History

Master WrathDaddy He/Him, opening keynote speaker

Master WrathDaddy is the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 Heartland Person of Leather, a horror and erotica author, former heavyweight kickboxing champion, former MMA trainer, former owner and proprietor of The Bacchanal (Austin’s community dungeon), and a badass motherfucker who enjoys doing badass shit with other badass motherfuckers. He has been a full-time and active member of Austin’s BDSM community since 2013, though he has been in and out of the kink community since 1991. Since then he has been a board member at large for GWNN (Group With No Name) one of Austin’s oldest and largest BDSM groups, from 2015 through 2016, co-chairman of the GWNN Bash in 2015 and 2016, a mentor in the Austin Mentor’s Program, and has presented workshops for SAADE, GWNN, Desert Dominion, Flame Conference, Wicked Grounds, Threshold, Master Slave Conference, Kinkfest, Colorado Leather Fest, Oklahoma Leather Fest, and many other local, national, and international groups on topics ranging from the Daddy Dom/ babygirl dynamic to rough-body play, and knife-play. He is the author of Kinky Adult Bedtime Stories (For littles, babygirls, and bois) and All The Kinky Kinksters From A to Z. Presenting: Learning To Love What You Hate

Devyn Stone He/Him/His, closing keynote speaker

Devyn Stone (he/him) and his property, Guan-Xuan (they/we/it), reside in the unceded lands of the Ute and Cheyenne people (Colorado Springs, CO). Together, they blend trauma-informed practices, neurodivergence, (dis)ability, and culture into a beautifully crafted 24/7, no way out, total authority transfer dynamic, which they have dubbed: Radical Ownership. Devyn Stone is a dominant, neurodivergent, disabled, leatherman, educator, coach, and author. He is the Founder of Pragmatically Kinking and Executive Producer for the THRIVE conference.

girl Calyco she/her

girl Calyco is a queer little service-oriented exhibitionist and all-around sex nerd living in Everett, WA. She found leather in 2011 and immediately began her life of volunteering, demo bottoming, and organizing for the community! She spent five exciting years serving on the Board of Directors and PR team of SouthEast LeatherFest before moving from Florida to Washington in 2017. Presenting: Leather Littles 201

Liza and Liza’s slave Jody
She/Her and She/Her

Liza and her slave, Jody, (International Master and slave 2011) have been living in a committed M/s relationship for 19 years. Liza came to power at Woodstock and has been kinky ever since. In 2002, Liza moved to San Francisco and jumped into the leather community with both boots. After leaving the military in 1980, Jody came out as a leatherdyke and slave. Shortly thereafter she founded Leather and Lace, Los Angeles’ first women’s leather club. In 2000, Jody moved to San Francisco and became Liza’s slave two years later. Currently they live in Portland, Oregon where they are members of MAsT: Portland and the Bad Girls. Liza and her slave teach extensively in the US and also abroad, on a variety of topics related to nurturing and sustaining long-term M/s relationships filled with heat, sex, deep intimacy and fun. Having received numerous awards, the most meaningful to them is having been recognized as Presenters of the Year by MAsT International. Liza and Jody produce the Master slave Retreat and are the emeritus producers of the Ms. San Francisco Leather. They have both served as representatives to the Bay Area Leather Alliance and on the steering committees or as officers of several organizations: Leather Levi Weekend, Leather Alley at Pride, the Exiles (women’s BDSM group) and the Bears of San Francisco. Presenting: “M” only discussion, “s” only discussion

Devyn Stone and his property Guan-Xuan
He/Him and they/we/it

Devyn Stone (he/him) and his property, Guan-Xuan (they/we/it), reside in the unceded lands of the Ute and Cheyenne people (Colorado Springs, CO). Together, they blend trauma-informed practices, neurodivergence, (dis)ability, and culture into a beautifully crafted 24/7, no way out, total authority transfer dynamic, which they have dubbed: Radical Ownership. Devyn Stone is a dominant, neurodivergent, disabled, leatherman, educator, coach, and author. He is the Founder of Pragmatically Kinking and Executive Producer for the THRIVE conference. Guan-Xuan is an asexual, aromantic, queer, transgender, nonbinary, Taiwanese-American immigrant, and sadistic slave. They devote their life to their Master’s will by operating as his auxiliary prefrontal cortex, accountant, emotional support dog, and punching bag. Guan-Xuan spends much of their time, in non-kink interactions, facilitating a space where intergenerational trauma, racial and systemic trauma, and colonization are unpacked, and being a witness to the healing of queer and trans folx of the global majority (QTBIPOC). Presenting: When East Meets West: Cultural Influences in Interracial Authority Transfer

Guan-Xuan
they/we/it

Guan-Xuan (they/we/it) is an asexual, transgender, nonbinary, sadistic slave who has practiced authority based dynamics since 2004. By day, Guan-Xuan is a licensed professional counselor who centers their work around queer, trans, and BIPOC experiences, specializing in identity based trauma and generational trauma from an anti-oppression and liberation psychology lens. By night, Guan-Xuan is a multi-purpose tool, completely devoted to surrendering to its Master, Devyn Stone’s every whim and fancy. His emotional support dog and slut for degradation and humiliation. Guan-Xuan is passionate about increasing accessibility and reducing stigma for queer, trans, BIPOC, and Leather/kink communities. Presenting: Asian & Pasifika Discussion hosted by APRiL

Marilyn and Rio
She/Her and She/Her

Marilyn and Rio, Mistress and collared slave, have been active in the Leather community since 1986 and 2006, respectively. Marilyn is a Master, sadist, and a control freak with an intense blood lust. Rio is a butch leatherdyke who found her calling as a leather pervert, who identifies as a slave, a masochist, a feminist, a hopeless romantic, and is obsessed with service. Together and separately they have been judges, tallymasters, and presenters at many events, including Black Rose, Leather Traditions, Northwest Leather Celebration, Southeast Leatherfest, Southwest Leather, International Ms. Leather, Sin in the City, Leather Leadership Conference, Leather Levi Weekend, Dark Odyssey: Surrender, Foundations, Butch Voices, Ms. SF Leather, the Exiles, and more. They were both officers in their home club, The Exiles, for many years, and Rio served as Ms. San Francisco Sober Leather in 2016. Presenting: Metamorphosis: Unlearning Sabotaging Behaviors

Eirikah Delaunay
she/her

Eirikah Delaunay (she/her) is a writer, Witch, and sexual rebel who identifies as a polyamorous, bisexual, white cisgender woman, Dominant-leaning Switch, and sadomasochist. Both/and is her magic word. The founder of Desire Alchemy (https://DesireAlchemy.com), Eirikah is a certified somatic sex & relationship coach and initiated priestess who offers individual, partnered, and group coaching for people curious and excited about using effective communication, magic, sexuality, kink, and/or power exchange relationships as vehicles for personal growth and bliss. She has 30+ years of lifestyle BDSM practice and more than a decade of connection, education, and service in the Seattle sex-positive community, where she currently serves on the Board of the Center for Sex-Positive Culture. Presenting: Making the Switch: Finding Your Flow, Everyday Power Exchange: Strengthening the Dynamic through Mutual Attention

MxBliss
she/they

Mx Bliss (she/they) is a joyful sadomasochist, sensation empath, consent enthusiast, rope switch, and quinkster (queer kinkster). They identify as Daddy AF, on both sides of the slash. Bliss is having the time of their life discovering all the ways to connect with BDSM and rope and is eager to share the joy. They co-facilitate AlternaRope, a celebration of diversity in rope and co-hosts the Friction pop-up events. She also produces the Jiffy Kink events and runs Studio Bound in Portland, Oregon. Both in vanilla and kink worlds, as a former attorney MxBliss frequently presents on negotiation, consent, and diversity/equity/inclusion. Presenting: More Inclusive Kink: Panel Discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion In Kink, Leather Reign Edition: Jiffy Kink Play Finder and Speed Friending Preconference Online

Master Griffin and slave Rebecca
He/Him and she/her

Master Griffin is the proud owner of His slave, Rebecca, living together 24/7 as Master and slave since 2015, while continuing to explore their Polyamorous Queer Switchy sides. Together, they have found a passion for sharing their experiences with others. Castle Griffin, their Leather family, is an educational and support resource for the leather and kink communities. They love to present on a wide variety of topics and engage others about the lifestyle, embracing all the diversity it offers. In 2019 & 2020, they held the Northeast Power Exchange title before moving in 2022 to the west coast near Seattle, WA, where they continue to authentically live their M/s leather lives. Presenting: Master/slave and living a polyamorous life, Filling your slave’s mind with STUFF

Stabbie
they/them

Stabbie (they/them) is white, queer, agender, non-monogamous, property. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Therapist specializing in kink, non-monogamy, and alternative relationship styles, Stabbie is passionate about creating and holding space for others to explore their authentic selves while honoring that many must mask their identities to keep themselves safe within the systems they navigate. With a background in sex therapy and mental health, they utilize their insight from professional and lived experiences to enhance and inform their educational approach. Stabbie lives with their Owner in Portland, OR where they have been active in the kink and leather community since 2015. Presenting: Active Choice for the right side of the slash, Kinking and Feeling

Lady Vivus (formerly Lady Viper)
She/Her

Lady Vivus (she/her) is a spiritually & culturally driven bootblack, Switchinatrix, & a leather cow. She’s an out, proud, & fierce-as-fire transwoman. Vivus’s spiritual outlet through leather has driven her love of bootblacking to new heights. While hailing from Detroit, Michigan, she has settled in Salem, Oregon, where she serves as the majordomo for her leather family, the Atomic Army. In her 9-5, Vivus authors sex & gender positive curriculum. She hopes to inspire others to explore sexuality from an authentic place, while helping folx find their spiritual place with leather & find healing within it as well. Presenting: Sacred Leathers: Leather & Spirituality, Sissification & Gender Affirmation, Switchinatrix – Defining Your Own Roles

Danarama
He/Him

A lifestyle Dom, performer, and BDSM educator for almost three decades, Danarama directed Kink.com’s educational site (Kink University) and teaches a diverse mix of more than 30 BDSM and sex/intimacy classes online and at worldwide conferences. He is also a founding member of the Two Knotty Boys rope bondage instruction duo, co-teaching workshops since 1999, co-author of two best-selling rope bondage books, and rigger/director/performer in hundreds of fetish and instructional videos. Dan has also co-directed and performed as a Dominant for websites including Sex and Submission, The Upper Floor, Dungeon Sex, and Sexually Broken. Presenting: Catholicism Kink: Building Scenes from Sacraments, Dollification for New Dolls. Makers & Owners, Creative Mindfuckery

Sir DaddyDaun and slavegirl j
She/Her and she/her

Your favorite truck driving, International Master/slave duo! Presenting: Normalizing Failure, The Passive Master and the Stubborn slave, Here W/we Go Again, UGH!

River Dark and domenique
She/Her and she/her

River is a Leatherdyke, writer, and educator from Vancouver, Canada. S/M and D/s are not part of her sexuality, they are her sexuality. She began acting on these desires in 1991 and teaching in 2005. She loves engaging with community by teaching the things she’s passionate about. domenique is River’s sex slave. She’s hungry for intensity, connection, and emotional liberation. She’s passionately interested in psychological play, matters of the heart, and the power those things hold. She’s obsessed with concepts around love, attachment, pain, and the healing process. Together, they’ve presented for many local, regional, and international events and organizations. Presenting: Making Pain Last: How to get the most out of your bottom, From Biker Bars to 50 Shades: How did we get here?, When it’s Not Just Fun and Games: Playing on the Dark Side

Lily Seville
she/her

Lily Seville (she/her) is a queer poly switch femme who lives life with a distinct vintage flair and a continual sense of wonder. Over two decades of kinky exploration she has held many roles, identified with many different archetypes, and above all learned to never say “never.” An experienced organizer and educator, she delights in sharing her passions with others and helping them to live lives filled with beauty, joy, and fulfillment. Formal dining is one of Lily’s favorite kinky activities, she is pleased to have the opportunity to share her specialized expertise with Leather Reign. Presenting: Dinner is Served: Practical Skills for Serving at Table, Turning the Table: The Role and Responsibilities of a Dinner Guest

Dara
they/them

Dara (they/them) is a nonbinary service-oriented human, bottom, sometimes mischievous top, bootblack, titleholder, educator, event producer, and massage therapist. I mean, they’ve done a thing or two. Since 2016, they’ve enjoyed the honor of exploring and expanding their love of butlering and formal service with Ms. Lily Seville and her team. Presenting: Dinner is Served: Practical Skills for Serving at Table, Turning the Table: The Role and Responsibilities of a Dinner Guest

Master Kaddan Yue

Master Kaddan Yue, Northeast Leather Woman 2020-2021, LSC UPRISE! Co-Producer and founding sister of ONYX Pearls NY/Northeast, has more than 40 years’ experience living the lifestyle. Presenting: Coping with life – Mental health issues in power exchange dynamics, Two sides of the same coin – A look into Long Distance Dynamics, I Don’t Give a Fuck…You Don’t Get to Determine My Journey in M/s or Leather

slave audi Yue

slave audi Yue has been active in the lifestyle for the past 14 years. She began her voyage as a pet and later learned that her heart was called to be a slave. She has been in her current dynamic with Master Kaddan Yue for almost 12 years where she now serves as majordomo and house techie. slave audi serves her community by being co-director of Marketing for the Leather Solidarity Collective, being a founding member of the upcoming group – Leather Service Alliance (LSA), and volunteering for many groups and conferences. Presenting: Coping with life – Mental health issues in power exchange dynamics, Two sides of the same coin – A look into Long Distance Dynamics, I Don’t Give a Fuck…You Don’t Get to Determine My Journey in M/s or Leather

Chayla

A shared experience I hear from unpartnered people strongly drawn to ownership is that it’s intensely lonely. In an attempt to reach out to those who feel similarly and say “You’re not alone,” I will share elements of my personal journey as unowned property, from the painful to the joyful. Content will touch on attempts to find a meaningful, fulfilling path to follow while unowned, the value and the challenges of community, and grappling with doubts about worthiness in the face of difficulty finding compatible partners. Although my experience is as unowned property and I will be speaking from that viewpoint, I expect that there are elements of the class that will provide food for thought regardless of relationship status or role. Presenting: Unowned: My Experience Of Being Unpartnered Property

Ivarr B.

Ivarr B. (EE-vahr) – he / him – is a pan, polyam, sadistic Leather Daddy, cigar snob, and most of all, a proud member of the Osage Nation. He also served as Mr. Oregon State Leather 2019/2020. His kinky roots started in Oklahoma many years ago but Portland, OR has been home since 2018. He loves to play rough, teach, and hold up mirrors to the Leather and kink communities in the hope of making them better. In the vanilla world, Ivarr is a communications specialist and media producer. In other words, he spends a lot of time thinking about talking, and writing things to say. This applies to Leather and kink much more than you might think. Presenting: Indigenous Leather, Evolve or Die: History, Generational Change, and the Future of Leather, “That’s not right!”: Nontraditional Power Exchange

MsDDom and CreamDream

MsDDom and CreamDream have lived in a power exchange dynamic since 2010. With lifestyle experiences, cultural, and age differences, their goal is a sustainable authority-based relationship. Presenting: Evolution of BIPOC folks in Community, The Intersectionality of M/s, Leather, and Race, Dispelling male submissive stereotypes

Sir Luke and his victor

Sir Luke and His victor manifest a sacred exchange of will and surrender as Master and slave, combining Leathersex and bloodlust, intentional structure and discipline, and shared personal truth. Their dynamic is flavored with notes of consensual nonconsent, depravity, and defilement. They live on the edge to uncover hidden purpose and empowerment, undeniably conquering fear and hesitation.

Sir Luke is a second generation Leatherman who strives to honor his family and Leatherkin by emulating a balance of tradition and rebellion. He has served the community as a board member of Leather Leadership Conference, contest judge, and mentor to folks on either side of the slash.

victor is a devoted slave, first and foremost. he acquires new skills regularly, as excellent service includes adaptability and finding comfort in discomfort. Leather care, culinary arts, belly dancing, and singing opera are a few skills included on his service resume. In the community, he has served as a judge, presenter, and confidant to other slaves.

Sir Luke and His victor are SouthEast Master/slave 2019/2020/2021 and Florida Power Exchange 2016/2017. They have presented over 100 classes at 90 events country-wide and internationally on various aspects of authority-based dynamics and S&M. When they’re not doing work in the community, they enjoy their home sanctuary, where victor can sit at Sir Luke’s feet in their dungeon and they can simply exist as Master and slave. Presenting: Nothing Less Than Everything, Our Love Language is Suffering, Queer Leathersex 

Team Soup/Polar

We are Team Soup… perverts who really like to do dirty soupy things! We are into s/m and leather, while injecting a little chaos and whimsy. We strive to bring humor, sexuality and passion into our brutality.

Polar and nephesh are known for a play style and workshops that lean towards the edgier styles of play; knives, bare handed impact, and blood play to name a few. We live in a 24/7 authority transfer dynamic and we are deeply passionate about power imbalance dynamics and the people who live and explore within them. Presenting: Brutality: The sometimes ugly truth of M/s, Power Imbalanced Relationships: What makes your heart happy and your bits tingle?

Liza and Jody

Liza and her slave, Jody, (International Master and slave 2011) have been living in a committed M/s relationship for 19 years. Liza came to power at Woodstock and has been kinky ever since. In 2002, Liza moved to San Francisco and jumped into the leather community with both boots. After leaving the military in 1980, Jody came out as a leatherdyke and slave. Shortly thereafter she founded Leather and Lace, Los Angeles’ first women’s leather club. In 2000, Jody moved to San Francisco and became Liza’s slave two years later. Currently they live in Portland, Oregon where they are members of MAsT: Portland and the Bad Girls.

Liza and her slave teach extensively in the US and also abroad, on a variety of topics related to nurturing and sustaining long-term M/s relationships filled with heat, sex, deep intimacy and fun. Having received numerous awards, the most meaningful to them is having been recognized as Presenters of the Year by MAsT International.

Liza and Jody produce the Master slave Retreat and are the emeritus producers of the Ms. San Francisco Leather. They have both served as representatives to the Bay Area Leather Alliance and on the steering committees or as officers of several organizations: Leather Levi Weekend, Leather Alley at Pride, the Exiles (women’s BDSM group) and the Bears of San Francisco. Presenting: “S” Only Discussion – Nooner, “M” Only Discussion – Nooner

Sir Tee and little Kitsune

Sir Tee and little kitsune live in a 24/7 CNC, Master/slave dynamic. Sir Tee is a Black Leather person and little kitsune is Japanese Canadian Leather woman. They began their journey in Power Exchange, over 27 years ago, developing their dynamic privately for many years before joining the local communities. They are the founders and directors of MAsT: Greater Vancouver in B.C., and facilitate regular monthly MAsT discussions and munches/socials for the Power Exchange community.

They are also the producers of the 2020 and 2021 Pacific Rim Power Exchange (virtual) Conference, and have hosted a number of weekend intensives, community fundraising events, and have presented at various events and conferences across Western Canada and the US, both virtually and in person. In 2019 Sir Tee was honoured to serve as Head Judge of the Western Canada Power Exchange (WCPE) title competition while in 2018 little kitsune served as judge. Presenting: Imposter Syndrome, Navigating Resistance Within Power Exchange Dynamics

Hawk / DouxPapa

Hawk: Pronouns He-Him-His
Fetlife :DouxPapa
Hawk is a Leatherman/Transgender/Transmasculine; his gender journey is a celebration, he began his “medical” transition later in life. Hawk has been part of the LGBTQ+ community since the late 70’s, and today he is still out and proud as Queer.
American sign language is his second language.
Hawk comes from a multi-culturally and multi-racially diverse family. He is currently involved in the sex positive and leather communities. He comes to leather through his family’s Motorcycle Leather Culture.

Hawk has presented in the kinky, leather, and professional medical communities since 2016 including:
Gender Odyssey, 2018
University of Washington, 2018- on going, about specialized healthcare support for the transgender community
Westcoast Bound, Canada, 2019
“Ask a D-Type” The Gathering 2020
Liberation United Church of Christ, 2021
FLAME, 2021
At a fundraising event for a leather community member, 2021
Presenting: Love your Gender and I Will Love Mine: A Transmasculine Perspective on Gender Journeys

BlueFrost

BlueFrost, the devoted slave, and wife to Mister-Blue was the 2018 International slave titleholder and 2017 NorthEast slave titleholder. She is the co-founder and co-visionary of the Leather Houses of Color Coalition and is the Mistress of the House of Blue. Together with her Master, she received the Pantheon of Leather Award for 2018 Couple of the Year. She is also an Advocate for NCSF (National Coalition for Sexual Freedom). She serves on the staff of the Master/slave Conference where she first embraced her slave identity and found her power in service.

She has been active in her local community for many years as she enjoys sharing life choice experiences and information with others. She routinely speaks at national conferences, special interest groups, and local munches in an effort to help further educate herself and her peers. Her journey has been nothing short of amazing as she travels the country, affirming the validity and successes of living an authority transfer relationship.

As an associate member of a larger group of Leather families, she is known by many as a friend, life choice coach, mentor, and sister. Mentored by elders in her community, she strives to not only carry the torch to light the path for others, but to also brighten her own personal path to excellence in service. Presenting: The Mindset of Surrender

Carter Brûlée

Carter is a switchy, pansexual, polyamorous, trans boy passionate about education and dessert. He walked into his first munch at 18 years old, before he had even graduated high school, and has been hooked on the community ever since. Carter is a service oriented-submissive and occasional silly sadist. He has a bubbly personality and an enthusiasm for education that he brings into all of his teaching endeavors. In addition to teaching for location and national kink and leather organizations, Carter has taught various sexuality-related topics (including polyamory, kink, consent, and negotiation) for academic institutions. Presenting: Fucking Gender, Invisible Bruises: Emotional First Aid, Better Submission Through Science: The Psychology of Behavior Modification

James Lohikaarme

James Lohikaarme – ze / they – has organized and volunteered for kink events in the Portland, Oregon area for 5 years. A switchy, bratty sadomasochist, ze finds great satisfaction in studying (and butting heads with) the intersections of justice, community, and all forms of power exchange. Ze also love to challenge folks to chess games. James’s passions include true crime podcasts, shock collars, polyamory, and pie. Presenting: “That’s not right!”: Nontraditional Power Exchange

ServiceKitty

ServiceKitty (she/her/hers) is property of Mxster_Mita, and in service to House Anchor. As a sober, polyamorous, pansexual/queer, pagan, a slave and a pet, Kitty has found connection with the Leather community through its willingness to welcome people as they are, when they come to it with authenticity. Through her expression of power exchange, service to the kink community and her local communities, Kitty has become a leader and facilitator of events and networks to facilitate individual and collective growth.

MitaBear/nikkikitty

Presenting: My title is slave, not doormat

Eirikah Delaunay

Presenting: Self-Care for Switches: Tools for Sustainably Enjoying All The Things, Talk Dirty to Me: Using Words to Turn the Hotness to 11

Gloria JN

Presenting: “We Do Not Live Single-Issue Lives” (a workshop on Intersectionality)

Liza and her slave Jody

Dee1234

As a clinical psychologist Dee 1234 brings her passion for learning, engaging nature, and focus on inclusion to the table during her presentations. She is passionate about all things edge play, ethical slut, restorative justice and education (especially bottom focused education). In addition to her degree she has sought out additional education from the Consent Academy to assist her in developing her skills as both a Consent and Kink education. She has had the privilege to present at various events throughout the nation such as Sin in the City, Beyond Leather, TESfest, GLLA, COPE, IMAS, SEIK, SOUL, etc. Presenting: Power Exchange & Attachment Based on a groundbreaking book titled Attached: The new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find & keep love (Levine A, R, Heller, 2010) Dee 1234 discusses how power exchange can be impacted by reviewing that exchange with the ‘attachment’ lens. How it could assist in deepening that bound, and navigate the bumps that occur with increased grace. For attendees to get the most out of this class they should have basic to moderate understanding of power exchange. Past exposure to the Attached book is helpful, but at least basic knowledge of attachment theory is necessary to get the most out of this class. But ALL are welcome to explore this topic through an interactive presentation.

Isabella Cross

Isabella Cross / slave maya (she/her) is a queer ethical non-monogamous Leather femme switch. Her journey into BDSM began circa 2015. From her first time at the CSPC during Sexploration she has developed a relentless passion for learning, growing and serving her Leather and beyond community.  Her desire to share this unique life has led her to serve groups in the Everett area such as; Everett Poly (admin), MAsT: Everett (secretary), Everett Leather Alliance (board member secretary & social media), The Gathering (social media) and is a proud member of HardPink Sisterhood. She is proud to be in service to Master Gene as His property, slave, girl, masochist and pony. She is honored to be in a Leather family with Xavier and slave darby. Her biggest joy is connecting with all in the community, new and seasoned alike and is always ready to greet you with a big smile and a warm hug! Presenting: Finding My Rhythm: From 50 Shades to Leatherwoman How many times have you been asked this question? How did you begin your journey into BDSM? The first time I answered that question heads turned, eyes rolled and soft giggles were heard. It was around 2015 when the Fifty Shades craze was all a blaze. A secluded, tired and lost Isabella went looking for something and finally found her true path. After much reading and even more searching, she found the CSPC and not shortly after, her people. It took her three tries to get passed the door, but once she did, she never looked back. This workshop is for those beginning their journey. It doesn’t matter where you come from or how you got here, what matter is, you are here now! Get ready to have an honest open conversation about all our different beginnings and why they are in fact more than enough! From Fifty Shades to Leatherwoman and every step (or misstep) in between, I am, You are, welcomed here!

Sir Luke and His victor

Sexually liberated, radically rebellious, Master and slave. Sir Luke and His victor manifest a sacred exchange of will and surrender through sanguineous Leathersex, intentional structure and discipline, and shared personal truth. Though their way of life is quiet and discreet, they live in the margins and on the edge to uncover hidden purpose and empowerment. They answered each other’s calling on the concrete floor of the dungeon, undeniably conquering fear and hesitation, and haven’t looked back. Sir Luke and His victor are Southeast Master/slave 2019 and Florida Power Exchange 2016/2017. They have presented internationally on eroticism in leathercare and the healing aspects of structured lifestyles. When they’re not doing work in the community, they enjoy their home sanctuary, where victor can sit at Sir Luke’s feet in their dungeon and exist as Master and slave. Presenting: Bless me, Daddy, for i Have Sinned Instead of punishing those on the right side of the slash, we will discuss how to change the narrative of positive and negative reinforcement styles into effective tools for forgiveness and atonement in Master/slave dynamics.

Tomo

Tomo is a butch leatherdyke who found the leather community during a sunset motorcycle ride with her life partner Mel over 25 years ago and has presented classes, produced events, served as a judge, keynote speaker, and emcee at leather events since. Tomo has been served by her boy levi for over 10 years and fulfilled to be a part of a chosen leather family.  As a supporter of many in the leather community, she is often endearingly called Daddy Tomo.  She is a Producer of Northwest Leather Celebration, the Northwest Master slave, Northwest Bootblack, Northwest Person of Leather, and Ms Sacramento Leather Contests.   Tomo served along with Ms Rhonda as Northwest Master and slave 2015 and International Master and slave 2016.  She was a Producer of International Ms Leather Weekend for seven years and is a founding member of the Dyke Uniform Corps.  Tomo is the Director of MAsT: Sacramento, is a member and serves as Webmaster for Queer Leather Association Sacramento, is the West Coast Curator for the Leather Quilt Project, and is a member of MAsT: San Francisco, and The Exiles. She was awarded the Pantheon of Leather President’s Award in 2013 and the Master slave Conference slave Heart Award in 2018. Presenting: How Much is Too Much As a servant, submissive, or slave, one often aligns to the will of another. At times, the line that indicates what amount of surrender is enough and what is too much may become blurred. In this discussion, we will look at what it means to surrender, align, where the line that marks “too much” is for each of us. We will talk about maintaining individual power and self while offering surrender that is healthy and sustainable. For the purpose of creating a safe space to speak freely, share and grow, this class is limited to those who identify as slave or submissive. Presenting: The s in M/s How do we define slave for ourselves and discover what we each have to offer? What does it take to find that within yourself day after day? How do you handle conflict as a slave? These are some of the questions we will address in addition to a discussion of topics including power exchange vs authority exchange, how to serve from a powerful place, what you look for in a Master, determining what you have to offer, learning that it is “not about you”, that beautiful place of surrender, and how to survive a breakup as a slave. Whether you are brand new or have years of experience, you will benefit from this interactive class and discussion of M/s from the slave’s view. For the purpose of creating a safe space to speak freely, share and grow, this class is limited to those who identify as slave or submissive. Presenting: Takin’ It Whether you take pain for yourself or for your Top, pain can be erotic and ecstatic. At times, it can also be miserable! If you are a masochist, this class will help you take care of your body and increase what you can endure over the long haul. For submissive masochists who don’t necessarily take pain just for pain’s sake, we will discuss ways to prepare and increase your endurance level. We will also address ways in which the Top can inspire more pain than the bottom thinks s/he can take. This class will include discussion on preparation before a scene, techniques to increase your endurance during the scene, getting through that point of struggle we all know about, and after care that you as the bottom can do for yourself to prepare your body for the next scene and long term. These steps can lead to an increase in the amount of pain you take and the pleasure you experience in doing so.

Kikithepuck

Kiki have been involved in BDSM for over a decade and out publicly for over six years. Once an active member and volunteer of The Center for Sex Positive Culture they now runs a FemDom lifestyle group called Diadem-Events and  are an active volunteer with KinkFest in Portland as co-director of Merchandising.  They have taught at Flog’Em All in Idaho, The Gathering NW, the Bellingham Sex Positve Center,  and the BDSM Writers Con in Seattle. They are a sex- positive & body- positive burlesque performer/producer in Seattle and produce a kink themed burlesque show yearly, called No Closet Follies. A self proclaimed Sensual Sadomasochistic Service Switch, they have become very comfortable identifying as a Femme Dominant over the last few years. Their pronouns are they/them. This PTA nerdy mom  enjoys wandering Bed, Bath & Beyond for new toys for both in and out of the kitchen. Presenting: Racism Defined: Allies to Zower Exchange and Attachment In this class we will talk about racism and how it colors the world in which we all live in. We discuss:

• What racism is and isn’t
• Microaggressions
• Systematic oppression
• What privilege really means
• Why Black Lives Matter
• Intersectionality in kink/BDSM/leather
• How to be a good ally and an even better accomplice

Wilde Irish (Heather)

Heather Forrler is the Managing Attorney at Compass Legal Services, P.S., a law firm located in Silverdale, WA. Heather has been practicing law since 2002 and working in the legal industry since 1996. In her practice, Heather provides legal counsel and representation in the areas of Family Law, Divorce, Estate Planning, and Business Structure formation. She champions individual and family diversity through equal application of the principles of law, promoting stability and protection for all. On a Personal Note – Heather, aka WildeIrish (or just “Irish”), has been a member of the Kink Community since 2001. She is a former member of the CSPC and has been an active member of Kitsap ACES since 2014. Kitsap ACES is a Non-Profit in Bremerton serving the Kink Community in Kitsap and beyond. She has served on the Board of Directors as Chairman (2016-2018) and Secretary (currently, and 2015-2016). Ms. Forrler’s personal and professional experience regularly provides her the opportunity to support members of the Kink community through difficult times and uncomfortable conversations. She is honored to help members of the community plan and create security and peace of mind. In addition to understanding the reality of personal circumstances and the law, she understands the emotional needs of her clients, serving with empathy, integrity and efficiency. Heather is a member in good standing of the WA State Bar Assoc, Kitsap County Bar Assoc, and US Dist. Court Western Dist. of WA. Presenting: Estate Planning Whether you are poly, monogamous, or even single… whether you are “OG” Old Guard, “Modern” Old Guard, New Guard, or… whether you think you are old or young… It’s always too late to get Estate Planning documents when you actually need them. Wills, Powers of Attorneys, Trusts, Property Agreements, and Directives to Physicians (living wills) are priceless gifts only YOU can give to your loved ones. Partners who aren’t married don’t have legal rights concerning medical or financial matters for each other. If your partner is unable to manage their medical, personal, or financial affairs for themselves, for whatever reason, if you aren’t legally related, there is little (nothing, generally) you can do to manage those affairs for them. It’s the same concerning your partner’s children. In the current environment the assumption that every child has two, and only two, parents is common. One of the advantages to poly families is that there are multiple adults to help raise the children. However, non-legal parents/guardians don’t have rights concerning the children’s health care and can come across obstacles in other areas of the child’s life, too. Come learn some details on how you can protect yourself, your loved ones, and your assets with estate planning documents.

