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 and exchange knowledge and experiences.

Lineup Wednesday:

12 pm – 1.30 pm CET:  Finding Friends & Making the most of Queerope 2023

1.45 pm – 3.45 pm CET:  Responsibility Rope

4 pm – 6 pm CET: Learning Rope, Teaching Rope

6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CET: Self-Tying! For Science!

8.30 pm – 10.30 pm CET: Self-Tying! For Science!

Day Pass:

50 Euros per day pass.

A day pass is valid for one person for the entire conference day and includes access to the recordings of the day’s classes for 30 days after the event.

For a full conference ticket, please go here.

FAQ:

How do you define “LGBTQIA+” & “womên”?

LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.

Womên describes people who are identifying themselves as female in their gender identity. People that fit this category can be part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum or not. We created this category specifically to indicate that we also invite cisgender, heterosexual womên.

The word is our own creation and serves as a replacement for the word “womxn” which is now being (ab)used for transmisogynist statements. The ^ in womên represents a marker (similar to the “x” in womxn) that wishes to give emphasis to the fact that womênhood is an intersectional umbrella term that holds many different people and experiences and is not biologically predetermined.

I am not LGBTQIA+ and not a womên, can I still attend?

No, please respect that this particular event is not for you. There are lots of other events you can attend. But Queerope one is solely for people of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum & womên.

I cannot afford the ticket but would love to join. What do I do?

Send us a message via info@karada-house.de. If we have pay-it-forward tickets available we will make them available to you. If we don’t we will put you on a waiting list or see what else we can do. Either way, we will find a way.

What platform do you use for the virtual conference?

We need to use Zoom as it is the only platform available that is affordable and stable enough for bigger groups. Please make sure you can fulfill the requirements for Zoom from your side to have a satisfactory experience.  We will do our best to make the zoom calls safe by engaging all possible security features. You do not have to turn your camera on and you can use any name you like.

The times don’t always work for me / I cannot attend everything I want…

That is why we will make recordings available to you, so you can watch & re-watch them within 30 days.

If I share my computer with a person, is buying one ticket enough?

No. You are not paying for the computer access but for the knowledge that the facilitators and artists are distributing. Please respect that knowledge has a worth and should be compensated.

I am all alone at the moment and have no partner. Does it still make sense to participate?

Absolutely. There will be a variety of topics and skills and not all of them require a partner. You can learn a lot even just by listening and watching or trying things on yourself. We will also provide knowledge and possibilities for self-tying & suspension and other solo practices.

Welcome to Queerope 2023! This year we are bringing back the warm-up sessions to ease into the conference but also take really good care of our bodies, energy, and mental health. For most sessions – like this one – Caritia will be your gentle guide.

This session will help you orientate yourself and also get to know the other participants. We will talk about hopes and expectations, how to navigate the massive amount of input, and find you a conference buddy. If you ask us, this might be THE most important warm-up session to attend!

Details:

Format: warm-up session

Minimum Knowledge Level: –

What to Bring: yourself

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

Responsibility is an important concept that needs to be paid attention to in a rope scene, particularly when playing with Semenawa. This is actually the direct translation of the Chinese term for Semenawa ‘责绳’ so it creates an interesting perspective on how Semenawa can be a practice of exploring responsibility; over your own body, limits, actions, and over others.

In this lecture/demonstration, Hua Hua and her model will share the importance of accountability and autonomy when dealing with suffering in rope, ending the class with a demonstration of their own semenawa style.

Details:

Format: lecture & demonstration

Minimum Knowledge Level: no prior knowledge needed, prior interest in semenawa is encouraged

What to Bring: –

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

How do our experiences in rope-learning influence how we tie? And as facilitators and instructors, how do we decide how to teach and what to teach? Queering rope demands a queering of rope pedagogy, and this event is dedicated to exploring different ways of teaching rope.

