{"id":14200,"date":"2014-06-10T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T13:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=14200"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:13","slug":"prof-ummni-khan-discusses-kink-in-the-daily-xtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2014\/prof-ummni-khan-discusses-kink-in-the-daily-xtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Ummni Khan discusses &#8216;kink&#8217; in The Daily Xtra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Prof. Ummni Khan discusses &#8216;kink&#8217; in The Daily Xtra\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>What is &#8216;kink&#8217;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/law\/people\/khan-ummni\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ummni Khan<\/a><\/strong> explores the perceived &#8216;touchy&#8217; topic in an interview featured in the <strong><em>The Daily<\/em> <em>Xtra<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dailyxtra.com\/ottawa\/news\/self-harm-from-bdsm-suspect-from-extreme-sports\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why is self-harm from BDSM more suspect than from extreme sports?<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, written by Adrienne Asach, was published just the past Monday (June 9). In it, Prof. Khan discusses the legal and social implications of being kinky and kink\u2019s intersection with queerness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interview is timely, providing a suggestive nod to the upcoming launch for Prof. Khan&#8217;s new book, <strong><em>Vicarious Kinks: S\/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary<\/em><\/strong>. All are welcome to attend the launch event, which takes place Wednesday (June 11) at <strong>Venus Envy<\/strong> (226 Bank St, Ottawa) at 7pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;kink&#8217;? Professor Ummni Khan explores the perceived &#8216;touchy&#8217; topic in an interview featured in the The Daily Xtra. The article entitled, &#8220;Why is self-harm from BDSM more suspect than from extreme sports?&#8220;, written by Adrienne Asach, was published just the past Monday (June 9). In it, Prof. Khan discusses the legal and social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14204,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions\/14204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}