Master Kaddan

I have more than 30 years experience of living the lifestyle. I spent three years of my life “training from the bottom up” to become the third generation of my Leather Family’s line to come from that style of training. I currently have a Household with a mix of babygirls, slaves and property. I hold a Professional Human Services Degree (with emphasis on Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy). The forensic populations I worked with included violent offenders, those with mental health issues and those with HIV/AIDS, both on Federal and State levels. Now that I am retired from that aspect of my life, I can focus on the M/s community and volunteering. I am currently the Northeast Leatherwoman 2020, a full associate of ONYX NY/Northeast, president of the ONYX Pearls NY/Northeast, sergeant at arms of the ONYX Pearls National Council, treasurer and member of The Hard Pink Sisterhood, a member of MAsT Metro NY, a member of Leather Houses of Color Coalition (LHOCC), and former Pantheon of Leather Northeast nominee. In the past I have presented at TES Fest 2016, NYC LGBT Community Center, Leather Leadership conference, Colorado Leather Fest, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, and the MsDs Conference. In the coming year I will be presenting for various groups and conference via online platforms. The topics I present on include Effective Communication 101 and 102, Consent, Poly Families, Mental Health and M/s, and Long-Distance M/s. I use a platform called Second Life (SL) to facilitate lifestyle related discussions at my education-focused Master and slave venue, The Art of Submission (AOS). In 2011 I saw the need to think outside the box, and using the social platform of Second Life, I decided to broaden the definition of the BDSM community. After doing research I began to feel that there was something missing within the BDSM SL community and that the Master and slave dynamic was misrepresented and misinterpreted. From this the idea of The Art of Submission was born and developed. The AOS venue can be found in Second Life and what makes it unique is that all the facilitators are active to some extent in their Real-Life Community. I can understand that some look down on any platform other than Real Life, but it does not mean other platforms cannot be used for introductory information. Second Life is one of the ways that many use to explore D/s and M/s, therefore whether we like it or not it is a reality and I was taught that service can have many faces. The question is: are you open minded? Presenting: M-Types of Power Workshop Description: This talk will delve into the techniques used during training and long-term management of a slave/submissive.  It will address the various forms of interpersonal power and what those are.  It will also discuss the effects of each of those forms of power and how they work within a M/s or D/s dynamic. Skills/Knowledge: We will be using my personal experiences from my personal career as councilor and experience in the M/s Leather lifestyle to define and describe 6 types of interpersonal power.  And how the various types affect people and dynamics that they are used in. Participant Outcomes:

1. Learn what interpersonal forms of power are and how people use them within their dynamics.
2. Learn 6 types of power commonly used within dynamics.
3. Learn how each type of power affects the people it is used on.
4. Learn to recognize the different types when used in your personal dynamics.
5. Learn which ones you find effective.

Liza Sibley

Liza came to power at Woodstock and has been kinky since.  She is a member of Portland Bad Girls, San Francisco Exiles and MAsT.  She has always been interested in teaching and training.  Among her pupils have been horses, dogs, dolphins, children and inmates. She is honored to have served as International Master 2011 and Northwest Master 2010. Liza has received numerous awards, including MAsT International’s 2012 Presenter of the Year, co-held with her slave, Jody. Presenting: Masters and their Disasters Join Liza (International Master 2011) for a masters only discussion of our worst nightmares, when the train catches on fire and falls off the trestle and how we recover.

Liza’s slave, Jody

Jody came out as a leatherdyke and slave in 1980 in Los Angeles, founding Leather and Lace, an early women’s leather group.  She is a member of Portland Bad Girls, San Francisco Exiles and MAsT. Jody has taught in the US and abroad, judged contests, organized events, keynoted and competed (serving as International slave 2011 and Northwest slave 2010).  Jody has received numerous awards, including MAST International’s 2012 Presenter of the Year, co-held with her Mistress, Liza. Presenting: “S” Only Discussion Join Liza’s slave Jody (International slave 2011) for this gently facilitated discussion which is a chance for slaves, subs, boys, bois, girls, pups, ponies (you get the idea) to share with each other the trials, tribulations and triumphs of our experiences on the right side of the slash. Respectfully – s-types only.

The Rooks

The Rooks are nonbinary leatherdykes who love authority exchange. Since 2011, they have been doing the hard rewarding work of crafting their 24/7 live-in ownership relationship. They live in Juneau, Alaska and flag hunter green. boy rook (he/him) is collared property, a bootblack, a pup, and a boy. He is the co-creator and illustrator of The Gender Book and the game Kinkopoly. Mx. Rook (they/them) is a poet, a student of energetic embodiment, and a rough sex enthusiast. They have written more than a million dirty words in books, anthologies, columns, and their own site, Sugarbutch.net. The Rooks stay busy teaching at dozens of events and online at DsPlayground.com. They have over 30 years of practice with D/s between them, and are honored to be Northwest Master and slave 2019 and International Master and slave 2020. Follow their adventures at facebook.com/NWMs2019 Presenting: Ownership As A Spiritual Path  Some s-types describe their journey as being “monks for love.” Some owners are worshipped. Considering all of the protocol, ritual, symbology, traditions, and ordeals that we pursue, there are many parallels to spiritual traditions. Let’s talk about ways a spiritual path can be incorporated as a model or tool to strengthen your dynamic, and ways that you both can find spiritual value and deep soul satisfaction on the path of your relationship, no religion required! We will share our personal experiences with Buddhism, Energetic embodiment, Christiantiy of many flavors, and spiritual animism, and welcome discussion from the group’s diverse belief systems. Consensual total authority exchange is truly a vocation; for those of us who feel the pull, it can be a powerful engine for spiritual growth and meaning.

The Leather Houses of Color Coalition

The Leather Houses of Color Coalition (LHOCC – pronounced “Lock”) was founded by four Leather families as an entity to assist others with like-minded aspirations to create or enhance their existing Leather households. With over fifty years of combined experience in BDSM and Leather practices, LHOCC provides valuable resources directly from publicly active Masters, Dominants, slaves, submissives and servants to those seeking assistance. Our mission is to serve the Leather community as an example of unity and purpose among established and aspiring Leather Houses of Color, and to provide educational, professional and social opportunities for those choosing to follow such lifestyles. Presenting: The Importance of Accountability Partnering We will discuss the benefits and methods various Authoritarians use to hold themselves; their wards and their communities accountable for the Principles that govern their lives and dynamics. We will review the range of practices that support or impede accountability to the Authoritarian vision.  Members will review how the current state of global and national affairs, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and BLM race relations, have impacted accountability management. Personal, Member, House/Pack, Group, Organization and Societal level accountability tools will be addressed. There will be a review of the www.lhocc.org FAQ’s followed by a Q&A for participants to get to know the organization better.

Sir Bradford & Girl Pixie

Girl Pixie is a genderfluid, queer, dominant leather girl who just recently transplanted to Florida with her Owner and Daddy, Sir Bradford, and their 3 children, 2 dogs, and 2 cats. She has been in the lifestyle since 2008 (officially) and can be found volunteering at numerous events throughout the year, as she shares her household motto of “Live your truth without spreading hate”. She is the Head Girl of House of Kreatures, a presenter of classes on service  relationships, LGBTQ issues, and communication, as well as organizing and coordinating with many events across the country. When she’s not at an event, or at her favorite bar, she can be found at home working on bootblack projects or catching up on sleep. In 2017, Pixie was honored to become the CEO of the Leather Heart Foundation, helping serve her community in times of financial hardship and disaster. Presenting: Young Leather: Age, Experience, and Time When you hear “young leather” you probably think of a 18-30-year-old, who has just put on their first pair of boots and walked into their first bar or have somewhere between 0-5 years in the lifestyle. You also may think of the “children” who have no idea of the history, the past, the struggles and sacrifices made before their lifetime. However, I’m here to change that. We see a constant struggle in our community both nationally, and locally in bridging the age gap between the elders, and older generation of our community and the younger, new or upcoming Leatherfolk. In this class, you will learn the versatile group that ”young leather” can cover, as well as the similarities and differences, making it easier to talk, bond and grow with the younger generations. To create a community that is a safe haven for our alternative lifestyle, we must make sure we have raised individuals to carry it on.

Dahlia Bloom and Verris

Dahlia Bloom is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice. She is passionate about the freedom and safety self-knowledge can bring to people’s lives. She has a Master’s Degree in Body Psychotherapy and has been working in the psychotherapy field since 2005. She is trained in Behavioral, Somatic, Trauma-Informed, Psychodynamic, and Mindfulness based approaches. She is currently training as a Holistic Sex Therapist, and has taught classes on psychologically minded kink at the Close-In Munch, Positively Kinky, Portland TNG, and Leather Reign. She is deeply committed to self-expression and creativity, and has been studying, practicing, and teaching embodied mindfulness for 20 years. A long time anti-oppression activist, Dahlia brings her enthusiasm for understanding power and seeking liberation to her therapy practice and her kink.

Verris has been exploring the eroticism of TPE / authority transfer relationships for over a decade. He is a Nationally Certified Counselor and has trained as a Holistic Sex Therapist. Verris specializes in working with clients who identify as kinky and, or poly. As an educator he is passionate about challenging the prevailing cultural narrative of what constitutes sex, and sexuality. Verris has been a guest speaker for Colorado State University, Leather Reign, Existential-Humanistic Northwest, multiple podcasts and community events

Workshops Offered:

Intensive: Deepening intimacy in power exchange: An experiential workshop on trauma, attachment, and relationships

Gearhead

Gearhead357 dove head first into the kink community when he realized that it was the perfect environment not only to play out his twisted fantasies, but to share them. Who’d have guessed that feeding an interest in martial arts with a violent imagination could end so well? His love for learning and understanding all the great ways to break people fed his personal research into the human body: Gearhead has attended workshops throughout Canada and the U.S. for the past ten years. Through expanding his repertoire for violence, power-exchange, edgeplay, and rope, this sadistic top is always growing.

Workshops Offered:

No Rest for the Wicked: What Edge Players do When They Can’t Sleep at Night
Short End of the Stick

Lily Seville

Lily Seville (she/her) is a queer poly switch femme who lives life with a distinct vintage flair and a continual sense of wonder. Over two decades of kinky exploration she has held many roles, identified with many different archetypes, and above all learned to never say “never.” An experienced organizer and educator, she delights in sharing her passions with others and helping them to live lives filled with beauty, joy, and fulfillment. Formal dining is one of Lily’s favorite kinky activities, she is pleased to have the opportunity to share her specialized expertise with Leather Reign.

Workshops Offered:

Dinner is Served

Shaun

Shaun (he/him) is a queer, poly, kinky, redneck, veteran, and farmer. He is a boy, a dog, and a sadist.

Shaun has spent his whole life in service of one kind or another. He has served in a religious capacity, in the military, and has served proudly as Brett’s slave since 2014. He has been cultivating his skills at formal dining service, with significant input and direction from Ms. Lily Seville, since 2015.

Workshops Offered:

Dinner is Served

Lucky

Lucky (they/them) is a spunky, Sparky, saucy human who likes making their fellow humans happy. Always up for an adventure, Lucky is equally at home holding a hotdog and beer or a serving fork and platter. Lucky has over a decade of professional customer service skills, and seven years of food service experience and has been working as a steward with Ms. Lily Seville since 2015.

Workshops Offered:

Dinner is Served

Dara

Dara (they/them or he/him) is a nonbinary service-oriented leatherboy, submissive (in the sense of choosing to submit–not subservient), bottom, sometimes mischievous top, bootblack, educator, event producer, and massage therapist. Since 2016, they’ve enjoyed the honor of learning from and working with Lily Seville and her team in various formal dining capacities.

Workshops Offered:

Dinner is Served

Master David and slave brynn

Master David is a Leatherman, a sadist, a mentor, and an educator. He is the founding director of MAsT: Bakersfield, part of the leadership for the Bakersfield BDSM Munch group, and a member of the Bakersfield Dominant Discussion Group. slave brynn identifies as a little, a bootblack, and an aspiring leather girl. She currently serves as the secretary for MAsT: Bakersfield, the secretary/treasurer of the San Joaquin girls of Leather, and is active with the Bakersfield Bottoms Club and Hard Pink Sisterhood. Master David and slave brynn are passionate mentors and educators, having taught all over the country at events including Revelry, GLLA, and Southwest Leather Conference. They are honored to serve as the 2019 International Master and slave titleholders.

Workshops Offered:

Greatness Lies on the Other Side of Your Comfort Zone
Life on the Other Side of a Trust Violation

Master Ice Dog and slave ravyn

Master IceDog is a loving Master to slave ravyn, the Head of House Aseifa, a Software Engineer, and a step-father. Recognizing how much the Leather and kink community has helped him in his personal journey, Master IceDog pays it forward by supporting those looking for help and guidance. He serves the greater community by providing educational presentations on Master/slave dynamics, communication skills, conflict resolution, spirituality, and technology. He is the Director of MAsT: Raleigh, the Founder of MORDOR (Master’s of Raleigh Discussing our Relationships), and the Founding President of the Tobacco Road Chapter of Red Dragons Riding Club. He’s always up for good conversations over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. Even better if this happens during a long motorcycle trip.

slave ravyn has spent much of the last two decades teaching and guiding others. With her training in Psychology, and Behavior Analysis, she has worked with schools, communities, families, and individuals. she presents and coaches on a variety of topics including relationship building, communication, finding balance, and brain development. slave ravyn is a member of the HardPink Sisterhood, Tobacco Road Red Dragons, and social media staff for The Leather Heart Foundation.

Together, as the 2017 SouthEast Master and slave, Master IceDog and slave ravyn have empowered many on their journeys in and out of the lifestyle.

Workshops Offered:

Finding Your Voice: Challenges of the Introverted Master
Intensive: Too much, too little, or just right…. – slave ravyn

Master Rook and slave rook

The Rooks met in 2011 at a kink retreat and quickly developed a power dynamic that eventually became 24/7 M/s. Through many thought experiments, their contract and the limits of their authority exchange was carefully crafted, and they had a collaring ceremony in 2013 and legally married in 2017. They have taught together at dozens of events and online. Their joint classes include The Art of Ownership, The Protocol Game, and the eight-week e-course Submissive Playground, where there is no wrong way to be submissive. slave rook is the co-creator and illustrator of The Gender Book and the game Kinkopoly; Master Rook has written thousands of dirty words for anthologies, columns, and their own site, sugarbutch.net. They live in Oakland.

Workshops Offered:

Growing White Resilience in the Leather Community

Master Scott and slave lyon

Master Scott and slave lyon live in Indianapolis, In and have been living in an M/s dynamic for 7 years, but have been together in various incarnations for 19 years. Along the way they have gathered quite a bit of information on exactly what not to do (along with some helpful tips for what to do!) in order to keep their dynamic growing along with them. Both Master and slave have a passion for sharing what it is that we do, and believe very much in the magic that happens when people come together to share their stories, which is why groups such as MAsT and presenting are so important to them. Both active in MAsT, slave is Director of MAsT: Indianapolis and is the Assistant Regional Rep for the Great Lakes. They have been blessed to travel and share all over the country together, and were honored to serve as the GLLA Master/slave couple for 2017. They describe their relationship as the filthiest love story never made for TV.

Workshops Offered:

A Pair (or more) Apart
Mindfulness: Practices and Philosophies for Deepening and Connecting in your M/s Relationship
Who is Driving Here??? Control, Power Struggles and other Sneaky Speed Bumps in your M/s.

mia

Mia identifies as a Leather bottom, with taboo, erotic humiliation and consensual non-consent being the foundations of her kink. She enjoys teaching workshops that help to debunk some of the misconceptions, and highlight the eroticism, around these types of play. She loves cigars, boots, and Sadists. She is also passionate about and committed to providing workshops geared specifically to bottoms. Mia has been playing, learning, teaching, hosting and producing events in the community for many years. She is drawn to deep and honest connections with the desire to engage with like-minded deviants. She approaches kink with respect, a healthy sense of humour, and a strong commitment to personal responsibility.

Workshops Offered:

Embracing your inner Humiliation Slut
When WRONG feels so RIGHT – Erotic taboo play

Mufasa Ali

Mufasa Ali has been a dedicated member of the leather community for more than 25 years! He is the founder of the Men of ONYX, ONYX National Council Chairman, Patriarch of Mufasa’s Pride, Leather History Preservation Foundation founding Board Member, Mr World Leather 2006/2007 and the ONYX Leatherman 1997. Mufasa has received many awards including the Pantheon of Leather Marcus Hernandez Life Achievement Award, the Chuck Windemuth Mentorship Award at Mr. Chicago Leather Weekend, the Vi Johnson Community Leadership Award and the BlackBeat Leadership Award. He is the founder of the People of Color Caucus at IML & BlackBeat, the Leatherman and Leatherwoman of Color titles and a nationally known leather community speaker and educator/presenter on such topics as People of Color in Leather, Impact play, Leather Family, Leather Protocol, Spirituality & BDSM, Community Leadership and Diversity. Mufasa is a Husband, Daddy, Dad, Papa, Sir, Son and Brother to his leather family and honors them as his village of support.

Workshops Offered:

Keynote Address
POC in Leather Panel: All invited

Najalaise

Najalaise is maniacal but decent. Even before joining Seattle’s organized BDSM community in 2005, Naj was exploring kink and introducing others to figging, play piercing, sounding, fisting, and other delights. More recently, they have had the pleasure of presenting for KinkFest in Portland, Dark Odyssey: Surrender in San Francisco, Helsingin Akateemiset Kinkyt in Helsinki, FapCon in Calgary, and more. Naj strives to use their perspective as a nonbinary queer switch to flavor education which is inclusive, nuanced, and creative. For more information or to see where they’ll be teaching next, go to najalaise.com

Workshops Offered:

Indelible: Permanently Marking Property
Making It Worse: Collusion as Active Consent
Training: Practicality & Pitfalls

pixie

pixie is a genderqueer service oriented human who has been tending to their Leather Community since 2008, lucky enough to have contributed to a multitude of behind-the-scenes volunteer opportunities from Texas to Iowa and finally settling in California. pixie enjoys being prepared for anything and is known for their magic service bag. pixie is a member of MAsT: Sacramento, Education Director for Queer Leather Association Sacramento, the current Judges Coordinator for SF Bootblack/Mr SF Leather Contest, and the M/s & POL Contest Director for Northwest Leather Celebration.

Workshops Offered:

Magic Service Bag: The Essential Kitchen Sink
On the loose: Safely Navigating As An Untethered Service Person
Restorative Conflict Resolution: Repairing The Harm Together

Sir DaddyDaun and slavegirl j

Sir DaddyDaun began Her leather journey in the early 90’s when She followed Her interest in service. Since then She has served Her communities as a presenter, Den Daddy, mentor, tally Master, stage manager, volunteer, judge, keynote speaker, board member, titleholder and Prince XXXVIII of the Imperial Sovereign Rose Court. She is proud to be Northwest Master 2016, International Master 2017, and a staff member for Northwest Leather Celebration. When not presenting or relaxing with Her grandson, She can be found in Her semi truck with slavegirl j being a professional ‘slave driver.’

slavegirl j was raised in the Leather community by queer, kinky, POC parents which cultivated a deep connection to service. she expresses this by serving at her Master, Sir DaddyDaun’s, side as Northwest slave 2016 and International slave 2017, and being President of the HardPink Sisterhood as well as Ms Rhonda’s assistant for Northwest Leather Celebration. girl j is also passionate about sharing how she navigates serving her Master who is both an elder of the community and has Multiple Sclerosis. When not presenting or being volun-told for something, slavegirl j can be found traveling the lower 48 states in her Master’s semi truck, crocheting her days away with T/their dog Zach and T/their cat Spirit.

Workshops Offered:

….And the Gods Laughed
EndNote Address – slavegirl j
Intensive: Too much, too little, or just right…. – slavegirl j

Sir Patch and slave evelyn

Sir Patch was introduced to our lifestyle 30+ years ago, but didn’t manage to be deeply involved until injuries forced him to stop jumping out of airplanes into wildfires. Fast forward to present: Sir Patch is head of His Leather household, The Lion’s Den, fully retired, and focused on “paying forward” by building up the Leather community in the Willamette Valley.

slave evelyn has been in service to Sir Patch since 2013. Before moving to Oregon, she was an active member of the community in Austin, Texas where she hosted Kinky Happy Hours and was a member of SAADE, GWNN, and MAsT: Austin.
After moving to Eugene she hosted kinky game nights and other gatherings, and founded the Eugene subCulture group.

Sir Patch and slave evelyn have settled in (and bought a house last year) in Salem, Oregon, where they attend munches and other events, teach a class now and then, and lead the local MAsT chapter.

Workshops Offered:

Ages and Stages: Adapting Your Kink to Illness and Disabilities

ThatMasterofhers and ThatslaveofHis

A chance encounter led ThatMasterofhers and ThatslaveofHis to meet six years ago. ThatMasterofhers
and ThatslaveofHis have been in a M/s dynamic for the past five years. Together they enjoy the
emotional, spiritual depth, and power exchange connection that their M/s dynamic brings them.
ThatMasterofhers has helped his slave to overcome an abusive past and helped build her up to the
power slave she was always meant to be. ThatslaveofHis helped her Master heal from an abusive past,
and encouraged him to find the strength and power within himself to become the Master and group
leader he is today. A driving force they share is to help empower and strengthen abuse survivors to fully
grow and embrace the opportunities ahead of them as a survivor. Together they also, share a common
goal of building community, promoting strong healthy dynamics, living their authentic Leather lifestyle,
teaching, and empowering those around us to live fulfilling dynamics.

Through their passion of building community they founded and co-lead Wenatchee M/s D/s which is a
power exchange based discussion group and Wenatchee Valley Kink Society which is a education based
play group. To follow in her Master’s vision of building community, ThatslaveofHis is passionate about
providing support, empowerment, guidance, and education to the slaves/submissives of the community.
ThatMasterofhers and ThatslaveofHis are also members of MAsT: Marysville, and MAsT:Jacksonville, NC

Workshops Offered:

Unpacking the Baggage: Surviving Abuse From an M/s Perspective

Arli and Q

Arli is a fierce, fat, femme, leatherdyke raised in Vancouver, BC. Active in the Leather community for more than 30 years. She has dedicated much of her time to her home community where she has been organizing BDSM parties since the 1990, most recently as a founding member of Canadian Mayhem. Arli splits her time between Vancouver, Seattle, and Oakland. In the last decade she has presented at more than a dozen conferences in Canada and the US. She is a multifaceted, unabashed switch famous for her traveling Easy Bake Oven.

Q is a self-identified queer, ethically non-monogamous/polyamorous, leather boi, Q has presented on a variety of topics both here and abroad. A social justice activist for over 20 years and certified sex educator, he is passionate about bringing together the various communities he is a part of through education, speaking engagements, and sex work.

This charming and flirtatious southern boi resides in Oakland, CA and is always on the lookout for new adventures. Q first encountered bootblacking while attending his very first leather event, Together in Leather in 2005. His next exposure to bootblacking at Frolicon 2006 started Q on his journey to learn more regarding this art. Q is honored to hold the titles of International Ms Bootblack 2008 and Southeast Leatherfest Bootblack 2007.

In service to his community, Q has presented and/or judged at a number of community events including Southwest Leather Conference, International Leather Sir/boy/Community Bootblack, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, Toronto Leather Pride, Dark Odyssey Winter Fire, Mr/Ms New Jersey Leather, Black Rose, International Ms Leather/International Ms Bootblack, and Northern California Community Bootblack

Workshops Presented:

Going the Distance: Making D/s Work Across the Miles
Reluctant Masochist/Enthusiastic Sadist
Submissives supporting Submissives – Arli

CorvusBlack and violet

CorvusBlack and violet live in a 24/7 Total Power Exchange dynamic and together have more than a decade of experience in the BDSM community. They share a passion for education, seeking greater understanding, and nurturing deeper connections. Focusing on Power Exchange, Sacred/Spiritual Kink, and All Things Stabby or Bloody-as well as basics like Self Awareness, Consent, and Negotiation-they look forward to continuing community education with a fun, well rounded, and intentional approach.

Workshops Presented:

Limitless: Exploring the Practicality of Consensual Non-Consent
Pain As A Ritual Catalyst

Dahlia Bloom and Veris

Dahlia Bloom is a licensed therapist in private practice. She is also the Education Coordinator for the Close In Munch in Portland. She is passionate about the freedom and safety self-knowledge can bring to people’s lives. She has a Master’s Degree in Body Psychotherapy and has been working in the psychotherapy field since 2005. She is trained in Behavioral, Somatic, Trauma Informed, Psychodynamic, and Mindfulness based approaches. She is also in the process of pursuing accreditation as a Sex Therapist with AASECT. She is deeply committed to self-expression and creativity, and has been studying, practicing, and teaching embodied mindfulness for 20 years. A long time anti-oppression activist, Dahlia brings her enthusiasm for understanding power and seeking liberation to her therapy practice and her kink.

Veris: My passion is to facilitate healing experiences for those who have endured traumatic life events. I work in private practice with individuals and couples, focusing on in-depth psychotherapy. I am trained in Existential-Humanistic, Narrative and Somatic therapies. I hold a MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, a B.S. focused in Psychological Research Methodology and I am a Nationally Certified Counselor. My kink interests are broad, but center around power exchange and service-oriented submission.

Veris is a previous guest lecturer at Colorado State University. Currently he is scheduled to present at the Close In Munch on April 30, 2018 and other Portland venues in the coming months

Workshops Presented:

How Do I Know What I Want? An Introduction to Self-Awareness for Kink
Trauma Informed Kink: An Introduction

Leland Carina

Leland Carina is an artist, writer, and beekeeper! She is Co-Editor in Chief of the web site Leatherati.com. She works as a real estate broker in coastal Oregon, where she lives at and manages Blossomwood Farmstead, a native bee sanctuary.

Leland is currently working on a memoir that centers on her discovery of the leather community in San Francisco. While there, she restarted the San Francisco girls of Leather and has subsequently helped launch many similar girl groups across the country. She has authored an extensive number of articles that have been published by Leatherati.com, PQ Monthly, SALACIOUS magazine, Kink.com, and more. Her photography has been shown at Mark I Chester’s San Francisco gallery, in SF Weekly, and in countless sexy PR campaigns. She has modeled for Folsom Street Fair, the Portland Dykes on Bikes, graced the cover of the Bay Guardian, and has been a bondage and fetish model for many photographers.

Recently, Leland picked up a new hobby — designing and creating her own latex outfits!

She identifies as a Queer switch and deeply enjoys D/s dynamics. These days, she most often resonates with being Dominant as Daddy or Sir, but she’s still a heavy masochist and service girl at heart.

Workshops Presented:

D/s Protocol: Navigating to Deep Waters

Master Boromoy and slave amari

Master Boromoy has been in a Master/slave relationship with his slave amari for over a decade and enjoys the depth, power and emotional connection inherent in their M/s relationship. They co-host the Tri-cities D/s munch and are members of MAsT: Portland. With their commitment to strengthen the M/s community in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, Boromoy and his slave amari have presented workshops at a variety of lifestyle events in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; bringing years of experience and diverse knowledge to the extended kink community.

Master Boromoy and slave amari were honored to be the 2017 Washington State Master/slave and are the current 2018 Northwest Master/slave. Boromoy founded and leads Columbia Basin Tops to support and educate Masters and Dominants. He also serves as the President of Leather Azimuth. amari founded and runs TASK which focuses on education for s-types. amari also serves as the secretary for Leather Azimuth. amari is a member of HardPink Sisterhood

Workshops Presented:

Shadows on the Path – Resolving Conflict While Maintaining Your M/s Dynamic

Master Malik and slave Cathy

As a student of life, Leather and BDSM, Master Malik is always eager to share his views, thoughts and ideas with any willing people who give him some of their time to listen.

Slave Cathy is very active in the alternative lifestyle community. She was Ms. Great Plains Olympus Leather 2006. Southwest slave 2008 and South Centeral Leather Woman 2010.
Her passion lies in mentoring and educating the ones who seek the knowledge in alternative lifestyle, especially Master/slave relationship.

Master Malik and slave Cathy are avid practitioner of old fashion SM and strongly believes in a powerful connection between SM and spiritual realm. They strongly believe with passion about “Acceptance”, “Tolerance” and “Diversity” of our larger tribe.

Master Malik is proud to serve as Southwest Master 2008.

They are proud to have the privilege of presenting at several local, regional and national events and gatherings.
Master Malik and slave Cathy were co founder of Xpressions (a play space in Tulsa, OK). They are owner/producers of Oklahoma Leatherfest. And also producers of Hearland Person of Leather Regional Contest.

Intensive Facilitated:

Rituals: The Guiding Lights

Master Todd and slave Elizabeth

Master Todd has been in active in the BDSM community since 2004 and a pervert for as long as he can remember. He collared his slave, elizabeth, in December of 2007 and they live in a 24/7 Master/slave relationship. He and slave elizabeth were honored to serve as the Southwest Master and slave 2013. In 2012 slave elizabeth founded the Austin girls of Leather (AgoL) and serves as the club leader. She is a Master’s level counselor and specializes in end of life and grief work. As parents to their rainbow of LGBTQIA kids they passionately work to advocate and educate via presentations in vanilla settings and through her page Kinky Queer and Patenting on Facebook. Always ready with her quick wit and gift of gab, slave elizabeth enjoys opportunities to emcee and is honored to have served as the co-emcee for South Plains Leatherfest 2017 and 2018. Together they serve the larger Leather community through teaching locally and around the country and as volunteer correspondents for Leatherati.com. More information about them can be found at housekramobone.com.

Workshops Presented:

Absolute Power, Comforts Absolutely
Little slave: Coloring Books to Conflict Resolution
Master’s Guide to Topping from the Bottom

Miss Amy Red

Miss Amy Red is, or sometimes identifies as: instigator, service-oriented, monagam-ish, cat herder, active bottom, treasured property, rope partner, submissive and occasional top. Most of all, she is passionate about powerful education and empowered relationships. She served her local community as the Maitre’d of Seattle’s Libertine Social Club, a high-protocol service event, where she trained and provided leadership for house staff. She’s had the good fortune to share her passions at conferences across North America over the years. Her class topics include service, training, objectification, and power exchange relationships taught largely from an s-type’s perspective.

Intensive Facilitated:

At Your Service – Exploring the why, what, and how of your service connections

MsDDom and CreamDream

MsDDom and CreamDream have lived in a lifestyle dynamic since 2010. With lifestyle experiences, cultural and age differences, their dynamic works fluidly between the BDSM and vanilla worlds. The reality: it’s not easy, but sustaining it is their priority. Active in the Atlanta BDSM community and members of MAsT Atlanta Metro, both teach/mentor, present, and lend their support as co-leaders of the Black Atlanta Munch (B.A.M.) and volunteers for the Carter-Johnson Library Atlanta Annex. MsDDom is the founder of Black FemDoms-Atlanta (BFD) and WiLA (Women in Leather Atlanta) where she is Road Captain; and she co-leads the Georgia Femme Dommes (GFD) event at 1763. CreamDream is leader of the Male Sub’s Munch and lends his service to BFD-Atlanta and GFD. They are adventurous travelers and enjoy sharing their time with other lifestylers across the U.S. and in Canada.