At this discussion panel, various shibari instructors are joined together to share their experiences in rope learning and rope teaching. Participants are encouraged to bring their questions, discoveries, and frustrations with rope learning/teaching and together we will ponder on the ways forward.

Panelists: Caritia, Gandalf, Andrea Rimon, Barkas, Pauline Massimo

Details:

Format: discussion

Minimum Knowledge Level: –

What to Bring: –

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This discussion will be recorded (only the facilitators, not the participants), however, we choose to leave some non-recorded space at the end where participants can discuss more intimate questions. The recording is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

I’m sure you’ve heard this before. “The best way to learn about your body in rope is to lab with a tying partner.” It’s meant to be helpful advice. But if you don’t have a tying partner, then what are you supposed to do?

Let’s escape the conundrum. In this class, we’ll explore practical ways to discover crucial information about your preferences without needing help from anybody else. You’ll leave with tons of information to share with your future tying partners (and you might also discover that it’s really fun to tie with yourself!).

This class is geared towards suspension, but I’ll offer progressive exercises that start on the ground.

Details:

Format: workshop

Minimum Knowledge Level: The theory in this class is suitable for all levels.

If you’d like to tie along, you should know how to tie a single-column tie, a half hitch, and a munter hitch. If you’re interested in adding the element of suspension into your exploration, you should also know how to tie a secure upline.

What to Bring: Bring 6-8 ropes to tie along. If you’d like to experiment with suspension, please have a secure hard point available. If you don’t have access to a hard point but would like to flirt with gravity, bring a heavy object that can be attached to a harness (eg. rock, dumbbell, stack of books).

Solo or Partnered: solo

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

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 and exchange knowledge and experiences.

Lineup Thursday:

12 pm – 1.30 pm CET:  Solo Guided Session 

1.45 pm – 3.45 pm CET: Inclusive Rope

4 pm – 6 pm CET: Creative Crab Tie

6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CET: Fat Rope and Heavy Pleasure

8.30 pm – 10.30 pm CET: Retirement from Beauty

Day Pass:

50 Euros per day pass.

A day pass is valid for one person for the entire conference day and includes access to the recordings of the day’s classes for 30 days after the event.

For a full conference ticket, please go here.

FAQ:

How do you define “LGBTQIA+” & “womên”?

LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.

Womên describes people who are identifying themselves as female in their gender identity. People that fit this category can be part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum or not. We created this category specifically to indicate that we also invite cisgender, heterosexual womên.

The word is our own creation and serves as a replacement for the word “womxn” which is now being (ab)used for transmisogynist statements. The ^ in womên represents a marker (similar to the “x” in womxn) that wishes to give emphasis to the fact that womênhood is an intersectional umbrella term that holds many different people and experiences and is not biologically predetermined.

I am not LGBTQIA+ and not a womên, can I still attend?

No, please respect that this particular event is not for you. There are lots of other events you can attend. But Queerope one is solely for people of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum & womên.

I cannot afford the ticket but would love to join. What do I do?

Send us a message via info@karada-house.de. If we have pay-it-forward tickets available we will make them available to you. If we don’t we will put you on a waiting list or see what else we can do. Either way, we will find a way.

What platform do you use for the virtual conference?

We need to use Zoom as it is the only platform available that is affordable and stable enough for bigger groups. Please make sure you can fulfill the requirements for Zoom from your side to have a satisfactory experience.  We will do our best to make the zoom calls safe by engaging all possible security features. You do not have to turn your camera on and you can use any name you like.

The times don’t always work for me / I cannot attend everything I want…

That is why we will make recordings available to you, so you can watch & re-watch them within 30 days.

If I share my computer with a person, is buying one ticket enough?

No. You are not paying for the computer access but for the knowledge that the facilitators and artists are distributing. Please respect that knowledge has a worth and should be compensated.

I am all alone at the moment and have no partner. Does it still make sense to participate?

