Unveiling Our Armor: Cultivating Vulnerability in the Leather Community
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Class Description
Black women often carry strength like armor, shaped by history, survival, and the expectation to “keep it together.” While that armor protects us, it can also make it hard to be vulnerable, to feel safe being seen, or to build deep, sustaining connections in community.
This workshop creates a trauma-informed, Black feminist, and Leather-affirming space for Black women to explore vulnerability, boundaries, and trust. We examine how past experiences, including trauma, shape how we show up, and we learn tools for fostering emotional safety in ourselves and in community.
Through shared storytelling, somatic grounding, and practical strategies, participants practice letting their guard down while honoring their boundaries. This workshop helps cultivate deeper, more authentic, and healthier relationships within Leather spaces and beyond.
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PresenterMrs. Dee
(She/her/Princess )
Presenter Bio
Mrs. Dee (she/her) is a Leather woman, consent educator, and full member of ONYX Pearls NY-NE whose work lives at the intersection of BDSM, mental health, and community care. As The Consent Queen, she teaches embodied consent, emotional regulation, and ethical power dynamics for players who want depth, not confusion.
Her teaching highlights freeze/fawn responses, somatic cues, trauma-informed scene building, and navigating power with integrity. A playful Middle with a love of fantasy and role play, she brings warmth and accessibility to even the heaviest topics.
She believes that pleasure and mental health are not opposites, they are partners when we learn to listen to the body.
https://www.instagram.com/iammrsdee
https://fetlife.com/MrsDee_Supreme
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So far people have registered for this Class
PresenterMrs. Dee
(She/her/Princess )
Presenter Bio
Mrs. Dee (she/her) is a Leather woman, consent educator, and full member of ONYX Pearls NY-NE whose work lives at the intersection of BDSM, mental health, and community care. As The Consent Queen, she teaches embodied consent, emotional regulation, and ethical power dynamics for players who want depth, not confusion.
Her teaching highlights freeze/fawn responses, somatic cues, trauma-informed scene building, and navigating power with integrity. A playful Middle with a love of fantasy and role play, she brings warmth and accessibility to even the heaviest topics.
She believes that pleasure and mental health are not opposites, they are partners when we learn to listen to the body.
https://www.instagram.com/iammrsdee
https://fetlife.com/MrsDee_Supreme
Moderated by
Class Stats
So far people have registered for this Class
Mrs. Dee
(She/her/Princess )
Presenter Bio
Mrs. Dee (she/her) is a Leather woman, consent educator, and full member of ONYX Pearls NY-NE whose work lives at the intersection of BDSM, mental health, and community care. As The Consent Queen, she teaches embodied consent, emotional regulation, and ethical power dynamics for players who want depth, not confusion.
Her teaching highlights freeze/fawn responses, somatic cues, trauma-informed scene building, and navigating power with integrity. A playful Middle with a love of fantasy and role play, she brings warmth and accessibility to even the heaviest topics.
She believes that pleasure and mental health are not opposites, they are partners when we learn to listen to the body.
https://www.instagram.com/iammrsdee
https://fetlife.com/MrsDee_Supreme