Workshops Presented:

Culture and Power Exchange
Dispelling male submissive stereotypes
Sustainable D/s or M/s Dynamic

Ms. Kelly Chance and slave boiDi

Ms. Kelly Chance and her slave boiDi met for the first time in 2004 at a Seattle Women of Leather meeting. At that time Ms. Kelly identified as a hetroflexible switch and slave to Master Duane. slave boiDi identified as leather dyke and service boi. Little did they know that their journeys would come together about 6 years later.

Ms. Kelly evolved in her sexuality and her mastery under the guidance and mentorship of Master Duane, while slave boiDi’s journey was leading him to slavery. In 2010, Ms. Kelly bought a lap dance from boiDi at Bang for the Buck. When boiDI found out who had purchased him, hy exclaimed, “I thought she was straight.”

This lap dance brought two people from divergent worlds into an amazing Master/slave relationship. slave boiDi became part of Master Duane’s and Ms. Kelly’s leather family, along with Ms. Kelly’s property tiger, and Master Duane’s slave, Kari. When slave boiDi petitioned Ms. Kelly to become her slave 1 year into their relationship, their dynamic was M/s built on trust, vulnerability, intimacy, and erotic connection through BDSM. Ms. Kelly and slave boiDi have continued to grow their M/s dynamic on these founding principles allowing their connection to deepen over the years.

Both Ms. Kelly and her slave boiDi have served their community for many years. They have assumed leadership roles such as members of community boards, club Presidents, organizing parties, conferences and clubs in the Seattle area, and opening their homes for power exchange discussion groups. After co-founding Leather Reign 10 years ago, Ms. Kelly was executive producer for 4 years and slave boiDi, served as her left hand boi. Together they are Northwest Master and slave 2017. They have independently taught workshops in Northwestern United States and Western Canada. In 2015 Ms. Kelly and slave boiDi began teaching workshops on how they build trust and intimacy through vulnerability in their M/s dynamic.

Workshops Presented:

Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones

Team Soup

We are Team Soup! Perverts who really like to do dirty soupy things. We are dedicated to having fun and laughter within our lives. We are committed to a leather lifestyle, M/s and heavy play.

We offer a variety of workshops on topics that are based on core elements within our own lives.

Polar is a sadist with a creative sense of humor and a passion for finding new ways to do mean things with a smile. His play and workshops lean towards the edgier styles of play; knives, hatchets, rough body play and bare-handed impact, whips and blood play to name a few.

Polar is the Master, Owner, Daddy and partner of nephesh. She is his collared property and together, they are Team Soup.

nephesh is The Tentacle, a Wonder Woman and His bratty pitbull. nephesh is a heavy masochist and smart-ass who thrives on pain, blood and fleeting amounts of consent.

Workshops Presented:

Catharsis: The Power of Release Through Play
Journey on the Bottom Side
Journey on the Top Side

Trainer Liza Sibley and Ferdinand

A horsewoman her entire life (no surprise that her Mama’s family name is Mama’s horsewoman), Liza had no name for the pony play she experienced at her all-girls summer camps throughout her youth. Currently, she is the proud trainer of the handsome stallion, Ferdinand (her slave, Jody’s alter ego.)

Ferdinand, a big black Percheron, was sired in April 2011 at Beyond Leather. His first pony parade was in April 2012 and has since befriended Littles at IMsL and WILL, demonstrating his counting tricks. His dressage debut at Equus was in 2015 to the Overture of 1812, available on Youtube.

Workshops Presented:

The Care, Feeding, Nurturing and Showing of your Pony

Tillie King and Ben

Tillie King has been practicing BDSM for about 20 years. She is a fat, femme, feral leather queer who enjoys getting into the why of kink. Tillie has lived her whole life on unceded Coast Salish territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations, in “Vancouver, BC, Canada.” She loves novel and authentic ways of connecting with other weirdos. Her passions for blood, leather, boots, and sex is balanced with hand-embroidery, herbal tea, and speculative fiction (especially by People of Colour.) She has presented along the West Coast, organized workshops, judged at IMsL and WCBB, been a dungeon monitor and bootblack. Tillie hand-embroiders hankies for folks use to express their unique desires and dynamics

Ben is a white settler descendant born on unceded Stӧlӧ territory; he has lived in the unceded territories of the Tsimshian, Skohomesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (so-called North Coast and Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada). He is a disabled, fat, non-binary, femme leatherqueer. He has been doing d/s, kink, and leather for 13 years.

His interests include:
• Community
• Queer and leather history
• Consent
• Creative power dynamics
• Bootblacking
• Piercing
• Heavy impact

Ben was part of the founding and several subsequent board(s) of Metro Vancouver Kink, has facilitated discussions for new kinksters, and presented workshops on everything from cunt play to dealing with loss in the kink community. In non-leather life, Ben is a union labour educator.

Workshops Presented:

Ego, Service & Love
Live Through This: Pain Processing
Power from Within: The personal power of bottoms/submissives

Xavier and msalycen

Xavier and msalycen live in a joyous, 24/7M/s relationship, that is currently on its 3rd yearly contract. Together they are active in the Seattle/Greater Puget Sound community including the Everett Leather Alliance, and for the past 2 years have led the Seattle Sacred Kink workshops.
They believe that authority-based relationships can be exciting, fulfilling, and positive for both sides of the slash, and are passionate about sharing what they learn with others. Protocols, contracts, rituals, SM play… these are all tools. As with any tool used with skill and intention, great things can happen.

Workshops Presented:

Great Expectations: Beyond Assumptions in Authority-Based Relationships

Bootblack Marta and Andi

Marta is a queer Femme, Girl, top-leaning Switch, and play pig who’s spent 10 years in kink community, 6 in leather, and 5 bootblacking. Since representing her communities as First Runner-Up International Ms. Bootblack 2015, Great Lakes Bootblack 2014, and Indiana Bootblack 2014 she continues to present and judge at events nationwide! Most fulfilling experiences include co-founding the first Bootblacks’ Laboratory skillshare in Indianapolis; handling family in their title runs; joining the IML contestant shine team since 2015; judging SmutSlam Indianapolis; and bootblacking for Indianapolis Kink Society, IMsBB High Shine documentary fundraiser, and 30th anniversary of her home bar, the 501 Eagle, prior to its closing. She is proud recipient of the 2016 Pantheon of Leather Great Lakes Regional award.

Aptly named Mama’s Panty Dropper, Marta is a free-loving relationship anarchist and all-around bashful hussy who centers spouse Walter, sibling Lynn, Daddy Tony, and beau/Handler Andi within her poly constellation.

Andi is a switchy, swishy, relationship anarchist, cigar smoking leather genderqueer. Based in Indianapolis, they are a co-founder of CIQ: Central Indiana Queers and member of Andromeda: a group for women and non-binary folk. Andi has taught and spoken on panels at Great Lakes Leather Alliance, Indiana Leather Pride, Labor Day Libertine, GLLA-Michigan, and Indiana University, discussing feminism in art, trans and non-binary identities, and next generation leather. An avid reader, they are always eager to lend books and share resources.

Andi puts their fine art degree to use designing promo materials and custom pieces for burlesque, leather, queer, and kink events and fundraisers. Most recently, they illustrated the book Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities.

Andi’s hot buttons include: knives, humiliation, gender outlaws, unapologetic, brutal, filthy fucking, and John Waters.

Workshops Presented:

Ally Toolkit
Redefining Fucking
Relationship Anarchy

Boromoy and slave amari

Boromoy is honored to have been selected to be the 2017 Washington State Master Titleholder. Boromoy is the current President of Leather Azimuth, Term 2016-2018. He also founded and runs Columbia Basin Tops to help educate other Masters and Dominants. He has presented at venues such as Meet in the Middle and munches throughout the state, bringing his years of experience and diverse knowledge to the extended community. Boromoy and amari have been in a Master/slave relationship for a decade and enjoy the depth, power and emotional connection inherent in a M/s relationship. Together, with his slave, they co-host a D/s munch and are members of MAsT: Portland.

Workshops Presented:

Standing Strong: Building Community for M/s Relationships

Brett H

BrettH has been doing public education for over 20 years but started leading workshops in the BDSM community in the last few years. He leads workshops he wishes someone would have been teaching when he was younger in his kink journey.

While his community volunteerism is usually behind the scenes he has been involved in some more visible community projects, include curating the Education Through Voyeurism series for GLPW at the Blood, Sweat, and Queers Party at Seattle’s Center for Sex Positive Culture, co-chairing the program committee for the 2013 KinkLINCS leadership conference in Seattle, and participating in the planning of the Leather Reign Conference since 2013.

Brett likes to find the edge of most anything that interests him. He is a zealot and has yet to find meaningfully fulfilling moderation.

Workshops Presented:

Shame: Hot, Lucious, and Healing

Caleb Kohutek

Caleb Kohutek has been active in the greater Seattle leather community for over two years and has been a part of the community for over five years. He is the Washington State Bootblack 2017 and the current President of Seattle boys of Leather. Caleb is a service-oriented boy, and he identifies as a queer trans cub. He is currently solo poly and is committed to the work of becoming his best self.

Workshops Presented:

The Long Way Home: Leather Pathways for the Solo s-type

Caressa, NW Handler 2017, and Skuff Pup, NW Puppy 2017

Caressa is a Queer Femme Woman from Washington State. She is the Northwest Handler 2017, a Board Member for the Seattle Pups and Handler as well as the Secretary for the Seattle girls of Leather. Caressa is a Handler, Pony, Dark Age player and Edgy Bottom with a love of Blood, Cuddling and Suffering for those she deems worthy.

Skuff Pup is the Northwest Puppy 2017 title holder, 2016 International Puppy of the Year and the current President of Seattle Pups and Handlers (SEAPAH). He is an Arkansas native who severed honorably for 11 years in the Marine Corps on active duty. Skuff started his kink journey over 15 years ago where he has been learning, exploring and sharing his adventures and experience ever since. He moved to Seattle in 2009 and has been active within the Puppy and Leather community in Seattle for many years. Skuff became a part of the board for SEAPAH two and a half years ago, one of the Nation’s largest puppy social groups. Besides Puppy, Skuff has many interest including leather, rubber, ab/dl and furry and is always first in line with a hug and a smile!

Workshops Presented:

Age Playing with Puppies

The Captain

TheCaptain has been exploring, learning, and sometimes battling with kink for over 15 years. As a part of the Seattle community he absorbs whatever he can from events, partners, and peers to expand his understanding of all things deviant. He is a member of the CSPC, BSPC, and the Edge Riders Evergreen Chapter. He enjoys regularly frequenting events across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

An educator in his professional life for more than a decade, TheCaptain is excited to apply his skill set and experience to facilitate discussions he’d like to see better represented in the community. Personally, his kink proclivities include a broad spectrum ranging from violence in many varied forms to service, ritual, and suffering. Through it all, he finds power and authority to be consistent, central themes in his life.

Workshops Presented:

Principled Predators, Empowered Prey
Who We Are, Beyond What We Do

Christine2

Christine lil hooks is a service oriented brat. It is in her heart to serve the community as well as others around her. The brat part is comes naturally. She has been in the Seattle kink community for 10 years now. Part of her service has been serving as the registration coordinator for Paradise Unbound (3 years) and Renegade’s Rendezvous (last 3 years). When she lived in NYC she served the city as a Paramedic for 7 years and taught several classes in the health and safety environment.

Workshops Presented:

The Inner Critic in the Submissive Mind

CorvusBlack and Violet

CorvusBlack and his mate Violet live in a 24/7 Total Power Exchange. A witch with 13 years of experience practicing in a coven format, Corvus came into the Kink scene in 2010 and Founded ORBS in 2012 where he serves the community as a spirituality minded hook suspension practitioner.

Violet joined the community in 2011 and has utilized her personal calling to serve by actively volunteering as a teacher, a demo bottom, and a helping hand Corvus and Violet share a passion for education, seeking greater understanding, and nurturing deeper connections. Together they look forward to continuing community education with a fun, well rounded, and intentional approach.

Workshops Presented:

Doing Me Right: Empowering Power Exchange Relationships through Self-Mastery

Just Angel

Angel is a strong leather women bootblack who is happiest when sharing her experiences with others. As a multifaceted edge player, Angel believes that gender and sexuality are irrelevant when it comes to Play, Sex, Boots, and Affection. She is an incredibly passionate Bootblack and teacher who brings her sex positive viewpoints to the table. Angel is able to open dialogues about leather. Her determination and love for others shines through in all that she does both in and out of the community. Angel is a steadfast activist for Disabled Rights. She was honored to be the 2014 Southwest Bootblack, and Ms. Great Plains Olympus Leather 2009. Introduced to the lifestyle in 2004, her heart and passion has grown ever since for the community. Her classes are memorable, personal, and deeply impactful. Angel draws from her many community experiences to create a unique class environment. The heart of who she has become during her life and her leather journey; is as a teacher.

Her primary fondness falls to boots, blood, impact, whips, and bondage. Angel is a founding member of a few groups ranging from entry level social groups to submissive support groups. (She is a founding member of Kinky Coffee Oklahoma, Oklahoma Submissive Support. and the Rose Rock girls of Leather. ) Angel believes in a non gender bias lifestyle. When it comes to play, sex, boots, affection, and love it does not matter what gender the other person is or even if they have a gender at all.

Workshops Presented:

Finding Your Independent Roar
Endnote Address – Sunday Brunch

Lily Seville

Lily Seville is a queer poly switch femme who lives life with a distinct vintage flair and a continual sense of wonder. Over the last 18 years of kinky exploration she has held many roles, identified with many different archetypes, and above all learned to never say “never”. An experienced organizer and educator, she delights in sharing her passions with others and helping them to live lives filled with beauty, joy, and fulfillment.

Workshops Presented:

Dinner is Served: Practical Skills for Serving at Table
Turning the Table: The Role and Responsibilities of a Dinner Guest

Mademoiselle Ceci and Sir Damien

Mademoiselle Ceci

A transplant from Canada, Mademoiselle Ceci is an Afro-Indigenous Alpha Femme chasing life and adventure. She has been on various portions of her Leather journey for the past 15+ years and has done so more publicly in the past decade. Education, mentorship and hedonism are her passions. In recent years she served as International Ms. Leather’s Seduction manager, a charity-driven evening of burlesque, strip tease, drag, kink, and more. She is proud to be an Onyx Pearl and is currently working on co-founding a new philanthropic project to promote QTPOC visibility in the Leather community. Mademoiselle Ceci lives a 24/7 D/s lifestyle with her slave, her little boi and her co-Dominant partner. She has been teaching in the community since 2009.

A true sadist at heart, Mademoiselle Ceci revels in the pain of others while maintaining a playful giggle and wicked smile. She lives a life blessed with varied forms of art, beauty, service, and loyalty. A matriarch by nature, Mademoiselle Ceci takes great pride in loving and caring for those in her charge. She shares her life with a magnificent group of priceless and unique individuals. Working hard to create safe spaces, she and her Leather Brother have been operating the Château Querencia since early 2014.

Sir Damien

Finding his Leather home and Family in the PNW, Sir Damien has been growing here quickly as a fierce Daddy and Dominant sadist. An active member of the Leather and BDSM communities for over 5 years, do not be fooled by Sir Damien’s quiet demeanor. Though very much the strong, silent type, he is quick to share his experiences and is happy to do so.

Sir Damien is in his third year teaching classes in the Leather and Kink communities. His favorite topics are Blood Play, Sustainable Masochism, Practical D/s and Dark Age Play. He also enjoys sharing his stories about lliving a poly and pansexual lifestyle. If you see him at Leather Reign, don’t hesitate to say hello!

Workshops Presented:

Long Distance D/s 201 – Sustainability

Ms. Kelly Chance and slave boiDi

Ms. Kelly Chance has been an active member of the Northwest BDSM community since 1999, when she attended her first munch in the Tri-Cities, WA, and quickly became involved by volunteering with the local group. She has served on the board of Five Rivers Energy Exchange in the Tri-Cities. She is Northwest Master 2017.

After moving back to Seattle in 2004 to be with her Master, she became an active in the Seattle community as member of the Center for Sex Positive Culture and is a founding member of Seattle MAsT. Ms. Kelly is on the Board of Directors of Evergreen Leather Events which produces Leather Reign, a Seattle based conference, and worked on the KinkLINCS Organizing Committee. She has been in service to Master Duane since 2002, and is currently Mistress/Master in her relationships with tiger and slave boiDi. Ms. Kelly has taught classes at In the Woods, Paradise, Vancouver Edge, Kitsap Aces, and Northwest Leather Celebration. She credits much of her current sense of self to her BDSM/Leather journey and continues to learn and grow as she interacts with both her teachers and her students.

Most importantly, slave boiDi is proud and honored to be owned and collared by Ms. Kelly Chance and has an incredible life as part of a leather family. Hy is Northwest slave 2017. Little did hy know that 6 years ago, when Ms. Kelly Chance purchased him for a lap dance at Midori’s Bang for the Buck in Seattle that their two divergent worlds would come together in such an amazing Master/slave relationship today.

slave boiDi began an interest in power exchange when in the U.S. Navy dating a wonderful person who opened up the world of sexual outlaws and exploring BDSM. Hy identifies as a slave/leatherboi and has the heart and soul for service.

slave boiDi has been playing in the Seattle leather community since 1992. Hy was one of the last members of the lesbian BDSM group, Outer Limits, before it disbanded. slave boiDi has been actively involved with the Center for Sex Positive Culture as an active advocate for the Women’s Parties and co-founder of the Blood, Sweat and Queers party. Hy is the Co-Founder and past President of Seattle boys of Leather. Hy is also Washington State Ms. Leather 2010. slave boiDi has presented workshops for Kinkfest, Paradise Unbound, Vancouver Edge, Northwest Leather Celebration, the CSPC, and Lupercalia.

Workshops Presented:

The Switch Challenge, the Switch Reward

Ms Brenda and slave arcane

Ms Brenda and arcane are a 24/7 Master/slave couple from Columbus, Ohio. They have over 20 years each in M/s D/s relationships. They have proudly held the titles of Great Lakes Leather Alliance Master and slave for 2014, and Ohio Master and slave for 2014 and 2015. They enjoy presenting on all topics relating to the M/s dynamic and particularly those of Female Master and Male slave as they continue to dispel some of the myths and misconceptions regarding Femdom relationships. She is active with local groups including Columbus G.O.A.L (General Outreach for Alternative Lifestyles), an outreach program she began as a place for all community members to come together and talk openly. He is active with a local submissives round table, as well as producing Enclave “- the event designed with femdom in mind”. They are both members of Titans of the Midwest, and active in their local NLA and Directors of MAsT: Columbus.

Workshops Presented:

Perpetual Dynamic
Queen takes Knight

Najalaise

Najalaise is maniacal but decent. Naj joined the organized BDSM community in 2005 and has been presenting workshops on a variety of kink topics since 2012. They have also taken a turn behind the scenes, including working on the organizing committee for the 2013 Kink LINCS Leadership Symposium, serving as Programming Director for Paradise Unbound 2014, organizing Seattle’s Hypnokink Enthusiasts’ Group, and planning parties and panel discussions on an ongoing basis. Naj is gleeful about learning and trying new things, both as a top and as a bottom, and is invested in creating spaces that foster knowledge and creativity by making it okay to screw up in public.

Workshops Presented:

Consent injuries and consent violations: Community response; community responsibility
Journeys to Mastery: A Moderated Panel Discussion
Friday Intensive – Hypnosis for D/s

Rachel

Rachel is U-Haul’s slave. She transfers full authority over her life into his care, while maintaining a complex family and highly demanding career. As a result, Rachel is very familiar with feeling overwhelmed, but also with feeling like the luckiest girl in the world. After entering the community at a young age, Rachel has spent more than 20 years in the kink and leather lifestyle. She has been a member of various organizations in California and Washington State, each of which has had an important role in shaping her experience. Rachel has a strong identity as a masochist, appreciating play that is often characterized as “edgy” or “primal.” She also fosters a deep love for providing quality service, and is grateful for opportunities give back to individuals and the community. A life long learner and educator, Rachel is always eager to share her perspective and learn from the perspectives of others.

Workshops Presented:

You want me to make you ANOTHER sandwich? Maintaining a Spirit of Service in Long Term Authority Transfer Relationships

Ramien Pierre

Ramien Pierre lives in Baltimore, MD where he is married to his best friend/love of his life. Ramien was Mr. DC Eagle 2014 and International Mr. Leather 2014. He is also a proud member of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of ONYX – a national leather fraternity for gay and bisexual men of color. Ramien’s involvement with ONYX and the leather community in general have helped him become a more interesting, powerful, and high-fidelity version of himself through the practice of self-love and self-kindness.

Ramien is a lifelong learner and “journeyman educator”. He holds degrees from Haverford College, Brown University, Harvard University, and is a currently a doctoral candidate at The George Washington University. He has taught middle school and high school history, worked as a high school and college administrator, and administered national and international performing arts management training programs. He is currently a training administrator and curriculum designer for aerospace engineers.

A peek into Ramien’s questionable moral code: First, Ramien connects strongly to the “why” of leather as much as the “what” and “how” of leathercraft, because it is through the “why” that we connect with our authentic selves and with others. Second, he believes every human action is either an expression of love or a call for love. Third, he believes when we figuratively “pour ourselves” into leather, we are literally transformed – just like the shape of water poured into a vessel takes the shape of the vessel. Fourth and always, he believes the you of this moment is exactly enough.

Workshops Presented:

Adult Consequences
Keynote Address – Saturday Evening

River Dark

River Dark is a Leatherdyke hailing from Vancouver, Canada. In 1982 she realized she was a lesbian and in 1991 she admitted to herself that she was a kinky – but with hindsight was both queer and a pervert as far back as she can remember. River started writing porn in 1995 for the pleasure of her Master, and started teaching workshops in 2005 spurred by her frustration with the quality of the classes she was attending. Now, when not engaged in her very full Muggle life, she travels with domenique, her slave of seven years, presenting workshops and creating scenes. Over the years she has presented for many local, regional and international events & organizations; and her works of fiction have appeared in a variety of anthologies. She dreams of finally finishing the anthology of erotic stories and essay that she has been working on, and of a world where her dyke, poly, kinky, M/s heart is not incongruent with her Muggle life.

River’s slave discovered the kink scene when it was 19 and immediately embraced it with mind body and soul. It spent a great deal of time running around in its own head, and has recently started sharing those thoughts with a wider audience.

Workshops Presented:

Making Pain Last: How to Get the Most Out of Your Bottom
Strangulation & Asphyxiation: A Study in Breath Control

Sir DaddyDaun and slavegirlj

Sir DaddyDaun’s journey into leather began in the early 90’s when She followed Her interest in service. That led to Her becoming a “house boi” in a formal house of 15. After fulfilling Her contract, She then found She had become the one that others sought. She has trained, taught, presented, and volunteered, has been a judge, mentor, den Daddy, tally Master, stage manager and board member for many events/venues.

Sir DaddyDaun is honored to have received the Portland Leather Woman of the Year award in 2005, the Washington Leather Emerald Award in 2010, and to have been Prince XXXVIII of the Imperial Sovereign Rose Court, and along with Her slavegirl j, 2016 Northwest Master and 2017 International Master.

Being raised in the Leather community, girl j has always felt a deep connection to service. she expresses this through her devotion to her Master and by sharing her personal experiences with other submissives. girl j is also passionate about sharing how she navigates serving her Master who is both an elder of the community and has Multiple Sclerosis. she can frequently be found behind the scenes volunteering, serving her Master and the community. her personal goal is to show as many TNG-ers that longevity in a service or Power Exchange Dynamic is attainable and incredibly fulfilling.

When not presenting or relaxing with Her grandson, Sir DaddyDaun and slavegirl j can be found traveling the lower 48 states in T/their semi truck with T/their dog Zach and cat Spirit.

Workshops Presented:

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Serving the Chronically Ill

Team Soup

Polar and nephesh are known for a play style and workshops that lean towards the edgier styles of play; knives, bare-handed impact, whips and blood play to name a few. They strive to bring humor, sexuality and passion into their brutality.

Polar and nephesh are active in the local kink community of Vancouver Island and have offered workshops throughout Canada and the US. They love the opportunity to meet and learn from other perverts.

Workshops Presented:

I Own Your Ass – Polar
My Ass is Owned: How to Remain Healthy & Whole While Living in a Power Dynamic – nephesh
Friday Intensive – Savagery: The Sometimes Brutal Truth of Play in an M/s Dynamic

Catherine Gross

I am an educator and a Master Certified Coach. I offer classes that focus on relationships, dominance and submission, physical skills, Master/slave, improving your sex life, personal development, house management, service, keeping relationships healthy and much more. I’ve logged 4000+ education hours teaching Servant’s Retreat alone. I have served on local and national boards, judged contests, staffed conferences in a variety of positions, emceed and produced events/fundraisers for several charities and organizations. I am currently the producer of SouthEast LeatherFest and a board member of Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M).

I have presented classes at 600+ organizations. I was presented with Black Rose’s Vaughn Keith National Educator Award in 2002 and Pantheon of Leather Southeast Region Service Award 2006, Pantheon of Leather Business of the Year award in 2006, Jack Stice Memorial Award 2016. I am a founder of the Women’s Leather History Program.

I have written a safety manual in use by more than a dozen organizations scattered from coast to coast. You can download a copy on my website. Visit my sites at BDSMClasses.com and ForYourLifeCoach.com. Follow me on Tweeter @SuccessCoachMCC and @BDSMClasses
I created Servant’s Retreat I & II, Nine Fold Path Seminar, and Foundations in Mastery. I am known for life changing weekend seminars. My new seminar is called Inviting the Muse: Longevity & Creativity in your M/s and D/s life. I love people and being able to go deep with them is one of the great privileges of my life.

“Teaching provides me with great joy. I love seeing emotional and intellectual connections made in class discussions. We’ve all contributed to educating each other in many ways. It’s my great fortune to participate in the creation of these moments.”

Workshops Presented:

Friday Intensive: Progressive Relations
BDSM Healing & Feminine Sexual Power

Gene Romaine

Gene is currently President of Generic Leather Productions of Washington. GLPW is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to produce events which raise money for charities benefiting the sexual minority community. Gene was Northwest Mr. Drummer 2001, and was the Regional Producer of the Northwest LeatherSir, Leatherboy & Community Boot Black Contest from August 2002 through September 2011. In May, 2010, Gene was honored to have had the opportunity to serve on the judging panel of the International Mr. Leather Contest. In October 2012, he was tapped to be a judge for the American Leatherman, Leather Woman & Leatherboy Contest. He was awarded the Pantheon of Leather-Northwest Regional Award for 2008 and the Leather Emerald Award in 2003. He is a former President of Seattle Men in Leather and was Washington State Mr. Leather 2004. He is the proud Patriarch of the Dragon Clan – a leather family whose raison d’etre is to promote camaraderie for proven leaders in the leather community. He is a proud member of Mama’s Family, an international group of dedicated, warm-hearted people that Mama Sandy Reinhardt has adopted for their involvement in the Leather Community – holding the nickname of “Mama’s Papa Dragon”. Gene is a member of Seattle Men in Leather, associate member of the Chicago Hellfire Club, and an honorary member of Seattle Boys of Leather. Gene regularly presents workshops on various types of BDSM techniques, including whips, fire play, mummification and “Impact Play”, among other topics. When he is not working to promote sex positive culture, spending quality time with his leatherboy and husband, or attending almost any BDSM event he can, he is pursuing a career as a Phlebotomist and EKG Technician.

Workshops Presented:

Building Communities That Feed Your Soul

M. Jen Fairfield and Dr. Bob (Robert J Rubel)

Jen is Dr. Bob’s Master. She has extensive experience managing authority-imbalanced relationships. Her D/s experience began in 1992 as she dipped her toe in the water with a nurturing Mommy/boy relationship. Seeking more control than the Mommy/boy relationship could offer, Jen ended that relationship after one year and – following a year of introspection and personal clarification – entered a full-blown D/s relationship that she ran for another 16 years.

Jen found her home in the Leather culture in the fall of 2010 and has embraced her calling as a Leather woman – to live a highly focused life with a partner (or partners) who are willing to hold themselves to exacting moral and ethical standards.

Over the past four years, Jen has been working closely with Dr. Bob attending and presenting at conferences throughout Canada and the US. Over the last year, Jen has developed a growing number of presentations that are separate from Bob’s.

Dr. Bob, an author, educator and photographer is an educational sociologist and researcher by training. He currently has ten books in print and two DVDs (Books: four on Master/slave topics, two on advanced sex techniques, one on fire play, and three erotic art photo books. Additionally, he has produced two educational DVDs: one on fire play and one on beginning impact play).

Recipient of the 2008 Pantheon of Leather’s Community Choice Award (man), Dr. Bob has been involved in the BDSM and Total Power Exchange (TPE) scenes since the summer of 2001, throwing himself into the literature of the field as though it were an academic study. He presents, judges, and sells his books at weekend kink conferences throughout the year.

Workshops Presented:

Leather vs. Not-Leather approaches to Master/slave Structures – Important Differences
Yikes! My Submissive is Dominant

Jim Duvall and Sophia Sky

Jim Duvall began his career as an erotic photographer in the early days of the World Wide Web when he started janesguide.com with his former partner. He provided content for many online endeavors including bondage.com. His art has been shown at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and many other art festivals around North America. He helped start The Betty Pages, an LGBT magazine, and was a contributor for the magazine for 5 years.

As a sexuality activist Mr. Duvall has volunteered for many organizations over the years. He is a founder of the Center for Sex Positive Culture (CSPC) and the Seattle Erotic Art Festival. He is a past President and Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and CSPC and the current President of the Board for the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture.
Jim Duvall teaches on a variety of topics from erotic photography to rope bondage all over North America. Currently he works as a fine art photographer in Seattle, WA.

Sophia Sky is identifies as a Shenaniganarian and uses she/her pronouns. She is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture and is working to change the world’s ideas about sexuality, speaking at universities, conventions, and private groups around North America. Sophia believes that being sex positive means respecting the spectrum of sexual expression from asexual to omnisexual. She is a lover of art, sex, learning & starry skies.

Workshops Presented:

Kinesthetic Polyamoury

Lee Harrington

Lee Harrington is an eclectic artist, author, spirit-worker, gender radical, and internationally known sexuality, spirituality, and personal authenticity educator who has taught in every state, as well as worldwide. He has been an active part of the international kink, pagan, and sex positive communities for almost 20 years, and believes passionately that laughter and soul searching rise from the same well. An award-winning author and editor on gender, sexual, and sacred experience, his books include “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Journeys,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” and “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” (with Mollena Williams), among his many other titles. Lee has been a passion instigator, academic, adult film performer, world class sexual adventurer, outspoken philosopher, kink/bondage expert, and has been blogging about sex and spirit since 1998. Read more about Lee at PassionandSoul.

Workshops Presented:

Friday Intensive: Kinesthetic Power Exchange: Connection, Body Awareness, and Rope
FTM CBT: Genital Torment for Queer Bodies
Kissing Cousins: Age Based Roleplaying and desires

Liza and Jody

Liza and her slave, Jody, (International Master and slave 2011) have been living in a committed M/s relationship for over a decade. Liza came to power at Woodstock and has been kinky ever since. In 2002, Liza moved to San Francisco and jumped into the leather community with both boots. After leaving the military in 1980, Jody came out as a leatherdyke and slave. Shortly thereafter she founded Leather and Lace, Los Angeles’ first women’s leather club. In 2000, Jody moved to San Francisco and became Liza’s slave two years later. Currently they live in Portland, Oregon where they are members of MAsT: Portland and the Bad Girls.

Liza and her slave teach extensively in the US and also abroad, on a variety of topics related to nurturing and sustaining long-term M/s relationships filled with heat, sex, deep intimacy and fun. Having received numerous awards, the most meaningful to them is having been recognized as Presenters of the Year by MAsT International.

