KinkFest Educational Presenters

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KinkFest 2025 Presenters

These presenters! Wow! The presenters at KinkFest 2025 are going to enhance your skills and expand your thinking. Stay posted for workshops!

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AbundantMischief

https://patreon.com/AbundantMischief https://fetlife.com/users/9833259 https://twitter.com/abundantmischi1 https://www.instagram.com/abundantmischief

AbundantMischief (she/her) is a queer polyamorous toppy switch, gleeful sadomasochist, and enthusiastic boot fetishist. She has been active in the Northeast US kink community for over 16 years. AbundantMischief enjoys bringing crossover knowledge from her two decades of experience as a professional dancer, circus artist, and performing arts educator into her kink teaching. She has taught for Dark Odyssey, TES, TESFest, Tethered Together, IMsLBB, Pragmatic Kink, MAsT: Auckland, CUFF, House of Kush, House of SCK, and Black Rose.

Alain

https://alaintiedred.com https://fetlife.com/users/34324

Alain (he/him) is a European kinkster who landed in Colorado in 2000. He identifies as a rope top, Dominant, Daddy, owner, and primal predator. He has been active in his local kink communities since 1992. In 2002, Alain founded Rope Art Productions, which operates a bondage site, community events, and shibari performances. Currently, he travels and teaches classes on complex and edgier topics including fear play, CNC, primal hunts, and advanced bottoming for rope along with his partner TiedRed.

Alex McGeorge

https://fetlife.com/users/95644

Alex McGeorge (he/him) is a long-standing and active member of the BDSM scenes in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. He taught his first classes at Black Rose in 2004. Currently, he is best known as the co-organizer and event runner for The Crucible's Dungeon 101, where he has been teaching various BDSM topics since 2012. Alex has also taught at events such as the Master/slave Conference, FetFest, CLAW Getaway 2022, and LOCK NY. When he isn't enjoying the suffering of others, Alex works in computer security for a cloud computing provider and enjoys running around in nature.

Alice Sky

https://fetlife.com/users/6858177 https://www.instagram.com/one.time.at.band.camp2/

Alice Sky (she/her) is a Seattle-based rope enthusiast, educator, and model. She started her rope journey in 2016 as a bottom, but has begun topping over the past few years. Alice loves rope bondage for its combination of connection, athleticism, intensity and aesthetics. She has performed at the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival and teaches privately and with Full Circle Kink. She holds a Master’s in Teaching degree, and is passionate about applying her expertise to improving kink education.

Ally Brinken

https://fetlife.com/users/1830571

Ally Brinken (she/they) is a transgender writer, educator, organizer, and former sex worker. She has over a decade of experience in the kink community and a passion for teaching complex topics in a straightforward, risk-aware manner.

Avienda

Avienda (she/her) is presenting with Master WrathDaddy.

BaconXXX

https://www.noblerope.com/

BaconXXX (she/her) entered the kink scene in 2017 after being captivated by watching a Shibari performance. She has since become an avid rope lover and performer herself. Although she is not submissive in any other facet of her life, in her romantic life she entered into a 24/7 D/s relationship with her partner, Noble Manqué. They live together in Portland, OR.

Bootblack Screwball

https://fetlife.com/users/15705675

The Spirit of Smoke

My name is Bootblack Screwball and I’ve been smoking cigars for 10 years. I used to work for Total Wine & More and managed their humidor. I’m the former Vice President of the Ashholes Cigar Club Washington Chapter and the current President and Founder of the Screwball Cigar Club. I’ve been involved in the kink community for the past three years where myself and my boy have been experiencing and teaching cigar play and high protocol service.

Carmen Monoxide

https://fetlife.com/users/2315448

Carmen Monoxide (she/they) is a former teacher with a lifelong passion for the bizarre and filthy. She is a kink professional, event organizer, sex educator, and relationship coach. She has presented for a variety of events, ranging from local events to large conferences across North America. Carmen Monoxide founded Femme Fatale, a kink event company, and throws monthly parties in the Washington, DC area. She sometimes takes her clothes off and performs onstage and on camera, and is passionate about helping people overcome fear and shame in order to have authentic, fulfilling, sexy experiences.

