Month: June 2024

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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Howdy kinksters – It’s summer time and many of us are considering our travel adventures. I’ve got a crate of camping gear getting prepped just to the right of my desk as I write this! In the spirit of preparing for adventures, we’ve created a new packing list for you. Check out Wicked Grounds’ Aftercare Kit Checklist, available as a new digital download. Download once, print as many copies as you need, and take your aftercare to the next level by always having what you want right at hand! Now, let’s dive into everything we have for you online and in person this week! Events Roundup! Thinking ahead Join our fall Diving Deep cohort, and early ticketing is open now. Find out more here. Thursday, June 13 Join Sinclair Sexsmith tonight for Art of Ownership. Explore the full spectrum of owner/property fantasies, from scene-only dirty talk to collared pups to 24/7 Dominant/submissive ownership relationships, and find a style that works for you! Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Miriam Green is presenting an online class with Plura tonight at 6pm Pacific! About once per year, we offer a version of our class on connecting with the local kink scene to help kinksters anywhere connect with their own local scenes, and that’s what’s happening tonight! Join us for Dive In! Exploring Your Own Local Kink Scene w/ Miriam Green. Ticketing is only available through Plura and you can get yours here. Saturday, June 15 Everyone has to take their clothes off sometimes. Why not make it hot? Join Alexandria from Click Your Heels for Stripping 101, live in San Francisco today at 2pm. Advance ticketing is highly recommended. Get yours here! Monday, June 17 Don’t forget to join us at 6pm Pacific tonight for Remembering to Forget: Exploring Memory Play with HypnoStory & PandaPet. Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, June 18 Join us in person at Stopgap in San Francisco tonight for part two of Getting Started with Rope with Psychokitty Ryan. You do not need to have attended Part One to take part in tonight’s workshop, although familiarity with single and double column ties would be helpful! This workshop starts at 7pm. To get the address, you’ll need advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, June 19 Join us at 6pm Pacific online tonight for Bottoming Safety 201: Negotiating Edgeplay Safely as a Bottom or Submissive with Laura Boyle. This class will address generally asserting boundaries with a top or dominant from a bottoming or submissive role; but also include safety issues to be aware of some of the most popular “edgy” play. Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday, June 20 Join us at 6pm Pacific online tonight for When No Doesn’t Mean No: Negotiation and Communication for Consensual Nonconsent with vahavta. When you start to play on the edges of consent, everything becomes a little bit trickier. Let’s figure out how to navigate that! Get your advance tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday, June 22 Join us for a special afternoon of classes in San Francisco with BDSM & polyamory expert Janet Hardy, teaching Ethical Slut ideas for the next generation. At 1pm, join us for Ethical Sluthood, which is appropriate to introduce beginners, the curious and more advanced nonmonogamists to the ideas behind The Ethical Slut. Details and ticketing here through Forbidden Tickets and Plura. Then stick around to take things to the next level at 4pm with the Sluthood Practicum. Janet Hardy will lead a group brainstorming session about ways to move forward toward an abundant polyamorous life. Details and ticketing here through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, June 23 Join us at Folsom Street Community Center in San Francisco for High Heels 201 with Click Your Heels. You do not need to have attended the 101 class to attend — anyone who can already walk in high heels is welcome. Let’s take your skills to the next level! Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura, or get your tickets at the door! Support. Follow. Share. 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 – Summer is in the air! Wicked Grounds is a bevy of activity right now. Keep your eye peeled for a new class and event roster coming out tomorrow with a great list of classes for beginners and experienced players alike. Is it getting hot out here? Should you take off all your clothes? You might as well make the best of it. Why not join us next Saturday in San Francisco for Stripping 101 from Click Your Heels? Now, let’s dive into everything we have for you online and in person this week! Events Roundup! Thinking ahead Join our fall Diving Deep cohort, and early ticketing is open now. Find out more here. Sunday, June 9 Join us online at 11am Pacific today for Autism & Kink with John Pendal. Whether you’re neurodivergent yourself or interested in improving the kink experience for your autistic partners, friends and community members, this class will be of help! Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, June 12 Just can’t get your overly active mind to chill the eff out? Join Wicked Grounds + Magickal Crossroads tonight at 6pm Pacific, as we present Mental Modalities for Monkey-Mind Magick with Diana Rajchel. Learn actual strategies to wrangle your thoughts and direct your will. Advance ticketing required. Get yours on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Want to meet a lot of new kinky friends — fast? Join Wicked Grounds + Plura in San Francisco, for our June session of Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty. This is the single best way to expand your network of friends, allies and potential partners. Ticketing for this one is only available on Plura, and you can reserve your spot here. Thursday, June 13 Speaking of Plura, our own Miriam Green is presenting an online class with them tonight at 6pm Pacific! About once per year, we offer a version of our class on connecting with the local kink scene to help kinksters anywhere connect with their own local scenes, and that’s what’s happening tonight! Join us for Dive In! Exploring Your Own Local Kink Scene w/ Miriam Green. Ticketing is only available through Plura and you can get yours here. Saturday, June 15 Everyone has to take their clothes off sometimes. Why not make it hot? Join Alexandria from Click Your Heels for Stripping 101, live in San Francisco today at 2pm. Advance ticketing is highly recommended. Get yours here! Support. Follow. Share. Want to invest in your kink education? Join our new class pass program here! 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. 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)