Liza and Jody are the producers of the Ms. San Francisco Leather contest and the Master/slave Retreat. They have both served as representatives to the Bay Area Leather Alliance and on the steering committees or as officers of several organizations: Leather Levi Weekend, Leather Alley at Pride, the Exiles (women’s BDSM group) and the Bears of San Francisco. They are proud members of Mama’s Family.

Workshops Presented:

Transforming Your M/s and D/s Relationships – An Experiential Workshop
Women as Masters and slaves in a Feminist World

Master Bert and slave Nadine

Master Bert Cutler, Ph.D.

Master Bert considers himself an SM lifer, having built his first wooden stocks in 1954 (courtesy of the Cub Scouts) and started exploring out of the SM closet in 1978. Now retired, he professionally has had roles as an electronic engineer, a software designer and entrepreneur, a sexologist and BDSM researcher, a college professor.

Bert has a passion for Master/slave dynamics and the possibility of self-actualization when living an examined M/s life. He is a founder and incorporator of the Arizona Power Exchange [a 501(c)(7) corporation], a founding board member of Butchmann’s, Inc. [a 501(c)(3) corporation], and a board member of CARAS. Bert’s academic publications include: 2003 doctoral dissertation “Partner Selection, Power Dynamics, and Sexual Bargaining in Self-Defined BDSM Couples” and as a member of Northern Illinois University BDSM Research Team, has co-authored in the 2009 Archives of Sexual Behavior “Hormonal Changes and Couple Bonding in Consensual Sadomasochistic Activity.” Holds the titles of Mr. APEX 1991-1992, Southwest Master 2003, and International Master 2003.

slave nadine Cutler

slave nadine met Master Bert at a spiritual-sexuality seminar in 1983, and it’s first Butchmanns Experience in 2002 enriched the full time service to him. slave nadine, now retired, has been an instructor for the Butchmanns Experience, a founder and an incorporator of the APEX Corporation [501(c)(7)]. it holds the titles of Southwest slave 2003 and International slave 2003. slave nadine supports the opportunity for BDSM people to meet in safe space to discover and develop their gifts.

Workshops Presented:

An Alignment of the Will: A Guided Conversation
The History of (Almost) Everything Kinky

Master Bob, slave jan, and slave bunnie

Master Bob Blount, slave jan and slave bunnie call the Portland Oregon home. We began the shift from a floundering, ho-hum “equal partnership” twelve-year marriage to a negotiated power dynamic relationship at the turn of the millennium and slowly over a year and a half’s time found themselves spirit led to living a consensual Master/slave lifestyle. In 2010 slave bunnie joyously joined the family and has truly been a blessing in our lives.

In and out of the leather community Master Bob and slave jan are passionate about helping others to live more joyful and fully authentic lives. Together with his slave bunnie, Master owns and operates an Outdoor Adventure guide service specializing in serving persons with disabilities. As a Life Coach, author and licensed Soul Collage® Facilitator, slave jan helps others to explore and celebrate their own unique paths to self discovery through moderating discussions, participating on panels, presenting workshops, writing and sharing other expressive arts.

While understanding that being out is a luxury not everyone can afford Master Bob feels fortunate to be able to choose this path for himself and his slaves because he feels that living ones truth from a place of integrity and authenticity is the surest path he knows of to creating a fulfilling life. The disapproval and frowns of others and being misunderstood and held at a distance for choosing a life too out of step with the standard choices, pales in the light of living our life honestly and in alignment with our deepest core truths. Creating our bonds from this place of authenticity forges a deeply rewarding and meaningful relationship.

Workshops Presented:

Breaking through the Fear

Master DJ and slave september dragon

Master DJ is a queer identified Transman who had the honor of earning the title of NW Master 2009. He has been in the leather community since 2001, volunteering at any given opportunity, and he was honored to receive the Volunteer of the Year award at the Center for Sex Positive Culture 2003. He has been part of producing multiple kink and leather events, and has held membership and board positions for several leather clubs, to include Seattle Women of Leather, the CSPC and the FSPC. Master DJ has had the pleasure of teaching about M/s and D/s at many different leather conventions and in other venues. Master DJ lives quite happily with his slave september dragon.

Slave september dragon has been proud to be owned and operated by Master DJ since 2005. september dragon is a strong, intelligent, loving, wise woman with a huge slave heart that shines. She has been a leader in many different organizations and has helped organize multiple events and clubs to include CSPC, Seattle Women of Leather, and MaST Seattle. She held the title of Northwest Regional slave 2009. September Dragon is an artist in her daily life, and worships her Owner and Master.
She holds an especially special place in Master DJ’s heart!

Workshops Presented:

The 3 Rs: Rites, Rituals and Routine
Transitions

Master Malik and slave Cathy

As a student of life, Leather and BDSM, Master Malik is always eager to share his views, thoughts and ideas with any willing people who give him some of their time to listen.

Significant similarities between Leather and Sufism have helped Master Malik to continue his journey on the path of mastery and slavery with his precious slave Cathy.

Slave Cathy is very active in the alternative lifestyle community, having a leadership roles in local leather clubs and organizations. She is member of T.U.L.S.A. (a local Leather club), and MAsT-Tulsa. She is a past member of Rough Riders and TDS. She was privileged to serve as Ms. Great Plains Olympus Leather 2006. She was also Southwest slave 2008. Her passion lies in mentoring and educating the ones who seek the knowledge in alternative lifestyle, especially Master/slave relationship.

Master Malik and slave Cathy are avid practitioner of old fashion SM and strongly believes in a powerful connection between SM and spiritual realm. They strongly believe with passion about “Acceptance”, “Tolerance” and “Diversity” of our larger tribe.

Master Malik is proud to serve as Southwest Master 2008. He is member of T.U.L.S.A., founder of MaST-Tulsa. He is also an associate member of Chicago Hellfire Club
They are proud to have the privilege of presenting at several local, regional and national events and gatherings. He is member of T.U.L.S.A., NCSF, MaST-Tulsa. He is also an associate member of Chicago Hellfire Club.

Master Malik and slave Cathy were co founder of Xpressions (a play space in Tulsa, OK), .

Workshops Presented:

Blood Ritual/Cutting
Mummification: A Journey Inward

Master Obsidian and slave namaste

Master Obsidian

Master Obsidian has been involved in the BDSM community for over 3 decades. He’s been a member of groups in Chicago as well as in Texas. He has served in a Leadership capacity in the Field of Diversity for multi million dollar corporations, as well as committees and boards in the LGBTQ and Diverse business arena nation wide. A proud Leatherman and Inspiring Orator – He has presented numerous classes on topics ranging from Fire and Pressure point play to Dominance to Spirituality. He has received accolades and recognition by the community including Receiving His Masters’ cover in 2009, The 2012 Southwest Leather Conference Leatherman’s Heart Award, a Pantheon of Leather Man of the year Nominee, and 2010 Southwest Master as well as 2010 International Master. Most recently He was appointed to the Board of the Woodhull Foundation where He continues to champion the cause of Sexual Freedom.

slave namaste

slave namaste has counseled women and taught about embracing submission for 20 years. She brings this knowledge into her relationship living in submission and surrender to Master Obsidian as well as to counseling and aiding in the development of other submissives, slaves, and surrendered hearts. Her writings on surrender and absolute slavery have been featured on web sites and in books. She is Founder and co-moderator of various lifestyle groups, including one geared specifically for those in TPE relationships. A gifted Coach, Public Speaker and Mentor, she was the 2010 Southwest slave and 2010 International slave as well as the recipient of the 2013 Southwest Leather Conference Leatherwoman’s Heart Award.

Both Master Obsidian and slave namaste consider it a great honor to also have been joint recipients of the 2013 Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award.

Workshops Presented:

Final Fantasy: The New Frontier
Power Corrupts? An exploration of TPE

Master Skip and slave Rick

Master Skip Chasey

Skip Chasey, a/k/a Master Skip, addressed a crowd of nearly one million people at the Millennium March on Washington, and since then he has given more than a dozen keynote addresses and presented over 250 programs on the spiritual dynamics of BDSM at noteworthy leather events throughout North America. He has been profiled in Nerve.com magazine, Power Exchange magazine, the award-winning documentary film Pup, and Ask the Man Who Owns him, a book on gay male Master/slave relationships that received the National Leather Association’s 2010 non-fiction literary award. Master Skip is a co-founder of People of Leather Among You (a social and educational group for Southern California men and women interested in the integration of spirituality and leather/fetish sexuality), served as a core instructor for the Butchmanns Experience (a periodic weekend retreat offering opportunities for profound personal growth to leathermen and women of all sexual orientations and identities) and for seven years was a co-producer of Southwest Leather Conference (“The Leather Family Gathering of Heart and Spirit”). Honors include the Leadership Award and the Lee Montague Memorial Community Service Award from Avatar Club Los Angeles, the Pantheon of Leather Community Choice Award, both the Master Heart Award and the Master Jack McGeorge Excellence in Education Award from the Master/slave Conference, and most recently the Leatherman’s Heart Award from SWLC.

In his own words, “Blood may be thicker than water, but leather is thicker than blood.”

slave Rick

slave Rick expanded his practice as a licensed psychotherapist within the BDSM community in 2009 (www.KinkTherapistLosAngeles.com) after retiring from a 30-year career with the Federal government.

Aside from his work as a psychotherapist, slave Rick was a part-time college instructor, a massage therapist and a retired Science of Mind practitioner. During the past decade he has presented programs on the spiritual dynamics of M/s and D/s relationships at dozens of conferences and leather events throughout North America. In 2010 he gave the endnote address at Southwest Leather Conference, and he delivered the keynote address at Leather Reign in 2011. In 2014, he facilitated the breakfast Q & A at the Master/slave Conference.

In 2008 slave Rick was honored to receive both the Southwest Leather Conference “Leatherman’s Heart Award” and the “slave Heart Award” at the Master/slave Conference. More recently, he was proud to participate as one of the subjects of “Ask the Man Who Owns him”, a book on gay male M/s relationships by david stein that received the 2010 Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Literary Award from the National Leather Association. slave Rick is currently documenting his experience as a spiritually grounded leather slave in a memoir that he hopes to have published sometime in 2016.
First and foremost, however, he is by Grace in service to his beloved Master for the past 16+ years.

Workshops Presented:

Boy, Didn’t you hear what I thought I said: The Importance of Functional Communication in D/s Relationships
Cathartic Flogging: Merging the Erotic and the Ecstatic
Finishing Touches: What To Do When Your D/s Relationship Is Not Enough
Submission, Seduction, and Surrender: Spiritual Awakening in M/s Relationships

Arli

Arli is a fierce, fat, femme queer leatherdyke with a passion for all things pink and a penchant for sparkle. She has been a happy practitioner of BDSM for over 30 years. She has dedicated much of her time to her home community Vancouver, Canada, where she has been organizing BDSM parties since the 1990s, most recently as a founding member of Canadian Mayhem. The last few years have found her splitting her time between Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and Oakland.

Arli has many facets to her being. A masochist, bottom, submissive, slave, ageplaying sadistic five year old and a mean mean Lady. Arli happily serves her Sir while being served by her sweet boi.

In recent years Arli has returned to her one of her first loves, that of teaching. In the past she has been fortunate to present at Lupercalia, (Edmonton, AB), DESIRE 2010, (Palm Springs, CA), and KinkF est 2011, (Portland, OR), IMsL 25th Anniversary, (San Francisco, CA), DESIRE, 2011 (Palm Spring, CA) Dark Odyssey, Summer Camp 2011, (Maryland), KinkLInks 2013 (Seattle, Wa) and the first WINK 2013 (Seattle, WA), Northern Exposure 2014 (Anchorage, Alaska), Sin in the CIty 2015 (Las Vegas, Nevada), Leather Reign 2016 (Seattle, WA)

Workshops Presented:

Perils of the Pedestal

Race Bannon

Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner, organizer, writer, educator, commentator, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club, The 15 Association, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award, and the 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie). You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist ally.

Workshops Presented:

The Art of Kink Self-Education

Master D and slave passion

Master D has been in the lifestyle for the past 12 years and is a very active member of the Philadelphia area community. He holds the title of Northeast Master 2012 and along with his slave, is a proud member of Mama’s family as Mama’s BlackBEAT Duo. Master D is currently on the producing team for The M/s Gathering and Director of MAsT: Wilmington DE. He is co-founder of two groups, BlackBEAT Philly Metro and From The Top, a discussion group for Masters/Dominants/Tops. For the past 7 years he has worked on the staff of a number of events including Philadelphia Leather Pride Night, the LLC – Philadelphia and NDDs Bootcamp. He has presented at MsC, SELF, NWLC, Brimstone, NDD/s Bootcamp and numerous MAsT groups. He has judged Master/slave contests at MsC and NWLC. Master D enjoys sports, a good restaurant, well really just eating, and spending time with family and friends. Master D has several passions in his life, one being his slave passion (aptly named), his obsession with sneakers (bet you can’t guess how many pairs he has) and a love of music (you just may come across his alter ego, DJ Big Pimpin’).

slave passion is owned by and married to Master D. She has thrown herself into serving the community, with the blessing of her Master, since 2002. She holds the title of Northeast slave 2012 and is the other half of Mama’s BlackBEAT Duo. She is the Executive Producer of The M/s Gathering, co-founder of BlackBEAT Philly Metro and the Submissive SCENE and is the Director of MAsT: Cherry Hill. She proudly served as one of the producers of the LLC – Philadelphia and is co-owner and a producer of Philadelphia Leather Pride Night, both events winners of a Pantheon of Leather award. slave passion has presented at MsC, SELF, NWLC, Brimstone, NDD/s Bootcamp and numerous MAsT groups. If you have met slave passion, you know she has a deep love for her family, Alabama football – Roll Tide, her wonderful friends and traveling as often as she and her Master are able. She feels that education for the M/s, D/s, Leather and Kink communities is a priority.

Workshops Presented:

The Practical Side of Power Exchange
When BDSM Alone is not Enough

Patrick Mulcahey

Patrick Mulcahey speaks and teaches on leather, SM, and Master/slave topics, and is a columnist for Leatherati and for Growing Pains, the Society of Janus newsletter. He is past program director of the S.F. Leathermen’s Discussion Group, chapter director for MAsT: San Francisco, and has served as a judge for the International Master/slave, International Leather SIR/boy, and International Mr. Leather contests. Patrick was named 2011 Bay Area Leather Alliance Man of the Year and has received the Leatherman’s Heart Award, the Robert Davolt “Spirit of Leather” Award, the 2013 Pantheon of Leather Northern California Regional Award, and the 2014 National Leather Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Patrick lives happily in San Francisco with his slave, patrick, in a same-sex, same-name marriage.

Workshops Presented:

Starting from Scratch: Constructing the D/s or M/s Dynamic

Miss Amy Red

Miss Amy Red is, or sometimes identifies as: facilitator, instigator, service-oriented, poly-introverted, submissive, and occasional top. She’s passionate about powerful education and empowered relationships. As a professional educator, her development handiwork has helped generate and refine a wide range of workshops with her partners over the last 7 years. Amy’s solo teaching passions focus on service, training and power exchange taught largely from a bottom’s perspective. She’s also the Maitre’d of Seattle’s Libertine Social Club, a high-protocol service event, where she trains and provides guidance for house staff. Recently, you may have seen Miss Amy Red presenting for Portland’s Kinkfest, Seattle’s Paradise Unbound, Vancouver’s Westcoast Bound, or Dark Odyssey Surrender in San Francisco.

Workshops Presented:

Honored Objects

Richard Sprott

Richard Sprott entered the San Francisco leather scene in 1990, and after a few years joined the Defenders/SF in 1995. That led to involvement in the Leathermen’s Discussion Group, serving on the Board since its inception in 1999 until 2006, and then returning to LDG in 2011 to help start up the LDG Mentoring Program. Richard was chosen as SF Leather Daddy XXIII in 2005. In 2009, he was chosen as Mr. Alameda County Leather 2009, a title produced by the Alameda County Leather Corps. He is also serving currently as the Executive Director of CARAS (the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities). Richard also is one of the founders and serves as a director of TASHRA (The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance). Richard has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from UC Berkeley. He is co-author with sex therapist David Ortmann of the book “Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities”. He has a wonderful leather family supporting him: his husband Dave, his pup Spunky, his dog Chomper, his boy Mike, his slave eric and his slave lyle.

Workshops Presented:

Scat Play: An extreme edge scene
Psychobiology of SM – mind-body connections in SM activities

Mistress Suzan and slave ziggy

Mistress Suzan hails from the Western NY/Rochester area. She found her way to Leather in the early ’80s, in the bars of NY. Since then she has taken an active role in the Master/slave community and believes in being a positive resource.

In 2005, Mistress Suzan was honored with the Southeast Master title. She then earned the title of International Master 2006. Over the years, Mistress Suzan has traveled throughout the US and Canada, presenting on a wide variety of topics concerning M/s.

Currently, she is the Co-Director of MAsT Rochester producer/owner of Upstate ABR Events and is is a member of the MTTA board of directors. She and her slave continue to travel and present their unique perspectives on the M/s dynamic.

Her passions include creating a safe and supportive community, upholding Leather traditions, education, and the practice of ethical Mastery.”

Born in California raised in Arizona, slave ziggy found the wonderful world of SM through the fetish clubs in Japan in the early 80’s. Later, he became active in the leather community in the southeast and was honored with the title of Southeast slave and later International slave in 2006. Founder and producer of Submissive’s Journey Weekend and is currently Co Director of MAsT Rochester NY, and an instructor with the M/s Development center. He and Mistress Susan travel throughout the US at various regional and national events, sharing their perspectives on the master slave dynamic. He believes that a strong community is the key to a healthy Master slave relationship.

Slave ziggy has a lifelong passion for assisting others in the discovery and actualization of one’s Master and slave heart. His other passions include Leather history, traditions, the art of formal service, protocols and rituals and the practice of ethical slavery.

He believes: “If you can dream it believe it, it can be done, so begin it now”

Workshops Presented:

Master/slave Relationships; A Journey of the Spirit
Problem Solving and Decision Making for Masters – Mistress Susan
Slave Quarters – slave ziggy

Ms Rhonda and tomo

Ms Rhonda is a Femme Master who has been active in the Northern California leather community for many years. She is honored to be the Northwest Master 2015. She is the current Northwest Regional Representative for MAsT International, Co-Director of MAsT: Sacramento, and is a member of MAsT: Greater San Francisco Bay Area, MAsT: San Francisco, and The Exiles. Ms Rhonda has served as both a presenter and judge at local and national events in the M/s and BDSM communities.

After three years as Marketing Director and four years as a Producer of International Ms Leather/International Ms Bootblack Weekend, she is now focused on creating educational events for the Northern California leather community through her company, KinkED Productions. Ms Rhonda values impeccable manners, courtesy, and obedience and is the proud Owner and Master of tomo.

tomo is a slave honored to be owned by her Master, Ms Rhonda. She identifies as a butch leatherdyke and has been a part of the leather community for two decades. She is honored to be the Northwest slave 2015. tomo is a founding member of the Dyke Uniform Corps, was a Producer of International Ms Leather Weekend, and is a member of MAsT: Sacramento, MAsT: San Francisco, and The Exiles. She currently focuses her skills working on KinkED, which produces M/s and Leather events in the Sacramento area.

A martial arts instructor of 30 years, tomo has been greatly affected not only by her extensive physical training but also by the deep D/s roots of her Japanese martial art. As a professional educator, she has presented at numerous national events and local groups on both M/s topics and physical BDSM technique. tomo was awarded the 2013 Pantheon of Leather President’s Award.

Workshops Presented:

Garmin© vs. TomTom© (Obedience vs Alignment)
Healthy Surrender
Pain and Connection Using Pressure Points – tomo

Ruin

International Community Bootblack 2012 Ruin began her leather journey while vending at International Mr. Leather 2004. Only 8-months-old in kink, not knowing a gag from an ass plug and surrounded by leathermen, she knew she had stumbled upon something significant, something she wanted more of.

After moving to Seattle, Ruin joined the Center for Sex Positive Culture, which she credits with her development into the wicked, sadomadochistic leathergirl she is today. The CSPC led her to Seattle’s long-standing leather bar, The Cuff, where she met her bootblacking teacher, Diamond Jack. It was through bootblacking that Ruin deeply connected with her local leather community. She’s never looked back.

A seasoned performer and educator, Ruin’s interests are as varied as her panties, but her first loves remain bondage, blood, beatings, burlesque, and of course, boots. Lee Harrington and Master Skip Chasey are her biggest inspirations in kink education. Ruin strives to present relevant and provocative classes, while being real and approachable as a teacher.

Workshops Presented:

Collared and Poly

Sir Doug

Sir Doug has had an interest in leather since the first time he walked down Polk Street in San Francisco in 1980 and saw his first Leathermen. He entered the U.S. Army in 1981 and has served as both enlisted and an officer. His time in the military has had a deep influence on his approach to leather and this, combined with his background as a college instructor in history, has lead to an appreciation for traditions, rituals, and protocols and how they influence culture. He does not believe these elements in leather should be seen or used in a way that is limiting, forces conformity, or stifles creativity but as a means to add a depth and richness to any Master and slave dynamic. In 2008, he served as Southwest Leather Sir. He is also one of the founders of the South Sound Leather Alliance, and a contributing writer for the leather blog, The Sacred Dance. Sir Doug has presented numerous classes and worships on a wide variety of topics involving the Leather and Kink lifestyles. His leather family is currently made up of his husband (Sir Will), his boy Paul and his slave Robert.

Workshops Presented:

Religious Taboo Play

slave kirk

slave kirk came to Butchmanns in 1999 and stayed. he was Master Steve Sampson’s primary slave for seven years. In that time they won the International Master/slave title in 2000. kirk was a Butchmanns Academy (and later Butchmanns Experience) instructor for many years, and has recently become a lead instructor for the all-male Butchmans Experience weekend held once per year. he helped in the formation of the Southwest Leather Conference and has sat on the Board of Directors of Butchmanns, LLC since its inception. He has also judged many Master/slave contests, and was the Chief Judge at the 25th Anniversary International Master/slave contest held at South Plains Leatherfest in 2014.

Workshops Presented:

Body Stress Ectastic Practices
In, Out and Back Again: A slave’s journey

slave September Dragon

slave September Dragon has been proud to be owned and operated by Master DJ since 2005. She was in consideration of his collar in 2004 upon getting to know one another and realizing the true nature of their relationship. September Dragon is a strong, intelligent, loving, wise woman with a huge slave heart that shines through her often. She has been a leader in many different organizations and has helped organize multiple events and clubs to include CSPC, Seattle Women of Leather (1st gen), Mast Seattle, Owner slave group, SBS retreat and group, Co-directed Paradise for 3 years, assisted Kink Links and Imsl, and of course, Northwest Celebration. She held the title of Northwest Regional slave 2009. SeptemberDragon is an artist in her daily life and you can see some of her art in the vending space at the Dragonian Dreams table. She holds an especially special place in Master DJ’s heart!

Workshops Presented:

The 3 Rs: Rites, Rituals and Routine

Dara

Dara has been honored to earn the titles of Oregon State Bootblack 2013 and International Ms Bootblack 2014. With a history that spans 20 years of formal teaching experience, s/he holds a PhD in German culture and language, though Dara now self-identifies as a recovering academic and works as a licensed massage therapist. S/he has been in BDSM since 2005, began learning leather care in his first service relationship, and the love of leather paired with service led Dara to bootblacking in the Leather community. In Portland, Dara is an active bootblack, a Bad Girl, a boy slave to his Master, DJ, a dynamic bottom, and partnered to another Leather traveler, Leatheraven. Dara has been a PDX Bootblack since its inception in early 2010. For the last four years, working together with the PDX Bootblacks at Kinkfest, thousands has been raised for local and national charities. Additionally, s/he is active in the Leather community as a Bad Girls board member of several years and colors holder. S/he has taught bootblacking and leather care as well as trigger point play for the Boot Weekend, Boot Day, Decadence Dungeon, the Coastal Munch, and Bad Girls.

Workshops Presented:

Service Résumé
Stepping it Up! Bringing Bootblacking Into Your Play

Cunning Minx

Cunning Minx is the sultry-voiced producer and host of the Polyamory Weekly podcast, now with nearly 400 episodes in production. The podcast shares tales from the front of responsible non-monogamy from a pansexual, kink-friendly point of view. A kinky boobiesexual, Minx founded the show as a resource for the poly and poly-curious to form a community, share experiences and help guide each other on their journeys of poly and kinky exploration. Minx has been a submissive, bottom and otherwise generally non-dominant type for the past ten years.

Minx has spoken on poly, kinky and Web 2.0 community-building topics at ShibariCon, Geek Girl Con, CatalystCon, MomentumCon, Atlanta Poly Weekend, Sex 2.0, Leather Leadership Conference, Dragon*Con, GD2, Heartland Polyamory Conference, New York Poly Pride and Poly Living. The Poly Weekly podcast is the winner of the 2007 Erotic Award for Best Podcast and has received accolades from ErosZine, Fleshbot and the Chicago Sun-Times.

Workshops Presented:

Kicking Poly Drama on Its Ass
8 Things I Wish I’d Known About Polyamory (Before I Tried It and Frakked It Up)

Hardy Haberman

Since the mid-70’s Hardy has been an active in the leather community and a member of many BDSM/Fetish organizations including Dallas Motorcycle Club, NLA-Dallas, Discipline Corps and a founding member of Inquisition-Dallas. Considering himself a “Pain Technologist” he specializes in CBT and has an unusual fondness for clips clamps and clothespins, as well as more esoteric SM play. Professionally he is a marketing specialist and filmmaker. His documentary on the leather lifestyle “LEATHER” has won numerous awards and appeared in festivals around the world, and his latest film, “Out of the Darkness, The Reality of SM” is currently being used by health care professionals around the world.

Outside work, he is a gay activist, author & speaker on aspects of the SM/Leather scene. His books “The Family Jewels, A guide to male genital play and torment” published by Greenery Press and “More Family Jewels”, Playing With Pain” And “Soul of a Second Skin” published by Nazca Plain. He also writes a regular column in the Dallas Voice newspaper.

He was awarded NLAI’s Man of the Year award in 1999 and the NLA-I Lifetime Achievement award in 2007 received the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Leather Leadership award. Last year he was honored to be a Judge at both IML and ILSb.

He currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance in Washington DC. Since April, 1995, he and his boy Patrick have been living together in Dallas with their Feline Mistress Elvira and troublemaker Jack-The-Cat.

Workshops Presented:

Interrogation and Abduction
Putting the Sex Back in SM

Lily Seville

Lily Seville is a queer poly dominant femme who lives life with a distinct vintage flair and a continual sense of wonder. Over the last 15 years of her fabulously kinky life she has held many roles and identified with many archetypes. She strives to be the change that she wants to see and her activities in the community reflect that. She currently hosts two parties at the CSPC, The Libertine Social Club (a D/s and service focused cocktail party) and Women on Top (a play party for female identified tops and all bottoms who play with them).

Lily believes that BDSM is an art form and her style is formal, collaborative, deeply emotional, and aesthetic. Her play usually focuses on psychological state and energy exchange over sensation but sometimes she likes to hurt people just because it’s fun. Lily does her best work inside of devoted, loving relationships where her submissive is also her muse.

Lily Seville delights in sharing her passions with others and helping them to live lives filled with beauty, joy, and fulfillment.

Workshops Presented:

Psychic Suffering—A community conversation about humiliation, degradation and related mental play

Liza and Jody

Liza and her slave, Jody, (International Master and slave 2011) have been living in a committed M/s relationship for over a decade. Liza came to power at Woodstock and has been kinky ever since. In 2002, Liza moved to San Francisco and jumped into the leather community with both boots. After leaving the military in 1980, Jody came out as a leatherdyke and slave. Shortly thereafter she founded Leather and Lace, Los Angeles’ first women’s leather club. In 2000, Jody moved to San Francisco and became Liza’s slave two years later. They recently moved to Portland where they are regulars at MAsT: Portland and the Bad Girls.

Liza and her slave teach extensively in the US and also abroad, on a variety of topics related to nurturing and sustaining long-term M/s relationships filled with heat, sex, deep intimacy and fun. Having received numerous awards, the most meaningful to them is having been recognized as Presenters of the Year by MAsT International.

Liza and Jody are the producers of the Ms. San Francisco Leather contest and the Master/slave Retreat. They have both served as representatives to the Bay Area Leather Alliance and on the steering committees or as officers of several organizations: Leather Levi Weekend, Leather Alley at Pride, the Exiles (women’s BDSM group) and the Bears of San Francisco. They are proud members of Mama’s Family.

Workshops Presented:

Strengthening and Deepening Your M/s or D/s Relationship

Master John and slave ann

Master John was first introduced to the Leather lifestyle back in the mid-90’s with the phrase “want to try something a little different?” Since that time he has been on a journey down this “road less traveled by.” He has held leadership positions in several BDSM organizations in the past and currently serves on the Board of Evergreen Leather Events, the producer of Leather Reign. He serves as Treasurer for the Seattle chapter of MAsT . Together with slave ann they have the privilege of serving the Northwest region as the 2014 Northwest Master and slave.

Master John and slave ann have been in a Master/slave relationship since 2000. In 2007 they found their “unicorn” and kim joined them to create their triad family. All three are active members of the Seattle Leather community and have strived to continue to grow, and to give back to the community.

slave ann is a bisexual slave to Master John and wife to her love. she has been a slave to her beloved Master since 2000 and they married the love of their lives, kim, in 2010. All three of them live quietly in Seattle with their three cats Zora, April and Paulie.

slave ann found the vocabulary to describe her natural submissive nature online in the early 90’s. she tried swinging with her former husband and one of the partners introduced her to real life D/s, the joy of pain, and that women are sexy. she decided to relocate to the Pacific Northwest from Wyoming so she could fully explore her sexuality. ann is active in the community by being the treasurer of Evergreen Leather Events which produces Leather Reign. she was also the treasurer of Kink LINCS held in 2013 and helped with the organization of Kink Coming Out Day September 28, 2013. Together with her Master, they have the privilege of serving the Northwest region as the 2014 Northwest Master and slave.

Workshops Presented:

Beyond the Velcro Collar – Creating and maintaining a Master slave dynamic that can stand the test of time

Master Obsidian and slave namaste

Master Obsidian is the chapter founder and Director of MAsT (Masters And slaves Together) Austin. A former Regional Representative for the Southwest Region of MAsT International, He has also served on the Board of GWNN (The Group with No Name) in Austin Texas and as moderator of Black BEAT Texas for 7 years. Additionally he and his devoted slave namaste were International Master and slave 2010 as well as Southwest Master and Southwest slave 2010. They currently serve as moderators for the national MAsT Open yahoo group as well as the regional MAsT Austin discussion list. Master Obsidian is a published author with articles in BDSM publications covering the M/s and BDSM lifestyle and philosophy, his educational experience also includes a number of workshop presentations, seminars, classes and weekend intensives focusing on M/s relationship dynamics and techniques. A 2009 nominee for the Pantheon of Leather Man of the Year award and 2012 Recipient of the SouthWest Leather Conference Leatherman’s Heart award and the 2013 Jack Stice Memorial Award, he has also been honored to mentor both novice and seasoned Dominants. Master Obsidian has been in the lifestyle for nearly three decades and is the owner of slave namaste and the Master of House Obsidian in Texas.

slave namaste is honored and privileged to be the 24/7 slave of Master Obsidian. The 2010 International slave and Southwest slave titleholder she has counseled, mentored and taught on Surrender, Internalization of slavery, spirituality and submission. Her writings on surrender and absolute slavery have been featured on web sites and in books including the “Art of Slavery” Edition of the Power Exchange Reference Series. She is Founder and co-moderator of various lifestyle groups, including one geared specifically for slaves in TPE relationships as well as running a blog/website with a focus on excellence in service called Service Savoir Faire. A Life, relationship and wellness coach and mentor, Healer and Artist she possesses a great passion for aiding her fellow slaves in the lifestyle, Domestic Service, Protocols, Spirituality and The Art of Surrender.

