I am Reverend Melanie Davis, a national award winning publisher, a queer BIPOC educator, Dominatrix, spiritual practitioner, and curriculum author with 25+ years of experience teaching trauma-informed, neurodivergent-aware kink.

I teach from lived experience: neurodivergent, prophetic, queer, culturally-rooted, and power-aware.

I center QTBIPOC liberation in every room while making the content accessible to all identities.

My work bridges nervous system science, ancestral survival strategies, kink, theology, and decolonization.  I offer a lens not often available in kink spaces.

https://www.fifthelementrising.com/

Western kink education tends to treat the nervous system as universal — but bodies shaped by colonization, racism, queerness, neurodivergence, trauma, and spiritual inheritance regulate very differently.
This workshop reframes kink and power exchange through a decolonized nervous system lens, centering QTBIPOC and neurodivergent players whose brains don’t fit white-normed models of communication, consent, or control.
Participants will explore how masking, fawning, RSD, rejection trauma, executive dysfunction, prophetic intuition, sensory needs, and cultural survival strategies uniquely shape dominance, submission, attachment, arousal, repair, vulnerability, and play.

 

Are you excited about the THRIVE experience and want to help it continue?

Consider donating to help PK/THRIVE continue to provide education.

PayPal - AffirmingMatters@gmail.com

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Find more info on THRIVE https://THRIVEVirtualCon.com/

Send a quick message if you would like to suggest topics, present, or support in another way. PKinkingEvents@gmail.com

In kink, poly, and plural relationships, consent and power are rarely straightforward. This workshop explores how neurodivergence, trauma, mental health, and cultural conditioning shape negotiation, submission, and dominance. Participants will learn tools to navigate multiple partners, divergent attachment styles, and relational complexity while cultivating erotic sovereignty, ethical intimacy, and ecstatic, trauma-informed play.

 

Are you excited about the THRIVE experience and want to help it continue?

Consider donating to help PK/THRIVE continue to provide education.

PayPal - AffirmingMatters@gmail.com

CashApp - $AffirmingMatters

Venmo - @‌AffirmingMatters

Please include "THRIVE 2026" in the note.

Get your PK & THRIVE swag! https://www.redbubble.com/people/DevynStone/shop

Check out other events PK is hosting here:

https://www.facebook.com/PragmaticKink

https://fetlife.com/PragmaticKink

Find more info on THRIVE https://THRIVEVirtualCon.com/

Send a quick message if you would like to suggest topics, present, or support in another way. PKinkingEvents@gmail.com