Absolutely. There will be a variety of topics and skills and not all of them require a partner. You can learn a lot even just by listening and watching or trying things on yourself. We will also provide knowledge and possibilities for self-tying & suspension and other solo practices.

A guided warm-up self-tie session beginning with space to connect to feelings and needs, and moving into exploring what that looks like as a solo rope session to meet yourself where you are at. Maybe you need some tenderness, a challenge, to energize yourself, sensual touch, movement…what else? Together we will give ourselves some ropey TLC.

Details:

Format: warm-up session

Minimum Knowledge Level: –

What to Bring: Rope, props, a cosy space

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

There are times when it simply doesn’t work to sit on the floor or to stand to tie. Tying with, on, and to a chair has many playful advantages.

In this workshop, Caritia will aim to introduce participants to the joy of combining comfort and stress when tying.

Details:

Format: workshop

Minimum Knowledge Level: – Lark’s head, single column tie, tension & counter tension

What to Bring: chair or stool, cushion, 2-3 ropes

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

This will be a demonstration of creative possibilities for suspensions/transitions using the crab tie (m-shaped position). Participants can tie along if they like, and ask questions at the end, or just watch the demonstration.

Details:

Format: workshop and demonstration

Minimum Knowledge Level: If you want to (tie along) then you need to be confident with suspensions/transitions.

What to Bring:  a bunch of rope, safety equipment, a partner

Solo or Partnered: any constellation if you watch, partnered if you tie

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

This roundtable conversation between Ceci Ferox, Cegregia, and Ms. Reemah explores what it means to be fat in the world of rope. How does fat and weight influence how we tie and get tied? What are the politics around fatness and rope? And what kind of juicy tricks and pleasurable hacks have we found through our own and other people’s fat bodies?

This discussion centers on the fat body not as an object but as the protagonist. If you are fat, we invite you to share your own joy and pleasure. If you are not fat, we invite you to listen in on this sharing and to give space.

Details:

Format: discussion

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 is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

“Retirement from Beauty” poses questions on the importance of beauty in our communities and aims to normalize our uglies. It was developed based on two grotesque labs that took place in Sweden 2019.

Details:

Format: performance & discussion

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 is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

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 and exchange knowledge and experiences.

Lineup Friday:

12 pm – 1.30 pm CET: Open Space

1.45 pm – 3.45 pm CET: Gender Neutral Objectification

4 pm – 6 pm CET: Low Suspensions

6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CET: Ropes for Resistance

8.30 pm – 10.30 pm CET: Ropes for Resistance Performance

Day Pass:

50 Euros per day pass.

A day pass is valid for one person for the entire conference day and includes access to the recordings of the day’s classes for 30 days after the event.

For a full conference ticket, please go here.

FAQ:

How do you define “LGBTQIA+” & “womên”?

LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.

Womên describes people who are identifying themselves as female in their gender identity. People that fit this category can be part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum or not. We created this category specifically to indicate that we also invite cisgender, heterosexual womên.

The word is our own creation and serves as a replacement for the word “womxn” which is now being (ab)used for transmisogynist statements. The ^ in womên represents a marker (similar to the “x” in womxn) that wishes to give emphasis to the fact that womênhood is an intersectional umbrella term that holds many different people and experiences and is not biologically predetermined.

I am not LGBTQIA+ and not a womên, can I still attend?

No, please respect that this particular event is not for you. There are lots of other events you can attend. But Queerope one is solely for people of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum & womên.

I cannot afford the ticket but would love to join. What do I do?

Send us a message via info@karada-house.de. If we have pay-it-forward tickets available we will make them available to you. If we don’t we will put you on a waiting list or see what else we can do. Either way, we will find a way.

What platform do you use for the virtual conference?

We need to use Zoom as it is the only platform available that is affordable and stable enough for bigger groups. Please make sure you can fulfill the requirements for Zoom from your side to have a satisfactory experience.  We will do our best to make the zoom calls safe by engaging all possible security features. You do not have to turn your camera on and you can use any name you like.

