Month: February 2025

Some days I’m okay. Some days I want to hide under the bed. Many days, I use snark and gallows humor as a kind of lifeline. Spotify gave your Gen X kink educator a musical lifeline today, so I want to share it with you. ​You can pull up Le Tigre’s “Keep On Livin’” here. ​ You don’t have to put it on auto-repeat as I’m doing today, but I won’t stop you. If you don’t know Le Tigre, they were a queer punk band from the Riot Grrl movement of the late 90s and early aughts. In other words, you want to know them. 😉 Inspired by Kathleen Hanna’s assault, the song is a punk reclamation of everything that gets us through even the darkest times, when: Disproportionate reactions just won’t fade Every dude you see puts you in a rage Or stupid shit just makes you cry Your friends are worried you won’t tell them why And then it pushes into all the little things that are worth living for: Look up to the sky, sky, sky Take back your own tonight In closing, a fervent punk prayer from your always and forever Uncle Mir: Just please hold onto your pride and So don’t let them bring you down and Don’t let them fuck you around ’cause Those are your arms, that is your heart and No, no, they can’t tear you apart They can’t take it away now This is your time, this is your life and This is your time, this is your life and This is your time, this is your life and This is your time, this is your life and xoxo Mir PS: If you want to know some of the other stuff on my playlist lately, trans artist Lauren Auder recently released a cover of Prince and the Revolution’s “I Would Die 4 U,” with musical support from original track artists Wendy & Lisa, and I think it’s phenomenal. ​You can check it out here. ​ It might just be my massive crush on Wendy & Lisa, but it gives me chills. Every. Time.

Hello kinksters – What are you doing to take care of yourself this week? The deep work of our sex magick intensive and juicy conversations with our coaching clients have given me a lot of hope as I’ve navigated the last few weeks. I’m so grateful to every single person reading this for giving Wicked Grounds the opportunity to keep exploring the intersection of kink and self-knowledge. We are in genuinely weird times. I’m looking forward to the ​National Coalition for Sexual Freedom​ annual meeting in a couple of weeks so that we can partner with other organizations to help protect the rights of queer, kinky, and poly folks over the next few years. Here are some events to look forward to in the coming week: This week! Saturday 2/22 No live classes today, but check out our digital download classes on ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​! Sunday 2/23 At 11am Pacific, our trauma-informed age play series continues with Trauma-Informed Age Play: Through the Lens of Consent with Draven. Get your advance tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 2/24 Want to get great with a flogger? Join us online Monday at 6pm Pacific for Flogging With Style: From Basics to Brilliance with Miss Mackenzee. Unlock the secrets to providing a massage-like warm up that will stimulate the production of pleasurable brain chemicals to get your partner tingling in all the best ways. Get your advance tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday 2/25 Join us online tonight for Polyamory and Power Exchange Relationships with Laura Boyle. This class breaks down some common problems encountered when combining D/s dynamics and polyamorous relationship styles, and offers strategies for working through those pitfalls. Advanced ticketing required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 2/26 Looking for out of the box ways to dream up new kink scenes and fantasies? Join H G Wyndell online tonight for Spicy Tarot! Come and join a discussion on how we can mix the art of tarot with our kinky adventures. Advance ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Thursday 2/27 Sensation play can be complicated! Some people love it, but others might need modifications or changes to have it really feel okay. Join us tonight for Featherlight: Neurodivergent-Friendly Sensation Play with Lilith Foxx for strategies on making sensation play more friendly for everyone! Whether you’re new to sensation play or looking to refine your skills, this class offers a gentle, inclusive approach to exploring erotic touch in a safe and exciting way. Ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 2/28 No live classes today, but check out our digital download classes on ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​! Saturday 3/1 Interested in making new friends and finding safe resources in the public BDSM scene? Miriam Green is here to help! Join us today at 11am Pacific for Welcome to the Public BDSM Scene! You can get advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. If you’re in the SF Bay Area, you might also consider joining us in April for our Bay Area focused class, which is taught live in SF. Tickets for that Saturday 4/5 class are already available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 3/2 Want to keep all your leathers shiny? Lady V can help! Join us at 11am Pacific today for So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking & Leather Care 101. You’ll learn all the basics of leather care for yourself and others! 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! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. 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​)