Cecilia T. Winters

https://www.theartofchain.com/ https://fetlife.com/users/4371915

Cecilia T. Winters (she/her) is your typical queer millennial. Born at the start of the internet age, she has always benefited from information at her fingertips. She identifies as bisexual and ethically non-monogamous. She has served as a dungeon and playspace monitor, a demo top for a number of local and national kink events, and a presenter. Her non-kink interests include reading, making lists, watching early 2000s crime dramas, and learning about ancient human cultures.

Danarama

https://creativebdsm.com/ https://fetlife.com/users/34389 https://x.com/danaramaSF https://www.instagram.com/danaramasf/

As a lifestyle Dom, performer, and BDSM educator for more than two decades, Danarama (he/him) has taught at least a million folx how to have better, safer, more creative sex and BDSM, whether in the dungeon or the bedroom. In addition to directing Kink University (Kink.com's educational site), he is a founder of the Two Knotty Boys, a co-teacher for workshops since 1999, and co-author of two best-selling rope bondage books. He has rigged, directed, and performed in hundreds of instructional and hardcore fetish videos. Danarama continues teaching BDSM and sex/intimacy classes online and at conferences worldwide.

Dare Campbell

https://www.learngrowrepeat.ca https://fetlife.com/users/3121

Dare Campbell (they/them) is an educator and coach with over 15 years of experience dedicated to supporting individuals within underserved sexuality and disabled communities, as well as guiding both emerging and established leaders. As both a one-on-one coach and a group educator, Dare employs a peer-based approach to foster community safety, knowledge, and collective care. They have been featured on various podcasts, university panels, and television programs, and have taught at numerous sexuality and kink conferences across North America. In their work, Dare equips participants and clients with practical tools and illustrative examples to help them build self-knowledge and communication skills. Dare advocates for a collaborative approach that emphasizes creating a sense of safety and shared vulnerability, believing it is essential for cultivating meaningful connections, fulfilling relationships, and a love-filled life.

DearCaroline

https://www.etsy.com/shop/needleplayground https://fetlife.com/users/5055101

DearCaroline (she/her) is an avid kinkster and sharps enthusiast who has been active in the kink scene since 2018. Her love for working with sharps led to the opening of her shop NeedlePlayground in 2022 that sells artistic needle play designs and ethically-sourced porcupine quills that have been prepped for play. As a sensualist, hedonist and masochist, Caroline loves to explore the connection between intense physical sensations and deep mental and emotional processing. She uses that connection to create beautiful experiences and art out of pain, either as a solo player or with partners. She is an edge player, heavy bottom, and sharps top who loves to learn about and share her knowledge of all things kinky, especially with those exploring and refining their sense of self through their kink journey.

Eid

https://fetlife.com/users/94165

Eid (he/him) is a hot-wax, heat sensation, rough and tumble, switchy player. Originally from Great Britain, Eid has lived around the world, and now resides in Central California. His fondness for temperature play manifests in various forms: hot wax, fire play, branding, cell-popping, cigar ash, Diet Coke cans and hot rollers (ask him about that experience), and ice. While often on the receiving end of these sensations, Eid concurrently tops and teaches these skills to others with his lady, Ms. J. He loves to work in all locations, from large conventions to local munches, small groups and private one-on-one sessions. Sensational fun is Eid’s style of play, with a focus on intimacy and connection.

Eirikah Delaunay

https://desirealchemy.com https://fetlife.com/users/1436600 https://facebook.com/eirikah.delaunay https://instagram.com/eirikah

Eirikah Delaunay (she/her) is a writer, witch, and sexual rebel who identifies as a queer, polyamorous, pansexual, cisgender woman, Dominant-leaning switch, and sadomasochist. Both/and is her magic word. As the founder of Desire Alchemy, Eirikah is a certified somatic sex and relationship coach. She is an initiated priestess who offers individual, partnered, and group coaching for people curious and excited about using effective communication, magic, sexuality, kink, and/or power exchange relationships as vehicles for personal growth and bliss. She has 30+ years of lifestyle BDSM practice with more than a decade of connection, education, and service in the Seattle sex-positive community, where she served on the Board of the Center for Sex Positive Culture from 2021-2024.