The times don’t always work for me / I cannot attend everything I want…

That is why we will make recordings available to you, so you can watch & re-watch them within 30 days.

If I share my computer with a person, is buying one ticket enough?

No. You are not paying for the computer access but for the knowledge that the facilitators and artists are distributing. Please respect that knowledge has a worth and should be compensated.

I am all alone at the moment and have no partner. Does it still make sense to participate?

Absolutely. There will be a variety of topics and skills and not all of them require a partner. You can learn a lot even just by listening and watching or trying things on yourself. We will also provide knowledge and possibilities for self-tying & suspension and other solo practices.

Caritia offers this space for participants to share thoughts, make requests and ask questions about this season’s Queerope. You are encouraged to: be comfy, make yourself at home (at home) and send your thoughts in advance if you wish to remain anonymous. Caritia invites you to pull up a seat and simply bring your listening ears to enjoy what others wish to share.

Details:

Format: warm-up session

Minimum Knowledge Level: – N/a

What to Bring: questions, supportive moments, constructive critics & yourselves 🙂

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

Objectification has always been a widely popular fetish within the BDSM scene, especially in connection with bondage. However, the common depiction is mainly associated with the objectification of women, which can contribute to gender inequality, and body dysmorphia. In this workshop hua hua and her model will explore objectification through Shibari, looking at the aesthetics of the body, dehumanization, and immobilization.

Details:

Format: lecture/demonstration

Minimum Knowledge Level: Participants who would like to tie along with the practical part of the workshop should be able to the fundamentals (single and double column tie, a few basic frictions) If they are not tying along there are no prerequisites!

What to Bring: Rope if they would like to tie along, and participate with a partner.

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

In this demo and talk, Ceci wants to share their preferred way of suspension – working on low suspension points while sitting on the floor. Ceci will share why they gravitate towards this kind of suspension and give pointers on what to consider. You will get tips and tricks for how to build your suspension set-up both using rings/carabiners and bamboo. You will get insight into how to build any suspension low, and how to lift people when you can’t use your body weight as much. Ceci will also share some psychological insights into low suspensions.

Details:

Format: lecture/demonstration

Minimum Knowledge Level:  To be able to practice what Ceci is showing in this workshop, you will need to have already started doing suspensions. You understand suspension safety, suspension line handling, and managing bodies in suspension. The workshop does not include suspension basics. Ceci will also not teach any harnesses, so you will need to know some suspendable upper and lower body ties to be able to follow along.

What to Bring: Rope if they would like to tie along, and participate with a partner.

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

Details:

Format: lecture/demonstration

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 is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

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 is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

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 and exchange knowledge and experiences.

Lineup Saturday:

12 pm – 1.30 pm CET: Reimagining Ropes

1.45 pm – 3.45 pm CET: Semenawa Performance

4 pm – 6 pm CET: Agura: On The Floor, in the Air, in Transition

6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CET: Playful Sadism

8.30 pm – 10.30 pm CET: Global Rope Jam

Day Pass:

50 Euros per day pass.

A day pass is valid for one person for the entire conference day and includes access to the recordings of the day’s classes for 30 days after the event.

For a full conference ticket, please go here.

FAQ:

How do you define “LGBTQIA+” & “womên”?

LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.

Womên describes people who are identifying themselves as female in their gender identity. People that fit this category can be part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum or not. We created this category specifically to indicate that we also invite cisgender, heterosexual womên.

The word is our own creation and serves as a replacement for the word “womxn” which is now being (ab)used for transmisogynist statements. The ^ in womên represents a marker (similar to the “x” in womxn) that wishes to give emphasis to the fact that womênhood is an intersectional umbrella term that holds many different people and experiences and is not biologically predetermined.

I am not LGBTQIA+ and not a womên, can I still attend?

No, please respect that this particular event is not for you. There are lots of other events you can attend. But Queerope one is solely for people of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum & womên.

