DAYTIME EVENTS FOR NOVEMBER 2024

1:00-2:30PM in the ground floor dungeon: “The Fundamentals of Rope Bondage,” with The Rope Coven

 

In this beginner’s workshop, we’ll explore the foundational elements of rope play including soft skills such as safety, consent, and negotiation—ensuring that every binding is crafted with care and respect. This approach will aid us in fostering a deeper, more intentional connection with ourselves and others.

 

We will also go over some hands on technical tying skills so you can get started with your practice! No partner is necessary as the ties we will be doing can be done on yourself just as well. Please bring your own rope if you have any, otherwise there will be rope available for borrow or for purchase.

 

1:30-2:15PM in the basement dungeon: “The Collar in BDSM,” with Bryan and feather

 

Bryan has collared feather. What does this mean? The collar in many senses opens new meanings for the individuals involved, and for their relationship to the larger kink and BDSM worlds. This class will discuss the relationship between collaring, dominance, and submission in a BDSM life. Bryan and feather, two of the most experienced BDSM players in the PUSH family, will examine the meanings, possibilities, and issues related to collaring.

 

2:30-3:15PM in the basement dungeon: “Secrets of Proud Crossdressing: Does This Make Me Look Scared?”, with Shokolada

 

BDSM tradition often considers crossdressers to be restricted to roles such as sissies, transgender people, and the forcibly feminized. Shokolada shows how kinky reality includes those roles and continues beyond them, with identities such as genderqueers, role-players, gendergamers, fashion plates, and more. Don’t let the dress or the pants control you – make your clothes part of who you are! Attendees are encouraged to wear their favorite gender-crossing clothing, as this class often turns into an impromptu fashion show.

 

3:00-3:45PM in the ground floor dungeon: Kink and Disability: Exploring Inclusivity, Consent, and Empowerment, with Mx Neon, Sunshine, and Violet Gardenia. Selene will be facilitating the discussion.

 

This panel is designed to explore the intersections of sexuality, consent, power dynamics, and accessibility within the kink community for people with disabilities. The goal is to create an inclusive and respectful environment for discussing this topic.  The panelists will discuss each of these topics and share their own stories, as well as opening the floor up for discussion about how to make kink more inclusive.

 

3:30-4:15PM in the basement dungeon: Healing Trauma Through Kink and BDSM, with Rebecca-Emma Kaplan (Pink).

 

This class is back by popular demand! Rebecca-Emma Kaplan LMSW, aka Pink (all pronouns) is a Social Worker, psychotherapist, play party producer, program design and evaluation nerd, and a poly, kinky pervert. Pink's kink identity and professional identity collide as he works to support the needs of kinky, sex-positive, consensually non-monogamous, LGBTQIA+, sex worker populations through her Social Work. Rebecca-Emma will brief us on what trauma is, outline some of kink’s potential for healing trauma, and offer tools for trauma-informed scene negotiation. They will briefly review what they spoke about at the last event and then go into more detail about how kink can work with trauma to develop a healing environment.

 

4:00-4:45PM in the ground floor dungeon: Impact Play, with Bryan and feather

 

Everybody seems to love the impact play demonstrations of Bryan and feather! Bryan and feather are two of the most experienced impact players in the PUSH family, with Bryan in particular engaging in impact play in public and private ever since the Raleigh scene of the 1990s. In this class, in addition to multiple demonstrations involving a variety of impact toys (and body parts), Bryan and feather will give everybody a refresher on how to safely negotiate impact play.

 

4:30-5:15PM in the littles and pet play area: Littles Drawing Time, with Sara Bloo

 

The littles area will open at 4:30 for drawing time! Coloring books will be available for a drawing session.

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5:00-5:45PM in the ground floor dungeon: Negotiating Scenes: A Meet and Greet Experience, facilitated by Groovecat and Petecock

 

Groovecat and Petecock will discuss some of the finer points of negotiating all kinds of BDSM scenes at PUSH and other places, focusing on what to discuss and what to watch out for. After the discussion, they will allow those who are interested to engage in a “speed dating” type of experience, where you will be paired off to begin a brief scene discussion, after which each individual will move on to another, and then another, and so on. By engaging in such a quick discussion, our hope is that most people will find somebody with whom they are interested in doing a scene later that evening (after more discussion about the scene). Of course, there will be no pressure on anybody to do any type of scene. Rather, the idea is to begin to develop the skills involved in scene negotiation.