Ember Solaris

https://fetlife.com/users/15467082 https://www.instagram.com/housenoirky/

Ember Solaris (she/they/fae) is an experienced professional and lifestyle Dominant and sadist who blends their expertise in social science with a passion for kink education. They describe themselves as a burnt out, introverted, nerdy bumbling professor-type dungeon monster who likes being left alone to do consensual evil shit for fun with wonderful, like-minded people. They specialize in researching emotions, interpersonal dynamics, trauma, and addictive behaviors. They frequently offer virtual classes and events, such as Reign of Blood, along with in-person classes. While trained in various therapy modalities, their focus is on research. They are almost always accompanied by their Primal Mate, Soren, with whom they switch. They explore various types of S&M, edge play, Femdom, and more with their play partners (known affectionately as the hoard of murder ducklings).

Fischer Garrett

https://www.theartofchain.com/ https://fetlife.com/users/454514

Fischer Garrett (he/him) is a bisexual, polyamorous top. His time spent in the lifestyle has led him through a journey of self discovery, from once being totally monogamous to being a relationship anarchist; from wanting nothing to do with bondage to developing a way to practice bondage in a relatively unperformed and under-documented fashion. In the past several years, he has volunteered for larger kink events as a member of a consent incident response team, a dungeon/playspace monitor, and more recently, as a presenter. He is a huge fan of costumes and masks, and it is not unusual to know that he is around, often in clever and sometimes strange disguises.

Frey

I’d Hit That: Spanking From the Sensual to Sadistic

Frey (they/them) is a dynamic and delightfully bratty bottom with a knack for novel and fascinating responses to pain—sure to entertain the gleeful sadist and response slut in us all. With six years of experience in kink, they love sharing their knowledge, sass and enthusiasm with the world.

Frrrankie

Frrrankie (they/them) is a top/Dominant leaning mixed-POC hard femme queer, who has been an active member of the Bay Area scene for nearly 15 years. Enthusiastic and experimental, they enjoy co-creating scenes that are inventive, hot and deeply intentional. They are happiest when they have a “job” in community, and have contributed through volunteer work with SF Queer Leather Happy Hour and serving on the production team for the Ms. SF Leather competition.

Hitchin' Kitten

https://fetlife.com/users/8184778

Small But Mighty: Microbondage for Fingers, Toes and Faces

Hitchin’ Kitten (they/she) is a kitten-ish rope witch and sadomasochistic switch that likes her kink to be whimsically delicious. Her kink is connection, and rope is the path she takes to get there. Her approach to rope focuses on movement, foundational concepts, and functionality to encourage accessible, connective and collaborative improvisation in rope practice and beyond. HK was a facilitator of Hitchin’ Bitches PDX (Portland, OR) from 2018-2024, and now provides public rope events, private and group rope instruction, and tastings at events.

Insignia

https://fetlife.com/users/12116683 https://www.instagram.com/insignia.00/

Insignia (she/her) is a Bay Area rope bottom, performer, and professional movement educator who believes that every body can be a rope body. Using principles of athletic training, corrective exercise, and sports medicine, we can make rope more accessible and sustainable for a wider array of body types. Insignia has over 15 years of experience performing and teaching elite athletics, classical dance, resistance training, dynamic flexibility, and corrective movement.

Jeff

Jeff and John Pendal have been playing together since 2004, when Jeff said that he didn't play with titleholders and John went and hid his IML vest in the car. Jeff is John's demo top in all his workshops in North America. Jeff has presented at Inferno and other Chicago Hellfire events.

John Pendal

https://www.johnpendal.com/ https://fetlife.com/users/5734906 https://www.facebook.com/johnpendal.coach

Experienced BDSM educator John Pendal joins us all the way from England, UK. In 2003, John won the 25th annual International Mr. Leather contest in Chicago. Since then, he has travelled extensively leading workshops, giving speeches, hosting events, or performing kinky stand-up comedy. Amongst others, John has taught BDSM workshops at Beyond Leather in Fort Lauderdale; Darklands, Antwerp; Down An' Dirty in Melbourne, Australia; HunCon in Budapest; Kinkferansen in Oslo; Lupercalia in Canada; Mr. Leatherman Toronto; Rome BDSM Conference; SM Bergen, Norway; Tribal Fire in Oklahoma; and for twelve years at Thunder in the Mountains in Denver, CO.