Both Master Obsidian and slave namaste are ordained and offer Spiritual and Shamanic counsel as well as offering life and relationship coaching, mentoring, intensives and seminars.

Workshops Presented:

Beyond Pain I
The Winter of O/our discontent

Master Malik and Slave Cathy

As a student of life, Leather and BDSM, Master Malik is always eager to share his views, thoughts and ideas with any willing people who give him some of their time to listen.

Significant similarities between Leather and Sufism have helped Master Malik to continue his journey on the path of mastery and slavery with his precious slave Cathy.

Slave Cathy is very active in the alternative lifestyle community, having a leadership roles in local leather clubs and organizations. She is an associate member of T.U.L.S.A. (a local Leather club), and MAsT-Tulsa. She is a past member of Rough Riders and TDS. She was privileged to serve as Ms. Great Plains Olympus Leather 2006. She was also Southwest slave 2008. Her passion lies in mentoring and educating the ones who seek the knowledge in alternative lifestyle, especially Master/slave relationship.

Master Malik and slave Cathy are avid practitioner of old fashion SM and strongly believes in a powerful connection between SM and spiritual realm. They strongly believe with passion about “Acceptance”, “Tolerance” and “Diversity” of our larger tribe.

Master Malik is proud to serve as Southwest Master 2008. He is an associate member of T.U.L.S.A., and founder of MaST-Tulsa. He is also an associate member of Chicago Hellfire Club

They are proud to have the privilege of presenting at several local, regional and national events and gatherings.

Workshops Presented:

Spirituality in Dungeon
Lightening and Thunder: Whip Play (from 101 to 301)

Raven Kaldera and Joshua Tenpenny

Raven Kaldera is a queer FTM transgendered intersexual shaman. He is the author/editor of 34 books, including “Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path”, “Dear Raven and Joshua: Questions and Answers About Master/Slave Relationships”, and “Power Circuits: Polyamory In A Power Dynamic”. He and his slaveboy Joshua have been teaching and presenting workshops regularly for many years to the BDSM, Neo-Pagan, Sex/Spirituality, transgender, and other communities. ’Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

Joshua Tenpenny is a queer FTM transsexual. He is Raven’s Boy, and Raven’s devoted assistant, partner, and slave for life. He is a massage therapist, Shiatsu practitioner, and yoga teacher. He is the author of “Real Service” and the creator of the Service Notebook. He is polymorphously perverse, and finds spiritual fulfillment through any kind of worthy service.

Raven and Joshua are the current 2014 Northeast Master and slave titleholders

Workshops Presented:

Real Service
Power Dynamic As Exoskeleton: Coping With Disability in A M/s Relationship

Phoenix

Phoenix identifies as a Two-Spirit Native (Cree First Nations/Scots), Gender Queer, Top, Sir, and Daddy. Their “official” entrance into the Seattle BDSM community was by joining Outer Limits in 1985. Phoenix also served as a coordinator for PowerSurge Conferences in the 1990’s. Phoenix was the co-founder/producer of the highly-regarded Wicked Womyn SM conferences in Seattle. Phoenix has taught many workshops across the USA, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, and Canada for over 23 years on master’s level health and safety, play piercing, artistic cutting, suturing, fire play, blood drawing, flogging, and Japanese rope harness. Phoenix also produced the video “On The Cutting Edge” showing artistic cutting which was accepted for the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival 2012. Phoenix also loves “hooks” and has facilitated many energy pulls and suspensions. Phoenix has many interests, but motorcycle riding and service bois are some favorites.

Some of the events Phoenix has served include Women at Leather Pride – Amsterdam, Schmacht! – Berlin, SM Dykes – Manchester England, Reykjavik BDSM-Iceland, OZ Kinkfest – Melbourne AU, Judge at Australia’s 1st M/s Contest – Melbourne, The Reformatory – Brisbane AU, Tawse Manor – Christchurch NZ, Fetfest – Baltimore, Black Beat – Baltimore, Dark Odyssey – Baltimore, Lesbian Sex Mafia – New York, Thunder In The Mountains – Denver, Southwest Leather Conference – Phoenix, International Ms Leather – San Francisco, Floating World – New Jersey, TES Education Series – NYC, Kinkfest – Portland OR, Pacific Friction – Portland OR, Beyond Leather – Ft. Lauderdale, Canadian Mayhem – Vancouver Canada, Indigeo Conception – Victoria Canada, Northern Exposure – Anchorage, Southern Bash – Atlanta, South Plains Leatherfest & International Master/slave Weekend – Dallas, Women In Leather International – Dallas, New England Leather Alliance, Brimstone-NJ, The Society – Connecticut, EvoRevo – Albuquerque, and in Seattle: Wicked Womyn, PowerSurge, Seattle Women of Leather, Center for Sex Positive Culture (the Wetspot), C-Space, Kinky Carnival, and the Blood Faire.

Workshops Presented:

Suturing for Fun and Pleasure

Ruin

International Community Bootblack 2012 Ruin began her leather journey while vending at International Mr. Leather 2004. Only 8-months-old in kink, not knowing a gag from an ass plug and surrounded by leathermen, she knew she had stumbled upon something significant, something she wanted more of.

After moving to Seattle, Ruin joined the Center for Sex Positive Culture, which she credits with her development into the wicked, sadomadochistic leathergirl she is today. The CSPC led her to Seattle’s long-standing leather bar, The Cuff, where she met her bootblacking teacher, Diamond Jack. It was through bootblacking that Ruin deeply connected with her local leather community. She’s never looked back.

A seasoned performer and educator, Ruin’s interests are as varied as her panties, but her first loves remain bondage, blood, beatings, burlesque, and of course, boots. Lee Harrington and Master Skip Chasey are her biggest inspirations in kink education. Ruin strives to present relevant and provocative classes, while being real and approachable as a teacher.

Workshops Presented:

As on the Dance Floor, As in the Dungeon
“I Am Not Submissive.” (The Path of the Dominant Slave)

Tris

Tris has always felt a personal obligation and social responsibility to serve. Since joining the Leather community, she has volunteered, mentored, taught classes and organized multiple events; working at a grassroots level to establish several new leather groups while serving and participating in existing organizations. Tris is service-oriented, and enjoys rough body play; fear play and is up for a challenge of (just about) any kind.

Tris is an analytical self-starter, social media junkie and innovative community leader, embracing the traditions of honor, integrity, respect and service in Leather as the cornerstones to her daily life. Tris is a founding member of Seattle girls of Leather, Seattle Women in Leather; Center for Sex Positive Culture member and volunteer and is honored to serve her community as Washington State Ms. Leather 2014.

Workshops Presented:

Intent and Consent

Big Bad Jim

Jim is a Poly Leather Top that prides himself on giving back to the community. Having been an active member of the Edmonton community since 2000; Jim has always been there to lend a hand whenever needed.

Jim is the type of person that when he sees a need for something, he makes it happen. He is one of the founding members of COPE; an Edmonton group that puts together a twice monthly play party and educational events, As the creator and producer of Primal Pain; an outdoor weekend spiritual retreat, Jim saw the need for an event that brought people together for something more than just kink. Jim was also the Chair of Lupercalia for several years

Jim identifies as a sadist. Like any sadist he derives pleasure from inflicting pain. Whether he is using “Boris” his trusty sidekick, or as the painfully talented “Dixie Normous”. With a black hankie in his back left pocket there is no question he loves what he does.

Jim has always had a passion for sharing his knowledge and wisdom with those in and out of the lifestyle. Others have commented on his classes as “fun” as well as “intense” learning experiences. Jim has spoken at the University of Alberta sharing our lifestyle with their students. Jim has presented workshops at Southwest Leather Conference, Beat Me in St. Louis, Spanksgiving, Mr. Leatherman Toronto, Madtown Kinkfest, Winter Wickedness, Sagacity, Kinky Karnival, Westcoast Bound,, and twice Jim has been named the People’s Favorite Presenter at Northern Exposure in Anchorage, Alaska.

Workshops Presented:

Harnessing the Energy Within
Ooooh Scary Stuff

Lady Hilary

Lady Hilary is a visionary leader who has been exploring leather since 1989. On her journey she has twice been a titleholder – SF Dyke Mommy 1995 and Ms Sacramento Valley Leather 1998. Lady Hilary has shared her knowledge with The Exiles, Alameda Leather Corps, Santa Clara County Leather Association, smOdyssey, Inc., the Sacramento Valley Leather Corps, The Citadel, The Society of Janus, Rio Grande Leather, Dark Odyssey, Sacramento Valley Heat, Southwest Leather Conference, and numerous other organizations and conferences. In addition, she has judged numerous leather contests and emceed many leather events.

From her passion to translate powerful business and personal growth metaphors into the leather worldview, Lady Hilary envisioned, created and now produces regular Vanguard Leather events. Lady Hilary firmly believes in and lives a bliss-filled life of focused desire, devotion, and service.

With utter joy Lady Hilary maintains passionate, awesome leather relationships with her ‘Ohana. She leads a full life with a huge heart that always has room for more. The members of her ‘Ohana include 2 marvelous butch boys, a leather brother, a family dawg, a leather uncle, my boy’s boy and his boyfriend, a service sewer grrl, a princess, and a sergeant at arms.

Workshops Presented:

Mind the Gap

Master Bob and slave jan

Master Bob calls the Portland and Willamette Valley kink communities home and is an active member of Portland Leather Alliance, MasT: Portland, Dungeon Monitors Association, and South Valley BDSM Group. He serves as the Executive Director of MAsT International, is a staff member for The Butchmanns Experience and is a member of the Butchmanns Board of Directors. In his professional life he runs his own personal motivation business, www.SolutionMentoring.com as a certified life coach specializing in relationship and personal growth issues.

In and out of the leather community he is passionate about helping others to live more joyful and fully authentic lives, and has established and organized fun and supportive environments for his community, moderated and facilitated discussion groups, mediated conflicts, participated on panels, and presented interactive workshops on various topics ranging from M/s dynamics and S/M technique to “Conversations on Spirituality and Sexuality”. While he understands that being out is a luxury not everyone can afford he feels fortunate to be able to choose this path for himself and his slave because he feels modeling wholeness by telling the truth about who and what we are, despite the perceived risks, is an act of authentic leadership to which he aspires. It is his hope to honor both our unique differences and our shared common experience, building bridges of understanding both within our local leather communities and within our larger circles of influence.

slave jan began her slave journey when her head finally caught up with her heart and has been happily in service to Master Bob Blount ever since. They began the shift from a floundering, ho-hum “equal partnership” twelve-year marriage to a negotiated power dynamic relationship at the turn of the millennium and slowly over a year and a half’s time found themselves spirit led to living a consensual M/s lifestyle. Currently slave jan is a member of the Portland Leather Alliance, Portland “Bad Girls”, MasT: Portland and is a staff member for The Butchmanns Experience. As a Life Coach, published author and licensed Soul Collage® Facilitator, slave jan helps others to explore and celebrate their own unique paths to self discovery through moderating discussions, participating on panels, presenting workshops, writing and sharing other expressive arts.

Workshops Presented:

Standing Naked: Becoming your Authentic Self
Romancing the Dark Side – Learning to dance with the Shadow

Master Brian

Brian has been on a personal voyage once he realized that there is a difference between a dominating jerk and a loving master. When, after much introspection and then finding a wonderful women who said “I am willing to follow if you are willing to lead”, he was prepared to accept responsibility along with the authority. Brian self identifies as “‘happily monogamous”. In addition, he believes that Master is a title given, not a title taken. He is Master of his house (small as it is) and to his wonderful slave Mel; that others may call him Master he takes as an honor. Brian is Northwest Master, 2013.

Workshops Presented:

Dealing with Conflict In a Power Exchange Relationship

Master Jim

Master Jim, International Master 2001, is a leatherman who has been involved in the SM/Leather community for over 20 years. During that time, he has presented seminars and weekend programs on Master/slave relationships, most often with his slave, slave marsha, across the U.S. and Canada. Master Jim is one of the owners of South Plains Leatherfest-International Master/slave Weekend (www.southplainsleatherfest.com) held in Dallas each year and is a co-owner of the International Master/slave title contest held at South Plains.
Although Master Jim is well versed in many SM tools and techniques, he is most interested in the dynamics of Master/slave relationships. For Master Jim, the psychological, emotional, and mental elements are the core – and the most fascinating part — of these relationships.

Master Jim identifies sexually as a gay leatherman; however, he is comfortable being served by persons of any gender or sexual orientation. Currently, he is the owner of a biological female slave, slave marsha, who has been in service to him for over 16 years. Master Jim, slave marsha, and slave marsha’s mate, Cougar, live together as a leather family.

When he is not working on South Plains, teaching on M/s relationships, or travelling Master Jim can often be found riding his 2003 Harley Davidson Road King.

Workshops Presented:

The Calling: Ritual, Ceremony and Spirituality in Master/slave Relationships
Making M/s Work: Navigating the Perils, Pitfalls and Catastrophes of Master/slave Relationships

Master Morris and slave jonathan

Master Morris, International Master 2013, has been active in the Bay Area leather scene for seventeen years. He gives workshop/demos for Northwest Leather Conference, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, Leather Alley, Leather Reign, smOdyssey, Society of Janus, Alameda Leather Core, Leather/Levi Weekend, Leatherman’s Discussion Group and the Ring, which he co-chairs. His first mentor was JEB, owner/editor of Metropolitan Slave. For forty years Dr. Morris Taylor was a Professor of Music, a classical pianist and musicologist. Now he is a watercolor artist with over 15 one person shows to his credit. His works can be seen at: www.morristaylor.net and morristaylor.net/adult. Master Morris lives in the Castro district in San Francisco with his 24/7 slave jonathan. He also masters an external slave larry.

slave jonathan, International slave 2013, is a Design Manager for a leading software company. He also has many years experience as political activist, working for such groups as ACT-UP, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, and GroenLinks a political party in the Netherlands. slave jonathan is a lifelong learner. He is preparing to be a therapist. He completed the SFSI sex education training and is working on a new web site dedicated to M/s and kink sex education that is non-judgmental and informational: www.kinksex-ed.org. He has a strong drive to give back to the M/s community from which he so richly benefits. He has taken part in many bdsm groups and organizations. He is a member of The 15, SFDsDG and the Ring. slave jonathan most recently organized a discussion group covering Guy Baldwin’s SlaveCraft. slave jonathan resides in Master Morris’s household as His 24/7 slave.

Workshops Presented:

Consent Mechanics: actualizing consent into your relationships
Passion in the Master/slave Dynamic

Master Tallen

Master Tallen came into the Master/slave lifestyle in 1997 as a slave. He began his evolution into Mastery in early 2002 and is proud of where his journey has taken him. He has experienced a lot on both sides, and with the help of many, has been exposed to numerous perspectives. He enjoys sharing his experiences with others and trying to help them find their own paths. He has presented classes and judged Leather Contests all over the U.S. and beyond.

Currently Master Tallen is an owner of Great Plains Olympus Leather Contest, is the Executive Producer of International Puppy and Trainer Contest, and is on the Board of Regents of Leathermens’ Academy. He is a Member of NLA Dallas, DPEX, and MAsT.

In 2005, he created the Master/slave Flag. In 2008 he won the Leather title as Northeast Master. In 2011 he became Mr. Great Plains Olympus Leather, and subsequently was honored to be selected as International Mr. Olympus Leather 2011.

He loves sharing what he has experienced as well hearing from others. He is also honored to have received many Pantheon of Leather nominations over the years. But the most rewarding thing of all has been the countless number of people he has helped along in their own journeys. Their successes, and words of thanks to him, mean more than anything.

Workshops Presented:

The Invisible Leash: a What, When, Where, Why and How Guide to Protocols
Troubleshooting the Master/slave Relationship

Master Skip

Skip Chasey, a/k/a Master Skip, heads a family of spiritually grounded leatherfolk in the City of Angels, where he is a practicing spiritual director and certified Grief Recovery ™ counselor and also earns a living as a missionary among the savages of Hollywood. As an out and proud leatherman, Master Skip addressed a crowd of nearly one million people at the Millennium March on Washington, and since then he has given a dozen keynote addresses and presented over 200 programs on the spiritual dynamics of SM and D/s relationships at noteworthy leather events throughout the US and Canada.

From 2001-2007 Master Skip was a core instructor for the Butchmanns Experience, a periodic weekend retreat that offers opportunities for profound personal growth to leathermen and women of all sexual orientations and identities. He is a co-founder of People of Leather Among You (“PLAY”), a now-defunct social and educational group for Southern California men and women interested in the integration of spirituality and leather/fetish sexuality, and for six years he was a co-producer of Southwest Leather Conference, “The Leather Family Gathering of Heart and Spirit.” Master Skip presently serves on the Theologies Team and the Clergy Wellness Advisory Council for Metropolitan Community Churches and as the vice-chairman of the board of directors for Butchmanns, Inc., a non-profit educational organization dedicated to self-actualization through the mindful use of physical practices and the conscious exchange of personal power for spiritual awareness.

Master Skip and his pup Tim are the subjects of the award-winning documentary film “Pup” and have been profiled in “Nerve.com” magazine and “Power Exchange” magazine; he and his slave Rick are two of the subjects of “Ask the Man Who Owns him”, a book about gay male Master/slave relationships that received the NLA’s 2010 non-fiction literary award. He is a past recipient of the Leadership Award and the Lee Montague Memorial Award for Outstanding Community Service from Avatar Club Los Angeles, was named “Best Trainer” at the 2002 International Puppy Contest, received the 2005 Pantheon of Leather Community Choice Award and was honored with the Master Heart Award at the 2008 Master/slave Conference.

In his own words, “Blood may be thicker than water, but leather is thicker than blood.”

Workshops Presented:

Chakra Piercing: Awakening the Universe Within
Making M/s Work: Navigating the Perils, Pitfalls and Catastrophes of Master/slave Relationships

Mel

Mel had a successful career as an assistant manager in Asia for a major worldwide bank. Her responsibility was to supervise 25 people in the international transfers of several millions of Euros between banks each night. Immediately prior to joining Brian in the US, she was offered a promotion to Manager, well on the path to Assistant Vice President. But then Brian came along and met three of her criteria; intelligent, mature, and blue eyes. They met on-line, both were coming out of difficult relationships, and after 7 months of on-line time together they met for the first time in October of 2006. In April of 2008 she left her good life, leaping across the pond to become Brian’s loving wife, then his committed slave. She serves him with love, respect, humor, and when appropriate and with respect, helps him to see the error of his ways. Mel is Northwest slave, 2013.

Workshops Presented:

Dealing with Conflict In a Power Exchange Relationship

Mollena

Mollena is a NYC born and raised writer, actress, Kink, Leather and BDSM Educator, Storyteller, fat Fetish Model and Activist. She has won awards for her writing as well as her contributions to the BDSM and Leather community as a presenter. She is proud to have served as International Ms Leather 2010. Exploring kink since 1993, active in BDSM and the Leather Community since 1996, and presenting classes since 1998, she speaks at Alternative Lifestyle events, to students at colleges and universities and to educational groups across the US, Europe and Canada on many Leather and BDSM focused topics. She has written for and been interviewed notably by The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Newsweek, among other publications.

She is the author of the “Toybag Guide: Taboo Play.” Mollena co-authored with Lee Harrington, “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” which is fast becoming the “go-to guide” for those curious about Alternative Lifestyles. Their book won the National Leather Association’s 2012 Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Book Award. Three of her essays were finalists for the NLA’s 2012 Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article award: “Stop, Drop and Role! Erotic Role Playing” and ”Digging in the Dirt – The Lure of Taboo Role Play” appeared in “The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role-Play & The Erotic Edge” edited by Tristan Taormino. Her essay ”On Collars And Closure and Owning Myself” is the 2012 winner, and it originally appeared on her blog, The Perverted Negress. This makes her the winner of that award for two years in a row, as her essay “Tables Briefly Turned” won the NLA-I’s 2011 Cynthia Slater Award.

Her essays on BDSM appear in 3 anthologies curated by Rachel Kramer Bussel: “BDSM and Race Play” appears in “Best Sex Writing 2010,” “Kiss my Boots” is featured in “The Lust Chronicles” and “Breath” is in the latest, in “Serving Him: Sexy Stories of Submission.” Her challenging essay on “race play” is featured in “Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink” edited by Lee Harrington.

You can listen to her podcast “Conversations with The Perverted Negress,” find her blogging at The Perverted Negress, on Twitter as @Mollena and keep track of upcoming performances and appearances on her Travel Calendar.

Workshops Presented:

Finding, Vetting and Hiring the Right Dominant for YOU
The Psychology of Psychological Play

slave Marsha

slave marsha, International slave 2001, has been involved in BDSM for nearly 18 years. She has been in service to Master Jim of Dallas for 16 years as his slave, and prior to that, spent another 1 ½ years as his woman in service. slave marsha frequently assists Master Jim in presenting seminars on Master/slave relationships across the U.S. and Canada. Among other projects, slave marsha is a co-owner of South Plains Leatherfest –International Master/slave Weekend (www.southplainsleatherfest.com) in Dallas, and is one of the co-owners of the International Master/slave title contest.

slave marsha has long viewed slavery as a “calling.” Those who are called to slavery do not respond to the call because they can do nothing else – they respond because for them, nothing else will do. For slave marsha, slavery offers a way of life in which she can best use her strength, talents, and intelligence in service to another.

slave marsha identifies sexually as a Femme leatherdyke — however, her desire to serve transcends sexual orientation, making it possible for her to happily serve Master Jim, a gay leatherman. As a Femme leatherdyke, slave marsha is grateful that Master Jim has allowed her to share a romantic partnership relationship with Cougar, a Butch leatherdyke. In July 2006, slave marsha and Cougar were united as life mates in a Union Ceremony officiated by Master Jim. Since early 2007, Master Jim, slave marsha and Cougar have lived together as a leather family.
One of slave marsha’s favorite forms of service are riding her 2005 Harley-Davidson Softail Deluxe with Master Jim while singing “Born to be Wild” and playing with Maximum Red Storm “Ryder” (a miniature Australian Shepherd) – the only one in the family who has to do what she says.

Workshops Presented:

The Calling: Ritual, Ceremony and Spirituality in Master/slave Relationships

slave Rick

slave Rick expanded his practice as a licensed psychotherapist within the BDSM community in 2009 (www.KinkTherapistLosAngeles.com) after retiring from a 30-year career with the Federal government. In addition to assisting his clients in achieving more satisfying lives, he seeks to raise consciousness within the therapeutic community by depathologizing BDSM in order that “vanilla” psychotherapists might more effectively work with their own kinky clients.

Aside from his work as a psychotherapist, slave Rick is a part-time college instructor, a massage therapist and a retired Science of Mind practitioner. During the past decade he has presented programs on the spiritual dynamics of M/s and D/s relationships at dozens of conferences and leather events throughout North America. In 2010 he gave the endnote address at Southwest Leather Conference, and he delivered the keynote address at Leather Reign in 2011.

In 2008 slave Rick was honored to receive both the Southwest Leather Conference “Leatherman’s Heart Award” and the “slave Heart Award” at the Master/slave Conference. More recently, he was proud to participate as one of the subjects of “Ask the Man Who Owns him”, a book on gay male M/s relationships by david stein that received the 2010 Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Literary Award from the National Leather Association. In 2011 slave Rick self-published “The Guppy and the Willow”, an adult fable in the guise of a children’s story that encourages each of us to remove the many masks that keep us from being real.

First and foremost, however, he is by Grace in service to his beloved Master.

Workshops Presented:

The Absentee Master

Spencer Bergstedt

Spencer Bergstedt has been active in the leather and LGBT communities as an activist, lawyer, educator, author, and rabble rouser for over 20 years. He is an acclaimed speaker and educator on a variety of kink and legal issues. Spencer has served as a board member of countless organizations within the LGBT and Leather communities including serving as President of NLA:International. He is the recipient of the NLA:International Man of the Year Award 2000, the Pantheon of Leather Northwest Regional Award in 1998, and the 2009 Trinity Award from IFGE. Professionally he is an attorney in private practice, an adjunct professor, author, and public speaker.

Spencer Bergstedt teaches on a variety of topics including the Law and SM, Transgender issues, Impact Play, Starting A Leather Club, Practical Contracting, and more at events.

Workshops Presented:

And the Beat Goes On: Deep Impact Play

Tillie King

Tillie King has been practicing BDSM for over half her life. Rooted in the unceded Coast Salish Territories of Vancouver, B.C., she enjoys travelling and connecting with people. Tillie is most often a fat, queer, gender fluid femme, dedicated pervert, spiritual trickster, crafter and loving friend. A cultural worker in the sex and kink world with a background in Anthropology, Tillie is passionate about the ‘why’ of what we do. She has been published in SALACIOUS Magazine and has a piece in the upcoming Dirty Queer Anthology. Her ongoing embroidery project, The Hanky Codex, expands the tradition of the hanky code. Tillie has presented in Vancouver & Victoria B.C., Seattle, Washington, Edmonton, Alberta and Anchorage, Alaska. She is boy to her butch, trans woman Daddy, Mistress to her devoted pet, an older brother, muppet, problem child and a Kinky Fairy Godmother.

Workshops Presented:

Community Wake
Community Wake Debrief

Master Konraad and slave Jazz

Master Konraad has judged and presented at a multitude of kink events throughout the United States (and Canada). He is a Board member for ILSb and ICBB, the founder of The Shack, Southern Nevada’s first community playspace, the Executive Producer for Sin in the City, a new leather event in the Southwest United States, former Executive Director of MAsT International, a member of several local leather, lifestyle and kink related organizations and has been actively involved in media contact (including numerous appearances on local and national broadcast and print news) and other “real world” sexual freedom and sex industry issues. He also teaches martial arts and law-related classes to community and law enforcement organizations, produces and competes in martial arts contests and seminars, and is involved in medieval recreation.

slave Jazz, with former lives in the theatre world, the tech industry and as a massage therapist—now lives with her Master and works as a paralegal in a law office, specializing in cases involving the adult industry and sexual freedom. Her scene-related writing has been published in Power Exchange Magazine and Kink-e-Zine, as well as on several websites. Jazz is the current producer of the Southwest Olympus Leather Contest, the general producer of Sin in the City, the founder of Las Vegas Leather Women (LVLW), the Education Coordinator for The Shack, Southern Nevada’s first community playspace, and a member of many lifestyle related organizations in Las Vegas and the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past 13 years, Jazz has served on the production staff of several large kink events throughout the United States and has taught both privately and publicly (at national leather events) on subjects including relationship dynamics, humiliation play, household organization for slaves, entertaining, massage for kinksters, and maintaining headspace as well as a host of skills and techniques. She maintains a blog at: http://jazzpup.wordpress.com.

Workshops Presented:

How to punish your Master
The Journey to Nothing: Using Humiliation, Degradation and Objectification to Strengthen your M/s Relationship
Transformative Terror and Sacrificial Suffering

Robert (Bob) Rubel

Robert Rubel (Dr. Bob), author, educator and photographer is an educational sociologist and researcher by training. He currently has ten books in print and two DVDs (Books: four on Master/slave topics, two on advanced sex techniques, one on fire play, and three erotic art photo books. DVDs: fire play and beginning impact play).

Recipient of the 2008 Pantheon of Leather’s Community Choice Award (man), Bob has been involved in the BDSM and Total Power Exchange (TPE) scene since the summer of 2001, throwing himself into the literature of the field as though it were an academic study. He presents, judges, and sells his books at weekend kink conferences throughout the year.

Workshops Presented:

Grappling with Some Hidden Elements of a Power Exchange Relationship
Leather vs BDSM in Master/slave Structures – Important Differences

Master Z

Master Z of Texas is a well-known Dominant, Presenter and Leader in the Leather and BDSm scene. He is the International Master 2004 and travels all over the United States and Canada making presentations on the Master/slave-Leather lifestyle and BDSm technique. He also serves as a popular Keynote Speaker and Emcee for a number of events. He is the Owner of slave bill and slave kiki with slave mark, slave tina and slave trudy currently in service collars.

Master Z is Chairman and President of the Board of Directors for Butchmanns, Inc. and currently is an Instructor for the Butchmanns Weekend Experience. He is the Producer and HeadMaster for boys Training Camps and Co-Producer of Masters Retreat.

In 2010, Master Z was the recipient of the Leather SINS, Inc., President’s Award. He was the recipient of the “Masters Heart Award” in 2006 and the “Leatherman’s Heart Award” in 2004. He is one of the Head of Household for the Texas Leather Tribe; a Leather family he shares responsibility for with his wonderful Leather Brothers, Master Roy and Master Glen.

Master Z is eternally grateful to his mentors, the late Master Dean Walradt and the late boy Patrick Chees, who taught him much of the Leather protocols and rituals that he cherishes today. Master Z is certain that his Leather Journey and BDSm experiences are directly related to his Spiritual Path.

Workshops Presented:

The Magic of a Ball Dance
What’s Love Got To Do With It

Patrick Mulcahey and patrick (“little p”)

Patrick Mulcahey has presented on M/s, leather and SM topics for the Northwest Leather Celebration, Behind Closed Doors in Tucson, Leather Traditions in San Francisco, South Plains Leatherfest and the Master/slave Conference, among others. He has served as a judge for the International Master/slave and International Leather SIR/boy contests. In 2012 he has received the Robert Davolt “Spirit of Leather Award” and was named “Man of the Year” by the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance. He currently serves as program director of the S.F. Leathermen’s Discussion Group.

His slave, patrick (“little p”), past Membership Director of MAsT International, is a frequent co-presenter with his Master and has presented on his own at the Southwest Leather Conference, where he also served as judge for the Southwest Master/slave Contest.

Patrick and patrick live together in San Francisco and are proud members of the 15 Association and the Society of Janus.

Workshops Presented:

Leather: Who needs it?
Loneliness in the Master/slave Dynamic

Master Bert Cutler, Ph.D. and slave nadine

Master Bert considers himself an SM lifer, having built his first wooden stocks in 1954 (courtesy of the Cub Scouts) and started exploring out of the SM closet in 1978. Professionally he has roles as an electronic engineer, a software designer and entrepreneur, a motion picture editor, a sexologist, a researcher in the BDSM community, and a college professor.

Bert has a passion for Master/slave relationships and community. He is a founder of the Arizona Power Exchange in 1988. He is a board member of Butchmann’s, Inc., the Butchmanns Board liaison to MAsT International, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Butchmann’s Experience weekends. Bert holds the titles of Mr. APEX 1991-1992, Southwest Master 2003, and International Master 2003. Bert’s academic publications include: 2003 doctoral dissertation “Partner Selection, Power Dynamics, and Sexual Bargaining in Self-Defined BDSM Couples” and 2009 Archives of Sexual Behavior “Hormonal Changes and Couple Bonding in Consensual Sadomasochistic Activity.”

slave nadine is an instructor at Butchmann’s and APEX Academy and was part of creating the first all-women’s Butchmanns. she is a founder of the Arizona Power Exchange in 1988 and an incorporator of the Arizona Power Exchange Corporation [a 501(c)(7) corporation] in 2001. slave nadine holds the titles of Southwest slave 2003 and International slave 2003. she met Master Bert at a spiritual-sexuality seminar in 1983, and has been growing into full time service to him since 1984.

Workshops Presented:

Ask The Elders – Attendee’s choice of topics with an elder (or at least older) M/s Couple
Training the Slave (& Educating the Master) – Intentionally Shaping the M/s Dynamic

Sea

Sea has attended events across BDSM, Leather, and Fetish communities for 14 years. He presents at BDSM events nationally with an emphasis on communication and psychology, especially submissives’ psychology.

He serves on Advisory Board for weekend conventions DomCon Los Angeles and DomCon Atlanta. His current projects include speaking at college human sexuality class, visiting vanilla forums to take a tactful stand for BDSM, and providing information to those seeking out BDSM. His past contributions include chairing the Austin chapter of The Next Generation BDSM group for four years.

