Author: Miriam Green

Before we head out to this year’s Folsom Street Fair, here is our most up-to-date class and event roster. Headed to ​Folsom Street Fair​ or ​Dark Odyssey: Surrender​? You’ll see us at both! Love us? Make a ​monthly membership contribution​. (VIPs get great benefits, discounts, and some free classes!) Links below are to ​Forbidden Tickets​. If you’re a Plura member, check the ​Plura​ app for ticketing 2-4 weeks before each event. Need personal coaching & guidance for questions around sex, kink, and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. Not sure if coaching is the right fit for you? We offer ​10-15 minute exploration sessions​ to learn more and ensure we’re a good fit. The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives 11/2/2025 – 12/13/25: ​Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Erotic Desires – November – December 2025​ 1/1/26 – 1/31/26: ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters 2026​ S/m & the physical side of play 10/1 6pm PDT: ​Gasp & Glow: Breathwork as Sensation Play with M’kali-Hashiki​ (ONLINE) 10/1 7pm PDT: ​Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW: 10/12 6pm PDT: ​Violet Wands 101 with Electro Girly​ (ONLINE) 10/27 6pm PDT: ​Genitorture for Vulvas with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) 11/3 6pm PST: ​Burn Baby Burn: Sensual and Sadistic Fire Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 11/4 6pm PST: ​Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 11/5 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab with impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) 11/24 6pm PST: ​Impact Toys 201: Wielding with Confidence with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) Bondage & Fetish 10/30 6pm PDT: ​Tied and True: Introduction to Rope Bondage with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 10/19 2pm PDT: ​Baring Your Emotional Jugular: Active Bottoming For Emotional Sadism Play with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) 10/20 6pm PDT: ​Mindfuck Me: Fear & Psychological Edge Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 10/29 6pm PDT: ​Dark Roleplaying with Lee Harrington​ (ONLINE) 11/5 6pm PST: ​Empowered/Responsible Dominance: Building Trust, Holding Power with Integrity with Sir Scott​ (ONLINE) 11/6 6pm PST: ​Full Moon Class 1: Elemental Magic in BDSM with Madam Rosie​ (ONLINE) 11/16 11am PST: ​Service Styles with Lady V​ (ONLINE) 11/16 2pm PST: ​Busting the Binary In Your Energy Play with Keiden Bren​ (ONLINE) 12/4 6pm PST: ​Full Moon Class 2: Elemental Magic & Lunar Energy in BDSM with Madam Rosie​ (ONLINE) NEW 12/13 6pm PST: ​Finding Your Powers: The 10 Sides of What Gets called “D/s” with Lee Harrington​ (ONLINE) Hypnokink 10/13 6pm PDT: ​Hypnokink on the Ace Spectrum with Faun​ (ONLINE) 11/9 2pm PST: ​Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren​ (ONLINE) Creativity 10/28 6pm PDT: ​Beyond Spicy: Writing the Taboo with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) 11/30 11am PST: ​Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious Dick Pics with Lady V​ (ONLINE) Sexy Times 10/19 11am PDT: Edge of Glory: P-Spot & Cock Edging with Lady V (ONLINE) 10/23 6pm PDT: ​Sex Toys 101: Enhancing Pleasure and Connection with the Right Tools with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) 10/28 6pm PDT: ​Beyond Spicy: Writing the Taboo with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) 11/20 6pm PST: ​Fingering Fundamentals: Techniques for Ultimate Pleasure with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) 11/30 11am PST: ​Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious Dick Pics with Lady V​ (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 10/6 6pm PDT: ​Tune In to Your Menopause Experience with Lasara Firefox Allen​ (ONLINE) 10/9 6pm PDT: ​Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 10/15 6pm PDT: ​From ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ to Boundaries: Healing Consent Culture in BDSM with Buzz Stingyear​ (ONLINE) 10/18 11am PDT: ​Sex-Positive Menopause for Genderqueer Folx with Lasara Firefox Allen​ (ONLINE) 10/18 2pm PDT: ​Dark Moon Menopause: Crafting a Magickal Menopause Practice with Lasara Firefox Allen​ (ONLINE) 10/19 2pm PDT: ​Baring Your Emotional Jugular: Active Bottoming For Emotional Sadism Play with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) 11/2 11am – 2pm PST: ​Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam from Consent Academy​ (ONLINE) 11/15 10am PST: ​From Harm to Healing with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy​ (ONLINE) 11/19 6pm PST: ​Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) 11/22 11am PST: ​What Now? Responding to Consent Injuries with Sir Panda​ (ONLINE) 11/23 11am PST: ​Autism & Kink with John Pendal​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 9/28 11am – 6pm: Come see Wicked Grounds at Folsom Street Fair! ​Details here.