Lee Harrington

http://www.PassionAndSoul.com https://fetlife.com/users/24336 https://x.com/passionandsoul https://www.facebook.com/lee.harringon https://www.instagram.com/passionandsoul/

Lee Harrington (he/they) is an international spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist, and award-winning author and editor on erotic and sacred experience. His books include “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” (with Mollena Williams), “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” “Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities,” and “Become Your Own Beloved: A Guide to Delighting In Self Connection,” amongst many others. Lee has been a passion instigator, academic, adult film performer, world class sexual adventurer, outspoken philosopher, polytheist priest/ess, kink/bondage coach, and has been blogging about sex and spirit since 1998.

Little Chaoss

Little Chaoss (she/her) is a submissive serving the San Francisco scene with style and a smile. Her D/s journey has spanned approximately six years solely as a submissive, bottom, and masochist. She has demo bottomed for numerous international BDSM and bondage workshops. Her expertise aligns with her enthusiasm for bottoming and submission, protocol, anal sex and stretching, and many forms of impact and bondage. As an educator serving submissives and bottoms, her motivation is to equip her peers with valuable information so they are able to safely explore BDSM.

Luna Matatas

https://lunamatatas.com/ www.twitter.com/lunamatatas www.instagram.com/lunamatatas https://www.instagram.com/lunamatatas/

All workshops to be presented free to attendees via zoom after KinkFest. Please watch for your emailed invitation.

Luna Matatas (she/her) is a sex and kink educator with over 15 years of experience teaching sex and empowerment workshops internationally. She celebrates body confidence, self-adoration, and building shame-free pleasure in and out of the bedroom. Luna is a creator and facilitator of over 35 'Sexy Skills' on-demand webinars that help people navigate the adult sex education skills we all need. She teaches a range of pleasure-based topics from how to have threesomes, developing erotic dominance and submission skills, to seducing the butt and more. Coming from a background in public health, Luna prioritizes relatable, inclusive and accurate information to create and continue conversations. She has worked in Eastern and Southern Africa, Canada, the US, and through virtual education in over 20 countries. She created Peg the Patriarchy® as part of her sex-positive and feminist merchandise.

Maeve McBride

https://www.maevemcbride.com/ https://fetlife.com/users/13527208 https://www.instagram.com/MaeveMcBridePDX

Maeve McBride (she/they) is a kink educator, erotic coach, sexological herbalist, and Executive Director of KinkFest 2025. With over 22 years of experience exploring the intersections of kink, sacred sex, trauma healing, and personal alchemy, Maeve brings a unique, holistic approach to her work. As a compassionate and playful switch-witch, they are dedicated to helping people of all identities and orientations reach their health, erotic, and sexual goals. Maeve combines evidence-based teaching, anatomy insights, mind-body-spirit healing techniques, and practical communication tools to create a safe, non-judgmental space for exploration and growth. Whether working with individuals or leading workshops, Maeve’s goal is to empower students and clients to build personalized toolkits that support their unique needs, foster self-empowerment, and embrace pleasure in all its forms.

Master Devyn Stone

https://DevynStone.com https://fetlife.com/users/1571357 https://twitter.com/TheDevynStone https://www.facebook.com/MrDevynStone https://www.instagram.com/devyn.stone/

Master Devyn Stone (he/him) is an author, educator, and JEDI consultant. He is a Leatherman, extrovert, a Sons of Anarchy fan, and a foodie. He enjoys organizing events and moderating! He's been practicing authority transfer dynamics since 2004. Today he lives in Detroit with his property, Guan-Xuan. Devyn has authored multiple concise and easy-to-digest BDSM "how-to" books. He is the founder of Pragmatically Kinking and the executive producer for THRIVE. Master Stone has a passion for giving and receiving education. His favorite topics to speak on include leadership, authority transfer, and neurodivergence.

