SoundsKinky: A Leather Oral History
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Staff
Jim Drew
Editor, Webmaster
Rusty Jones
Assistant Editor
Volunteer
The first and best way you can Volunteer is to tell us your leather stories!  The more content this site has, the more useful it will be.  And we know you have leather stories to tell.  (We all do.)  Click on QUESTIONS for info on the sort of leather stories we want to include and how to send them to us.
We can also use volunteer labor to help SoundsKinky work better.  If you have skills as an editor, indexer, or proofreader, we can certainly use your assistance.  Over time, we will acquire audio and video files as part of the SoundsKinky archives: these will need to transcribers for these.  Some of the audio and video will eventually need to be prepared to become streaming content, so skills in those areas would be most useful.  And as our archive of stories grows, we will need database programming to store and serve up the stories efficiently (including providing a search mechanism to paralle the index pages.  If you have any of these skills and would be interested in donating your services – even if only a few hours a month – please contact us at volunteer@soundskinky.com.
Donate
You will soon be able to donate money directly to us via PayPal.
In addition to the monthly costs of hosting SoundsKinky, your donations will enable us to expand into supporting streaming audio and video, will support advertising SoundsKinky, and will provide for equipment purchases such as audio and video recording devices to better enable us to gather leather stories.
Merchandise
Nothing gets people talking faster than saying “SoundsKinky”!
In a couple weeks, you will be able to purchase SoundsKinky items such as t-shirts, baseball caps, and coffee mugs via CaféPress.
Links
There are a number of other Leather History and general Oral History websites out there.  Here are a few:
Leather Archives & Museum: The premier repository of artifacts and information about the history of the Leather Community, housed in Chicago.
Oregon Leather History Project: The historical archives of the Oregon Leather Community.
StoryCorps: An oral history project with a recording both in Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
LeatherHistory: A Yahoo! Group focusing on Leather History.
The Leather Research Reference Shelf: An umbrella site for leather culture research.
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