​ (San Francisco, CA) 10/1 Noon PDT: ​Welcome to the SF Kink Scene with Miriam Green​ (San Francisco, CA) 10/4 3pm PDT: ​Dating While Kinky with Miriam Green​ (San Francisco, CA) 10/7 6pm PDT: ​KINK 201: Advanced Negotiation for Relationship & Dynamics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 10/16 6pm PDT: ​Dungeons Demystified: Navigating Etiquette, Attire, and Atmosphere in BDSM Spaces with Princess Rara​ (ONLINE) 10/22 7pm PDT: ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan​ (San Francisco, CA) 11/1 11am PDT: ​Welcome to the Public Kink Scene! with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 11/4 6pm PST: ​Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 10/1 6pm PDT: ​Gasp & Glow: Breathwork as Sensation Play with M’kali-Hashiki​ (ONLINE) 10/18 2pm PDT: ​Dark Moon Menopause: Crafting a Magickal Menopause Practice with Lasara Firefox Allen​ (ONLINE) 10/22 6pm PDT: ​Spicy Tarot with H G Wyndell​ (ONLINE) 11/6 6pm PST: ​Full Moon Class 1: Elemental Magic in BDSM with Madam Rosie​ (ONLINE) 11/9 2pm PST: ​Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren​ (ONLINE) 11/13 6pm PST: ​Choosing and Connecting with Tarot and Oracle Decks with Lee Harrington​ (ONLINE) 11/16 2pm PST: ​Busting the Binary In Your Energy Play with Keiden Bren​ (ONLINE) 11/19 6pm PST: ​Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) Self-Directed Digital Downloads ​Diving Deep (video class)​ ​KINK 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics (video class)​ ​KINK 202: Advanced Negotiation for Dynamics & Relationships (video class)​ ​Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class)​ ​Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template)​ ​Aftercare Kit Checklist​

Hello kinksters – First, I want to warmly thank everyone who supported our ​LeatherWalk 2025 team​. With your support, we exceeded our modest fundraising goals for the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District and were the second-highest fundraising team. Go you!!! Well done! We are so excited about Folsom Street Fair this weekend! If you’re in San Francisco, keep up with ​our events listing on FetLife for the evolving details.​ We have several instructors offering meet & greet sessions, our coaches on hand to help you get started answering your own kink questions, and lots of great prizes to win. Come on by! (Love what we do? Want to leave a tip? You can do that ​right here!​) We could use a few people to help us chat with kinksters at the booth, so if you’re already familiar with Wicked Grounds and interested in helping, please drop us a note on FetLife or email Mir at WickedGrounds.com. But Folsom isn’t the only thing going on! We have plenty of online and in-person classes to keep your kink creativity flowing not just during Leather Week but all year. Let’s take a look at this week! (PS: Are you seeing this message on FetLife or on our website? Want to get this weekly newsletter and our bimonthly class rosters right in your mailbox? ​Sign up here!​) This Week! New event passes are loaded for you! Do you want to take a LOT of classes at one low price? Our ​monthly​, ​quarterly​, and ​annual​ event passes are now available for you at WickedGroundsAnnex.com! Thursday, September 25 – Saturday, September 27 We’re preparing for Folsom Street Fair, so there are no classes scheduled right now. But check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Sunday, September 28 San Francisco, CA: It’s Folsom Street Fair day! Join us and a couple hundred thousand other kinky people in the streets of San Francisco celebrating our diverse kink and leather community! Yes, ​Wicked Grounds will have a booth there​ Monday, September 29 The Wicked Grounds team and instructors are taking a much-needed break today! But check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Tuesday, September 30 Online: Tonight will be part two of our two-part Writing Spicy workshop with Sinclair Sexsmith. Registration is closed for this cohort, but keep your eyes peeled! We run this two-part workshop usually three times per year. A new month starts tomorrow! If you’d like to make the most of it, consider investing in a ​monthly​, ​quarterly​, and ​annual​ event pass! Wednesday, October 1 We have both online and SF classes today! Online: Curious about how to use intentional breathwork to enhance BDSM play? Join M’kali-Hashiki online at 6pm Pacific for Gasp & Glow: Breathwork as Sensation Play. Expect nerdy-meets-sacred vibes, plenty of guided practice, and an easy aftercare exhale you can use anywhere. Advanced ticketing required whether to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. San Francisco, CA: In the Bay Area? Want to build your impact play skills? Whether you’re an experienced player or just getting started, join us tonight at 7pm Pacific for our hands-on peer skill share SpankLab, the Bay Area’s original impact play lab hosted by impossiblepain! This event almost always sells out, so advanced ticketing is highly recommended! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday, October 2 Check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Friday, October 3 San Francisco, CA: Join us tonight in San Francisco for a special Friday night edition of Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan at 7pm. Advanced ticketing is required, and is available exclusively through Plura. ​Get yours here!​ Saturday, October 4 We have two first Saturday classes in San Francisco today! San Francisco, CA: Curious about how to engage with the local kink & BDSM scene? We’ll help you connect with all the groups, resources, events, and spaces that will help you have more fun while staying safe and meeting great people in Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green at noon in downtown San Francisco. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. San Francisco, CA: Want to engage in dating, but not sure how to fit your dating life with your kink goals? We’ve heard it all, and we have some ideas! Join Miriam Green at 3pm in downtown San Francisco for a live edition of Dating While Kinky, one of our Kink 101 core classes. Advanced ticketing is recommended. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, October 5 Check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Kink Desires​: Registration now open for November 2 – December 13, 2025 ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters 2026​: Registration now open for January 1 – January 31, 2026. Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Do you find this weekly roundup helpful? If this newsletter has saved you time, or given you a great idea, feel free to leave a little something ​in our tip jar​)