Master WrathDaddy

https://fetlife.com/users/2808435 https://www.facebook.com/magister.iraepater

Master WrathDaddy (he/him) is the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 Heartland Person of Leather, a horror and erotica author, former heavyweight kickboxing champion, former MMA trainer, owner and proprietor of The Bacchanal (Austin’s community dungeon), and a badass motherfucker who enjoys doing badass shit with other badass motherfuckers. He has been a full-time and active member of Austin’s BDSM community since 2013, though he has been in and out of the kink community since 1991. Since then he has been a 2015-2016 board member at large for Group With No Name (GWNN) - one of Austin's oldest and largest BDSM groups, co-chairman of the GWNN Bash in 2015 and 2016, a mentor in the Austin Mentor's Program, and has presented workshops for SAADE, GWNN, Desert Dominion, Flame Conference, Wicked Grounds, Threshold, Master Slave Conference, KinkFest, Colorado Leather Fest, Oklahoma Leather Fest, and many other local, national and international groups.

Midori

https://planetmidori.com/ https://fetlife.com/users/62156 https://www.facebook.com/PlanetMidori/ https://www.instagram.com/planetmidori/

Midori (she/her) is a renowned educator and writer on sexuality. Her reputation as an authority and leading expert on alternative pleasures stems not only from her unique and entertaining process of teaching concrete skills, but from her ability to deconstruct and distill complex matters of desire into surprisingly accessible lessons with eloquence and humanity. She’s known for tackling challenging topics with fresh and relevant insights. She calls this her “head-heart-hands” method to create a space where people are allowed individual self-exploration. Fundamentally she is motivated by helping people to create authentic and intimate relationships while emphasizing self-actualization, shame reduction, acceptance and justice.

Miz Tee

https://fetlife.com/users/14330

*INTENSIVE* Needle Bondage

Miz Tee (she/her) is a leatherwoman who knows when to be serious and when a giggle fit might enhance a scene. She likes theatricality, but dislikes drama and historically avoids it. While Miz Tee does not claim to be an expert in any specific area of her kinky interests, she seizes every opportunity to practice and improve her skills. Being active in kink on several different levels for over 35 years has given her the opportunity to make a few mistakes and learn from them. Based in Rainier, OR, she currently serves on the board of PLA as the co-chair of Education, as well as has experience on the board of Leatherwoods Inc. and its events. She has taken on roles such as volunteer and vendor coordinator, as well as DM, for Leatherwoods. Miz Tee has presented at numerous events including Leatherwoods, Leather Reign, Paradise, Renegade’s Rendezvous, Bad Girls, PLA, KinkFest, multiple munches, and any tasting events she is asked to attend. She embraces joy and laughter with her kink, but deeply enjoys some very serious play as well.

Ms. J

https://fetlife.com/users/39643

Ms. J (she/her) identifies as a community educator, sensual sadist, the Nana-Dragon pyromaniac, Agent of Chaos, Mama Bear to many, Mother of Kittehs to her furry mobsters, a self-proclaimed Connection Junkie, purveyor of bruise poking and hair pulling, a bus-driving RACK-playing mostly toppy kinda girl, the Happy Bouncy Sadist, and a blissfully married monogamish human. This Fire Maven is versed in most types of flame skills, from burner and flow to vanilla and kinky. As an educator and player, Ms. J is likely best known for her kinky fireplay passion. However she also enjoys rough body play coupled with soft and gentle contact for the ultimate mind fuck in impact play, blade play with a sharp and shiny to slice off your clothes, the sticky sloppy wet sensations of food play, and drive-by dork play. Want to make her day? Ask her to slap you!

Mx Wilcox

https://fetlife.com/users/52805 https://www.facebook.com/mx.wilcox.9

Mx Wilcox (xe/xir), known as Ponymixtress Rebecca, is the author of "The Human Pony" published by Greenery Press in 2008. Xe holds the 2009 North American Pony and Trainer leather title with Submissann for the Great Lakes Leather Alliance. Wilcox started xir pony legacy in 2004, joining the SF Stampede where one thing led to another to span 20 years of pony joy. This includes starting the Northern California (Human) Fox Hunt, which became the Chase. Wilcox believes that pony play and BDSM play can help us live the deepest passion burning in the soul and spiritual bliss through love. Xir favorite moment was recognizing that xe is a pony play grandparent.