He is a proud Austinite who has helped keep Austin weird by hosting and promoting a fetish night for three years, during which time he wrote and directed, performed in, and arranged music for multiple fetish shows. BDSM influences his artistic expression, which has occurred in the form of fetish photography, DJing music for scene events, dance, writings, and kinky stand-up comedy.

Workshops Presented:

Demystifying Psychology of Humiliation
Humiliation: Now It’s Time to Play

Liza and her slave Jody

Liza and her slave, Jody, (International Master and slave 2011) have been living together in San Francisco (under the same roof) in a committed M/s relationship for close to ten years. They have a passion for each other, their two adult children, their Labradors, their horses, leather, teaching, mentoring, and having fun.

Liza came to power at Woodstock and has been kinky ever since. She grew up in a household with servants and weekly formal dinners and credits her mastery to lessons learned at the knee of her Grandmother, a model of Matriarchy. In 2002, Liza moved to San Francisco and jumped into the leather community with both boots.

After leaving the military in 1980, Jody came out as a leatherdyke and slave. Shortly thereafter she founded Leather and Lace, Los Angeles’ first women’s leather club. In 2000, Jody moved to San Francisco and met Liza two years later. She credits her “slave-bearing”, such as it is, to her time in the military.

Liza and Jody teach extensively — most recently at IML, IMsL, Northwest Leather, Beyond Leather, ILSb, Int’l Olympus Leather, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, the Master/slave Conference, Folsom Fringe and Leather Reign. They bring to their teaching their years of real world experience in living M/s 24/7 under the same roof, allowing them to share insights into the reality of sustaining long-term M/s relationships filled with heat, sex, deep intimacy and fun.

When not teaching, Liza and her slave are fully immersed in the San Francisco leather community. You might find them at one of three chapters of Master and slaves Together in the San Francisco area or probably organizing one event or another. Beyond being producers of the Ms. San Francisco Leather contest and the Master/slave Retreat, they are on the steering committee of Leather Levi Weekend and the organizing committee for Leather Alley at Pride (Jody is the Chair). Liza is a past Co-Chair of the Exiles (women’s BDSM group) and served as the treasurer for the Bears of San Francisco from 2009 until very recently. They also both serve as representatives to the Bay Area Leather Alliance. Basically, if it happens in San Francisco and it’s leather, they are probably involved.

Liza and Jody are honored to have each been named the SF Bay Area Leather Alliance’s Woman of the Year (Liza in 2009 and Jody in 2010). Liza is humbled to have received the Spirit of the Bear Award from her Bear brothers at International Bear Rendezvous 2011. They are proud to be members of Mama’s Family.

Workshops Presented:

Achieving the Holy Grail of Anticipatory Service
Leather Traditions, Military Protocol and Victorian Sensibilities

Daddy Spencer Bergstedt

Spencer Bergstedt has been active in the leather and LGBT communities for over 20 years. He is a lawyer, activist, educator, author, Leatherman, Trans Man, and general rabble rouser. He is an acclaimed speaker and educator on a variety of kink and legal issues. Spencer has served as a board member of countless organizations within the LGBT and Leather communities including serving as President of NLA:International. He is the recipient of the NLA:International Man of the Year Award 2000, the Pantheon of Leather Northwest Regional Award in 1998, and the 2009 Trinity Award from IFGE. Professionally he is an attorney in private practice, an adjunct professor, author, and public speaker.

Spencer Bergstedt teaches on a variety of topics including the Law and SM, Transgender issues, Impact Play, Starting A Leather Club, Practical SM Contracting, and more at events and for groups all over the world.

Workshops Presented:

The Gender Spectrum
Trans Embodiments

Master Morris and slave jonathan – Northwest Master/slave 2012

Master Morris has been active in the Bay Area leather scene for fifteen years. At play parties and in his home dungeon he regularly tops men. He has given workshop/demos for Northwest Leather Conference, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, Leather Alley, smOdyssey, Society of Janus, Alameda Leather Core, Leather/Levi Weekend, Leatherman’s Discussion Group and the Ring, which he co-chairs. Among the leather clubs Master Morris enjoys are: Windy City Bondage Club, Delta International and the 15 Association. For forty years Dr. Morris Taylor was a Professor of Music, a classical pianist and musicologist. Now he is a watercolor artist with over 15 one person shows to his credit. His works can be seen at: www.morristaylor.net and morristaylor.net/adult. Master Morris lives in the Castro district in San Francisco with his 24/7 slave jonathan. He also has an external slave larry as part of his M/s Family.

slave jonathan is a Design Manager for Google. He also has many years experience as political activist, working for such groups as ACT-UP, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, and GroenLinks a political party in the Netherlands. slave jonathan is a lifelong learner. He is preparing to be a therapist. He completed the SFSI sex education training and is working on a new web site dedicated to M/s and kink sex education that is non-judgmental and informational:www.kinksex-ed.org. He has a strong drive to give back to the M/s community from which he so richly benefits. He has taken part in many bdsm groups and organizations. He is a member of The 15, SFDsDG and the Ring. slave jonathan most recently organized a discussion group covering Guy Baldwin’s SlaveCraft. slave jonathan resides in Master Morris’s household as His 24/7 slave.

Workshops Presented:

Passion in the M/s Dynamic
The Three Faces of Consent

Master John and slave ann

Master John was first introduced to the Leather lifestyle back in the mid-90’s with the phrase “want to try something a little different?” Since that time he has been on this journey down this “road less traveled by.” He has held leadership positions in several BDSM organizations in the past and currently serves on the Board of Evergreen Leather Events, the producer of Leather Reign. He serves as Treasurer for the Seattle chapter of MAsT. He is also on the Local Organizing Committee for the KINK-LINCS Leadership Symposium to be held in Seattle in 2013.

Master John and slave ann have been in a Master/slave relationship since 2000. In 2007 they found their “unicorn” and kim joined them to create their triad family. All three are active members of the Seattle Leather community and have strived to continue to grow, and to give back to the community.

slave ann is a bisexual slave to Master John, and wife to her love. she has been married to her beloved Master since 2000 and together they married the love of their lives, kim, in 2010.

slave ann found the vocabulary to describe her naturally submissive nature online in the early 90’s. she tried swinging with her former husband and one of the partners introduced her to real life D/s, the joy of pain, and that women are sexy. she decided to relocate to the Pacific Northwest from Wyoming so she could fully explore her sexuality. ann is active in the community by being in service to the board of Evergreen Leather Events which produces Leather Reign and is on the local organizing committee of the KINK-LINCS Leadership Symposium to be held in Seattle in 2013.

Workshops Presented:

Leadership: Be the change you want to see

Allena Gabosch

Allena Gabosch, Executive Director of the Center For Sex Positive Culture (formerly known as The Wet Spot ) has been active in the sex positive movement practically from its beginning; producing educational and social events for the sex-positive community since 1990.

She is a frequent speaker on many sex-positive subjects at colleges and conferences around the US and Canada, with an emphasis on BDSM and Polyamory. She is the Producer of the Seattle Erotic Art Festival (www.seattleerotic.org) She is a past board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. In her less than mundane non-kinky life she is active in Landmark Education, loves good food, walking around Seattle and is working on several books. She is a former commissioner with the Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities. She is a kinky bisexual, polyamorous switch and considers herself extremely blessed as she has a rich and full poly life, with many amazing and loving people in her “polycule”

Workshops Presented:

A New Sexual Renaissance: Creating Sex Positive Culture and bringing sex back into the BDSM Picture

Tim Pursell

Tim served as Northwest slave 2008 and International slave 2009 with his former owner, Daddy Ken Thomas. Tim holds a PhD in history and taught at the university level before moving to San Francisco. In 2007 he sold himself and all his possessions to Daddy Ken and moved to San Francisco. Although they ended their M/s relationship in 2011, they continued to serve the community as teachers, mentors and role models until Daddy Ken’s death in April, 2012. Now steering a solo course through life, Tim remains involved in the leather and M/s communities. Identifying as versatile, Tim acquired two boys of his own for a time and is currently considering taking on a newbie for slave training. As a slave he was strong-willed. He is a power bottom. As a daddy he is a care-giver, and as a sadist – you really should negotiate carefully.

Workshops Presented:

Between the Lines: Identifying as Switch or Versatile in a Binary World
Should the Collar Come Off: Successfully Ending an M/s Relationship

Ruin

Ruin has been kinky for as long as she remembers. Her exploration of BDSM began in Los Angeles, but it wasn’t until she moved to Seattle, joined the Center for Sex Positive Culture, & discovered the Leather community that she blossomed into the wicked sadomasochist she is today. Her interests are as varied as her panties, but her “first loves” remain bondage, blood, beatings and, of course, boots. Ruin pursued the art of bootblacking out of a desire to care for her Sir’s boots. It remains a cornerstone in their relationship, as well as a connection point to her community.

Besides being a proud kinkster, Ruin is also a passionate educator. From a successful career in mainstream communities, she now brings her love of teaching to the kink community, offering a wide variety of classes from leathercare and D/s, to yoga and striptease, and more. Ruin is an active member of the CSPC, a Full Member of Seattle girls of Leather, Northwest Community Bootblack 2012, and International Community Bootblack 2012.

Workshops Presented:

More Than a Shoe Shine: Dynamics & Energies in Bootblacking & Leathercare

Renegade

Stormmy is a Native American Indian of the Tulalip Tribe and deeply devoted to his slaves, Miranda and Nichole. He takes his role as Master seriously and has spent countless hours educating himself on maintaining successful relationships within the community. It is this commitment and strength of character that has made him one of the most well-respected members of the CSPC, where he has been a member since 2006. Stormmy and his family are the directors of Paradise Unbound, the CSPC’s summer campout held August 7th-12th in Redmond, WA.

Stormmy is extremely proficient in many play implements including, but not limited to, flogging, whipping, and caning and fire play. He prides himself on not only being very knowledgeable in the use of such implements but also in knowing what he has yet to learn. He has a vast amount of experience teaching others what he knows. He is an amazing instructor asking only that his students demonstrate a commitment to learning equal to his commitment to teaching.

Although he is passionate about the lifestyle and living it with integrity and purpose, he also finds time to be a mentor and friend to many. His unmatched skills are often on display at many parties at the CSPC.
When he is not participating in the lifestyle, Stormmy is equally passionate about studying the wisdom passed down through generations within his Native American tribe. He leads a sweat lodge every week which, along with his family, impart balance and harmony to his life.

Stormmy leads a full life and his knowledge and wisdom has made him one of the most popular workshop instructors within our community. However, he makes it a priority to meet new people, answer questions, and help guide those who have just started on their path to fulfillment. He looks forward to meeting you in a workshop or through casual correspondence on Fetlife where he can be found as “Renegade”.

Workshops Presented:

“People of Color” in the lifestyle

Kristen Knapick

I am a licensed psychotherapist, serving clients in Seattle, Washington. I have private practice hours in an easy-to-find office at the base of Queen Anne. My “specialty” is working with what I like to call “sex and gender outlaws.” This is my way of affectionately describing those of us who live on the fringes of gender and sexuality, in whatever ways we might do so. This includes (but is not limited to) those who identify as queer, kinky, poly/non-monogamous/swingers, sex workers and those who use their services, and gender variant.

I am ready and eager to work with my clients on the issues they present, whether they are directly related to sex and/or gender or not. My training has prepared me for an array of issues, from “mainstream” to “alternative,” and my greatest interest is in working with you to free yourself to be all you are and can be.

Workshops Presented:

Free to Be: you AND me – reThinking Communication

Jonn Ireland

Jonn Ireland (www.sensualwhipping.com) has been involved in the BDSM Community for many years and a Whip, Spanking and Meditation Instructor for several years. Personal erotic connection through Impact play is his specialty, and to help others learn his techniques, he has been giving personal instruction and conducting Whip and Spanking Workshops in both Canada the USA and Costa Rica for about ten years.

Although his main focus is teaching people to master Whip handling, sharing the seduction of touching the skin of a bare bottom and potentially bringing them to climax through spanking techniques, has inspired his Spanking Workshop.

The particular power exchange, control and precision required to use a Whip lured him into exploring in depth, the unique techniques of how to use a Whip in BDSM Scenes. Jonn discovered that with a good Whip, proper instruction and regular practice, most people are able to use a Whip in a Scene in a very short time. To develop a wide range of techniques and sharp accuracy however, requires more practice and personal instruction.

Workshops Presented:

Tantric Erotic Spanking

Sir Hugh Russell

First and foremost, Sir Hugh is the proud head of a Leather Family. He is Sir to two collared boys and MASTER to property, his wolf. Recently he has had the honor of serving as Northwest LeatherSIR 2009 after which he won the International LeatherSIR 2010 title. Over the decades he has performed at numerous Leather contests and events, sharing his talent as a professional dancer and performer.

Sir Hugh puts a strong emphasis on education and has raised funds for the Tony Deblase Scholarship administrated by the northwest’s Pride Foundation. This scholarship benefits students studying sexuality. Sir Hugh has conducted workshops and demonstrations in Leather play and traditions throughout the United States, always emphasizing the importance the Sir/boy paradigm in Gay Leather.

Fluent in Italian, Sir Hugh studied the centuries-old art of Leather masking while living in Italy. He enjoys incorporating this tradition into his Leather play. He also has a penchant for single tails, impact play, and he harbors a serious boot fetish. Sir Hugh is a member of Seattle Men in Leather, BLUF, and the Leather Archives and Museum.

Workshops Presented:

Advanced Bootplay: Make Your Marks Heavy and Black

Brett Houghton

Brett Houghton has been queer for as long as he’s been aware of himself. He’s been active in LGBT politics for years. A community organizer his primary work has been focused on racial, economic and social justice. For fun he likes to watch people suffer.

Workshops Presented:

Queers: What are they good for?

Mistress Susan and slave Ziggy

Mistress Susan returned to her hometown in Western NY, after 30 years away. She spent time in the Caribbean and on the road, before making her way to the NC Mountains. This is where she found her slave ziggy. Mistress Susan believes in being a realistic and positive resource for those interested in Leather and in the Master/slave dynamic. Over the years, Mistress Susan has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, co-founded “MDG” and a Leather women’s group in Asheville, NC., as well as others. She has taught and presented on all facets of the Master/slave dynamic throughout the US to countless groups, and at numerous events.

Mistress Susan was honored with the title of Southeast Master and then International Master 2006. Her focus is on providing support and education within the Master/slave community and the practice of ethical mastery, while honoring, respecting, and preserving our Leather traditions. She holds true to the ideals of trust, honor, respect, loyalty and duty.

Born in California raised in Arizona, slave ziggy found the wonderful world of SM through the fetish clubs in Japan. He became active in the leather community in the southeast and was honored with the title of Southeast slave and later International slave in 2006. He has co-founded a MDG Asheville and AWOL and Submissive’s Journey Weekend. Slave ziggy is also the recipient of the slave heart award. Slave ziggy enjoys contributing to various groups and events through presenting, judging, emceeing and volunteering his time.

He and Mistress Susan have traveled throughout the US sharing their perspectives on the master slave dynamic. He believes that a strong community is the key to a healthy Master slave. Slave ziggy has a lifelong passion for assisting others in the discovery and actualization of one’s slave heart. His other passions include Leather history, traditions, the art of formal service, and the practice of ethical slavery.

Workshops Presented:

Serving for Service’s Sake; Serving Without Sex? Who knew?
Where Do I Fit In? Breaking Stereotypes and Being Okay.
Women, Power, and Mastery

Master Skip Chasey

Skip Chasey, a/k/a Master Skip, heads a family of spiritually grounded leatherfolk in the City of Angels, where he is a practicing spiritual director and certified Grief Recovery ™ counselor and also earns a living as a missionary among the savages of Hollywood. As an out and proud leatherman, Master Skip addressed a crowd of nearly one million people at the Millennium March on Washington, and since then he has given ten keynote addresses and presented over 200 programs on the spiritual dynamics of SM and D/s relationships at noteworthy leather events throughout the US and Canada.

From 2001-2007 Master Skip was a core instructor for the Butchmanns Experience, a periodic weekend retreat that offers opportunities for profound personal growth to leathermen and women of all sexual orientations and identities. He is a co-founder of People of Leather Among You (“PLAY”), a social and educational group for Southern California men and women interested in the integration of spirituality and leather/fetish sexuality, and for six years he was a co-producer of Southwest Leather Conference, “The Leather Family Gathering of Heart and Spirit.” Master Skip presently serves on the Theologies Team for Metropolitan Community Churches and on the board of directors for Butchmanns, Inc., a non-profit educational organization dedicated to self-actualization through the mindful use of physical practices and the conscious exchange of personal power for spiritual awareness.

Master Skip and his pup Tim are the subjects of the award-winning documentary film “Pup” and have been profiled in “Nerve.com” magazine and “Power Exchange” magazine; he and his slave Rick are two of the subjects of “Ask the Man Who Owns him”, a book about gay male Master/slave relationships that received the NLA’s 2010 non-fiction literary award. He is a past recipient of the Lee Montague Memorial Award for Outstanding Community Service from Avatar Club Los Angeles, was named “Best Trainer” at the 2002 International Puppy Contest, received the 2005 Pantheon of Leather Community Choice Award and was honored with the Master Heart Award at the 2008 Master/slave Conference.

In his own words, “Blood may be thicker than water, but leather is thicker than blood.”

Workshops Presented:

Priest in Black Leather
The Servant Master

slave Rick

slave Rick recently retired from a 30-year career with the Federal government and expanded his practice as a licensed psychotherapist within the BDSM community (www.KinkTherapistLosAngeles.com). In addition to assisting his clients in achieving more satisfying lives, he seeks to raise consciousness within the therapeutic community by depathologizing BDSM in order that “vanilla” psychotherapists might more effectively work with their own kinky clients.

Aside from his work as a psychotherapist, slave Rick is a part-time college instructor, a massage therapist and a retired Science of Mind practitioner. he has presented programs on the spiritual dynamics of M/s and D/s relationships at dozens of conferences and leather events throughout North America and delivered the endnote address at the 2010 Southwest Leather Conference.

In 2008 slave Rick was honored to receive both the SWLC “Leatherman’s Heart Award” and the “slave Heart Award” from the Master/slave Conference. More recently, he was proud to participate as one of the subjects of “Ask the Man Who Owns him”, a book on gay male M/s relationships written by david stein that received the 2010 Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Literary Award from the National Leather Association.

First and foremost, however, he is by grace in service to his beloved Master.

Workshops Presented:

Saturday Dinner Keynote – Stop Ask, Listen: Awakening to the Spiritual Gifts in our D/s Relationships
Shadow Tango

slave Alia

slave Alia, known also by her adopted spiritual name of Alia Al’Barakah, brings the unique magic, mysticism and erotic culture of the Middle East to her BDSM lifestyle.

slave Alia actively promotes self-awareness and spiritual development within the leather community, volunteering her time and her organizational and management skills at venues and special events where SM, spirituality and D/s relationships are the focus. During the past decade a major part of this passion was directed toward executing the vision of Master Steve Sampson by helping to create the Southwest Leather Conference and serving as its Executive Director and one of its producers from 2003 through 2010. she has also served as the Outreach Chair for Arizona Power Exchange, as the Co-Chair of Leather Leadership Conference IX (2005), as a faculty member for the APEX Academy/Butchmanns Experience and has offered educational presentations, judged and emceed title contests and given keynote addresses at numerous community events throughout the country.

As a practicing Shi’ite and “closet” Sufi Muslim, slave Alia is an emerging activist within the Muslim community, where she champions religious tolerance and education, the modernization of Islam and the rights of Muslim women. she presently resides in Los Angeles, California and has been in service to Master Skip Chasey since November of 2003 as part of her ongoing spiritual and slave development.

slave Alia is currently on a six-month sabbatical to focus her energies on the healing and integration of her own body, mind and spirit and is very much looking forward to sharing this experience with the attendees of Leather Reign in November!

Workshops Presented:

Finding the divine at the end of a whip
Standing in the midst of madness

Master Malik and slave Cathy

As a student of life, Leather and BDSM, Master Malik is always eager to share his views, thoughts and ideas with any willing people who give him some of their time to listen.

Significant similarities between Leather and Sufism have helped Master Malik to continue his journey on the path of mastery and slavery with his precious slave Cathy. Master Malik is an avid practitioner of old fashion SM and strongly believes in a powerful connection between SM and spiritual realm. He also believe with passion about “Acceptance”, “Tolerance” and “Diversity” of our larger tribe.

Master Malik is proud to serve as Southwest Master 2008. He is proud to have the privilege of presenting at several local, regional and national events and gatherings. He is member of T.U.L.S.A., NCSF, MaST-Tulsa. He is also an associate member of Chicago Hellfire Club.

Currently he is also serving on Programming Committee of Leather Leadership Conference 2012. Also, he is a member current NCSF Board.

Master Malik is co owners of Great Plains Olympus Leather Contest, Xpressions (a dungeon in Tulsa, OK), and Alternative Lifestyle Food Pantry whose moto is “To Take Care of Our Own. Master Malik is also co producer of ALSPEC in Chicago, IL.

Workshops Presented:

Hidden Prejudices against Extreme SM Scenes
Living Your Leather

Liza and slave Jody

Liza and her slave, Jody, (International Master and slave 2011) have been living together in San Francisco in a committed M/s relationship for nine years. They have a passion for each other, their two adult children, their Labradors, their horses, leather, teaching, mentoring, and having fun.

Liza came to power at Woodstock and has been kinky ever since. She grew up in a household with servants and weekly formal dinners and credits her mastery to lessons learned at the knee of her Grandmother. In 2002, Liza moved to San Francisco and jumped into the leather community with both boots.

After leaving the military in 1980, Jody came out as a leatherdyke and slave. Shortly thereafter she founded Leather and Lace, Los Angeles’ first women’s leather club. In 2000, Jody moved to San Francisco and met Liza two years later. She has judged IMsL (1990) and local leather contests, and was an early member of the Los Angeles Leather Coalition. She credits her “slave-bearing”, such as it is, to her time in the military.

Liza and her slave are in three chapters of Master and slaves Together and are fully immersed in the San Francisco leather community. If it happens in San Francisco and it’s leather, they are probably involved. Beyond being producers of the Ms. San Francisco Leather contest and the Master/slave Retreat, they are on the executive committee of Leather Levi Weekend and the organizing committee for Leather Alley at Pride (Jody is the Chair). In addition, Liza was the Chair of the Leather Alliance Awards Dinner and Jody served as the Stage Manager for the Mr. San Francisco Leather contest and the Leather Alliance Dinner. Liza is a past Co-Chair of the Exiles (women’s BDSM group) and served as the treasurer for the Bears of San Francisco from 2009 until very recently.

The pair teaches extensively — most recently at IML, IMsL, Northwest Leather, Beyond Leather, and Leather Quest.

Liza was honored as the SF Leather Alliance’s Woman of the Year for 2009 and Jody as the Woman of the Year for 2010. They are proud to be members of Mama’s Family.

Recent presentation history
Liza and Jody have presented at International Mr. Leather (Chicago), Beyond Leather (Ft. Lauderdale), International Ms. Leather (San Francisco), Northwest Leather Celebration (San Jose), Leather Reign (Seattle), Southeast LeatherFest (Atlanta), Folsom Fringe (San Jose), Leather Levi Weekend (Upper Lake), The Group in Fresno Anniversary Celebration (Fresno), the Eureka Munch and Workshops, the Leather Realm at San Diego Pride, Leather Alley at San Francisco Pride, the Exiles (San Francisco), the Society of Janus (San Francisco), LeatherQuest (San Francisco), “Locked” (San Francisco), the Leathermen’s Discussion Group (San Francisco), the Alameda County Leather Corp (Hayward), and Top Space (San Jose).

They are scheduled to present at the Sacramento Valley Leather Corp, Southeast LeatherFest (Atlanta), Leather Levi Weekend (Upper Lake), Great Lakes Leather Alliance Weekend (Indianapolis), the Master/slave Conference (Washington D.C.), International Leather SIR/boy (San Francisco), Folsom Fringe (San Jose), Leather Reign (Seattle), South Plains Leather (Dallas), and Beyond Leather (Ft. Lauderdale).

Workshops Presented:

Responsibilities of Ownership
What Does it Mean to be a slave?

WhipMaster Bob Clark

WhipMaster Bob Clark has been involved in M/s relationships and the leather community for nearly 30 years, enjoying partnerships and play relationships with men and women, and enjoying every opportunity to meet new people. Heavily experienced in SM, and edge play in particular, he was gifted with his name through his prowess with singletails. He believes that honor and integrity are paramount in his relationships and dealings with everyone. His tastes in SM are as broad and varied as the lifestyle itself ranging from being a new player’s “first time” to an advanced player’s roller coaster ride operator. Although, pushing the envelope is a passion, and Bob believes the essence of edge play is pure, unadulterated and brutal truth. So, from a spiritual side, you could call him a seeker of truth. His philosophy and desire, is to make a positive difference within the community, believing that “paying it forward” does honor, to those that came before and taught him.

In the midst of all this serious truthseeking and pain dispensing, he manages to keep a great sense of humor and has had opportunity to travel the US with his property, BootPig, having adventures, meeting people and teaching at events such as TESFest, Folsom Fringe, Tribal Fire, Southwest Leather and more.

Workshops Presented:

“A” is for Alpha
Dynamic Singletails

BootPig

Blissfully in service to WhipMaster Bob for nearly a decade now, and fortunate to have been in service to others prior, the label “pig” most suits her range of fun from formal service to outlandish bottoming to topping and a willingness to try new stuff. Open and forward, willing to share her experiences both good and bad, she teaches for the opportunity to learn from those she interacts with. Past experiences include a year as Ms. Olympus Leather 2003, past President of the Phoenix boys of Leather, Rocky Mountain Pantheon of Leather 2009, and presenting at numerous events including Tribal Fire, Leather Camp, In The Woods, Southwest Leather Conference, SouthPlains Leather, Dark Odyssey Fusion, Lupercalia and more. These days, she blogs about sustainability and urban farming and how the service dynamic plays a role in these adventures. Currently, she delights in building a life with Him and loving with all the intimacy that these years have brought.

Workshops Presented:

Dynamic Singletails
The Grace in Gracious

Fifth Angel

FifthAngel has spent many of his non-working weekends traveling throughout North America teaching at BDSM events for the last 11 years. He has written two books, “The Finer Points of Pain and Pleasure,” a how-to guide for using pressure points in BDSM scenes, and “Your Pain, My Pleasure: Inside the Mind of a Sexual Sadist” as well as many magazine articles and interviews.

FifthAngel and his wife Katie, live a “power-balanced,” monogamous marriage that is very much SM-oriented. “Edge players” in all aspects of their lives, they enjoy vertical rock and ice climbing, blasting Zombie Clowns at the gun range, as well as whitewater rafting. When not dangling by a rope off the side of a mountain they stay at home on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado on their 5 acre farm. On the farm they care for a growing family of animals.

Workshops Presented:

Awakening the Sadist Within
Edge Play

Robyn Friedman

Robyn Friedman is an Attorney currently residing in Seattle, Washington. She has been on staff with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom since 2000, and from 2002 through 2005, she held the position of Director of the Legal Education Outreach Program. She has presented throughout the nation, and Canada, at several SM oriented conferences, such as LIL, Folsom Fringe, Kinkfest, Wicked Womyn, Tribal Fire, Family Ties, Thunder in the Mountains, Leather Reign, Pardise Unbound, Kinky Carnival and Sex Positive conferences such as The North American Conference on Bisexuality, The Evergreen Conference on Gender and Sexuality, Building Bridges, Polycamp and the National Swing Leadership Conference.

She is also a sadomasochist who loves to do incredibly mean things to incredibly nice people. For her needlework is a creative outlet, and she is blessed with many delightful and beautiful canvases to work on!

Workshops Presented:

Temporary Play Piercing 201 – Beyond the Basics

Stormmy and Miranda

Stormmy is a Native American Indian of the Tulalip Tribe and deeply devoted to his slave, Miranda. He takes his role as Master seriously and has spent countless hours educating himself on maintaining successful relationships within the community. It is this commitment and strength of character that has made him one of the most well-respected members of the CSPC, where he has been a member since 2006.

Stormmy is extremely proficient in many play implements including, but not limited to, flogging and caning. He prides himself on not only being very knowledgeable in the use of such implements but also in knowing what he has yet to learn. He has a vast amount of experience teaching others what he knows. He is an amazing instructor asking only that his students demonstrate a commitment to learning equal to his commitment to teaching.

Although he is passionate about the lifestyle and living it with integrity and purpose, he also finds time to be a mentor and friend to many. His unmatched skills are often on display at many parties at the CSPC.

When he is not participating in the lifestyle, Stormmy is equally passionate about studying the wisdom passed down through generations within his Native American tribe. He leads a sweat lodge every week which, along with his family, impart balance and harmony to his life.

Stormmy leads a full life and his knowledge and wisdom has made him one of the most popular workshop instructors within our community. However, he makes it a priority to meet new people, answer questions, and help guide those who have just started on their path to fulfillment. He looks forward to meeting you in a workshop or through casual correspondence on Fetlife where he can be found as “Renegade”.

Miranda is a mom, a homemaker and friend to many and a slave that is in service to Stormmy. For the past year she has been exploring her dominant side with Stormmy’s guidance and has become very proficient with many implements. She has been a member of the CSPC since 2006.

She has a kind heart that is reflected in her actions and attitudes. She is a woman of integrity and strength that she receives from her life of loving her family and serving Stormmy. Miranda offers a truly unique perspective on lifestyle relationships as she has successfully maintained her service to Stormmy while learning how to top others – she has gained incredible insight from seeing life from both sides.

She is a patient teacher who truly enjoys sharing what she has learned as well as gaining new insights from her students. Miranda enjoys meeting new people within the community and doing whatever she can to help guide them on their chosen path.

Although Miranda finds herself with little free time she does make it a priority to cultivate her friendships and be there for those in need. She looks forward to meeting you whether in a class or casually through Fetlife and she is always available to answer questions. She can found on Fetlife as “stormsbitch”.

Workshops Presented:

BDSM the Native Way: Rituals and Spirituality

Master Abacus and slave ann

Master Abacus was first introduced to the Leather lifestyle back in the mid-90’s with the phrase “want to try something a little different?” Since that time he has been on this journey down the road less traveled by. He has held leadership positions in several BDSM organizations and currently serves on the Board of the Seattle chapter of MAsT, and Evergreen Leather Events, the producer of Leather Reign. He is also on the Local Organizing Committee for the Leather Leadership Conference to be held in Seattle in 2013.

Master Abacus and slave ann have been married and in a Master/slave relationship since 2000. In 2007 they found their “unicorn” and in 2010 kim joined them to create their triad family. Together, they all three are active members of the Seattle Leather community and have strived to continue to grow, and to give back to the community.

slave ann is a bisexual slave to Master Abacus, and wife to her love. she has been married to her beloved Master since 2000 and together they married the love of their lives, kim, in 2010.

slave ann found the vocabulary to describe her naturally submissive nature online in the early 90’s. she tried swinging with her former husband and one of the partners introduced her to real life D/s, the joy of pain, and that women are sexy. she decided to relocate to the Pacific Northwest from Wyoming so she could fully explore her sexuality. ann is active in the community by being in service to the board of Evergreen Leather Events which produces Leather Reign and is on the local organizing committee of Leather Leadership Conference XVII (Seattle 2013).

Workshops Presented:

Leadership
Relationship Sustainability in a Power Exchange Dynamic

Hobbit

International Ms Leather 2008

Washington State Ms Leather 1996

Workshop Presenter Extraordinaire

Hobbit has been active in the leather community for 21 years. She teaches workshops across the country, has judged uncountable contests…..blah blah blah, yawn.