Hello kinksters – There is a lot going on this month with Wicked Grounds, but I want to start out this week by talking about another organization that has impacted me greatly. I’ve mentioned in some of my classes that when I moved to San Francisco, I was incredibly intimidated by the local scene, despite having been pretty active in my home communities in Texas. The first organization I got involved with in San Francisco was ​Mission Control​. When I volunteered to work for my first event there (Velvet!), I quickly made new friends and found a warm, welcoming community. I jumped both feet in, quickly finding myself at their old location several time for a big renovation project. When Mission Control lost that space on Mission Street, I was gutted. But those savvy folks found a new home in Oakland, and now they want to make it their forever home by buying the space. This is a huge deal not just for Mission Control but all of kinky and sex-positive San Francisco. If I have personally made a difference in your life, it’s probably because Mission Control helped me get into the local community. If you’d like to pay it forward to them, you can help them with critical fundraising to buy their forever home ​here​. Speaking of helping community thrive, we have a team for LeatherWalk on Sunday, September 21st. We’d love you to walk with us and/ or contribute to our team’s fundraising – whether or not you can attend live. This critical fundraiser works to keep San Francisco’s leather & kink scene thriving in uncertain times. ​Please find out more and contribute to our team here!​ If you’re in the Bay Area—or want to travel in, as thousands do from around the country—mark your calendars for Sunday, September 28th, the day of the Folsom Street Fair! We’ll be running an information booth, giving away some fabulous prizes, and will have meet-and-greets and ask-me-anything sessions with our own Miriam Green & Nick as well as several of our instructors! ​Check out our events listing on FetLife for the evolving details.​ We could use a few people to help us get prizes in the hands of kinksters, so if you’re interested, please drop us a note on FetLife or email Mir at WickedGrounds.com. Let’s take a look at this week! This Week! Thursday, September 18 Online: Learning the ropes? Curious about self-suspension as a long-term goal? You’ll want some excellent self-tying skills. Join SuspendDisbelief online tonight for Fine, I’ll Do It Myself: Rope 101 For the Aspiring Self-Suspender. Advanced tickets required whether to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, September 19 No live classes today, but you can always check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, September 20 Mendocino, CA: It’s not officially a Wicked Grounds event, but if you’re in wayyyy northern California, join our Miriam Green for The Mendocino Munch in Mendocino, California from 1-3pm and meet your local kinksters! ​Find out more in our FetLife event here.​ Sunday, September 21 It’s a busy day! San Francisco, CA: If you’re in the SF Bay Area, we’d love you to join us to march in this year’s LeatherWalk! Leatherwalk is a great way to meet other leather folk and kinksters, explore some of our great local venues in person, and raise critical funds for San Francisco’s Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District! Our Miriam Green will be part of the walk and invites you to show up in a Wicked Grounds shirt (or anything else!) and walk with them! And you can support our fundraising team from anywhere ​right here​. Not in the Bay Area? Want to get some recorded classes locked down even as you march? We have more options for you! Online: Join Lady V online at 11am Pacific for So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking & Leather Care 101. You’ll keep all of your leather gear in great shape with the knowledge you gain in this class, and you might start to explore bootblacking as a service! Advanced ticketing required through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Then join Faun online at 2pm Pacific for Negotiation Skills for Subs & Bottoms. Negotiation is a two-way conversation, and getting better at it is important for people on all sides of the slash! You can attend live or through a recording, but either way you’ll need advance tickets. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, September 22 Online: Curious about rough body play? Want to take yours to the next level? Join Miss Mackenzee online at 6pm Pacific tonight for Passionate Entanglement: The Dynamics of Rough Body Play. Advanced ticketing required whether you plan to wrestle with this material during the scheduled class or watch the recording later. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. San Francisco, CA: Queer? Kinky? Want to make some new friends to celebrate Leather Month? Join us tonight in downtown San Francisco for Kinky Queer Speed Friending/ Dating/ Whatever and meet some new folks as friends, wingpersons, potential play partners, or . . . who knows? We’ll provide the people, you book the U-Haul. Space is limited and we have less than a dozen seats left, so get yours soon from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday, September 23 Online: Want to write better erotica, or maybe just sexy notes for a willing partner? Join Sinclair Sexsmith online for our popular two-part workshop Writing Spicy. we’ll meet on both 9/23 and 9/30 for two hours each, and these sessions are only offered live – no recording. You’ll want advanced tickets, so get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday, September 24 We have two online classes tonight! Online: Curious about the energy of kink and what to do with it? There are some key skills you can develop to deepen headspace and increase a palpable sense of power exchange. Join H G Wyndell tonight online for Invisible Toybox: The