Mx. Pucks A'Plenty

https://www.mxpucksaplenty.com/ https://fetlife.com/users/2479549 https://www.instagram.com/thehedonistrealist/ https://www.facebook.com/MxPucksAPlenty https://www.instagram.com/pucksaplenty/

Service With a Smile

Mx. Pucks A’Plenty (they/them) is the founder and executive director of Puckduction Black & Queer Arts and Production Organization. They have been recently ranked #17 most influential burlesque figure in the world by 21st Century Burlesque Magazine. When they aren’t burlesquin’, Pucks is a sex educator and activist. You can catch them on Instagram under @_sexuali.tea_ as co-host to an intersectional sex education podcast with a mission to ‘queer up’ sex ed. They run the FemDom lifestyle group, Diadem-Events, which features play parties, workshops, high protocol teas, and socials. They have taught at Leather Reign, Virtual Intimacy Retreat 3, The Gathering NW, the BDSM Writers' Con, and Thrive Conference. They have been a guest speaker at Brown University, Planned Parenthood of New York, and the University of Washington. Pucks is black, queer, nonbinary femme raising a kiddo in the suburbs with their service daddy and their sub.

MxBliss

https://legallyboundgroup.com/ https://boundbliss.com/ https://www.instagram.com/MxBoundBliss

BDSM and the Law

Mx Bliss (she/they) is a gleeful Dominant, sensation empath, consent enthusiast, rope switch, and quinkster (queer kinkster). She is an attorney, dominance/executive coach, performance artist, and BDSM educator. She also produces the Jiffy Kink events. MxBliss presents on a wide range of BDSM and rope topics but especially loves matchmaking and presenting information about negotiation, consent, and law.

Noble Manqué

https://www.noblerope.com/

Noble (he/him) has been exploring his fascination with consensual Dominance/submission hierarchies, kinky play, and erotic rope bondage for over five decades. He has been a full-time kink educator since 2008 when he established Noble Rope Arts. Noble is recognized as a thoughtful instructor with an ability to convey complicated information in accessible ways. His goal in teaching is to encourage people to learn how to safely explore BDSM play as a powerful means of connecting deeply with their play partners and themselves. He creates erotic art and teaches rope bondage and other kink skills in Portland, OR.

OrionVerse

https://toloveandplay.com/ https://fetlife.com/users/5917964

OrionVerse (he/him) is a trans/queer kink and sexuality educator who has been in the scene since 2016. He has a passion for community building, organization and education in both his home community on the East Coast and beyond. He loves engaging with edgeplay and takes an approach that focuses on risk mitigation and exploring the nuances of play and authentic connection.

Pony Tromper

https://fetlife.com/users/533847 https://x.com/PonyTromper https://www.facebook.com/tromper.bluroan.9

Pony Tromper (he/him) is an enthusiastic ponyboy, leatherman and educator who has been active in the leather and pony play scenes for over 25 years. Tromper has a service-oriented pony heart, which he tries to express by setting a positive, visible example of dependable service in the Pony, Pet, and Leather communities. He is deeply honored to serve his community as the North American Pony 2020-2022 title holder, and is a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Pony Herd (RMPH), based out of Denver, CO. Pony Tromper loves to talk about any and all aspects of pony play, and is particularly passionate about access to the community.

Provocations

https://fetlife.com/users/2740113 https://www.instagram.com/tie_rope_take_photo

Provocations (he/him) is a rope top and kink educator from Seattle. He loves creative rope suspensions, intense floor ties, tossing people around, and nerding out about technique. He has been tying since 2015 and teaching since 2018.

Shay Tiziano

https://www.twistedwindows.com/shay-tiziano https://fetlife.com/users/91613 https://x.com/ShayBlondie https://www.facebook.com/shaytiziano https://www.instagram.com/shaytiziano/

Shay Tiziano (she/her or they/them) is a renowned bondage performer, presenter, producer, and self-suspender known for their innovative, intense performances and friendly, attainable, and risk-awareness-focused approach to kink education. She is the author of “Tying & Flying,” the first-ever book about self-suspension; “Creating Captivating Classes,” the first-ever book specifically for kink educators; and editor of the anthology “Soaring & Exploring.” Based in San Francisco, Shay is the stages and entertainment co-lead for the Folsom Street Fair and produces the acclaimed bondage and fetish performance event Twisted Windows. She has curated performance showcases for events including the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Tethered Together, Ropecraft, the SF Mint, Dark Odyssey, and San Francisco Pride.