Hello kinksters – A few things hearten me in these weird times. This week, we had a full seating at our monthly Kinky Speed Friending, and I had the privilege of helping people connect alongside one of my favorite collaborators. I also had some very juicy conversations this week with Dustin of Dominance Dialogues, and you’ll hear everything we discussed in just a couple of weeks when that podcast goes live. This week, I encourage you to find a few things that energize you and then take that energy back out toward creating and sustaining the world you want to live in. Find the energy, use it well, and keep doing that. Things are moving very fast right now, and resilience means staying connected to our values and one another. If you want to commit to classes, coaching, or an upcoming workshop, there’s no better time than now. Tomorrow is the last day of our Valentine’s Day sale, with 15% off all ​coaching, digital downloads, class passes, and courses from WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ and 15% off all ​scheduled classes from Wicked Grounds on Forbidden Tickets!​ At either site, just use code LOVEBITES for your discount. This sale ends at midnight on Feb 15th. Want to send us a Valentine? ​Please support us on Patreon​! Your support at any level makes all the difference in our ability to operate in line with our values. We absolutely rely on our regular Patreon members to keep the lights on, and it’s likely this will be even more critical as it becomes more difficult to run adult education in the coming years. If you’re in a position to support us – even for a few dollars a month – it would mean the world to us. And here are some events to look forward to in the coming week: This week! Friday 2/14 Happy Valentine’s Day! We love you, a lot. No live classes today, but what a day to treat yourself to some of our many services through ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ Saturday 2/15 It’s the last day of our Valentine’s Day Sale! Get 15% off everything at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ or all of our ticketing ​through Forbidden Tickets​ now through midnight with code LOVEBITES at checkout. Sunday 2/16 If you are neurodivergent, love someone who is, or just want to build more inclusive this morning, join John Pendal today for Autism & Kink! John joins us all the way from London for one of our most popular classes on intersectionality in kink. We meet at 11am Pacific. Advanced ticketing required through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. And then we’ll meet at 2pm Pacific to draw some key distinctions between dark dynamics and problematic relationships. vahavta is one of the biggest names in our scene who teaches playing safe in emotional D/s. Please join her at 2pm Pacific for Safety in the Shadows: Kink vs Toxicity in Dark Dynamics. Advanced ticketing required through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 2/17 No live classes today, but check out our digital download classes on ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​! Tuesday 2/18 Join us in San Francisco for Fetish Games with Psychokitty Ryan! Bring fun, frolic, and whimsy into S/m activities through creative ideas for play to spice up private and especially public play. This class starts at 6:30pm in SOMA. Find out more and get tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 2/19 No live classes today, but check out our digital download classes on ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​! Thursday 2/20 If you’ve been involved in the scene for a while and want to go deeper, join Jamie Joy tonight for Beyond the Basics: Advanced Kink & BDSM. Let’s go deeper, darker, and more intense! Get your tickets for this 6pm online class through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 2/21 No live classes today, but check out our digital download classes on ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​! Saturday 2/22 It’s cold outside, but it can be hot hot hot in your bedroom or dungeon! Join us today at noon Pacific for Turn Up The Heat: Temperature Play 101 with Jamie Joy! Learn all about fire and wax play and how to safely incorporate it into your scenes. Tickets available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 2/23 At 11am Pacific, our trauma-informed age play series continues with Trauma-Informed Age Play: Through the Lens of Consent with Draven. Get your advance 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! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. 