Howdy kinksters! We have a wide range of new classes for beginners through advanced players to take care of all of who are as erotic, embodied, kinky beings! Enrich mind, body, and spirit with our range of upcoming classes and events. Links below are to our primary ticketing via ​Forbidden Tickets​. If you’re a Plura member, check the ​Plura​ app for ticketing there as well. We usually have Plura ticketing available 2-4 weeks before each event. Would you like to indulge in personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues around sex, kink, and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. Not sure if coaching is the right fit for you? We now offer ​10-15 minute exploration sessions​ to learn more or answer the quickest of questions. Headed to this year’s ​Folsom Street Fair​ or ​Dark Odyssey: Surrender​? You’ll see us at both! A huge thank-you to our Patreon supporters!!! We salute your efforts to keep us going and growing. If you value what we do, please make a ​monthly membership contribution​. (VIPs get great benefits, such as discounts and even some free classes!) The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives 11/2/2025 – 12/13/25: ​Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Erotic Desires – November – December 2025​ 1/1/26 – 1/31/26: ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters 2026​ S/m & the physical side of play 9/15 6pm PDT: ​Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 9/22 6pm PDT: ​Passionate Entanglement: The Dynamics of Rough Body Play with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) 10/1 6pm PDT: ​Gasp & Glow: Breathwork as Sensation Play with M’kali-Hashiki​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/1 7pm PDT: ​Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 10/27 6pm PDT: ​Genitorture for Vulvas with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) 11/3 6pm PST: ​Burn Baby Burn: Sensual and Sadistic Fire Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/4 6pm PST: ​Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/5 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab with impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 11/24 6pm PST: ​Impact Toys 201: Wielding with Confidence with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) Gear 9/21 11am PDT: ​So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking & Leather Care 101 with Lady V​ (ONLINE) Bondage & Fetish 9/18 6pm PDT: ​Fine, I’ll Do It Myself: Rope 101 For the Aspiring Self-Suspender with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) 10/30 6pm PDT: ​Tied and True: Introduction to Rope Bondage with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 9/24 6pm PDT: ​Invisible Toybox: The Energy of Kink with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) 10/19 2pm PDT: ​Baring Your Emotional Jugular: Active Bottoming For Emotional Sadism Play with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/20 6pm PDT: ​Mindfuck Me: Fear & Psychological Edge Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 10/29 6pm PDT: ​Dark Roleplaying with Lee Harrington​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/5 6pm PST: ​Empowered/Responsible Dominance: Building Trust, Holding Power with Integrity with Sir Scott​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/6 6pm PST: ​Full Moon Class 1: Elemental Magic in BDSM with Madam Rosie​ (ONLINE) 11/16 11am PST: ​Service Styles with Lady V​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/16 2pm PST: ​Busting the Binary In Your Energy Play with Keiden Bren​ (ONLINE) NEW 12/4 6pm PST: ​Full Moon Class 2: Elemental Magic & Lunar Energy in BDSM with Madam Rosie​ (ONLINE) Hypnokink 10/13 6pm PDT: ​Hypnokink on the Ace Spectrum with Faun​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/9 2pm PST: ​Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren​ (ONLINE) Creativity 9/23 and 9/30 6pm PDT: ​Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) 10/28 6pm PDT: ​Beyond Spicy: Writing the Taboo with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/30 11am PDT: ​Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious Dick Pics with Lady V​ (ONLINE) Sexy Times 9/18 6pm PDT: ​Bedroom Bondage for Beginners with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 9/23 and 9/30 6pm PDT: ​Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) 9/25 6pm PDT: ​Backdoor Basics: A Guide to Anal Play with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) 10/19 11am PDT: Edge of Glory: P-Spot & Cock Edging with Lady V (ONLINE) NEW 10/23 6pm PDT: ​Sex Toys 101: Enhancing Pleasure and Connection with the Right Tools with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) 10/28 6pm PDT: ​Beyond Spicy: Writing the Taboo with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/20 