
Addie

Addie is a Vancouver-based rope educators who teach and perform world-wide. Addie is a switch and self-suspension enthusiast. She organizes regular workshops on dynamic self-suspension and versatile education both, for beginners and technically advanced. When co-teaching, she focuses on bottoming information and discourse.
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Kink is Political – Welcomeness
Kink is Political is an online discussion with Addie Tahl, Georg Barkas, Andrea Rimon, and occasional special guests. Participants are invited to join a discussion during which we unite critique with an emphasis on the practical and day-to-day issues and challenges of kink, intimacy, and relationships. Focusing on concepts central to BDSM, leather, rope, and...
Solo Rope: Uplines Galore
This class goes into detail on upline mechanics including when to use which types, the most efficient ways to lock of and access lines while in the air, where and when quick releases can be used (or might even be preferable), line management and organization considerations, freeing up snags, and more. Solo Rope Solo rope...
Kink is Political – Ambiguity
Kink is Political is an online discussion with Addie Tahl, Georg Barkas, Andrea Rimon, and occasional special guests. Participants are invited to join a discussion during which we unite critique with an emphasis on the practical and day-to-day issues and challenges of kink, intimacy, and relationships. Focusing on concepts central to BDSM, leather, rope, and...
Solo Rope: Support Systems
This is a combination class/demo/skill share in adaptive, accessible self-tie techniques. From corsets to cushions to carabiners, Addie will run through a variety of tricks for reducing barriers to self-suspension. There will also be time for participants to share things they have found. The goal is for everyone to leave with a few more tricks...
Kink is Political: Suffering
This Easter month, we’ll interrogate the Christian underpinnings of kink and BDSM aesthetics by turning towards the concept of “suffering.” We will read Emannuel Levinas’ essay “Useless Suffering” alongside discussions of seme in Japanese rope bondage. We’ll ask: what are the political implications of connecting beauty, meaning, and suffering? What would a tying, kink, or...