You know her, you love her, (what’s not to love?) she’s back again, coming all the way from Redmond Washington to teach in that awkward time slot, 3PM on Friday. She’s short, she’s cute, she’s got big biceps, and she’s ready to teach you, her fellow bottoms, how to play with novice tops. She’s been doing it for 21 years so maybe she’s picked up a little something along the way. So come be the first at your munch to take this year’s debut workshop ‘Junior Top, Senior Bottom; How to Make it Work.

Workshops Presented:

Junior Top, Senior Bottom; How to Make it Work

Padito

Padito (aka boi Di) is the Washington State Ms. Leather 2010. She has been playing in the Seattle leather community for the last 20 years. She is a self proclaimed masochist by way of submission. She identifies as a leatherboi and has the heart and soul for service. She flags black and hunter green on the right, with occasional red and purple. However, since there isn’t a hanky code of hands on play, she just presents workshops about hurting with your hands. You can most often find Padito on one end or the other of a cane.

Workshops Presented:

Boi’s in Service

Distinct Guide and icy

European upbringing and vast international life experience put a stamp on Distinct Guide’s life. Exploring his first years of BDSM in the privacy of smaller groups he turned to the larger community since moving to the US. He is the head of the Distinct family and defined the family values as: Integrity, Honesty and Style. He lives with his partner and slave icy and is happy only when there are new challenges on the horizon. He loves planning and organization of parties and High Protocol dinners. He strives for perfection, but understands that no one should ever be asked for more than he can offer. In daily life he is known to use the same amount of dishes and silverware than a four person family.

He is moderating a munch in the greater Seattle area and volunteers his photo services for many Ds and kink events. His first visit to Leather Reign left a deep impression on him and he immediately volunteered with the organizational committee, where he is helping until today.

Being a professional speaker for more than a decade at his work, this will be the first opportunity to see him speak at a BDSM conference.

Icy deemed the Sadomasochistic Topping Slave is slave and partner to Distinct Guide. She is a co-organizer of one of the local munches with Distinct Guide; is on the organizational committee of Leather Reign; and was an active volunteer and Event Coordinator of the CSPC for 10 years. Her prior activities involved being the Staff Whip for Living in Leather Conference in 2001, and a local Board member for the second incarnation of NLAi Puget Sound 2001-2002, and an original committee member for Leather Thorn in the late 1990s.

Icy was raised in the military environment where, there were and are specific expectations placed on family members regarding protocols and etiquette both nationally and internationally. She participated in entertainment on a monthly basis, and was involved in planning, coordinating, and execution of cocktail parties, casual dining, various types of themed events, and formal plated dining. Guests were culturally varied resulting in diverse cuisine requirements.

Icy continues her entertaining traditions with the vanilla and BDSM parties and High Protocol dinners that Distinct Guide and her organize in their home.

Workshops Presented:

Adding More Style to the Lifestyle

Daddy Wendell

I’m a past titleholder, NW LeatherSir 2006 and Seattle Leather Daddy 2003.

I’m a daddy into playing with transmen and butch bois. I like topping flogging, impact play, bondage, cigar play, hot wax, piercing (temporary and permanent) and military scenes (I’m former military.) I own a set of clippers, multiple blades and I love a boi in a mohawk – rubbing the sides of a bristly, freshly shaved head (especially a first-time mohawk) is really hot.

Workshops Presented:

Leather Care

Jim Duvall and Sophia Sky

Jim Duvall began his career as an erotic photographer in the early days of the World Wide Web taking pictures for phone sex workers. He soon began janesguide.com along with his former partner Jane Duvall. Along with shooting for this company he has shot images for several other Web endeavors including bondage.com. His art has been shown at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and many other erotic art festivals around North America. He helped start The Betty Pages, an LGBT magazine serving Whatcom and Skagit counties and was a writer and photographer for the magazine for 5 years.

As a sexuality activist Mr. Duvall has volunteered for many organizations over the years. He is a founder and former President of the Board of Directors of the Center for Sex Positive Culture (nee Wetspot). He founded the Seattle Erotic Art Festival. He is a past President and Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.

Jim Duvall teaches on a variety of topics from erotic photography to rope bondage at events and for groups all over North America. His teaching style ranges from very hands on technique classes to demonstrations and entire class hypnosis or guided meditation.

Currently he works as a fine art photographer and practices hypnotherapy in Seattle WA.

Sophia Sky was raised by wolves.

After she was socialized, she became a massage therapist and then taught a variety of massage techniques and anatomy at a nationally accredited vocational school. Teaching is among her many passions in life. Sophia offers workshops with a heavy emphasis on how understanding human anatomy and physiology can enhance one’s enjoyment of bdsm activities via increased safety and options. As a switch, she draws on her experience of being on both sides of the bdsm equation in order to apply anatomical knowledge to what it is that we do.

The arts play a large role in Sophia’s life as an artist, model and performer. She has been involved with the Seattle Erotic Art Festival since 2005 and took on the role of Visual Art Director in 2011.

Sophia maintains a therapeutic massage practice at WellSpace, located in Seattle, WA.

Workshops Presented:

Going Beyond Verbal Communication

Kelly Chance

Kelly Chance, aka Teach Me Tonight, has been an active member of the Northwest BDSM community since 1999 when she attended her first munch in the Tri-Cities, WA and quickly became involved by volunteering with the local group. She served on the board of Five Rivers Energy Exchange in the Tri-Cities. After moving back to Seattle 7 years ago to be with her Master, she has become active in the Seattle community as member of the Center for Sex Positive Culture and is a founding member of Seattle MAsT. Kelly is a director of Evergreen Leather Events which produces Leather Reign, a Seattle based conference designed to help people “Make the most of our kink.” She has been Master Duane’s slave for 11 years, actively switching for 9 years and is currently dominant in her relationship with tiger. Kelly has taught classes at In the Woods, Paradise, and Northwest Leather Celebration. She credits much of her current sense of self to her BDSM /Leather journey and continues to learn and grow as she interacts with both her teachers and her students.

Workshops Presented:

Our Kinky Closet

Master Z

Master Z of Dallas is a well-known Dominant, Presenter and Leader in the Leather and BDSm scene. He and his alpha slaveboy tony were the International Master and slave in 2004 and traveled all over the United States and Canada making presentations on the Master/slave and Leather lifestyle. Master Z is also the owner of slave bill and slave kiki and has slave ed of Tucson currently in service.

Master Z is Chairman of the Board of Directors for Butchmanns, Inc. and the Director of the Butchmanns Weekend Experience. He is also the Producer and HeadMaster for boys Training Camps and Co-Producer of Masters Retreat. In 2008, Master Z joined the Board of Directors for NCSF.

Master Z was the recipient of the “Masters Heart Award” in 2006 and the “Leatherman’s Heart Award” in 2004. He is one of the Head of Household for the Texas Leather Tribe; a Leather family he shares responsibility for with his wonderful Leather Brother, Master Roy of Houston.

Master Z is eternally grateful to his mentors, the late Master Dean Walradt and the late boy Patrick Chees, who taught him much of the Leather protocols and rituals that he cherishes today. Master Z is certain that his Leather Journey and BDSm experiences are directly related to his Spiritual Path.

Workshops Presented:

Leathersex and Spirit: Living an Authentic Life
Refining Fire – The Role of SM in Master/slave relationships
All in the Family
Modern Primitive Practices in S&M

Master Jim and slave marsha

Master Jim, International Master 2001, is a leatherman who has been involved in BDSM for over 16 years. He has presented seminars and weekend programs on Master/slave relationships across the U.S. and Canada. Master Jim is one of the owners of South Plains Leatherfest-International Master/slave Weekend held in Dallas each year and is a co-owner of the International Master/slave title contest held at South Plains. Master Jim, along with the late Dean Walradt, founded the boy’s Training Camp and the Masters Retreat. He and slave marsha continued those efforts through their development and offering of the boys and girls Training Academy and The Journey.

Although Master Jim is well versed in many S/M tools and techniques, he is most interested in the dynamics of Master/slave relationships. For Master Jim, the psychological, emotional, and mental elements are the core – and the most fascinating part — of these relationships.

Master Jim identifies sexually as a gay leatherman; however, he is comfortable being served by persons of any gender or sexual orientation. Currently, he is the owner of a biological female slave, slave marsha, who has been in service to him for 13 years. Master Jim, slave marsha, and slave marsha’s mate, Cougar, live together as a leather family.

Master Jim and slave marsha write on Master/slave relationships at their website, http://mjandsm.livejournal.com. When he is not teaching on M/s relationships, Master Jim can often be found riding his 2003 Harley Davidson Road King.

International slave 2001, marsha has been involved in the leather/SM community for many years, and has been owned by Master Jim for nearly 13 years. She’s a Femme leatherdyke who is in service to a gay leatherman — and no, that’s not a misprint. She is deeply grateful that her Owner supports her growth and identity as a Femme – so much so that Master Jim conducted a Union Ceremony for slave marsha and her Butch leatherdyke soulmate, Sir Cougar, and invited him into their leather family.

slave marsha has been very active in the leather/SM community over the years presenting seminars and keynote speeches at hundreds of groups and events all across the country. slave marsha also is one of the co-owners of South Plains Leatherfest-International Master/slave Weekend and the International Master/slave Contest held in Dallas, Texas each February.

In her “spare time,” slave marsha loves riding her very own 2005 Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe with her leather family while singing “Born to Be Wild.”

Workshops Presented:

Black and White and Shades of Grey – Ethics
The Perfect Storm: Problem Solving in Master/slave relationships

slave caroline

slave caroline has been “kinky” since her earliest memory, and in one form of Ds or Ms relationship since her late teens, having served a number of Masters of different genders and sexual orientations. Along with a lifetime interest in spirituality, theology and philosophy, which has included twenty years of practice in meditation, her journey in slavery has been her central path to the sacred. In recent years, through the grace of her Guru, Sai Baba, she has been able to integrate her spiritual practices with her slavery and her business through a deeper appreciation of love, devotion, surrender and service and power exchange. She is a registered clinical psychologist, business woman, consultant, a self-proclaimed Jungian, corporate priestess, a spiritual seeker/teacher as well as a deep lifestyle slave.

Since attending her first Master slave conference in DC in 2004, she has been an active member of the Master slave community here in the USA. She has given key notes and presented workshops on various aspects of Master / slave and spirituality issues within the Kink community; at Southwest Leather Conference, Together In Leather, P.L.A.Y., the Master / slave Conference, the Leather Leadership Conference and Great Lakes Leather Alliance as well as to the broader Vanilla community.

She relocated to Southern California from Australia In October 2008, when she enrolled in a PhD in Depth Psychology. Her dissertation topic is in the area of Master slave dynamics through which she aims to serve the collective by bringing light and understanding to dispel the prejudices and stereotypes of Mastery and slavery held by the therapeutic, medical and legal professions.

Workshops Presented:

“Pussy” Power
Love, Light and Power – upgrading our spiritual hardware

Mollena – International Ms Leather 2010

Mollena (Mo) Williams, “Delicate, Trembling Flower of Submission” is a NYC born and raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator and Executive Pervert.

She is extremely honored, humbled and proud to serve as International Ms Leather 2010. She is also thrilled to have been named Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009 after that contests decade long slumber.

Active in BDSM since 1996, she speaks at Leather events across the US on many kinkcentric topics. A founding member of Crowded Fire Theater Company, she blogs on http://mollena.com. Mo is also author of the Toybag Gude: Taboo Play and of the essay BDSM and Playing with Race which appears in the “Best Sex Writing 2010.” She also tracks her adventures as International Ms Leather 2010 at http://IMsL2010.com and Twitters incessantly over on http://twitter.com/mollena.

Workshops Presented:

Negotiation for the Hopelessly Shy and Terribly Awkward.
What the Fuck Kind of Pervert are You: Knowing your self, knowing your kink.

Daddy Ken and slaveboy tim

Daddy Ken is an active volunteer in the San Francisco leather community. He and his slave/partner, were the 2009 International Master/slave title holders; he is the facilitator of the San Francisco chapter of the Masters And slaves Together (MAsT) discussion group; on the board of Leather Levi Weekend and a member of Mama Sandy Reinhalt’s family known as “Mama’s Old School Daddy”.

An East Coast transplant, Daddy Ken grew up in Seattle and when not working or volunteering, he enjoys riding his motorcycle and spending time with his leather family and friends. He is a gay man and a long-term survivor of HIV.

Daddy Ken’s slave, Tim (aka slaveboy tim) has been interested in leather since he saw pictures of cockrings and studded jockstraps in magazines when he was still too young to have pubic hair. His daddy fixation and career as an admirer of large equipment began at the same time. In 1995, he came into leather while living in Germany under the tutelage of a Scottish leatherman. Back in the States, he continued his leather education and discovered that limits were really goals. Tim also holds a PhD in history and taught at the university level before moving to San Francisco. He has published articles on male masculinity and spoken at numerous academic conferences about constructions of male masculinity and the history of gay male eroticism. In 2007 he sold himself and all his possession to Daddy Ken and moved to San Francisco to join its leather community. He considers himself a strong-willed slave, sometimes described as obstinate or willful, and he is exploring his own daddy tendencies. When not thinking about having his nipples played with he enjoys a variety of reading and is pursuing a career in the wine industry. He has been on the steering committee of Leather Levi Weekend for the past three years. He was honored to serve the Leather and Master/slave communities as the 2008 Northwest slave and 2009 International slave titleholder.

Workshops Presented:

Dealing with loss in an M/s or D/s Relationship
“I can’t do that”: Communicating Fear

Master Trooper Frank and slave paul

Master Trooper Frank is a 29-year veteran police officer, who has performed his duties in some highly specialized units during his career. As an expert on human behavior by virtue of his Masters Degree in Human Relations and Clinical Counseling, he has learned even more as a field officer, instructor and trainer. Being certified as a “Deception Detection” expert, Trooper Frank has been present at polygraphings, interviews, and of course, interrogations. Having performed interrogations as the primary or lead officer, he is trained in the art of seeking information, utilizing both the psychological as well as physical aspects that a subject brings to the event.

slave paul is the Property of Master Trooper Frank, and has been involved in the Leather community since meeting his Master in 1995. In 2007, he was formally Collared by Master Trooper Frank along with his slave-brother willie in a private ceremony. They follow the Old Guard Leather Traditions and the Sacred Principles of Honor, Integrity, Loyalty, Devotion, Service, Honesty, and Love. Their Leather Family is a triad and includes slave willie, of San Jose, California. slave paul has participated in several workshops, demos, and community organizations with his MASTER. The most recent presentations include MASTER TROOPER FRANK’S Nipple Torture Demo, Interrogation Demo, CBT Demo, and as part of a MASTER/slave panel discussion at KinkFest.

slave paul owns and operates several Leather Family businesses including Black Hanky Enterprises, an online book, video, and gear store focused primarily on the BDSM community and a web page design and hosting company. slave paul is an active sponsor of/participant in the Denver boys of Leather, the Rose City bois/boys in Leather Service (BILS), MAsT Pacific Northwest (Masters And slaves Together), RCDC (Rose City Discussion Club), KinkFest, Northwest Leather Celebration, Thunder in the Mountains, In The Woods, Leatherwoods, Paradise Unbound, the Portland Leather Alliance, Portland Rope Arts Group, Dungeonmen PDX, and the Salem Kink Library.

slave paul was chapter director of the Portland Chapter of MAsT from 2009 until 2010, and was made an honorary member of the Rose City bois/boys in Leather Service for his service to their organization. slave paul was recently made an associate member of the 15 Association. Among his many passions is building dungeon furniture, toys, and gear for his Master’s use and enjoyment. Like his Master, slave paul is a voracious reader and avid motorcyclist. he is a passionate pain-pig who can never get enough of his Master’s intensity, authenticity, and heart.

In addition to assisting his Master with His workshops, slave paul has also presented and co-presented workshops on a variety of topics including bootblacking, Master/slave relationships, as well as the mental and emotional aspects of living as a 24/7 slave

Workshops Presented:

Boots, boots, boots
Trust, Loyalty and Devotion

Daddy Wendell

I’m a daddy into playing with transmen and butch bois. I like topping flogging, impact play, bondage, cigar play, fire/wax play, play piercing and military scenes. I’m a past leather titleholder -Seattle Leather Daddy 2003 and Northwest LeatherSir 2006. I make basic leather gear – belts, arm/bicep bands, suspenders, chest harnesses, boy harnesses, Sam Browne belts and other basic gear – custom fit to the individual.

Workshops Presented:

Leather Eye for the Pan Guy, I wish he were straight

Hobbit

International Ms Leather 2008
Washington State Ms Leather 1996
B.A. The Evergreen State College 1990
Hobbit has been an active part of the leather community and doing SM since 1990. She currently works at The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Public Health Science. Hobbit is perky, bubbly, bouncy takes a hell of a beating and is a blast to have around.

Workshops Presented:

Aftercare Class
Leather Eye for the Pan Guy, I wish he were straight

Master Obsidian and slave namaste

Master Obsidian is the chapter founder and Director of MAsT (Masters And slaves Together) Austin and is also the Junior Regional Representative for the Southwest Region of MAsT International. He has also served on the Board of GWNN (The Group with No Name) in Austin Texas and is the current moderator of Black BEAT Texas. Additionally he and his devoted slave namaste hold the titles of International Master and slave 2010 as well as Southwest Master and Southwest slave 2010. They also serve as moderators for the national MAsT Open yahoo group as well as the regional MAsT Austin discussion list. Master Obsidian is a published author with articles in BDSM publications covering the M/s and BDSM lifestyle and philosophy, his educational experience also includes workshop presentations, seminars and classes focusing on M/s relationship dynamics and techniques. A 2009 nominee for the Pantheon of Leather Man of the Year award, he has also been honored to mentor both novice and seasoned Dominants. Master Obsidian has been in the lifestyle for over two decades and is the owner of slave namaste and the Master of House Obsidian in Texas.

slave namaste is honored and privileged to be the 24/7 slave of Master Obsidian. she has counseled, mentored and taught on Surrender, Internalization of slavery, spirituality and submission. Her writings on surrender and absolute slavery have been featured on web sites and in books including the “Art of Slavery” Edition of the Power Exchange Reference Series. She is Founder and co-moderator of various lifestyle groups, including one geared specifically for slaves in TPE relationships as well as running a blog/website with a focus on excellence in service called Service Savoir Faire. S he possesses a great passion for aiding her fellow slaves in the lifestyle, Domestic Service, Protocols, Spirituality and The Art of Surrender.

Workshops Presented:

Are you my Master? Are you my Dominant?
Dominance and the Inner Critic
Power Exchange and Authenticity

Sir Hugh B. Russell, International LeatherSIR 2010

Five years after coming out in 1985, Sir Hugh joined Seattle Men in Leather, acknowledging his darker side and accepting the traditions of an older generation. He endeavors to pass these on to his boys. Besides SML, he is a member of the Leather Archives and Museum, BLUF, and Generic Leather Productions of Washington. Sir Hugh puts a strong emphasis on education through His foundation and has raised funds for the Tony Deblase Scholarship, benefitting students studying sexuality. Fluent in Italian, Sir Hugh studied the centuries-old art of Leather masking while living inItaly. He enjoys incorporating this tradition into his Leatherplay. He also has a penchant for single tails and harbors a serious boot fetish.

Workshops Presented:

Mentorship in Gay Leather and the Sir/boy Dynamic

Robyn Friedman

Robyn Friedman is a Criminal Defense Attorney currently residing in Seattle, Washington. In addition to her criminal defense work, she also works with local SM and sex positive organizations, providing assistance in decision-making and documentation for events, as well as working with individuals in the alternative sexual communities in
various legal areas, including family law and estate planning. She also holds low cost legal clinics for the local community where she will provide legal documents, such as Durable Powers or Attorney, health Care Directives, Partnership Agreements, Wills, and consultations.

She has been on staff with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom since 2000, and from 2002 through 2005, she took on the position as the Director of the Legal Education Outreach Program. She has presented throughout the nation, and Canada, at several SM oriented conferences, such as LIL, Folsom Fringe, Kinkfest, Tribal Fire, Family Ties, Thunder in the Mountains, and Sex Positive conferences such as The North American Conference on Bisexuality, The Evergreen Conference on Gender and Sexuality, Building Bridges and the National Swing Leadership Conference.

In addition to her activism and legal work, she is also a sadomasochist, who loves to do incredibly mean things to incredibly nice people. While she enjoys fairly hard impact play, punching and kicking, her favorite activity is poking sharp things into soft flesh and finger painting with the results. For her needlework is a creative outlet, and she is blessed with many delightful and beautiful canvases to work on!

Workshops Presented:

NCSF: Consent Counts!

Max

Max has been active in Seattle’s kink community since 1992 and has been teaching bondage, BDSM, and polyamory workshops since 1999. He’s actively and successfully polyamorous and has several wonderful long-term partners.

While he is proficient with a wide range of BDSM skills, Max especially enjoys the intimacy of rope bondage. Max projects a gentle, dominant energy, and all of his relationships – and most of his scenes – include a substantial D/S component.

Max’s love of teaching shines through his workshops, and his love for people informs his personal encounters.

This is Max’s first opportunity to present at Leather Reign, and he’s delighted to be contributing this year.

Private instruction and coaching Max offers private instruction and coaching on a wide variety of BDSM technique, to include bondage, scene planning and management, d/s relationships, impact toys, and piercing.

Conventions Max has presented at leather and kink conventions around the country to include Living in Leather (LIL), Thunder in the Mountains, Atlanta Bound, the Folsom Fringe, Denver Bound, KinkFest, BodyBound and Shibaricon.

Events Max has taught at events sponsored by the Stranger, Babeland, Seattle Men in Leather, Seattle’s Center for Sex Positive Culture, the Triskeli Guild, Suspended Animation and many other kink and sex-positive groups.

Other appearances Max has rigged for photo shoots, done live performance art pieces, and exhibited at both of James Mogul’s ArtBound events in 2000. He donates his services to several charity / fund raising events each year to include tastings sponsored by the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture and Seattle’s
annual Kinky Carnival.

Bondage Workshop Series Max serves as producer / chief instructor for Seattle’s monthly “Bondage Workshop Series”, which has run continuously since 2003.

Two-Day Bondage Intensives Twice each year Max offers a special Bondage Intensive, providing two full days of focused instruction, from the basics through suspension bondage. Max has been teaching the Bondage Intensive since 2005 and graduated his 10th class in April 2010.

You can read more about Max and see where else he’s teaching at www.BondageLessons.com.

Workshops Presented:

Defining and Extending Your Service Relationship
Making Your Rope Scenes HOT – Using Rope to Create Headspace

Gene Romaine and Lynnda Hale

Gene is President of Generic Leather Productions of Washington, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to produce events which raise money for charities benefiting the sexual minority community. Gene was Northwest Mr. Drummer 2001, and is the Regional Sponsor/Executive Producer of the Northwest LeatherSir, Leatherboy & Community Boot Black Contest. In May, 2010, Gene was honored to have had the opportunity to serve on the judging panel of the International Mr. Leather Contest. He was awarded the Pantheon of Leather-Northwest Regional Award for 2008 and the Leather Emerald Award in 2003. He is a former President of Seattle Men in Leather and was Washington State Mr. Leather 2004. He is the proud Patriarch of the Dragon Clan – a leather family whose raison d’etre is to promote camaraderie for proven leaders in the leather community. He is a proud member of Mama’s Family, an international group of dedicated, warm-hearted people that Mama Sandy Reinhardt has adopted for their involvement in the Leather Community – holding the nickname of “Mama’s Generic Leatherman”. Gene regularly presents workshops on various types of BDSM techniques, including fire play, mummification and “Impact Play”, among other topics. When he is not working to promote sex positive culture, spending quality time with his leatherboy, or attending almost any BDSM event he can, he works as a trust officer for a large national bank.

Lynnda’s Hale’s Leather Family describe her as a Power-Femme-switchypoo-girly-Mamma type o’ lass who is wife to her wife, girl to her Daddy, Mamma to her kids, and dedicated Family Matriarch. She has embraced the leather life longer than not. She is a performer, educator, artist, student, activist, fund-raiser, player, all-around-rabble rouser, and a slew of other things that “describe, not define” her.

Workshops Presented:

Building Communities that feed your soul

Liza and Jody

Liza and Jody have been living together in San Francisco as Mistress and slave for 8½ years. They are “Northwest Master and slave 2010” and teach nationally on the M/s dynamic. Liza came to power in the late 60s at Woodstock (proving tie-dyed can be kinky) and came into leather in 2002. Jody has been slave-identified since 1980 when she founded Leather and Lace, one of the earliest women’s BDSM groups. Liza and Jody are active in three Bay Area MAsT chapters and are proud members of the Exiles. Liza is the Treasurer for the Bears of San Francisco and Leather Levi Weekend. Jody serves as the Secretary of Leather Levi Weekend and as Chair of Leather Alley at San Francisco Pride. With help from their friends, they also produce the Ms. San Francisco Leather contest. In their day jobs, Liza co-owns TheCompleteBear.com and Jody is an attorney and mediator.

Workshops Presented:

Managing the Power Slave

Master Skip Chasey

Skip Chasey, a/k/a Master Skip, heads a family of spiritually grounded leatherfolk in the City of Angels, where he is a practicing spiritual director and certified Grief Recovery ™ counselor and also earns a living as a missionary among the savages of Hollywood. He is a co-producer of the Southwest Leather Conference and a co-founder of People of Leather Among You (“PLAY”), a social and educational group for Southern California men and women interested in the integration of spirituality and leather/fetish sexuality. In 2000 Master Skip addressed a crowd of almost one million people at the Millennium March on Washington, and since then he has given the keynote address and nearly 150 programs on the spiritual dynamics of SM and D/s relationships at noteworthy leather events throughout the US and Canada.

From 2001-2007 Master Skip was a core instructor for the Butchmanns Experience, a periodic weekend retreat that offers opportunities for profound personal growth to leathermen and women of all sexual orientations and identities. He presently serves on the Theologies Team for Metropolitan Community Churches and on the board of directors for Butchmanns, Inc., a non-profit educational organization dedicated to self-actualization through the mindful use of physical practices and the conscious exchange of personal power for spiritual awareness.

Master Skip and his slave Rick are two of the subjects of “Ask the Man Who Owns him”, an upcoming book on gay male Master/slave relationships written by slave david stein; he and his pup Tim are the subjects of the award-winning documentary film “Pup” and have been profiled in “Nerve.com” magazine and “Power Exchange” magazine. He is a past recipient of the Lee Montague Memorial Award for Outstanding Community Service from Avatar Club Los Angeles, where he is an active member, was named “Best Trainer” at the 2002 International Puppy Contest, received the 2005 Pantheon of Leather Community Choice Award, and last year was honored with the Master Heart Award at the 2008 Master/slave Conference.

In his own words, “Blood may be thicker than water, but leather is thicker than blood.”

Workshops Presented:

Leathersex & Spirit – Living an Authentic Life
Refining Fire – The Role of SM in Master/slave Relationships

slave Rick

slave Rick recently retired from a 30- year career with the Federal government and expanded his practice as a licensed psychotherapist within the BDSM community. he is also a part-time college instructor, a massage therapist, a retired Science of Mind practitioner, and has presented programs on the spiritual dynamics of SM and D/s relationships at dozens of conferences and leather events throughout North America..

In 2008 slave Rick was honored to receive both the Southwest Leather Conference “Leatherman’s Heart Award” and the “slave Heart Award” from the Master/slave Conference. he is proud to be one of the subjects of “Ask the Man Who Owns him,” a book on gay male M/s relationships that will be published in Spring, 2009.

First and foremost, however, he is by grace in service to his beloved Master.

Workshops Presented:

When the Going Gets Tough – Spiritual Awakening Amid the Challenges of a Master/slave Relationship

slave Alia

slave Alia, known also by her adopted spiritual name of Alia Al’Barakah, brings the unique magic, mysticism, and erotic culture of the Middle East to her BDSM lifestyle.

slave Alia actively promotes self-awareness and spiritual development within the leather community, volunteering her time and using her organizational and management skills at venues and special events where SM, spirituality and D/s relationships are the focus. she is a past Outreach Chair for Arizona Power Exchange, was the Co-Chair of Leather Leadership Conference IX (2005), has served on the faculty of the APEX Academy—Butchmanns Experience, and for the past seven years has served as a Producer and the Chief Financial Officer for Southwest Leather Conference. In addition, she has presented workshops, judged and emceed contests, and delivered keynote speeches at numerous community events, including Rio Grande Leather, Folsom Fringe, the Master/slave Conference, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, South Plains Leatherfest, Northwest Leather Celebration, Leather Leadership Conference, the International Ms. Leather Contest Weekend, Southwest Leather Conference, People of Leather Among You, Arizona Power Exchange, and Glendale Community College.

A practicing Shi’ite and Sufi Muslim, slave Alia is also an emerging activist in the Muslim community, where she champions religious tolerance and education, the modernization of Islam, and the rights of Muslim women. she presently resides in Los Angeles, California and has been in service to Master Skip since November of 2003 as part of her on-going spiritual and slave development.

Workshops Presented:

Discovering the Divine at the End of a Whip
The Leather Body

Lady Catherine Gross and slave nic

Lady Catherine is a sex educator and certified personal coach. She offers classes that focus on physical skills, Master/slave relationships, dominance and submission, improving your sex life, personal development, house management, service, keeping relationships healthy and much more. She has served on both local and national boards, judged contests, staffed conferences in a variety of positions, and emceed and produced fundraisers for several charities and organizations. She is currently the co-producer of SouthEast LeatherFest in Atlanta, GA.

Catherine enjoys both having the opportunity to interact with large groups as well as the one-on-one contact that smaller events offer. She has presented classes at Frolicon, Black Rose, South Plains LeatherFest, Living In Leather by NLA-I, San Diego Leatherfest, SouthEast LeatherFest, Southwest Leather Conference, Together in Leather, Northeast Master/slave Conference, Leather University, Boys Camp, International Ms. Leather, Leather Leadership Conference, Pantheon, TES, Folsom Fringe, Orlando Bash, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, Tribal Fire, Leather Reign and at many more events. She was presented with Black Rose’s Vaughn Keith National Educator Award in 2002 and Pantheon of Leather Southeast Region Service Award 2006.

She has also written a safety manual in use by more than a dozen organizations scattered from coast to coast. You can download a copy on her website at BDSMClasses.com.

Catherine created Servant’s Retreat, an intensive weekend for those who serve, which focuses on the internal issues of submission and service. In addition, her Nine Fold Path Seminar is a workshop on M/s and D/s relationship health. She also offers private classes and coaching for couples and individuals.

She is the owner of Fetish Auctioneer-which received the Pantheon of Leather Business of the Year award in 2006.

“Teaching provides me with great joy. I love seeing emotional and intellectual connections made in class discussions. We’ve all contributed to educating each other in many ways. It’s my great fortune to participate in the creation of these moments.”

slave nic was born and raised in a suburb of Chicago, IL. He has been involved in Leather since 1998 and moved to Atlanta in 2003. He has the privilege of being owned by Lady Catherine Gross and alex is happily collared to him. In being owned and owning, all things are in good balance.

His many passions include bloodsports, all things sharp, age play, bondage, edge play, rough body play, and puppy play (Blahnik, named by his owner after great shoes!). He has been on the SouthEast LeatherFest Committee since 2004

Workshops Presented:

Cornerstones: Beginnings, Middles and the End
Keeping your space: Submission
Power Plays
Slaves Taking Care of the Property

Master Bert Cutler, Ph.D and slave nadine

Master Bert considers himself an SM lifer, having built his first wooden stocks in 1954 (courtesy of the Cub Scouts) and started exploring out of the SM closet in 1978. Professionally he has roles as an electronic engineer, a software designer and entrepreneur, a motion picture editor, a sexologist, a researcher in the BDSM community, and a college professor.

