Decolonizing Nervous Systems: Neurodivergence, Trauma, and Power Exchange for QTBIPOC Brains
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Class Description
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.
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PresenterDavis The Reverend
(They/She)
Presenter Bio
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/
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PresenterDavis The Reverend
(They/She)
Presenter Bio
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/
Moderated by
Class Stats
So far people have registered for this Class
Davis The Reverend
(They/She)
Presenter Bio
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/