My journey into professional domination started around 10 years ago, 2013. At that time, I was doing executive protection, I believe. And I was active in the community. I had met someone on recon, I believe, or we bumped into each other at a party. As I’m trying to remember this story, I don’t remember…
My whole purpose is to help people self-actualize. I’ve walked my own journey of identity for as long as I can remember. And in my life’s journey adversity, stress, anger, sadness, all came in many different forms. What I want to do with my work is take the experience of trying to find myself, my…
I call them social-justice assholes. They’re like virtue signalers, like white guilt. White guilt is how I like to describe them. They’re so opposed to what’s happening, they have to be the loudest voice in the room and are making themselves look like assholes. Dude, it’s crazy. It’s crazy what they believe. And that’s what…
Mary has been a member of the BDSM lifestyle for a handful of years, more actively in the recent year in her Master/slave dynamic. As a lifestylist and slave, she saw a need for community around disability and kink which sparked her founding Kink Abilities. Over the course of her journey, she has become a…
Master Eli Ra has been in the BDSM and Leather community for more than a decade, attending and teaching at events such as Dark Odyssey, CLAW, BBM, and ONYX Blackout. He has established himself in the community as Master, Sir, and Daddy. He holds the title of Mid-Atlantic Pup Handler. He has supported community members…
Lynwood aka Shirley U. Jest (he/she/they) is a Manhattan-based entertainer, originally from Ohio, now living in Harlem. They are the winner of New York’s Next Top Drag Queen 2016, and is a GLAM award nominated queen, as well as writer and producer of their cabaret show, Jest a Girl which is a weekly live stream…
Sir Bob aka Masterwax has been involved in kink for 40 years. He met his first old guard Master 40 years ago. His journey over the past 40 years has included many others that helped shape and continue to build his journey. During the years, Sir Bob has held three leather titles. He has helped…
Shway is a leather lifestylist and seasoned member of the kink community. She has been active over the past 8 years co-hosting social events, leading discussion groups, acting as a mentor, and providing kink education. She has served to facilitate safer events as a member of a consent response team and as a dungeon monitor.…
Tom has been a member of the BDSM/Kink community for over 20 years. He has experienced both sides of the power dynamic and has come to understand the importance of education, training and mentorship. He is a proud member of the Kink Collective and was a member of GMSMA, a BDSM organization that focused on…
The difference between spirituality and religion I’ve had the luxury, the pleasure, of working with a Catholic priest of 40 years who has mentored me in ways and I have had the opportunity to mentor him. And through our time together, through our conversations, spirituality and religion came into focus. Well, what is that? What…