Soren Solaris

Soren got their first taste of kink at the same time they first tasted their (now long-term) partner, Ember. Their friends to lovers with a bookworm trope ended up not being as innocent as one might have thought at first. Today, Soren identifies as a Primal Sadist and occasional switch with a deep love for body work, rough body play, tastefully brutal impact, etc. They are a phlebotomist with a needle phobia who still does sharps, and can always be found following Ember around with snacks and a water bottle to make sure Em doesn't get into too much trouble. Soren frequently assists Ember with her classes in various capacities, and spoils the murder ducklings at every chance they get.

Tes

Small But Mighty: Microbondage for Fingers, Toes and Faces

Tes (she/her) is a rope switch, though she has leaned heavily towards rope bottoming since beginning her rope suspension journey in 2009. Since then, she has performed, led and demo'd for rope workshops focused on a range of rope skills - from hair suspension, escape bondage, and predicament DIY to improvisational partner rope dance, self suspension, torture ties, and suffering in rope.

TiedRed

https://alaintiedred.com https://fetlife.com/users/1609339

TiedRed (she/her) is a vivacious and enthusiastic bottom who is deeply passionate about building a community that facilitates quality human connections. In 2014, she dove headfirst into her local public BDSM community, and has since spent much of her free time trying to be the supportive kinkster she would have leaned on when she first entered the scene. To further this resolve, she founded the popular group Denver Ms. Kinky Scouts (yes, there were kinky patches and ball-gag cookies) in 2016, and proudly earned the title of Ms. Leather Colorado 2018. She thrives in mentally challenging bondage and playing in the taboo realm of CNC. Her educational passion lies in promoting real-world bottoming skills. Today, she is investing her time in mental peace, enjoying days in the sun, eliciting laughter, and pushing her limits in diverse ways.

Wintersong Tashlin

https://wintertashlin.com/ https://fetlife.com/users/95857

Wintersong Tashlin (they/them) is a presenter and spirit worker who has been teaching and running rituals for close to two decades. Their classes cover a variety of erotic, spiritual, and sexual topics. Winter specializes in playing with penises, needle play, polyamory, roleplaying, communication, and playing with unusual fetishes; as well as LGBTQ issues, trans/cis relationships, disability, and erotic and non-erotic spiritual practices. Winter’s extensive presenting history includes kink/BDSM, LGBTQ, and pagan events, with appearances on the Vice Guide to Sex, The History Channel, UK5, and the Risk! Podcast. Their spiritual work frequently focuses on processes of transformation, ordeal, and connection between people and the divine.

Yeti

I’d Hit That: Spanking From the Sensual to Sadistic

Yeti (he/him) is a neurodivergent sadist with a kink list as eclectic and diverse as his project lists tend to be. Once in the healthcare field, now a chef who surrounds himself with healthcare professionals, he continues to seek up-to-date, evidence-based information. He has been a part of the Portland community for nearly 15 years. He can be described as a polyamorous Dominant who enjoys the energy from playing and the variety of reactions play can bring forth: swearing, kicking, dancing around, begging, growling, etc. He continues to threaten play partners with new and increasingly more creative sadistic scenes to elicit these reactions. He revels in discovering new ways to create pleasure through pain and fostering the connection that goes beyond the marks on flesh.

Zee

https://call-me-z.com/ https://fetlife.com/callme_z/

Zee (he/they) has been in the kink community since turning 18, nearly two decades ago, upon stepping into the old SF Citadel. He has been teaching both in and outside of kink since he was in high school, and in the kink world since his early 20s, as well as serving as both a house top and house bottom. During COVID-19, he decided to focus more energy on kink community education and has spent the last three and a half years pursuing that at fullsteam with private and public engagements, including a very well-received Ion class last year. Zee teaches classes for the newest newbies and seasoned kinksters alike for organizations like Society of Janus, Wicked Grounds, After Dark Events, and Bonobo Network, as well as private engagements and coaching. He has been designing the classes he's wanted to see as a queer impact switch. His classes focus on edutainment - come for the material, but stay for the fun and highly relevant demos!

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