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! Now through Feb 15th, you may take an additional 15% off all classes, courses, and coaching either from our classes at ​Forbidden Tickets​ or our longer-format classes and coaching at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​! Just use code LOVEBITES at checkout on either site. The sale includes our ​monthly or annual event passes!​ 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​ 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. The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives ​Wicked Grounds’ Kink Class Incubator – May 2025​ ​Stepping into Pride: A five week workshop to discover your own pride in your LGBTQ+ identity – July 2025​ ​Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Erotic Desires – November – December 2025​ ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters 2026​ Special April 20th Deep Dive: Cannabis & Kink! NEW 4/20 11am PDT: ​The High Life: Cannabis, Intimacy, and Kink with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 4/20 2pm PDT: ​Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent While Using Cannabis with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 4/20 4:20 PDT: ​Canna Service with Auntie Vice​ (ONLINE) S/m & the physical side of play 2/18 6:30 PST: ​Fetish Games with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) 2/20 6pm PST: ​Beyond the Basics: Advanced Kink & BDSM with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 2/22 2pm PST: ​Turn Up The Heat: Temperature Play 101 with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 2/23 11am PST: ​So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking 101 with Lady V​ (ONLINE) 2/24 6pm PST: ​Flogging With Style: From Basics to Brilliance with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) 2/27 6pm PST: ​Featherlight: Neurodivergent-Friendly Sensation Play with Lillith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/5 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 3/24 6pm PDT: ​Pain Processing: Learning to Endure and Suffer with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 4/3 7pm PDT: ​The Edge of Desire: Knife Play 101 with Jamie Joy​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 4/11 11am PDT: ​Fatal Follicles: Hair Pulling for Harlots! with Lady V​ (ONLINE) Fetish NEW 3/9 2pm PDT: ​Latex: A History with Dolly Diatima​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/26 6pm PDT: ​Dressed & UnDressed: Playing With Wardrobe with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) Bondage NEW 3/22 Noon PDT: ​Let’s Get Knotty: Rope Bondage for Beginners with Jamie Joy​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 3/22 4pm PDT: ​Bound to Thrill: The Art of Rope and Sensation Play with Jamie Joy​ (San Francisco, CA) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 2/16 6pm PST: ​Safety in the Shadows: Kink vs Toxicity in Dark Dynamics with vahavta​ (ONLINE) 2/20 6pm PST: ​Beyond the Basics: Advanced Kink & BDSM with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 2/23 11am PDT: ​Age Play through the Lens of Consent with Draven​ (ONLINE) 3/6 6pm PST: ​Bottom, Why?! A Conscious Discussion of Why We Bottoms Do the Things We Do with BearJew​ (ONLINE) 3/9 11am PDT: ​Age Play through the Lens of Care and Caution with Draven​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/20 6pm PDT: ​Primal Play: Hunter, Hunted, Predator, Prey with Lee Harrington​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/23 11am PDT: ​Pigs in Blanket: Intro to Piggy Play with Lady V​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/23 Noon PDT: ​Command and Control: The Art of Domination with Jamie Joy​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 3/23 4pm PDT: ​Serve and Surrender: The Art of Submission with Jamie Joy​ (San Francisco, CA) 3/25 6pm PDT: ​Negotiating and Communicating for Emotional S/M with vahavta​ (ONLINE) NEW 4/15 7pm PDT: ​Improv for Naughty Play with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 4/20 4:20 PDT: ​Canna Service with Auntie Vice​ (ONLINE) Movement workshops More coming soon, including daylong intensives. Stay tuned! Sexy Times NEW 4/20 11am PDT: ​The High Life: Cannabis, Intimacy, and Kink with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 4/24 6pm PDT: ​Finding the Unicorn: Navigating the World of Threesomes with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 2/25 6pm PST: ​Polyamory and Power Exchange Relationships with Laura Boyle​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/30 11am PDT: ​Beyond the Kitchen Table: Modes and Models of Parallel Polyamory with Laura Boyle​ (ONLINE) NEW 4/24 6pm PDT: ​Finding the Unicorn: Navigating the World of Threesomes with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 5/22 6pm PDT: ​Unf*ck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 2/16 11am PST: ​Autism & Kink with John Pendal​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/15 11am PDT: ​This is Your Brain on Kink with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 3/17 6pm PDT: ​KINK 101: Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/27 6pm PDT: ​Getting Freaky in the Spreadsheets: Consent, Negotiations, & Neurodiversity