I cannot afford the ticket but would love to join. What do I do?

Send us a message via info@karada-house.de. If we have pay-it-forward tickets available we will make them available to you. If we don’t we will put you on a waiting list or see what else we can do. Either way, we will find a way.

What platform do you use for the virtual conference?

We need to use Zoom as it is the only platform available that is affordable and stable enough for bigger groups. Please make sure you can fulfill the requirements for Zoom from your side to have a satisfactory experience.  We will do our best to make the zoom calls safe by engaging all possible security features. You do not have to turn your camera on and you can use any name you like.

The times don’t always work for me / I cannot attend everything I want…

That is why we will make recordings available to you, so you can watch & re-watch them within 30 days.

If I share my computer with a person, is buying one ticket enough?

No. You are not paying for the computer access but for the knowledge that the facilitators and artists are distributing. Please respect that knowledge has a worth and should be compensated.

I am all alone at the moment and have no partner. Does it still make sense to participate?

Absolutely. There will be a variety of topics and skills and not all of them require a partner. You can learn a lot even just by listening and watching or trying things on yourself. We will also provide knowledge and possibilities for self-tying & suspension and other solo practices.

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 recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

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 each other, and these means will constantly be changed according to the partner’s reactions to each other. The means tend to become the end, but the rope is the means, not the goal. So join us in watching two masterful rope practitioners play with each other — and probably us as the audience as well.

Details:

Format: performance

Minimum Knowledge Level: –

What to Bring: popcorn

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

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 & demonstration

Minimum Knowledge Level: If you want to (tie along) then you need to be confident with suspensions/transitions.

What to Bring: ropes, safety equipment, and a person

Solo or Partnered: any constellation, if you want to tie along you need a partner

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

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 want to (tie along) then you need to know single columns, basic locks, and frictions

What to Bring: ropes, safety equipment, and your own creative imagination

Solo or Partnered: any constellation, if you want to tie along you need a partner

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

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 jam

Minimum Knowledge Level: –

What to Bring: –

Solo or Partnered: all constellations welcome

Class recording: no

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 and exchange knowledge and experiences.

Lineup Sunday:

12 pm – 1.30 pm CET: Tying & Untying

1.45 pm – 3.45 pm CET: Rope for Communicating – Yukimura Style

4 pm – 6 pm CET:  Make it hurt more: Lean into it

6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CET:  Funishment

8.30 pm – 10.30 pm CET: Conceptual Performance

Day Pass:

50 Euros per day pass.

A day pass is valid for one person for the entire conference day and includes access to the recordings of the day’s classes for 30 days after the event.

For a full conference ticket, please go here.

FAQ:

How do you define “LGBTQIA+” & “womên”?

LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.

Womên describes people who are identifying themselves as female in their gender identity. People that fit this category can be part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum or not. We created this category specifically to indicate that we also invite cisgender, heterosexual womên.

The word is our own creation and serves as a replacement for the word “womxn” which is now being (ab)used for transmisogynist statements. The ^ in womên represents a marker (similar to the “x” in womxn) that wishes to give emphasis to the fact that womênhood is an intersectional umbrella term that holds many different people and experiences and is not biologically predetermined.

I am not LGBTQIA+ and not a womên, can I still attend?

No, please respect that this particular event is not for you. There are lots of other events you can attend. But Queerope one is solely for people of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum & womên.

I cannot afford the ticket but would love to join. What do I do?

Send us a message via info@karada-house.de. If we have pay-it-forward tickets available we will make them available to you. If we don’t we will put you on a waiting list or see what else we can do. Either way, we will find a way.

What platform do you use for the virtual conference?

We need to use Zoom as it is the only platform available that is affordable and stable enough for bigger groups. Please make sure you can fulfill the requirements for Zoom from your side to have a satisfactory experience.  We will do our best to make the zoom calls safe by engaging all possible security features. You do not have to turn your camera on and you can use any name you like.