6pm PST: ​Fingering Fundamentals: Techniques for Ultimate Pleasure with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/30 11am PDT: ​Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious Dick Pics with Lady V​ (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 9/17 6pm PDT: ​Determining Your Risk Profile with Lee Harrington​ (ONLINE) 9/21 2pm PDT: ​Negotiation Skills for Subs & Bottoms with Faun​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/6 6pm PDT: ​Tune In to Your Menopause Experience with Lasara Firefox Allen​ (ONLINE) 10/9 6pm PDT: ​Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 10/15 6pm PDT: ​From ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ to Boundaries: Healing Consent Culture in BDSM with Buzz Stingyear​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/18 11am PDT: ​Sex-Positive Menopause for Genderqueer Folx with Lasara Firefox Allen​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/18 2pm PDT: ​Dark Moon Menopause: Crafting a Magickal Menopause Practice with Lasara Firefox Allen​ (ONLINE) 10/19 2pm PDT: ​Baring Your Emotional Jugular: Active Bottoming For Emotional Sadism Play with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/2 11am – 2pm PST: ​Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam from Consent Academy​ (ONLINE) NEW: 11/15 10am PST: ​From Harm to Healing with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy​ (ONLINE) 11/19 6pm PST: ​Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/22 11am PST: ​What Now? Responding to Consent Injuries with Sir Panda​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/23 11am PDT: ​Autism & Kink with John Pendal​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! NEW: 9/21 10:30 am PDT: Walk in or Support Team Wicked Grounds for LeatherWalk 2025! ​Find out more and contribute here.​ (San Francisco, CA) 9/22 7pm PDT: ​Kinky Queer Speed Friending/ Dating/ Whatever – FOLSOM EDITION – with Miriam Green and impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW: 9/28 11am – 6pm: Come see Wicked Grounds at Folsom Street Fair! ​Details here.​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 10/1 Noon PDT: ​Welcome to the SF Kink Scene with Miriam Green​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW: 10/4 3pm PDT: ​Dating While Kinky with Miriam Green​ (San Francisco, CA) 10/7

Hello kinksters – Leather Month is upon us! We have a team for LeatherWalk on Sunday, September 21st. We’d love you to walk with us and/ or contribute to our team’s fundraising – whether or not you can attend live. This critical fundraiser works to keep San Francisco’s leather & kink scene thriving in uncertain times. ​Please find out more and contribute to our team here!​ If you’re in the Bay Area—or want to travel in, as thousands do from around the country—mark your calendars for Sunday, September 28th, the day of the Folsom Street Fair! We’ll be running an information booth, giving away some fabulous prizes, and will have meet-and-greets and ask-me-anything sessions with our own Miriam Green & Nick as well as several of our instructors! ​Check out our events listing on FetLife for the evolving details.​ We could use a few people to help us get prizes in the hands of kinksters, so if you’re interested, please drop us a note on FetLife or email Mir at WickedGrounds.com. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s take a look at this week! This Week! Thursday, September 11 Online: Struggling with online dating? Having a hard time really connecting with folks through the apps? Join Marie Thouin online tonight for some new strategies in Mindful Swiping. We’ll explore ways to better connect with potential partners. Advanced ticketing is required whether you plan to attend live or to watch the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, September 12 No live classes today, but you can always check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, September 13 Oakland: Join us for a special full-day Lap Dancing Intensive from 10:30 am – 5pm at East Bay Community Space! Alexandria from Click Your Heels will show you all the moves in this special full-day workshop! Advanced ticketing is recommended! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, September 14 Online: Curious about how to make more of your hypnokink scenes? Join Hypnostory and PandaPet online today for Scene Like a Storyteller to learn a whole new hypno toolkit. Advanced ticketing is required whether you plan to attend live or watch the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, September 15 Online: Whether you’re interested in medical play, piercings, cuttings, or other forms of blood play, there are some critical techniques you’ll want to keep this kind of play fun, safe, and thrilling. Join Jamie Joy online tonight for Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play to ramp up your skillset! Advanced ticketing is required to either attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday, September 16 No live classes today, but you can always check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Wednesday, September 17 Online: What is a risk profile and why do I need one? Negotiating starts with knowing what feels safe, reasonable, and within our safety zone for tops and bottoms alike! Selecting the kinds of play and partners we’ll play with is part of creating the emotional safety to go deeper and have much more fun. Having a well-thought-out risk profile for yourself will make it much easier to make decisions in the moment. To explore more, join legendary kink educator Lee