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Here’s the latest, and there are dozens of new classes for everyone, from complete beginners to advanced players. Want to take a lot of classes? Get a monthly or annual event pass! Need personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues around sex, kink and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.com The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives October – November 2024: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) Aftercare Kit Checklist Bondage NEW 8/12 Noon PDT: Let’s Get Knotty with Jamie Joy (SF) S/m & the physical side of play 8/7 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab with impossiblepain (SF) 8/24 2pm PDT: Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain with vahavta (ONLINE) 8/26 6pm PDT: Spanking for Punishment or Reward with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Save the Date! 9/4 7pm: SpankLab w/ impossiblepain (SF) 9/23 6pm PDT: Staples 101 with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) D/s & the mental side of play 8/7 6pm PDT: Exploring Gender and Sexuality Through Animal Role Play with Wiley Wolfe (ONLINE) NEW 8/13 6pm PDT: At Your Service: Topping from Submission with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) NEW 8/18 3pm PDT: Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria (SF) 8/20 6:30 pm PDT: Improv for Naughty Play w/ Psychokitty Ryan (ONLINE) 8/24 11am – 5pm PDT: The Heart of Dominance Daylong Intensive with Anton Fulmen (SF) 9/12 6pm PDT: Waking the Beast: Primal Play 101 with Wiley Wolfe (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis 8/8 6pm PDT: Hypnosis 201 with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll (ONLINE) Movement workshops NEW 8/18 3pm PDT: Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria (SF) Sexy Times NEW 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 8/15 and 8/29 6pm PDT: Kink and Trauma: A Two-Part Series w/ BearJew (ONLINE) 8/19 6pm PDT: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM: A Discussion with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) ONLINE 8/31 2pm PDT: Conflict in Kink Mistress Solaris/ Ember (ONLINE) 9/16 6pm PDT: Kink 101: Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green (ONLINE) 9/19 6pm PDT: Consent: The Ins and Outs with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) NEW 9/21 2pm PDT: Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven (ONLINE) 9/22 11am PDT: Autism and Kink with John Pendal (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 8/6 6pm PDT: Tips for House Topping w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 8/14 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty (SF) 8/22 6pm PDT: “Kinktuitive” Dating with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Save the date! 9/11 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) NEW 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters Keep checking back! Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) NEW 9/22 2pm PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green (ONLINE)

Howdy kinksters – It’s nearly the end of July. Where does the time go?! If you’re interested in more substantive musings about kink education and culture, I’m in the process of finally launching a personal substack. It’s going to be 100% about issues, ideas and culture, and 0% about Wicked Grounds. (Ok, maybe 0.5%.) If you’re interested in seeing what I get up to over there, you can find out more and subscribe here. This Sunday is Up Your Alley in San Francisco, and many of San Francisco’s Leatherati will be out on the SOMA streets making it happen. We won’t personally have a booth this year, but several of our favorite vendors will be there. If you’re looking for two of them right in one place, you can find the Rough Cut Leather pop-up booth right with our friends at ByrdBeaks. If you’re looking for Rough Cut Leather and other Wicked Grounds gear, you can also find us vending at the AfterSHOCK party next Friday night to kick off Up Your Alley weekend. Use the link above to get a special discount courtesy of our friends at Kink Y Communidad! We are going into our last couple of weeks in our post-Pride, pre-Up Your Alley sale! Hit us up at both WickedGrounds.com (for class passes, rope, gear, and books) and WickedGroundsAnnex.com (for coaching, multi-week courses, and digital downloads). Use code onlinepride24 at either site to get 20% off anything on those sites! Events Roundup! Thursday, July 25 Interested in kink? Are you neurodivergent, or interested in improving your negotiations with neurodivergent partners? Join us Thursday, July 25 for Getting Freaky in the Spreadsheets: Negotiating With Neurodiversity with Lilith Foxx! This class will discuss ways to negotiate play and dynamics with neurodiversity in mind! Get your tickets for this 6pm Pacific online class through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 26 Wicked Grounds is pleased to vend tonight at AfterSHOCK — Emo & Metal Themed Play Party at Stopgap, hosted by Mooooo LLC in collaboration with @HuffleRough & @MariCherry — so come out and see all our floggers, slappers, restraints, rope and more! Space for this party is limited and tickets are selling fast, so get yours here! Using that link, you’ll get a special discount from our friends at Kink Y Communidad. Saturday, July 27 There are no live classes today, but we have video classes and digital downloads available for you at Wicked Grounds Annex! Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Sunday, July 28 It’s Up Your Alley Sunday, so many of San Francisco’s leather folk will be out at the kinkiest street fair you’ve ever seen. Think Folsom Street Fair, but much smaller, and much more intense. Find out more here! Monday, July 29 Join Wicked Grounds and Jamie Joy online at 6pm for The More the Merrier: Group Sex 101. Whether you’re curious about group sex or just want to have more fun with it, you’ll learn everything you need to know right here! Find out more and get tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, July 30 Two classes today! Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Consent in Hypnosis with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll. Find out more and get tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Or join us in San Francisco at 7pm for Part Two of Getting Started with Rope with Psychokitty Ryan. (Attendance in Part 1 is not required!) Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura, or take your chance at the door. Wednesday, July 31 Tonight, we run Writing Spicy, Part 2 with Sinclair Sexsmith. Admission is restricted to those who participated in Part 1. Thursday, August 1 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Hypnosis 101 with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll. Find out more and get tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday, August 3 It’s first Saturday! Join us in San Francisco for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene! This introduction to local kink culture, venues and organizations will give you everything you need to feel confident exploring the rich resources of the San Francisco kink scene. Starting this month, our local version of this class will happen only every other month, so be sure to get on it! Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, August 4 Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Gender Affirming Intimacy with Lady V & Jamie Love. Find out more and get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Support. Follow. Share. Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. This month, coaching and consulting is 20% off with code onlinepride24 Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team (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)

Howdy kinksters – Leather season is upon us! The last Sunday of the month is Up Your Alley in San Francisco, and many of San Francisco’s Leatherati will be out on the SOMA streets making it happen. We won’t personally have a booth this year, but several of our favorite vendors will be there. If you’re looking for two of them right in one place, you can find the Rough Cut Leather pop-up booth right with our friends at ByrdBeaks. If you’re looking for Rough Cut Leather and other Wicked Grounds gear, you can also find us vending at the AfterSHOCK party next Friday night to kick off Up Your Alley weekend. Use the link above to get a special discount courtesy of our friends at Kink Y Communidad! We are going into our last couple of weeks in our post-Pride, pre-Up Your Alley sale! Hit us up at both WickedGrounds.com (for class passes, rope, gear, and books) and WickedGroundsAnnex.com (for coaching, multi-week courses, and digital downloads). Use code onlinepride24 at either site to get 20% off anything on those sites! Events Roundup! Friday, July 19 There are no live classes today, but we have video classes and digital downloads available for you at Wicked Grounds Annex! Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Saturday, July 20 Hey friends in EMEA! We have some classes this weekend that you can easily attend without staying up into the wee hours! Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Determining Your Risk Profile Workshop with renowned kink educator vahavta. In this workshop, we will use a framework based on how we want to leave our kink scenes to determine what our priorities should be, as well as discuss how we make sure our partners have thought about the same. Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, July 21 Join us online at 2pm Pacific for The Littlest Sub: Balancing Multiple Dynamics with HypnoStory and PandaPet. Daddy/little, Master/pet, Master/oblate, nesting partners, household management…these are all aspects of HypnoStory and panda’s relationship that coexist on a daily basis. Join them as they discuss their relationship journey and exploration of balancing their multiple facets in ways that fill both their cups. Then, they’ll share tools and techniques for developing and deepening your own combination of dynamics. Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, July 22 Join Wicked Grounds and Miss Mackenzee online at 6pm Pacific for Heavy Impact and Rough Body Play! If you want to learn more about how to be safe and have fun even (and especially!) when playing hard, this is your class! Get your advance tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, July 23 Want to consider going much deeper? Have a very personal question or a niche topic to explore that you haven’t seen represented in our typical classes? Consider a personal consult! You can find out more and book here. Wednesday, July 24 We will host part two of our Self-Care as Spiritual Practice with HG Wyndell. This class is closed to new attendees, but we look forward to seeing those of you returning from Part 1! Thursday, July 25 Interested in kink? Are you neurodivergent, or interested in improving your negotiations with neurodivergent partners? Join us Thursday, July 25 for Getting Freaky in the Spreadsheets: Negotiating With Neurodiversity with Lilith Foxx! This class will discuss ways to negotiate play and dynamics with neurodiversity in mind! Get your tickets for this 6pm Pacific online class through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 26 Wicked Grounds is pleased to vend tonight at AfterSHOCK — Emo & Metal Themed Play Party at Stopgap, hosted by Mooooo LLC in collaboration with @HuffleRough & @MariCherry — so come out and see all our floggers, slappers, restraints, rope and more! Space for this party is limited and tickets are selling fast, so get yours here! Using that link, you’ll get a special discount from our friends at Kink Y Communidad. Saturday, July 27 There are no live classes today, but we have video classes and digital downloads available for you at Wicked Grounds Annex! Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Sunday, July 28 It’s Up Your Alley Sunday, so many of San Francisco’s leather folk will be out at the kinkiest street fair you’ve ever seen. Think Folsom Street Fair, but much smaller, and much more intense. Find out more here! Support. Follow. Share. Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. This month, coaching and consulting is 20% off with code onlinepride24 Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team (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)

Howdy kinksters – In this line of work, I’m continually blessed to talk with people who take risks and engage in deep, meaningful self-exploration and play. Our first queer-centered intensive has just concluded. The thoughtfulness, vulnerability, and strength of our participants have left me in awe. I had a similar experience guest-hosting SpankLab last week. We had a large group of brand-new players; it was so cool seeing the transition from hesitant newcomer to satisfied player in two hours!  Whatever you’re into, I encourage you to explore it with us. In the coming months, we have fantastic programming planned for every part of a kinkster’s journey! (And if you’re curious about impact play, definitely come out this Saturday for two great hands-on classes with me and impossiblepain!) If you’re looking for gear, you can also find us vending at the Society of Janus Ignite party this Saturday night (or pick up gear while at my Saturday classes!) This month’s special continues at both WickedGrounds.com (for class passes, rope, gear, and books) and WickedGroundsAnnex.com (for coaching, multi-week courses, and digital downloads). Use code onlinepride24 at either site to get 20% off anything on those sites! Events Roundup! New stuff, sales & specials Get 20% off ALL products and services sold via WickedGrounds.com or WickedGroundsAnnex.com this month with code onlinepride24. This discount is good for monthly and annual class passes, one-on-one coaching and consulting, digital downloads, toys, and much more! Thinking ahead Join our fall Diving Deep cohort, and early ticketing is open now. Find out more here. This is one of the courses you can book with your 20% discount using code onlinepride24 Thursday, July 11 Hey, doll! Whether you want to be one, or want to play with one, we invite you to join us at 6pm Pacific online for Being Barbie: An Introduction to Dollification Fetish with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll. Learn more and get your advance tickets either at Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 12 Are you interested in booking individual coaching and consulting to do deeper with your kink? Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Saturday, July 13 Yes, the rumors are true! Miriam Green and impossiblepain return to co-teaching with a brand new impact play class for brand-new beginnners and experienced players alike! Join us at the Folsom Street Community Center at 10:30am (we know! we know!) for a NEW class, Why So Serious?! Impact Play for Fun, Fear, and Frolic! Advanced ticketing recommended. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then stick around for a core skills class with Miriam Green, Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic. Learn key techniques that will take your caning (and other impact play) to the next level for a wide range of techniques. (Fun fact! The exact same skills that will make caning more pleasurable for bottoms make it more ergonomic and fun for tops!) This class starts at 1pm Pacific. Advance tickets recommended. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Not in SF? We have an online class today at 2pm Pacific, too! Join Hannah the Scribe for Tarot Reading as a Service and learn a brand new service to add to your (or your submissive’s) toolkit. Learn more and get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, July 14 Whether you took the Lap Dancing 201 class on July 7 or have some experience you’d like to take to the next level, please join us at 2pm in San Francisco for Lap Dancing 201 with Click Your Heels. Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, July 15 Join us tonight at 6pm Pacific for a Wicked Grounds core skills class, Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green. You’ll learn all the skills you need to plan for and communicate effectively during BDSM scene to enhance safety, trust and fun! Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, July 16 There are no live classes today, but we have video classes and digital downloads available for you at Wicked Grounds Annex! Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Wednesday, July 17 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for the first in a two-part Writing Spicy series with erotica author and editor Sinclair Sexsmith. Find out more about the series and sign up on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday, July 18 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Bottom, Why?! A Conscious Discussion of Why We Bottoms Do the Things We Do with BearJew aka Ev Evnen. As we dive deeper into our “whys” we’ll find ways to better communicate with our tops and doms, in addition to better understanding ourselves. Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 19 There are no live classes today, but we have video classes and digital downloads available for you at Wicked Grounds Annex! Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Saturday, July 20 Hey friends in EMEA! We have some classes this weekend that you can easily attend without staying up into the wee hours! Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Determining Your Risk Profile Workshop with renowned kink educator vahavta. In this workshop, we will use a framework based on how we want to leave our kink scenes to determine what our priorities should be, as well as discuss how we make sure our partners have thought about the same. Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, July 21 Join us online at 2pm Pacific for The Littlest Sub: Balancing Multiple Dynamics with HypnoStory and PandaPet. Daddy/little, Master/pet, Master/oblate, nesting partners, household management…these are all aspects of HypnoStory and panda’s relationship that coexist on a daily basis. Join them as they discuss their relationship journey and exploration of balancing their multiple facets in ways that fill both their cups. Then, they’ll share tools and techniques for developing and deepening your own combination of dynamics. Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Support. Follow. Share. Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Use our Venmo for one-time donations

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Howdy kinksters – I hope our kinkster friends in the US are enjoying a nice long weekend. I was delighted to spend Wednesday evening with some of you at SpankLab, and I’ve spent much of the time since exploring a small beach along the Mendocino coast. I’ll be back in San Francisco this weekend for our first Saturday classes, and I hope I’ll see some of you there! July is the soft launch of San Francisco’s Leather Pride Season, culminating with the Folsom Street Fair at the end of September. This month, we are running a special at both WickedGrounds.com (for class passes, rope, gear, and books) and WickedGroundsAnnex.com (for coaching, multi-week courses, and digital downloads). Use code onlinepride24 at either site to get 20% off anything we sell. Start exploring our online and in-person offerings this week, starting with the list below! Events Roundup! New stuff, sales & specials Get 20% off ALL products and services sold via WickedGrounds.com or WickedGroundsAnnex.com this month with code onlinepride24. This discount is good for monthly and annual class passes, one-on-one coaching and consulting, digital downloads, toys, and much more! Thinking ahead Join our fall Diving Deep cohort, and early ticketing is open now. Find out more here. This is one of the courses you can book with your 20% discount using code onlinepride24 Friday, July 5 No live classes today, but you can explore our digital downloads and personalized coaching at WickedGroundsAnnex.com and get 20% off with code onlinepride24 Saturday, July 6 Are you in the SF Bay Area? Join us for our first Saturday classes to get a great start stepping into the local kink scene! We start at noon with Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Miriam Green. This class has everything you need to know about the culture, etiquette, organizations, people, and venues that make the SF scene so great — and how you can be part of it. Get advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then stick around for Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote at 3pm. Part negotiation workshop, part improv, and part speed friending, you’ll learn all the social skills you need to make your steps into the local community and parties a success! Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Best strategy? Come for both and hang out between the two courses to pick Mir’s brain! Both classes meet at our space at Trellis, near Mission and 5th Street. Sunday, July 7 SF area submissives, join us at 11:30am for our monthly discussion group Submissives in Solidarity. We’ll explore a wide variety of topics in submission and how to navigate submissive roles in relationships and community. Ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then join us at 2pm for Click Your Heels for Lap Dancing 101 with Alexandria. Whether you want to dance in community or just your bedroom, you’ll learn new confidence and skills in the fun, interactive class! Advance ticketing strongly recommended – this class sells out, and space is limited! Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Both classes meet at Mukunda Studio, near Folsom and 8th Street. Wednesday, July 10 Join us at Trellis Wednesday evening at 7pm for Kinky Speed Friending & Dating with Psychokitty Ryan. You’ll meet a lot of other cool people in the community — fast! Get details and ticketing for this event here! Thursday, July 11 Hey, doll! Whether you want to be one, or want to play with one, we invite you to join us at 6pm Pacific online for Being Barbie: An Introduction to Dollification Fetish with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll. Learn more and get your advance tickets either at Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 12 Are you interested in booking individual coaching and consulting to do deeper with your kink? Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Saturday, July 13 Yes, the rumors are true! Miriam Green and impossiblepain return to co-teaching with a brand new impact play class for brand-new beginnners and experienced players alike! Join us at the Folsom Street Community Center at 10:30am (we know! we know!) for a NEW class, Why So Serious?! Impact Play for Fun, Fear, and Frolic! Advanced ticketing recommended. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then stick around for a core skills class with Miriam Green, Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic. Learn key techniques that will take your caning (and other impact play) to the next level for a wide range of techniques. (Fun fact! The exact same skills that will make caning more pleasurable for bottoms make it more ergonomic and fun for tops!) This class starts at 1pm Pacific. Advance tickets recommended. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Not in SF? We have an online class today at 2pm Pacific, too! Join Hannah the Scribe for Tarot Reading as a Service and learn a brand new service to add to your (or your submissive’s) toolkit. Learn more and get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, July 14 Whether you took the Lap Dancing 201 class on July 7 or have some experience you’d like to take to the next level, please join us at 2pm in San Francisco for Lap Dancing 201 with Click Your Heels. Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Support. Follow. Share. Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. This month, coaching and consulting is 20% off with code onlinepride24 Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team (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)

Howdy kinksters – It’s here! It’s here! We look forward to seeing you at San Francisco Pride this coming weekend on Saturday, June 29, and Sunday, June 30. We are truly excited that SF Pride and Folsom Street have collaborated on a vastly expanded 18+ area this year. Visit us in Leather Alley to learn all about our classes, workshops, and coaching. Several of the Wicked Grounds crew members will be on hand to answer all your questions.  Please note that we will not be selling gear at Pride this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t hook you up with excellent rope, books, and other gear. You just need to hop online! We are launching a Pride season special at both WickedGrounds.com (for class passes, rope, gear, and books) and WickedGroundsAnnex.com (for coaching, multi-week courses, and digital downloads). Use code onlinepride24 at either site to get 20% off anything we sell. Start exploring our online and in-person offerings this week, starting with the list below! Events Roundup! New stuff, sales & specials Check out our new Aftercare Kit Checklist to help you think about the items you might want for care, comfort, and connection after a big scene. This is one of the items you can get with your 20% discount code onlinepride24 Thinking ahead Join our fall Diving Deep cohort, and early ticketing is open now. Find out more here. This is one of the courses you can book with your 20% discount using code onlinepride24 Thursday, June 27 Join us online at 6pm for Creating Inclusive Kink Spaces for BIPOC with Lilith Foxx and Chris Merchant. This workshop is an opportunity for participants to engage in meaningful learning, develop empathetic communication skills, and understand the nuances of allyship in a community context. Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday, June 29 and Sunday, June 30 Come see us in Leather Alley at San Francisco Pride! We’ll be on hand with lots of info about our upcoming classes and events. The Root of Pride 18+ area will be on Golden Gate between Hyde and McAllister. Monday, July 1 Whether you use public speaking in the kink world as an organizer, educator or party host, or you just want to be more effective in your speech overall, it never hurts to get your tips from one of the most active BDSM educators! Join Lee Harrington for Effecive Speaking tonight at 6pm Pacific. Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, July 2 You know the basics of negotiating for scenes. Now, you want to create rituals, protocols, dynamics and relationships that last. Join Miriam Green online at 6pm Pacific tonight for KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships & Dynamics. We’ll help you consider the right questions, communication styles, and approaches to successfully co-create great dynamics and fine-tune them over time. Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, July 3 Are you in the SF Bay Area? Make some fireworks of your own tonight at Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! Host impossiblepain will take you through a mini workshop “Bottoming Skills for Everyone!” The mini-workshop will focus on critical skills for bottoms that bottoms and tops alike should know. Then they’ll create a space for exploration, learning and play. It’s like a rope jam, but for impact! This workshop meets at the Folsom Street Community Center at 7pm. Advance ticketing recommended. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday, July 4 Happy Independence Day! Friday, July 5 No live classes today, but you can explore our digital downloads and personalized coaching at WickedGroundsAnnex.com and get 20% off with code onlinepride24 Saturday, July 6 Are you in the SF Bay Area? Join us for our first Saturday classes to get a great start stepping into the local kink scene! We start at noon with Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Miriam Green. This class has everything you need to know about the culture, etiquette, organizations, people, and venues that make the SF scene so great — and how you can be part of it. Get advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then stick around for Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote at 3pm. Part negotiation workshop, part improv, and part speed friending, you’ll learn all the social skills you need to make your steps into the local community and parties a success! Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Both classes meet at our space at Trellis, near Mission and 5th Street. Sunday, July 7 SF area submissives, join us at 11:30am for our monthly discussion group Submissives in Solidarity. We’ll explore a wide variety of topics in submission and how to navigate submissive roles in relationships and community. Ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then join us at 2pm for Click Your Heels for Lap Dancing 101 with Alexandria. Whether you want to dance in community or just your bedroom, you’ll learn new confidence and skills in the fun, interactive class! Advance ticketing strongly recommended – this class sells out, and space is limited! Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Both classes meet at Mukunda Studio, near Folsom and 8th Street. Support. Follow. Share. Want to invest in your kink education? Join our new class pass program here! This month, all class passes are 20% off with code onlinepride24 Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. This month, coaching and consulting is 20% off with code onlinepride24 Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team (Do you find this weekly roundup helpful? 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Yesterday morning, I woke up just past dawn. The air was filled with the calls of birds you don’t often hear together: blue jays, seagulls, and perhaps a dozen other mountain birds and seabirds, all singing back and forth in an epic call to the Solstice morning. Coffee in hand, I headed up the shore to Big River. For much of the early morning, I wandered this wide estuary, where a large river just south of Mendocino meets the Pacific Ocean. I spent a long time pondering how and where the riverbank shifted into the seashore, watching the patterns cut by currents and tides, imagining the flow of freshwater into saltwater, and seeing how the tides push it all back up again. Earlier this week, my Stepping Into Pride group spent our time talking about how our identities shape our interactions with the people around us, and how the people around us shape our identities. Whether we’re queer, trans, kinky, poly, or some other adventurer who transgresses cultural norms, we constantly navigate this. Where can we fully embody our identity as it is? Where do we need to reel in for our own safety or security? Where do we push back in an enormous rush to defend our own rhythms and needs? In the world of ecological design, the edges are where the magic happens. These spaces where we can explore boundaries, conversations, edges, and mixings, create spaces for restoration, regeneration, and diversity. Heading away from Big River, I could pick up Southern Humboldt Public Radio. All they could talk about was Southern Humboldt Pride this Saturday. I’m finding a similar spirit where I now live on the southern Mendocino coast. I’m thrilled (and slightly nervous!) to attend my first Pride here, starting with a kickoff show tonight. The stakes feel enormous, and it’s very clear that Pride is very political up here. Fun, yes. But urgent. The need to defend our identities in the current shifting political climate is very real. Whoever you are and whatever ways you’re transgressive, I invite you to take time over the next two weeks to notice your own shifts. Where and with whom do you feel completely yourself? Where do you feel like you’re overcorrecting? Where do you feel like you’re fortifying your edges? Don’t try to change anything; just notice. What does pride feel like, and how does that shift based on our environment? Just notice. Keep noticing. Now, I’m back to my own sense of nervousness and excitement, and picking out which hankies to sport for the drag show up here in Mendonoma tonight! xoxoMir PS: For local folks, I’d love to see you at San Francisco Pride next weekend. WIcked Grounds be at Leather Alley in the adults-only area of San Francisco Pride on Sunday, June 30.

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