The times don’t always work for me / I cannot attend everything I want…

That is why we will make recordings available to you, so you can watch & re-watch them within 30 days.

If I share my computer with a person, is buying one ticket enough?

No. You are not paying for the computer access but for the knowledge that the facilitators and artists are distributing. Please respect that knowledge has a worth and should be compensated.

I am all alone at the moment and have no partner. Does it still make sense to participate?

Absolutely. There will be a variety of topics and skills and not all of them require a partner. You can learn a lot even just by listening and watching or trying things on yourself. We will also provide knowledge and possibilities for self-tying & suspension and other solo practices.

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 narratives that make someone think of the end while they get released from the ropes?

We will share thoughts and ideas and will be playing on how to consider the process of untying as an active part of a session instead of an inevitable end.

Photography: Harmony Shields

Details:

Format: warm-up session

Minimum Knowledge Level: –

What to Bring: ropes, paper, pen, body

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

In this class, Murasaki Haruan will explain Yukimura-ryu from the beginning to those who are interested and want to know more about rope for communication. Murasaki aims this class at people who wish to learn how to get to know and communicate better with their rope partners. This class is also great for people working professionally with ropes (such as pro-dommes etc.) and students of Yukimura style so they can experience it from Murasaki’s perspective.

Details:

Format: workshop & demo

Minimum Knowledge Level: The desire to take care of your partner and to get to know them on the rope. Not for those who think of their partner as a doll and want to learn techniques or want to subjugate their partner by force.

What to Bring: Bring only your intellectual curiosity. If you are with a partner and want to try a little bondage, one or two ropes will suffice.

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

Ms. Reemah will give an in-depth explanation and demo of how to safely use your body weight and gravity to increase the oos and ahs of your bottom. This is an advanced class showing how to gradually climb on top of your bottom during suspension.

Tying partner: Lavender

Details:

Format: lecture & demonstration

Minimum Knowledge Level: participants should be at suspension level

What to Bring: sustainable harnesses that can be suspended, knowledge of attachment and upline management, weight distribution in suspension

Solo or Partnered: any constellation, partnered if you wanna tie along

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

Suffering doesn’t have to be serious – in this class, we will explore different ideas, simple predicaments, and ties that challenge our partners with lighthearted and playful energy. Bring your creativity and props!

Tying Partner: René de Sans

Details:

Format: workshop

Minimum Knowledge Level: –

What to Bring:any props/materials/toys they would like to play with

Solo or Partnered: any constellation, partnered if you wanna tie along

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

Death as an alchemic process imposes the experience of stillness, silence, and emptiness. It carries us through a dark path of loss and hopelessness that can be extremely hard to hold and navigate and at the same time an opportunity to introduce the value of that which has been lost and rediscover it within ourselves.

Gravare, the Latin word for grieve is a concept rooted in the idea of burden and weight much like the subjective experience during a loss. Roser will represent these ideas and feelings in a personal, intimate live performance through self-tying and the exploration of movement within the range allowed by the weight of a floating hashira, with the hope to discover that which will enable us to compost the old to grow the new.

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 is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

This after-care session follows the tradition of the former Queerope conferences. After 5 days full of workshops, discussions, performances we offer this space for after-care. Let’s talk about the things and emotions that came up for you. Let’s reflect on the conference. Let’s take this time to be together one last time before we go back to everyday life. Until the next Queerope! <3

Details:

Format: hang out.

Minimum Knowledge Level: the only thing you need to know is that you are awesome.

What to Bring: yourself

Solo or Partnered: all constellations welcome

Class recording: no! (what happens at the after care stays with the after care.