Harrington tonight for Determining Your Risk Profile. You’ll need advanced tickets to either attend live or through the recording, so get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday, September 18 Online: Learning the ropes? Curious about self-suspension as a long-term goal? You’ll want some excellent self-tying skills. Join SuspendDisbelief online tonight for Fine, I’ll Do It Myself: Rope 101 For the Aspiring Self-Suspender. Advanced tickets required whether to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, September 19 No live classes today, but you can always check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, September 20 Mendocino, CA: It’s not officially a Wicked Grounds event, but if you’re in wayyyy northern California, join our Miriam Green for The Mendocino Munch in Mendocino, California from 1-3pm and meet your local kinksters! ​Find out more in our FetLife event here.​ Sunday, September 21 It’s a busy day! San Francisco, CA: If you’re in the SF Bay Area, we’d love you to join us to march in this year’s LeatherWalk! Leatherwalk is a great way to meet other leather folk and kinksters, explore some of our great local venues in person, and raise critical funds for San Francisco’s Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District! Our Miriam Green will be part of the walk and invites you to show up in a Wicked Grounds shirt (or anything else!) and walk with them! And you can support our fundraising team from anywhere ​right here​. Not in the Bay Area? Want to get some recorded classes locked down even as you march? We have more options for you! Online: Join Lady V online at 11am Pacific for So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking & Leather Care 101. You’ll keep all of your leather gear in great shape with the knowledge you gain in this class, and you might start to explore bootblacking as a service! Advanced ticketing required through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Then join Faun online at 2pm Pacific for Negotiation Skills for Subs & Bottoms. Negotiation is a two-way conversation, and getting better at it is important for people on all sides of the slash! You can attend live or through a recording, but either way you’ll need advance tickets. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Kink Desires​: Registration now open for November 2 – December 13, 2025 Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time

Hello kinksters – It’s the first full week of the month, and that means lots of live classes in San Francisco and Oakland in addition to our online classes. Whether you’re in the Bay Area or around the world, you’re sure to find some great events this week. This Week! Saturday, September 6 SF: Are you in the SF Bay Area? Want to understand more about how to engage with and interact with the local scene? Perhaps you’re planning for your first Folsom Street Fair or kink conference and you want to make the most out of it? Join us today at noon in San Francisco for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green. We’ll get you ready for that first class, munch, fair, or play party in no time! Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. SF: Then stick around for an in-person edition of Miriam Green’s beginner’s class, BDSM Negotiation Basics at 2:30 pm. We’ll help you build all the skills you need to have successful BDSM scenes while building the foundation for success in kinky relationships, dynamics, and communities. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, September 7 Oakland: Join us in Oakland for a special movement class with a somatic focus on deepening communication for D/s scenes and relationships: Leading & Following: Non-Verbal D/s Skills with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended: we have an attendance cap for Alexandria’s classes, and they often do sell out! Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, September 8 and Tuesday, September 9 No live classes today, but you can always check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Wednesday, September 10 SF: If you’re in the SF Bay Area and want to meet some new folks, join us for Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan. Whether you’re looking for people to date, folks to do scenes with, or just new friends that you can be yourself with, this is the way to meet lots of cool new people – fast. ​Tickets are available exclusively on Plura,​ which is also a good place to keep up with your new friends! Thursday, September 11 Online: Struggling with online dating? Having a hard time really connecting with folks through the apps? Join Marie Thouin online tonight for some new strategies in Mindful Swiping. We’ll explore ways to better connect with potential partners. Advanced ticketing is required whether you plan to attend live or to watch the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, September 12 No live classes today, but you can always check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, September 13 Oakland: Join us for a special full-day Lap Dancing Intensive from 10:30 am – 5pm at East Bay Community Space! Alexandria from Click Your Heels will show you all the moves in this special full-day workshop! Advanced ticketing is recommended! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, September 14 Online: Curious about how to make more of your hypnokink scenes? Join Hypnostory and PandaPet online today for Scene Like a Storyteller to learn a whole new hypno toolkit. Advanced ticketing is required whether you plan to attend live or watch the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. ​The Pentacle Path: A Six-Week Intensive Tarot Training​: August 10 – September 20, 2025. Late registration is available! ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Kink Desires​: Registration now open for November 2 – December 13, 2025 Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Do you find this weekly roundup helpful? If this newsletter has saved you time, or given you a great idea, feel free to leave a little something ​in our tip jar​)

