Explore full body encasement with techniques to bind your partner from head to toe in full-body restraint. Adaptable, comfortable, yet deeply intense and immersive - this class focuses on how to practically and energetically play with this style of tying with ease, control and flow. I use this style of rope often for sessions and...
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In this workshop we will offer guidance, ideas, and tips on how to start playing with shame, humiliation, embarrassment and degradation/objectification. We will cover several kinks through the lens of trauma-informed practices and queer politics, looking into the complexities of the intersection between the sexual politics of shame and pleasure. We will cover negotiation strategies,...
(R)open stage is an event where the Karada House rope community comes on stage. You can sign up as a performer, or come witness your friends and buddies to be as they take their first (or twentieth) steps into being on stage. This is a performance evening by the community, for the community. For performers...
This 2-hour interactive session challenges participants to collectively rewrite societal “scripts” about intimacy, sex, and kink. By breaking down dominant norms and creating bold, playful alternatives, participants will explore how queerness reclaims and expands the possibilities of pleasure, care, and relationships. The heart of the session is creativity, imagination, and joyful resistance through the art...
Queer Intimacies is a two-day conference exploring the diverse landscape sexualities, kink, and intimacies, bringing together theorists, practitioners, and participants to bridge theoretical insights with lived experiences. Through workshops, lectures, and discussions, we will question, critique, broaden, and/or reimagine topics and concepts within kink, sexualities, and intimacies research and practice that are too often used...
Have you become interested in trying out Japanese-inspired rope bondage? Then join us for a weekend-long deep dive into this fascinating practice. Together we will explore the vastness of rope bondage. We will talk about its history and development, about the reasons why people like to tie and be tied. We will experience rope on...
Queer Intimacies, ist a 2-day conference that explores the complex and diverse landscape of queer(ing) sex, kink, and intimaticies. This gathering brings together theorists, practitioners, and participants to delve into the nuances of queer intimacies, bridging academic insights with lived experiences. Through a series of workshops, and discussions, participants will engage with topics like consent,...
Queer Intimacies is a two-day conference exploring the diverse landscape sexualities, kink, and intimacies, bringing together theorists, practitioners, and participants to bridge theoretical insights with lived experiences. Through workshops, lectures, and discussions, we will question, critique, broaden, and/or reimagine topics and concepts within kink, sexualities, and intimacies research and practice that are too often used...
In this workshop we will do a deep dive into queer theory, social sciences and how those relate to our everyday kinks. We want to explore how inequalities, colonialism, racism, sexism and other axes of oppression intertwined and shaped how we feel and play nowadays. We will be using some academic words but this is...
An impassioned argument against "body language," this class will a trace a path form Charles Le Brun, Charles Darwin, and Sherlock Holmes to "enhanced interrogation" torture techniques, Linda William's account of the "moneyshot," and the well-meaning, incessant, but all the same ruinous demand for kink classes on how to read other people. This will open...
The discourses that accompany intimacy, kink, and sexuality are taking several concepts for granted and mark them as needs, as these inescapable, biologized authorities that we are bound to obey. Security/safety is one of those concepts that we are not allowed to question. Everyone needs safety in a kink space and everyone strives for security...
We often call BDSM ‘play’, and shy away from exposing the therapeutic and cathartic side of what we do. But what about when you want to push the boundaries of where you think you can go as a bottom or as a top? If you’ve ever wanted to integrate spiritual and emotional release and...