This talk is about how it has been for Río and the Jorogumo Shibari crew to live in México while learning and practicing ropes. Río will tell us about how the specific context, geography, race, gender, and brutal violence cross with his rope practice and how he has found ropes to be a tool for...
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This performance by Río and Jorogumo Shibari puts into practice what they understand as ropes for resistance. The performance is followed by a discussion. Details: Format: performance Minimum Knowledge Level: - What to Bring: - Solo or Partnered: any constellation Class recording: yes This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and...
Join this workshop to learn about what kind of pain you like and how to more safely inflict pain on others. We will try out different kinds of techniques and pains, learn to negotiate and calibrate and find different ways to bottom for impact play. We will both use our bodies and different tools. You...
Drawn from abstraction and through forms to recreate them as a reimagined rope form for play, joy, creativity, and technical research. Not sure what that means? Come join Pauline Massimo and find out! Details: Format: warm-up session Minimum Knowledge Level: – What to Bring: ropes, paper, pen, body Solo or Partnered: any constellation Class...
QUEEROPE 2023 is a 5-day virtual conference for mostly shibari/kinbaku/Japanese-inspired bondage that is exclusively for LGBTQIA+ people and womên. We welcome all roles (rigger/tops, model/bottoms, switches, etc.), all knowledge levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced), and all styles to this gathering that aims to bring queer & female-identifying practitioners together to celebrate their love for rope...
The possibilities of rope play are endless. There are many different goals and many different approaches. This performance - by now a tradition of Queerope - is full of Akechi Kanna’s and Akechi Kagura’s favorite ways to play and relate to each other in rope. There are means to what they want to do with...
This will be a demonstration of the agura tie (crossed-legged position) and possibilities for use both on the floor and in suspensions/transitions. This tie can be challenging but is also supportive and versatile. Participants can tie along if they like, and ask questions at the end, or just watch the demonstration. Details: Format: workshop...
This is intended as a guided discussion and demonstration for breaking away from the “rope has to be serious and quiet” mindset, and becoming open to expanding creativity for scenes that move into the ridiculous and absurd territory, while still engaging in BDSM/kink play. Details: Format: workshop & demonstration Minimum Knowledge Level: If you...
This session is us all just jamming together. The global rope jam will have a small intro by Pauline Massimo and Ghost Acres will provide a live soundtrack based on the movement, flow, and energies you provide to him with your amazing sessions. Turn your cameras on and jam with the world! Details: Format: rope...
Takate Kote (or Gote, also referred to as Box Tie) is one of the classic staples of Japanese-inspired rope bondage. In this one-day workshop, Gestalta will dive deep into the principles of TK ties and give participants not only lots of knowledge of HOW to tie TK's in a safe(r) and comfortable way but also...
Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning. In the last Warm-Up Session of this conference, we'll look at the tipping point between tying and untying. Does untying mean the end of a session? Or can it be the invitation to increase the intensity of playing? How can we overwrite the...
QUEEROPE 2023 is a 5-day virtual conference for mostly shibari/kinbaku/Japanese-inspired bondage that is exclusively for LGBTQIA+ people and womên. We welcome all roles (rigger/tops, model/bottoms, switches, etc.), all knowledge levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced), and all styles to this gathering that aims to bring queer & female-identifying practitioners together to celebrate their love for rope...