Self and Purpose in Gardening and D/s

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Class Description

Have you struggled with a sense of purpose? A way to contribute meaningfully in your community? In your dynamic? On your planet?

Join Drummer Pony, an avid gardener with extensive education in permaculture and environmentalism as he discusses service-oriented submission and gardening, serving one's dominant, one's community, and one's Earth.

In this class, we will be analyzing the issue of selfhood and alienation, both from one's environment and from others. We will look at how plant care and D/s can exist as exercises in intimacy and selfhood, and how gardening and kink can be married in ways that benefit not only one's own relationships, but one's greater social and ecological community. Much of this class will be informed by the writings of Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer and her book "Braiding Sweetgrass."

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Presenter

Drummer Pony

(He/Him)

Presenter Bio

Drummer Pony is an autistic, queer, transgender leatherman and ponyplayer who has been active in the Colorado kink community for four years. He is an avid writer, artist, and gardener with a background in environmental justice and food security. This will be his second time teaching at THRIVE, and he is excited to have another opportunity to present.