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 and exchange knowledge and experiences.

line-up:

– Andrea Rimon (USA)

– Akechi Kanna & Akechi Kagura (Japan)

– Barrett & Indigo (USA)

– Caritia (UK/Germany)

– Ceci Ferox & Tina (Finland/Italy/Germany)

– Cegregia (Canada)

– Gandalf (China)

– Gestalta (UK/Germany)

– hua hua (China/Netherlands)

– Ms. Reemah (USA)

– Murasaki Haruan (Japan)

– Pauline Massimo  (Brazil/Spain)

– Río & Jorogumo Shibari (Mexico)

– Roser (Venezuela/Spain)

– Sophia Rose & René de Sans (UK/Germany)

Get more info on the facilitators here

Details:

– 5 days of virtual workshops, performances, demonstrations, discussions, etc.

– 1 warm-up session and 4 x 2-hour slots per day

– language: English

– the conference aims to be held from 12pm Berlin (3 am San Francisco / 6 am New York / 8 pm Tokyo / 10 pm Melbourne) to 10.30 pm Berlin (1.30 pm San Francisco / 4.30 pm New York / 5.30 am Tokyo /8.30 am Melbourne) time

– all classes except for the global rope jam will be recorded and will be available for 30 days after the conference for all attendees to watch/re-watch

Costs:

Conference tickets are valid for one person for the entire conference and include access to the recordings of all classes for 30 days after the event. We have different kinds of conference tickets:

Full Pass

Regular ticket: 150 Euros

Supporter ticket: 200 Euros (The 50 Euros added onto your ticket will subsidize our solidarity tickets with 50 Euros. For each sold supporter ticket we will add a solidarity ticket to the pot).

Solidarity ticket: 100 Euros

Pay-it-Forward-Ticket: 150 Euros – You pay this ticket forward and a person that cannot afford a ticket will benefit from it and get access to the conference and the recordings on your behalf. —–> You can purchase a pay-it-forward ticket here. <—-

Day Pass

Get a ticket for a single day of the conference for 50 Euros.

Get your day-pass here: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

FAQ:

How do you define “LGBTQIA+” & “womên”?

LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.

Womên describes people who are identifying themselves as female in their gender identity. People that fit this category can be part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum or not. We created this category specifically to indicate that we also invite cisgender, heterosexual womên.

The word is our own creation and serves as a replacement for the word “womxn” which is now being (ab)used for transmisogynist statements. The ^ in womên represents a marker (similar to the “x” in womxn) that wishes to give emphasis to the fact that womênhood is an intersectional umbrella term that holds many different people and experiences and is not biologically predetermined.

I am not LGBTQIA+ and not a womên, can I still attend?

No, please respect that this particular event is not for you. There are lots of other events you can attend. But Queerope one is solely for people of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum & womên.

I cannot afford the ticket but would love to join. What do I do?

Send us a message via info@karada-house.de. If we have pay-it-forward tickets available we will make them available to you. If we don’t we will put you on a waiting list or see what else we can do. Either way, we will find a way.

What platform do you use for the virtual conference?

We need to use Zoom as it is the only platform available that is affordable and stable enough for bigger groups. Please make sure you can fulfill the requirements for Zoom from your side to have a satisfactory experience.  We will do our best to make the zoom calls safe by engaging all possible security features. You do not have to turn your camera on and you can use any name you like.

The times don’t always work for me / I cannot attend everything I want…

That is why we will make recordings available to you, so you can watch & re-watch them within 30 days.

If I share my computer with a person, is buying one ticket enough?

No. You are not paying for the computer access but for the knowledge that the facilitators and artists are distributing. Please respect that knowledge has worth and should be compensated.

I am all alone at the moment and have no partner. Does it still make sense to participate?

Absolutely. There will be a variety of topics and skills and not all of them require a partner. You can learn a lot even just by listening and watching or trying things on yourself. We will also provide knowledge and possibilities for self-tying & suspension and other solo practices.

By purchasing a pay-it-forward ticket you are donating a ticket to a person of the LGBTQIA+ community who could otherwise not afford to attend. Karada House will keep a waiting list and make a pay-it-forward ticket available to a person on that list as soon as it is bought. Thank you for helping other people out and being an ally!

