakiest and kinkiest shit they got tucked back in the corner of their closet. The...

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  A Transgender Woman Explains the Biggest Misconceptions Toward Trans Individuals

  November 7 at 4 a.m.

  Editor's note: Thoele Sarradet is a Dallas-based comic artist and poet. She spends her time reading books about mythology, wandering groves and practicing sword fighting. After many years of dealing with dysphoria and unpacking social stigmas, she came out as transgender through a ritual ceremony on her 21st birthday.

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  New Book Says Birth Control Changes Women’s Brains and We Need to Understand How

  October 31 at 4 a.m.

  Hormone-based birth control has a much more nuanced and wide-spread effect on women’s brains than we commonly think, according to a new book written by Texas Christian University Research Psychologist Sarah E. Hill.

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  A Dallas Exotic Dancer Dressed as a Dinosaur Wins Halloween

  October 29 at 4 a.m.

  Some strip clubs really cater to every type of fetish. If yours fall on the old-timey side, like the really old, prehistoric-timey side of vintage bestiality, then you missed quite the show at Bucks Cabaret in Dallas this past weekend, when a video straight from Ross Geller's fantasies went viral...

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  Jazz Singer Lizzi Trumbore Stands Up for Women After Experiencing Sexism at UNT

  September 18 at 4 a.m.

  Lizzi Trumbore walks into a McDonald’s and confronts an internal conflict. “I had to ask myself, ‘Should I buy something?’” she reflects later, sitting in that same Mickey D’s. “On the one hand, McDonald’s is this big corporation. They don’t need my money. On the other hand, I feel weird...