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Hello kinksters – Here in the Bay Area, we are in a definite season: right in the middle of Burning Man week and heading directly into Leather Month! We’ve decided to form a ​Wicked Grounds Team​ for LeatherWalk 2025! If you are able to walk with us, we’d love to see you at City Hall for the ​kickoff​ on September 21st. Even if you can’t walk with us, we invite you to support the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District through our team by making a ​tax deductible donation​ to the District. We are actively preparing for Folsom Street Fair, where we will have a booth to talk all about kink education! Come meet our instructors, get some kink advice, and perhaps you might win a little something – we’ll be giving away everything from digital downloads to free classes, class passes, and even one grand prize of a free coaching session. We could use a couple of volunteers to help us give out fabulous prizes at the fair! Ping us if you’re interested! We have a lot of both online and in-person events featured today! Let’s take a look at this coming week: This Week! Thursday, August 28 Want to up your oral game? Join Lilithfoxx online tonight for The Art of Pussy Eating! You’ll want advanced tickets to watch the class whether online or recorded. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, August 29 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ Saturday, August 30 At 11am Pacific, we’ll host part 2 of The Archetypes of Power & Surrender: A Two Part Series. We’ve set this one up so that you can get tickets until the start of today’s session; if you missed Part 1, we’ll get you the recording alongside the Part 2 recording on August 31. Get tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Bratting and Brat Taming with Mel and Memi – a live and recorded online class. You’ll need advanced tickets whether to watch live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, August 31 Top? Bottom? Why not enjoy it all? Join Lady V today at 11am Pacific for Switchinatrix: Harnessing Your Power as a Switch. You’ll learn lots of ways to deepen your satisfaction on all sides of the slash. Advanced ticketing required to either attend live or get the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, September 1 and Tuesday, September 2 No live classes today due to the holiday. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ Wednesday, September 3 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Boundless Creativity: Innovative Ways to Use Rope in Play with Miss Mackenzee, or you can sign up to get the recording to watch this week. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Are you in the SF Bay Area? Join us in person at 7pm for SpankLab – San Francisco’s original impact play peer skill share! You’ll get a quick topical demo, we’ll create a safe space for play and consent, and then you’ll have a full 90 minutes to practice your own skills. This is a great way to learn for beginners and experienced impact players alike – and to meet new friends who share your interests. Advanced ticketing strongly recommended – this event often sells out! Get advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Want something to do after SpankLab? We recommend heading up Folsom to check out PlayXLand at the Cat Club, and make it an afterparty! Thursday, September 4 and Friday, September 5 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ Saturday, September 6 Are you in the SF Bay Area? Want to understand more about how to engage with and interact with the local scene? Perhaps you’re planning for your first Folsom Street Fair or kink conference and you want to make the most out of it? Join us today at noon in San Francisco for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green. We’ll get you ready for that first class, munch, fair, or play party in no time! Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Then stick around for an in-person edition of Miriam Green’s beginner’s class BDSM Negotiation Basics at 2:30 pm. We’ll help you build all the skills you need to have successful BDSM scenes, while building the foundation for success in kinky relationships, dynamics, and communities. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, September 7 Join us in Oakland for a special movement class with a somatic focus on deepening communication for D/s scenes and relationships: Leading & Following: Non-Verbal D/s Skills with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended: we have an attendance cap for Alexandria’s classes, and they often do sell out! Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Here are a few that have just been opened for registration that you might want to check out. ​The Pentacle Path: A Six-Week Intensive Tarot Training​: August 10 – September 20, 2025. Late registration available! Lap Dancing Daylong Intensive (by Click Your Heels): In Person, Oakland, California, Saturday, September 13 10:30 am – 5pm. Ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Kink Desires​: Registration now open for November 2 – December 13, 2025 Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Do you find this weekly roundup helpful? If this newsletter has saved you time, or given you a great idea, feel free to leave a little something ​in our tip