QUEEROPE 2024 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 and exchange knowledge and experiences.

line-up:

– Ahksa Kezia (Indonesia)

– Barkas & Addie (Canada/Austria)

– Benoît Descordes and Noémie (France)

– Caritia (UK/Germany)

– Ceci Ferox (Finland/Germany)

– Dasniya Sommer (Germany)

–  hua hua (China/UK)

– Ivy Limieux (USA)

– Miss Gen & Georgia (Australia)

– Nana and Roo (Finland)

– NIKOKBK & Raph (France)

– Sophia Rose (UK)

– René de Sans (Germany)

– Yada Kinbaku (Thailand)

Get more info on the facilitators here

Details:

– 5 days of virtual workshops, performances, demonstrations, discussions, etc.

– 1 warm-up session and 4 x 2-hour slots per day

– language: English

– the conference aims to be held from 12pm Berlin (3 am San Francisco / 6 am New York / 8 pm Tokyo / 10 pm Melbourne) to 10.30 pm Berlin (1.30 pm San Francisco / 4.30 pm New York / 5.30 am Tokyo /8.30 am Melbourne) time

– all classes except for the global rope jam will be recorded and will be available for 30 days after the conference for all attendees to watch/re-watch

Costs:

Conference tickets are valid for one person for the entire conference and include access to the recordings of all classes for 30 days after the event. We have different kinds of conference tickets:

Full Pass

Regular ticket: 150 Euros

Supporter ticket: 200 Euros (The 50 Euros added onto your ticket will subsidize our solidarity tickets with 50 Euros. For each sold supporter ticket we will add a solidarity ticket to the pot).

Solidarity ticket: 100 Euros

Pay-it-Forward-Ticket: 150 Euros – You pay this ticket forward and a person who cannot afford a ticket will benefit from it and get access to the conference and the recordings on your behalf. –

Day Pass

Get a ticket for a single day of the conference for 50 Euros.

Get your day-pass here: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

FAQ:

How do you define “LGBTQIA+” & “womên”?

LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, and agender.

Womên describes people who identify themselves as female in their gender identity. People who fit this category can be part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum or not. We created this category specifically to indicate that we also invite cisgender, heterosexual womên.

The word is our own creation and serves as a replacement for the word “womxn” which is now being (ab)used for transmisogynist statements. The ^ in womên represents a marker (similar to the “x” in womxn) that emphasizes that womênhood is an intersectional umbrella term that holds many different people and experiences and is not biologically predetermined.

I am not LGBTQIA+ and not a womên, can I still attend?

No, please respect that this particular event is not for you. There are lots of other events you can attend. But Queerope one is solely for people of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum & womên.

I cannot afford the ticket but would love to join. What do I do?

Send us a message via info@karada-house.de. If we have pay-it-forward tickets available we will make them available to you. If we don’t we will put you on a waiting list or see what else we can do. Either way, we will find a way.

What platform do you use for the virtual conference?

We need to use Zoom as it is the only platform available that is affordable and stable enough for bigger groups. Please make sure you can fulfill the requirements for Zoom from your side to have a satisfactory experience.  We will do our best to make the zoom calls safe by engaging all possible security features. You do not have to turn your camera on and you can use any name you like.

The times don’t always work for me / I cannot attend everything I want…

That is why we will make recordings available to you, so you can watch & re-watch them within 30 days.

If I share my computer with a person, is buying one ticket enough?

No. You are not paying for the computer access but for the knowledge that the facilitators and artists are distributing. Please respect that knowledge has worth and should be compensated.

I am all alone at the moment and have no partner. Does it still make sense to participate?

Absolutely. There will be a variety of topics and skills and not all of them require a partner. You can learn a lot even just by listening and watching or trying things on yourself. We will also provide knowledge and possibilities for self-tying & suspension and other solo practices.