Bert has a passion for Master/slave relationships and community. He is a founder of the Arizona Power Exchange in 1988. He is a board member of Butchmann’s, Inc., the Butchmanns Board liaison to MAsT International, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Butchmann’s Experience weekends. Bert holds the titles of Mr. APEX 1991-1992, Southwest Master 2003, and International Master 2003. Bert’s academic publications include: 2003 doctoral dissertation “Partner Selection, Power Dynamics, and Sexual Bargaining in Self-Defined BDSM Couples” and 2009 Archives of Sexual Behavior “Hormonal Changes and Couple Bonding in Consensual Sadomasochistic Activity.”

slave nadine is an instructor at Butchmann’s and APEX Academy and was part of creating the first all-women’s Butchmanns. she is a founder of the Arizona Power Exchange in 1988 and an incorporator of the Arizona Power Exchange Corporation [a 501(c)(7) corporation] in 2001. slave nadine holds the titles of Southwest slave 2003 and International slave 2003. she met Master Bert at a spiritual-sexuality seminar in 1983, and has been growing into full time service to him since 1984.

Workshops Presented:

Being Real in a 24/7 Master/slave Relationship
Masters Focus Group

Hobbit

I’ve been in the leather community and happily doing SM since I earned my Bachelors degree from The Evergreen State College in 1991. I was Washington State Ms Leather 1996 and International Ms Leather 2008. I always flag on the right. I play hard, I play on the edge and I play with the philosophy Risk Aware Consensual Kink (RACK). I’m happy to share what I know about the kind of play that I like, primitive play.

Workshops Presented:

Primitive Play

Master DJ and slave september dragon

Master DJ is a Trans Leatherman, and identifies as queer. He currently holds the NW Regional Master Title. He is an active member of the Center for Sex Positive Culture, and has volunteered since joining. He has been Volunteer of the Year2003,. He has been a member of several event teams, and been involved with the Paradise campout produced by the CSPC. Master DJ has evolved into a leader for his community through his commitment to the CSPC , volunteering, leading discussion groups, and serving the greater community. He is a Charter member of Seattle Women of Leather, a past President, and is currently a Director. He is a charter member of MAsT and currently he is co director of MAsT Seattle, a member of the NLAI, the Owner/slave discussion Group, and the Dom/me discussion Group, This year Master DJ and his slave will be producing Paradise Unbound, the CSPC’s annual fundraising Labor Day week-long campout. Master DJ currently works as a Chemical Dependency Counselor with Homeless families, helping them learn to empower themselves. He spends as much time as possible with the Leather Community, and appreciates any opportunity to help others in that community or in the 12-Step community. He enjoys tasteful coffee, as he has been a professional roaster, adventuring, discovering new places and meeting new people. He enjoys a blessed life with his property, slave september dragon, their two cats, Olivia and Asami, and their dog, Bruiser. Master DJ wants to thank his two Mentors: Daddy Lory and Gene.

slave september dragon is a slave, and identifies as queer. she currently holds the NW Regional slave title. she is an active member of the Center for Sex Positive Culture, and has volunteered since joining. she has been a member of several event teams, has been involved with the Paradise campout produced by the CSPC, has facilitated or assisted in discussion groups and continues to welcome newcomers as an Introduction Teacher for the CSPC. september dragon continues to serve her Community through mentoring other slaves and submissives, and involvement with the many communities that make up the greater Community. september dragon served as Membership Coordinator and Director for Seattle Women of Leather, is a member of NLAI, Mast Seattle, the sbs perspective group, and the Owner/slave Discussion Group. This year, slave september dragon and Master DJ will be producing Paradise Unbound. dragon spends her creative energy in a variety of arts, most currently she is drawing. she also loves to adventure with Master. she adores Master DJ, to whom she is proud to belong. She endeavors to provide all the comforts she can for her Owner, eagerly serving him coffee, and knows that she is blessed to live the life she has been given.

Workshops Presented:

Celebrating our Differences – A conversation about Diversity in the Master/slave Lifestyle

Daddy Wendell

I’m a daddy into playing with transmen and butch bois. I like topping flogging, impact play, bondage, cigar play, fire/wax play, play piercing and military scenes. I’m a past leather titleholder -Seattle Leather Daddy 2003 and Northwest LeatherSir 2006. I make basic leather gear – belts, arm/bicep bands, suspenders, chest harnesses, boy harnesses, Sam Browne belts and other basic gear – custom fit to the individual.

Workshops Presented:

Leather Making: A Introduction

Jim Duvall

Jim Duvall began his career as an erotic photographer in the early days of the world wide web taking pictures for phone sex workers. he soon began janesguide.com along with his former partner Jane Duvall. Along with shooting for this company he has shot images for several other web endeavors among them bondage.com. His art has been shown at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and many other erotic art festivals around North America. He also shoots images for The Betty pages an LGBT magazine serving Whatcom and Skagit counties.

As a sexuality activist Mr. Duvall has volunteered for many organizations over the years. He is a founder and former president of the board of directors of the Center for Sex Positive Culture (nee Wetspot). He founded the Seattle Erotic At Festival. He is a past resident and board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.

Jim Duvall teaches on a variety of topics from erotic photography to rope bondage at events and for groups all over North America. His teaching style ranges from very hands on technique classes to demonstrations and entire class hypnosis or guided meditation. He has taught at national events such as Shibaricon, Sinsations in Leather, Kinky Kollege and South Plains Leatherfest as well as numerous local workshops in the Pacific NW.

Currently he works as a fine art photographer and also manages the Little Red Bistro in the Little Red Studio art complex in Seattle. He can often be seen performimg at the LRS events and shows and bartending in the bistro bar.

Workshops Presented:

Rape and Abduction Play
Relating to Rope

Daddy Ken and slaveboy tim

Daddy Ken facilitates the San Francisco chapter of the Masters And slaves Together (MAsT); he is a Fraternal member of The 15 Association; is a member of Mama Sandy Reinhardt’s family (known as “Mama’s Old School Daddy”) and is an active volunteer in the leather community.

He has been involved in the leather communities in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco and is the current International Master 2009. He is a gay man and a long-term survivor of HIV who, when not working and volunteering, enjoys spending time with his slave and leather family.

slaveboy tim, aka: Eisbaer, came out into leather in Germany while in college; he served a Master in Germany for several years before returning to the states to pursue his teaching career. he is the current International slave 2009, is on the board of Leather Levi Weekend (LLW) and both volunteers and teaches at various leather groups.

slaveboy tim grew up in Oklahoma; is a gay man and is currently in service to his Master, Daddy Ken.

Workshops Presented:

Depression and M/s and D/s
Kinky Relationships – They’re just like vanilla ones!
We Touch Each Other: Adventures in Masturbation

Laura Antoniou

Laura Antoniou has been writing erotica for over 20 years, when her day job permits her the time. She lives in Queens with her wife Karen, and happily serves as boy to Kim Attica. Friends have called her all sorts of names. Current favorites being “Renaissance Perv” by Fetish Diva Midori, “Good Boy!” by Kim and of course, “best thing that ever happened to me” by Karen.

Laura is best known these days for her “Marketplace” series of novels, but back in the beginning, when pickings for good and readable porn was slim, Laura created the groundbreaking “Leatherwomen” anthologies, and edited several others. Some of the work she created for those anthologies are reprinted in The Catalyst and Other Tales. Laura’s work has been published in the United States, Germany, Japan, and Korea, to international acclaim. Her short stories and non-fiction essays also appear in other anthologies, a full listing of which can be found at Books.

She is personally featured in Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors, by Michael Rowe and The Burning Pen: Sex Writers on Sex Writing, by M.Christian. Laura was also a columnist for Girlfriends magazine from 1995-1997, the submissions editor for Badboy and Bi-Curious magazines from 1995-96, and a regular contributor to The SandMUtopia Guardian from 1993-2000.

The Marketplace series describes “an elite and secretive world organization, dedicated to the auctioning and overseeing of the world’s finest lifestyle slaves… a world so vivid in sequel after sequel, it takes on a reality of its own, one that’s visually hard to let go of once the reader has put down the book.” (Libido Magazine).

Fans are delighted that Laura plans several more novels in the series — look for “The Inheritor,” “Slaves of the Marketplace,’ and more.

If you like her writing, you’ll love her presentations! “She is always a cool presenter, funny, but very informative,” says Lolita Wolf from Lolita’s Predictions & Predilections

Fifth Angel

A martial artist, critical care nurse, and all-around sexual sadist, FifthAngel extracts various elements from his extensive background in martial arts, weapons and firearms training to help create some of the most emotionally and mentally challenging scenes known to BDSM. Adding the title of author to his hobbies, he has written two books, “The Finer Points of Pain and Pleasure,” a how-to guide for using pressure points in BDSM scenes, and “Your Pain, My Pleasure: Inside the Mind of a Sexual Sadist.”

Branded for playing on the edge, FifthAngel at times demonstrates sexual sadism in its purest sense – a sexual sadist does not enjoy seeing the bottom orgasm from pain. Rather, a sexual sadist is happy seeing the bottom NOT getting pleasure from the emotional or physical pain they are experiencing. Many are relieved to know he is not a sexual sadist all the time, while others dispute that he has ever actually been nice in a scene.

With a goal to educate others to deepen their emotional experiences through BDSM and rites of passage, he has expanded his teachings and demonstrations to include spiritual piercing and flesh hooks. FifthAngel remains an equal opportunity sadist and is always happy to work with volunteers among workshop attendees. An edge player in all aspects of his life, he enjoys vertical rock and ice climbing as well as high altitude mountaineering.

He is a proud member and supporter of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.

Workshops Presented:

The Spirituality of SM: The Guided Tour
Who am I and how did I get here?

Robert (Bob) Rubel

Robert (Bob) Rubel is the editor of Power Exchange Magazine: An Alternative Lifestyle Publication. He is also the author of a number of books, including: Master/slave Relations: Handbook of Theory and Practice (2006); Protocol Handbook for the Leather slave (2006); and Flames of Passion: Handbook of Erotic Fire Play (2006 with David Walker), and Squirms, Screams, and Squirts, a Guide to Extraordinary Sex (2007). He has served on the boards of two of his local BDSM clubs and served for two years as part of the Leadership Core of the Austin Mentors Program where he taught fire play and Master/slave relations.

Workshops Presented:

Caring and Nuturing of a M/s Relationship
Self-examination in a M/s Relationship

Robyn Friedman

Robyn Friedman is a Criminal Defense Attorney currently residing in Seattle, Washington. In addition to her criminal defense work, she also works with local SM and sex positive organizations, providing assistance in decision-making and documentation for events, as well as working with individuals in the alternative sexual communities in various legal areas, including family law and estate planning. She also holds low cost legal clinics for the local community where she will provide legal documents, such as Durable Powers or Attorney, health Care Directives, Partnership Agreements, Wills, and consultations.

She has been on staff with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom since 2000, and from 2002 through 2005, she took on the position as the Director of the Legal Education Outreach Program. She has presented throughout the nation, and Canada, at several SM oriented conferences, such as LIL, Folsom Fringe, Kinkfest, Tribal Fire, Family Ties, Thunder in the Mountains, and Sex Positive conferences such as The North American Conference on Bisexuality, The Evergreen Conference on Gender and Sexuality, Building Bridges and the National Swing Leadership Conference.

In addition to her activism and legal work, she is also a sadomasochist, who loves to do incredibly mean things to incredibly nice people. While she enjoys fairly hard impact play, punching and kicking, her favorite activity is poking sharp things into soft flesh and finger painting with the results. For her needlework is a creative outlet, and she is blessed with many delightful and beautiful canvases to work on!

Workshops Presented:

Protecting Yourself Legally

Master Bob and slave jan

Northwest Master 2007, calls the Portland and Willamette Valley kink communities home and is an active member of Portland Leather Alliance, MasT PNW, Portland Dom’s Group, Dungeon Monitors Association, South Valley BDSM Group, and the Eugene S/M Discussion Group. He co-founded and hosts the monthly Corvallis and Albany munches and is the producer for Leatherwoods an annual outdoor kinky camping event in the lovely Willamette Valley. In his professional life he runs his own personal motivation business, (www.SolutionMentoring.com) and is a certified life coach specializing in relationship and personal growth issues.

In and out of the leather community he is passionate about helping others to live more joyful and fully authentic lives, and therefore has established and organized fun and supportive environments for his community, moderated and facilitated discussion groups, mediated conflicts, participated on panels, and presented interactive workshops on various topics ranging from M/s dynamics to S/M technique to “Conversations on Spirituality and Sexuality”. While he understands that being out is a luxury not everyone can afford he feels fortunate to be able to choose this path for himself and his slave because he feels modeling wholeness by telling the truth about who and what we are, despite the perceived risks, is an act of authentic leadership to which he aspires. It is his hope to honor both our unique differences and our shared common experience, building bridges of understanding both within our local leather communities and within our larger circles of influence.

Northwest slave 2007, began her slave journey five years ago when her head finally caught up with her heart and has been happily in service to Master Bob ever since. They began the shift from a floundering, ho-hum “equal partnership” twelve-year marriage to a negotiated power dynamic relationship at the turn of the millennium and slowly over a year and a half’s time found themselves spirit led to living a consensual M/s lifestyle. Currently she is a member of the Portland Leather Alliance, MasT PNW, subRosa, South Valley BDSM Group, and the Eugene S/M Discussion Group. She assists in producing Leatherwoods and co-hosts the Albany and Corvallis Munches. Through moderating discussions, participating on panels, presenting workshops, writing and sharing other expressive arts she helps others to explore and celebrate their own unique paths to self discovery.

Workshops Presented:

Day to Day Master/slave
Transformation: Power Struggle to Power Dynamic

Lee Harrington

Lee Harrington is an eclectic artist, spiritual and erotic educator, gender radical and published author on human sexuality and spiritual experience- including “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé” and the “Toybag Guide to Age Play”. Well known for his fun and informative approach to education, ze approaches sexuality as yet another art to master, or simply an art to enjoy to its fullest! Ze has been an active part of the international kink and sex positive communities for over 12 years, and his stories make people laugh while showing you that eroticism can be as serious, sexy, or silly as you make it.

Lee’s writings and photography have appeared in numerous anthologies including “Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path” (also under his previous pen name, Bridgett Harrington), and his image has been seen everywhere from PlayBoy TV to the pages of Skin Two Magazine. To learn more about Lee visit www.PassionAndSoul.com.

Workshops Presented:

Beyond Bowed Heads: Rituals for Dominance and submission
Inner Monsters (Tops): Delving Into the Darkness of Our Desires
My Kink is not all Black: Humor and BDSM

Mistress Marry

Mistress Marry is a Professional Dominant, Sex Educator and Social Worker in the Seattle/Tacoma area and has been part of the Kink Community for almost ten years. She frequently teaches Safer Sex and HIV Prevention courses and is particularly interested in Safer Sex/Blood Borne Pathogens and where these topics intersect with the BDSM Culture. She has presented at BDSM Conferences in Victoria and the States as well as local Health Departments, Jails and Prisons.

Mistress Marry identifies as a Dominant, Kinky, Poly, Femme Leather Dyke. She is part of the education team at the Center for Sex Positive Culture (formerly known as The Wetspot in Seattle), was the Vice President of Seattle Women of Leather and is currently involved in planning Wicked Womyn 09.

Workshops Presented:

The Zen of Piercing

Coral Mallow

Coral is a force of nature, and because of that the most interesting things occur in her general vicinity. In an effort to be more than just the Universe’s cat toy, She has pooled her energies into enjoying life, from chocolate to flesh hooks, boys to girls, books to super powers, and boots to gloves! Always in pursuit of knowledge and a good story, she can be found talking to just about anyone.

Coral is a member of P.L.A., R.C.D.C., F.L.A.G., Bad Girls, Bodybound, and is an honorary Bear. She is an educator, artist, Ordeal Path shaman, body pride advocate, model, gamer/comic geek, mentor, and honored to be the Owner of her property, Ryan.

During her reign as Ms.Oregon Leather 2007 she will raise money for her and her Sash husband Ben “Bear” Brown Jr’s charities, Esthers’s Pantry (Coral), and Central City Concern (Ben),

Workshops Presented:

24/7 But Living Separately
An Investment Guide for Owners
My Kink is not all Black: Humor and BDSM

Scott Smith

Scott Smith grew up in the Northwest and began exploring the facets of S&M at an early age. With his creative and rather deviant mind, he enthusiastically developed his techniques of bondage and suspension from his experience with nautical and high angle rope work. The powerful physical interactions that became the hallmark of his S&M activities were initially necessities for various activities including white water afting, scuba, climbing, and paramedical rescue. Scott brings a distinct intensity and passion to the ebb and flow of learning, teaching and actualizing S&M. A believer that the magic of BDSM comes through the connection of the participants, his workshops develop and nurture that connection; while maintaining a decidedly sadistic edginess.

Scott is an active member of Chicago Hellfire Club, Delta Brotherhood International, and GMSMA. Starting in the early 90’s, Scott has presented countless workshops and seminars throughout the country for organizations including: Chicago Hellfire Club, GMSMA, Leather University, C-Space, Living in Leather, OCLA, Sampler, Inferno, Thunder in the Mountains, Black Rose, Journeyman Academy, Orlando Bash, UPEX, Southplains Leatherfest and various international venues. Scott has received a number of awards, and is incredibly honored to be a recipient of the Chicago Hellfire Club’s Caligula award.

Scott may be contacted at: Kinky_Rope@yahoo.com

Various Related Works
Smith, Scott. Rope Bondage: Precision and Persuasion with Rope with DVD. Nazca Plains, 2006.

Workshops Presented:

Creating Connections through BDSM
Suspension of Disbelief: Making them think you are crazy, even if you aren’t

Goddess Lakshimi and Slave Limey

Goddess Lakshimi is Ms World Leather 2003. Winner of the 2004 Vi Johnson Award for Outstanding Leadership. Winner of Pantheon of Leather’s Community Choice Award 2005.

Goddess Lakshimi’s personal platform, mission and message as Ms World Leather 2003 was and still is: “Get the 411 on breast cancer” “Early Detection Saves Lives”:

• One Community- The Leather Community becoming aware.
• One Commitment- To know your body and learn how to do self-breast examinations.
• One community, our community.
• Once a month – Do a self-breast examine or have someone do one for you.
• Once a year- If you are 40 years old or older and have a history of breast cancer in your family GET A MAMMOGRAM.

Goddess Lakshimi is the proud author of her book “Safe Beginnings,” now in its second edition.

Goddess Lakshimi is a loving lifestyle Domina with approximately twenty-five years in the lifestyle. Where she has explored many aspects of S/M, D/S and B/D. She was a professional Dominatrix for well over 15 years. She has a wide spectrum of talents ranging from the sensual to the intense. She is a sensual sadist, who has been given the nickname “Mistress Safety” for her commitment to safety in the BDSM scene.

Her favorite quotes are “To be ignorant is not a crime…however to stay ignorant is” and “Complacency is as dangerous as ignorance.”

She is currently committed to lecturing and doing demonstrations on a variety of Leather and BDSM topics. She lives by her motto “Light and Love” and is devoted to continual efforts to ensure that all in the BDSM scene have access to education so that they can be informed and be as safe as possible in their endeavors. Because of her commitment to safety and her love for all, her extended family is much too numerous too mention. She currently has one male slave, “Sweet Limey”, who is her 24/7 slave as well as her committed life partner and husband and one 24/7 female slave, “Sue b q”. The Goddess is devoted to her personal spiritual path, and believes that everyone has a right to follow his or her own spirituality no matter where it leads as long as it harms no one.

Sweet Limey or Jeremy is a male slave contracted for life to the Goddess Lakshimi. He is her life mate and now her husband. Since he came to live with her they have lived the BDSM Lifestyle at all times. His whole focus in life is to look after “Madam” to serve and obey her. He has been with her for almost ten years.

He has been in the Lifestyle for approximately 16 years, he found it on line and then moved into it in real life. He learns something new and exciting almost everyday.

They are a polyamorous, bisexual household. He is always in slave mode but loves to top men.

He was brought up in England and attended an old fashion English boarding school, the type that you read about in stories of the Victorian era.

He has presented classes on “The Mind of a slave”, “Victorian manners and formal dinning”, “Old European manner and etiquette”, “The dark side of Service” and held and helped in holding “Submissive circles” all over the United States and in Ontario, Canada. He really enjoys teaching formal Victorian dinning and actually serving formal dinners to groups of people.

Workshops Presented:

Communications
D/s Lifestyles
Do’s, Don’ts and Disasters of Ownership and Servitude
The Dark Side of Service

Jonn Ireland

JONN IRELAND (www.sensualwhipping.com) has been involved in the BDSM Community for many years and a Whip Instructor for several years. To help others learn to use Whips, he has been giving personal instruction and conducted Whip Workshops in Canada and the USA for about seven years. The power exchange, control and precision required to use a Whip lured him into exploring in depth, the unique techniques of how to use a Whip in BDSM scenes. Jonn discovered that with a good Whip, proper instruction and regular practice, most people are able to use a Whip in a Scene in a very short time.

To develop a wide range of techniques and sharp accuracy however, requires more practice and personal instruction. In his Workshops, Jonn uses a 3’ Black and Red Signal Whip for warm-ups, light strikes and breast play, a Matched Pair of Joe Wheeler 5’ Signal Whips for double-handed Florentine and cross-cracking work, and a Red and Black 4’ (7’ overall) Bullwhip for wraps and harder strikes. Jonn is passionate about the “Art of Whipping” and enjoys teaching responsible, safe Whip handling techniques so that others can experience the rich complexity of “dancing on the edge” with a Whip.

Workshops Presented:

Advanced Whip Workshop

Master Bob and slave jan

Northwest Master 2007, calls the Portland and Willamette Valley kink communities home and is an active member of Portland Leather Alliance, MasT PNW, Portland Dom’s Group, Dungeon Monitors Association, South Valley BDSM Group, and the Eugene S/M Discussion Group. He co-founded and hosts the monthly Corvallis and Albany munches and is the producer for Leatherwoods an annual outdoor kinky camping event in the lovely Willamette Valley. In his professional life he runs his own personal motivation business, (www.SolutionMentoring.com) and is a certified life coach specializing in relationship and personal growth issues.

In and out of the leather community he is passionate about helping others to live more joyful and fully authentic lives, and therefore has established and organized fun and supportive environments for his community, moderated and facilitated discussion groups, mediated conflicts, participated on panels, and presented interactive workshops on various topics ranging from M/s dynamics to S/M technique to “Conversations on Spirituality and Sexuality”. While he understands that being out is a luxury not everyone can afford he feels fortunate to be able to choose this path for himself and his slave because he feels modeling wholeness by telling the truth about who and what we are, despite the perceived risks, is an act of authentic leadership to which he aspires. It is his hope to honor both our unique differences and our shared common experience, building bridges of understanding both within our local leather communities and within our larger circles of influence.

Northwest slave 2007, jan began her slave journey five years ago when her head finally caught up with her heart and has been happily in service to Master Bob ever since. They began the shift from a floundering, ho-hum “equal partnership” twelve-year marriage to a negotiated power dynamic relationship at the turn of the millennium and slowly over a year and a half’s time found themselves spirit led to living a consensual M/s lifestyle. Currently she is a member of the Portland Leather Alliance, MasT PNW, subRosa, South Valley BDSM Group, and the Eugene S/M Discussion Group. She assists in producing Leatherwoods and co-hosts the Albany and Corvallis Munches. Through moderating discussions, participating on panels, presenting workshops, writing and sharing other expressive arts she helps others to explore and celebrate their own unique paths to self discovery.

Workshops Presented:

Spirituality and Sexuality in a Master/slave Relationship

Master Skip Chasey and slave Rick

Skip Chasey (a/k/a Master Skip) heads a family of spiritually grounded leatherfolk in the City of Angels, where he is a practicing spiritual director and certified Grief Recovery ™ counselor and also earns a living as a missionary among the savages of Hollywood. He is a co-owner of the Southwest Leather Conference, a core instructor for the APEX Academy/Butchmanns Experience, and a co-founder of People of Leather Among You (“PLAY”), a social and educational group for Southern California men and women interested in the integration of spirituality and leather/fetish sexuality.

In 2000 Master Skip addressed a crowd of almost one million people at the Millennium March on Washington, and since then he has given the keynote address and presented programs on the spiritual dynamics of SM and D/s relationships at dozens of leather events and organizations across the country.
He is a past recipient of the Lee Montague Memorial Award for Outstanding Community Service from Avatar Club Los Angeles, where he is an active member, was named “Best Trainer” at the 2002 International Puppy Contest (WOOF!), and in 2005 was honored with the Pantheon of Leather Community Choice Award. Master Skip and his pup Tim are the subjects of the award-winning documentary film “Pup” and were featured in the “Sex and Spirit” issue of Nerve.com magazine.

In his own words, “Blood may be thicker than water, but leather is thicker than blood.”

slave Rick has presented programs on the spiritual dynamics of BDSM at South Plains Leatherfest, Together in Leather, Folsom Fringe, KinkFest, Southwest Leather Conference, Master/slave Conference, Beyond Vanilla, SC-LOCK, smOdyssey, Desert Dominion, Arizona Power Exchange, Lexington Leather Levi Club, Pantheon West, Lair de Sade, PLAY, and the Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association of Southern California.

he is a full-time civil servant, a part-time college instructor, a massage therapist, a retired Science of Mind practitioner and a licensed psychotherapist. First and foremost, however, he is by grace in service to his beloved Master.

Workshops Presented:

Thunder Kiss: Love and Fear and the Single Tail Whip
Transparent D/s: From Projection to Reflection
Servant to the World: The Spiritual Awakening of a slave Heart

T Douglas

T Douglas is a definite switch, though she is known publicly as a Dominant-Top. Her first experience of a sexual nature was asking another 10 year-old girl to tie her up and touch her (MMMM… sounds like a kinky switch).

T has developed the “Kink Profile,” which assists individuals of any kink or skill-level in discovering their own desires and abilities. Developed to assist in scene development and assessing partner compatibility, this tool maximizes one’s ability to find and maintain healthy and satisfying kinky relationships. Elements discovered with the “Kink Profile” are essential in establishing one’s own wants, needs, boundaries, and limits.

Her core research and community education focus on switching. T has interviewed switches, those who play with switches, those who barely switch, those who switch but don’t identify as a Switch, and those who think that switches need to get off the fence. Being active in several leather organizations, she has written and presented workshops on switching, T’s Toy Bag, scene development, and collaborative D/s.

T holds a degree in Communication, is a NLP Practitioner and licensed Hypnotherapist, and, as a Communication Analyst, she helps businesses develop better relationships (Marketing and Public Relations, Customer Relations, Business Collaborations).

Workshops Presented:

Switching: A Switch Knows What They Want!

Catherine Gross

Catherine has served local and national boards, judged many contests, staffed conferences in a number of positions, emceed and produced fundraisers for various charities/organizations. She is currently the co producer of South East Leather Fest.

Catherine has presented classes at South Plains LeatherFest, Living In Leather by NLA-I, San Diego Leatherfest, Southeast Leatherfest, Southwest Leather Conference, Together in Leather, Northeast Master/slave Conference, Leather University, Boys Camp, International Ms. Leather, Leather Leadership Conference, Pantheon, TES, Folsom Fringe, Orlando Bash, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, and at many more events. She was presented with Black Rose’s Vaughn Keith National Educator Award in 2002 and Pantheon of Leather Southeast Region Service Award 2006

She enjoys the one on one contact that smaller organizations facilitate. Catherine has written a Safety Manual in use by seven organizations scattered from coast to coast. You may download a PDF of this manual on her site www.BDSMClasses.com.

Catherine created Servant’s Retreat, an intensive weekend for those who serve, that focuses on the internal issues of submission and service. She also produces The Nine Fold Path which is a six hour seminar open to all.

She is an owner of a wholesale/retail chainmail business and of www.FetishAuctioneer.com which received Pantheon of Leather Business of the Year 2006 award, where she sells sex toys under the seller name Zipperdiva.

“Teaching provides me with great joy. I love seeing emotional and intellectual connections made in class discussions. We’ve all contributed to educating each other in many forms. It is my great fortune to participate in the creation of these moments.”

For more information on her seminars, coaching practice or travel schedule please visit www.BDSMClasses.com.

Workshops Presented:

Philosophies of M/s
Refining Service Moment
The Three C’s: Commitment, Contracts and Collars

Philip the Foole

Philip the Foole is a bisexual, polyamorous switch (a complete slut). He has been an active BDSM enthusiast ever since he tied up his high school girlfriend after a judo class more than 40 years ago. Those long judo belts are great for bondage. He is listed as a perverting influence in the credits of Jay Wiseman’s “SM-101.” His erotic interests include “capture and tie up” resistance play , high-intensity “primal play”, intelligence and humor, preferably all mixed together at the same time.

Philip and Lady Foole live in Wichita Falls, Texas.

“You want a label for yourself? You’re a comfortably well-adusted bisexual sadomasochist with a strong bondage fetish. Now get out of here. I’ve got some real nutballs to deal with.” – Ancient Kung Foole psychiatric advice given to young Philip the Foole

Workshops Presented:

Primal Play
Rough Takedowns: Resistance Play

Jennifer Skrukwa

Jennifer is an activist, educator and promoter of sex positive education & play. Through her production company Libido Events, she educates on a variety of subjects from beginning explorations to intense studies that examine and celebrate alternative sexuality. She is an active and vibrant member of the kink community in Vancouver, BC Canada participating in play events, providing a safe entry point to the alternative lifestyle scene through her Erotic Arts Curriculum and traveling to numerous international sex positive events as a guest speaker on a broad range of topics.

http://www.LibidoEvents.com
http://libidoevents.blogspot.com

Past presentations have been for Seattle’s The Wet Spot, Vancouver’s Libido Events, VWL, Leather Leadership 8 New Orleans, Leather Leadership 9 Arizona, Leather Leadership 10 New York, KinkFest Oregon, Pacific Friction Oregon, Triskelli Guild Bellingham, In the Woods Bellingham, Everything To Do With Sex Show 2002 2003 and 2004, Taboo Sex Show 2005, 2006, Adult Friend Finder, North American Conference of Bisexuality, Gender and Sexual Diversity & approximately 100 classes per year at adult stores and venues throughout Canada and the US.

Workshops Presented:

Bottoming Skills: Learning how to bottom from a bottom
Personal Safety for Perverts

John and Libby Warren

John has written five books. The most popular, The Loving Dominant, is a nonfiction exploration of the how’s and why’s of consensual domination and submission play. Two others are fiction. The Torquemada Killer, is a police procedural set in the New York D&S scene; Murder at Roissy is a who-done-it set at an Arizona D&S resort. Another book, Safe Sane Consensual and Fun is an unusual blend of fiction and fact that are intended to be used as seed-stock for the reader’s real-life sensual scenarios. Advice and safety information are provided in marginal notes. His latest, High-Tech Toys, is part of Greenery Press’ Toy Bag Books series. Dr. Warren is also the author of numerous magazine articles.

After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, he has taught at both East Carolina University and the University of Southern Mississippi, and until very recently he ran Diversified Services, a mail order company that provided books and other things for the BDSM community for over a decade. He is now retired and an active member of SPICE in southern Florida.

Libby has been in the scene since 1992 when she met John in NYC. After getting involved in some TES meetings she wanted to help build a similar BDSM communityin Boston. Libby, together with John, founded The Boston Dungeon Society and was instrumental in sheparding BDS from a local bbs into a member run incorporated non-profit BDSM group.

Libby is active in the BDSM scene as an educator, leader and an organizer slut and is an inspirational leader of volunteers. She presents on BDSM topics relating to submission, spirituality, relationships, organization planning and leadership development.

Libby has served on the board of National Coalition of Sexual Freedom and is an Emeritus Board Member of Leather Leadership conference. In the fall of 2004, Libby & John moved to South Florida where they are active in local BDSM community and members of SPICE and SSF. Libby is also well known for giving great
parties.

Workshops Presented:

Couples, Relationships and the BDSM Scene
Electro Play
Leadership Development
Submission and Exhibitionism – Unleashing the inner exhibitionist