First, a quick note: If you’re not in the Bay Area, you can still support our efforts, so I’ve decided to send this letter out to everyone! First, a quick introduction to the District In 2018, after many years of effort (that many Wicked Grounds customers, staff, and ownership were part of), San Francisco established the worlds first ​Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District​. Seven years later, the District has started to make a big difference not only in its SOMA area of San Francisco but well beyond, through its support of local kink, queer, and Leather businesses — but by extension helping kinksters well beyond the Bay Area. I consider the existence of the District to have had a huge impact on Wicked Grounds’ ability to survive and thrive over the past several years. And: as someone who had a close a beloved brick-and-mortar space in the District’s footprint, I feel very strongly about their mission in helping remaining brick-and-mortar businesses survive. What is LeatherWalk? LeatherWalk has existed in a few forms over the years. These days, it is being managed by the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District. For those who walk in person, it is a very fun afternoon of being proud and visible, and getting a great tour of some of the venues and businesses that make the District so fun. We’ll start at City Hall and meander through several leather bars and kinky stores on our way to Leather Pride at Eagle Plaza. (If you’re coming live, wear good shoes or boots!) If you are able to donate, awesome! Please do! Your funds support the kinky businesses and organizations in the District — and by extension help us have spaces to keep doing classes in SF! If you cannot make a financial donation, you are still warmly encouraged to walk with us! If you can’t walk in person, you can still support the District by being part of the ​Wicked Grounds team​! Join Team Wicked Grounds for LeatherWalk 2025! LeatherWalk 2025 Support the Wicked Grounds contingent! A walk from City Hall to Eagle Plaza in SOMA, San Francisco Sunday, 9/21 10:30 am – 3:00 pm ​Support Wicked Grounds team by walking and/ or donating to LeatherWalk 2025​. ​RSVP on FetLife to let friends know you’re coming!​ How to join the virtual team Clicky clicky ​this link​! Click on “Support Your Favorite Kinkster” Select Team: Wicked Grounds Donate what you can You are always welcome to walk in our contingent whether or not you are in a position to donate. But if you can: do! The fact that the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District exists is a big factor in our ability to provide kink education not only in the Bay Area but worldwide. If you’ve ever done anything with Wicked Grounds, you have benefited from the District’s existence. If you can throw them a few bucks in our name, we’d sure appreciate it! How to walk with us We meet at City Hall in San Francisco about 10:30am. Mir runs chronically early for everything, so you’ll probably see them a bit before that! Look for folks wearing Wicked Grounds shirts. If you have a Wicked Grounds shirt, wear yours! ​If you want a Wicked Grounds shirt, there’s an app for that!​ About the walk Bring Your Kink. Step Out. Give Back. OUR STREETS. OUR STORY. OUR STRENGTH. STAND TOGETHER – GEAR ON Unity protects us. Walk with us from City Hall to Eagle Plaza to protect our leather, kink, and queer spaces. Enjoy entertainment, music, and refreshment stops along the way. CELEBRATE COMMUNITY – STEP OUT Join fellow leather, kink, & queer community members in our joyful celebration ending with a Leather Pride Flag raising: a symbol of visibility and resistance. SUPPORT THE DISTRICT – GIVE BACK Walkers are encouraged to fundraise or make a meaningful donation supporting the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District — We exist to ensure there is a lively and vibrant home for our community of events, businesses, bars & organizations in SOMA. WALK YOUR WAY Registration is free and open to all — fundraising is welcome, not required. Walk solo or with a team, and know that every step you take helps preserve the spaces, stories, and culture that keep our community thriving. The day’s agenda LeatherWalk 2025 kicks off San Francisco’s Leather Week on Sunday, September 21. We gather at City Hall at 10:30 AM before a couple rousing speakers at 10:45 AM when we’ll make some noise and step off at 11:00 AM for a fun and powerful walk through SOMA — stopping for entertainment and refreshments at beloved leather, kink, and queer venues along the way. The walk ends at Eagle Plaza with the raising of the Leather Pride Flag during the SF Eagle’s Leather Pride Fest. Funds raised go directly to support the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District, ensuring a vibrant, visible future for our community in SOMA. We walk to celebrate, to resist, and to protect the spaces that hold our history and our joy. Gather at 10:30 AM — Program at 10:45 AM — Step Off at 11:00 AM Starting Location — City Hall, Polk Street Steps Stop 1 — Oasis Stop 2 — Powerhouse, Azucar Lounge, Hole in the Wall, Stop 3 — Leather Etc, Driftwood Stop 4 — Decant SF, Nosh Box Stop 5 — Mr S Leather/Ringold Alley Stop 6 — Lone Star Saloon Final Stop 7 — SF Eagle Plaza for the Leather Pride Fest Ending Time — Approximately 3:00 PM