De-Colonizing Cluster B: Neurodiversity, Consent, and Erotic Power

Cluster B traits are often framed through a pathology-based lens that emphasizes disorder, manipulation, and relational danger, especially within erotic and power-based relationships. This class offers a neurodiversity-affirming and decolonizing framework for understanding Cluster B traits in the context of BDSM, consent, and negotiated power exchange.

Drawing on lived experience, kink-informed consent models, and critiques of neuro-normativity in therapeutic practice, we will explore how explicit dominance, role clarity, and consensual power dynamics can sometimes provide containment, accountability, and relational transparency where implicit relational norms fail.

This class examines how colonial and carceral mental health models pathologize desire, intensity, and control, and how ethical BDSM can offer alternative relational structures grounded in consent, agency, and responsibility.

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