with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 4/1 6pm PDT: ​KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 4/5 2:30pm PDT: ​Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 4/20 2pm PDT: ​Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent While Using Cannabis with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 5/22 6pm PDT: ​Unf*ck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 2/12 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with guest hosts Miriam Green and impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 3/1 11am PST: ​Welcome to the Public Kink Scene with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/3 6pm PST: ​Transform Your Dating Life with the 6 Pillars of Mindful Dating with Marie Thouin​ (ONLINE) 3/4 6pm PST: ​House Topping with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 3/12 7pm PDT: ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 3/31 6pm PDT: ​Dating While Kinky with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 4/5 Noon PDT: ​Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green​ (San Francisco, CA) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 2/26 6pm PST: ​Spicy Tarot with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) 3/30 2pm PDT: ​Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green​ (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 – Happy almost Valentine’s Day! Whether you plan to spend it with a sweetie or three, your’re on the prowls, or you’re mostly excited about Yellowjackets coming back, we’ve got you! This week, get 15% off all ​coaching, digital downloads, class passes, and courses from WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. You can: ​Book ongoing coaching and lock in a discount​ ​Get a significant discount on a multi-week workshop​ ​Get even more savings on a monthly or annual class pass​ ​Or even book a private class for you and a sweetie!​ ​You can also get 15% off all scheduled classes from Wicked Grounds on Forbidden Tickets!​ At either site, just use code LOVEBITES for your discount. This sale ends at midnight on Feb 15th. Yes, we see you, late shopper. 😉 And here are some events to look forward to in the coming week: This week! Friday 2/7 No live classes today, but you can always check out our video classes and other digital downloads over at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ Saturday 2/8 As much as we want to avoid it, and as good as our intentions are, accidents and consent collisions happen. Let’s make some good strategies to avoid them when possible and address them when they occur in From Harm to Healing: A Guide to Community Accountability with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy. This online class meets at 11am Pacific today. Advance ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 2/9 When engaging in age play, it’s a good idea to use a trauma-informed perspective. That perspective can be approached from a variety of perspectives. Draven will be exploring these in a series of age play classes starting at 11am Pacific today and over the next couple of weeks, and each class can be taken individually. Today, join us for Age Play through the Lens of Compassion. Advance ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 2/10 Curious about age play from a caregiver’s perspective? Want to be the best Big you can be? Join Miss Mackenzee online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Exploring Little Space: A Caregiver’s Guide! This online class requires advanced ticketing. Get yours on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday 2/11 There are a lot of ways to do D/s service, and what works for one dynamic might not work for everyone else. If you want to incorporate service into your dynamic but you haven’t figured out the details yet – or if you’ve just had a hard time making service work for you – join Lady V tonight for Service Styles! This online class at 6pm Pacific will explore ways for s-types to feel utilized & engaged within the dynamic without a whole big scene. Advanced ticketing required. Why not serve your dynamic and community by grabbing some? Get yours on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 2/12 Now more than ever, it’s important to build community! Whether you’re looking for new friends, potential play partners, allies, or folks to date, please join us in San Francisco tonight for Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending/ Dating! Tonight’s session will be guest hosted by Miriam Green, so expect shenanigans! ​Tickets available exclusively through Plura​. Please don’t wait to get tickets! Get yours now and commit to making this event part of your life! Thursday 2/13 Tonight is Part 2 of our Writing Spicy workshop with Sinclair Sexsmith. Ticketing is restricted to those who did Part 1 with us last week, but keep an eye on our schedule for the next one! Friday 2/14 Happy Valentine’s Day! We love you, a lot. No live classes today, but what a day to treat yourself to some of our many services through ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ Saturday 