Everyone Else Feels Alone Too - Agency in Building a Kink Community

Everyone Else Feels Alone Too - Agency in Building a Kink Community

For most of us, a social life and a community are key to achieving one’s goals, building a safety net, and feeling satisfied with life. Social isolation has been a growing issue for many years, and its effects are often compounded by the social stresses of neurodiversity. For neurodivergent people, the kink community may be a hopeful source of socialization and connection-building, but what do you do when you are geographically isolated? When everything feels out of reach? When you feel too nervous to go to munches? When everyone only seems to like house parties? When you don’t drink? When that restaurant is too loud? When you feel the impulse to say “fuck it - I’ll make my own?” 
This class will focus on exercising one’s agency in organizing and building a kink community from a specifically neurodivergent lens, and navigating anxiety and feelings of self-worth in the process of finding community.

Presenter Bio: 

Mxstress is an educational consultant, public speaker, professional dominatrix, and coach with over a decade of facilitation experience. Their work spans disciplines but focuses on the experiences of individuals with historically marginalized or minoritized identities, especially queer, transgender, and gender non-conforming people of color. They use humor, empathy, and honesty to empower all in a shared pursuit of justice, liberation, community, and dismantling systemic oppression. 

Drummer Pony is a transgender, queer, autistic leatherman, sadomasochist, ponyboy and all-around deviant with a flair for the extravagant and bizarre. He has been active in the Colorado leather community for almost five years and spends much of his time engaging with the Rocky Mountain Pony Herd. He is an avid writer, artist, and gardener with a background in environmental science and justice.

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