2/15 It’s the last day of our Valentine’s Day Sale! Get 15% off everything at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ or all of our ticketing ​through Forbidden Tickets​ now through midnight with code LOVEBITES at checkout. Sunday 2/16 If you are neurodivergent, love someone who is, or just want to build more inclusive this morning, join John Pendal today for Autism & Kink! John joins us all the way from London for one of our most popular classes on intersectionality in kink. We meet at 11am Pacific. Advanced ticketing required through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. And then we’ll meet at 2pm Pacific to draw some key distinctions between dark dynamics and problematic relationships. vahavta is one of the biggest names in our scene who teaches playing safe in emotional D/s. Please join her at 2pm Pacific for Safety in the Shadows: Kink vs Toxicity in Dark Dynamics. Advanced ticketing required 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! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. 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​)

Pentacles of Power: A Sex Magick Intensive for Kinky People with Miriam BatAsherah Green Online with weekly live sessions and weekly homework through Teachable February 2 – March 16, 2025 ​Advance ticketing is required. Sliding scale and payment plans are available!​ A grimoire and candles with a feather quill. Pentacles of Power A six-week sex magick intensive with Miriam BatAsherah Green Practical sex magick for solo and partnered practitioners This six-week virtual course launching in February 2025 will include self-directed work and collaborative live sessions via Zoom. Over the course of six weeks you will learn by doing: Working with the energetic body Sigil magick Raising energy with sex and S/m The basics of pentacle magick Miriam Green’s twinned pentacles of power exchange and more We will have weekly meetings and homework throughout the workshop. All weekly meetings will be recorded for those who cannot attend live. Expect a total of three hours coursework per week, plus daily practice in sitting meditation and journaling. Go deeply into creating your own magickal frameworks I have been teaching magick since 2004 and teaching BDSM since 2014. The work we’ll engage in together goes well beyond what I can teach in a typical 90-minute intro class. We’ll work with the tools and techniques I use most often, including personal D/s pentacles I developed in 2006 and have never before taught to students. Our six-week course will go live February 2 – March 16, 2025 and will include pre-recorded video lessons, written lessons, and six live sessions of 72-93 minutes each (pre-recorded if you cannot attend live). Who is Miriam BatAsherah Green? “Whom I love, I chastise with many rods.” — Liber A’ash vel Capricorni Miriam BatAsherah Green is a full-time BDSM educator and coach who has been teaching magick since 2004 and kink since 2014. Miriam is an initiated witch in the Reclaiming tradition and a proud member of Ordo Templi Orientis. Miriam’s kabbalah and tarot classes have long demystified occult practice, and they look forward to bringing this approach to practical sex magick. Registration details This six-week workshop includes 7.5 hours of live instruction over six weeks as well as detailed weekly homework and daily practice. You will have access to all materials and recordings to revisit after the course is complete. The six-week workshop is available at a $250-$500 sliding scale, no questions asked. You may split up your registration under a four-part payment plan for further accessibility. If this remains out of reach, let us know. Depending on the number of registrations, we may be able to provide partial scholarships beyond the sliding scale. ​Advance ticketing is required. Sliding scale and payment plans are avai

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Hello kinksters – My biggest recommendation this week? Connect with the people and things that matter to you. Get out there, be with friends, and make some new ones. This weekend is the first of the month. If you’re in San Francisco, that means Wicked Grounds will have a range of live, in-person classes for you. If you’re in the Bay Area, come out to learn new things and make new friends! If you’re not in San Francisco, we still have plenty going on for you! If you’re at the intersection of kink and woo and want to spend the next few weeks strongly connecting with your own power and agency through play, I strongly encourage you to join us for our intensive Pentacles of Power, launching Sunday. Here are a few things to consider for this week: This week! Thursday 1/30 Brats! Love them or . . . don’t love them as much . . . brats have a strong reputation in kink communities. But what’s real, and what’s a misconception? That’s what we’ll explore tonight with Princess Rara in Bratting Beyond Make Me: Navigating Misconceptions and Embracing the Brat. Learn how to embrace and incorporate brat behavior into your scenes safely and responsibly! Advanced ticketing required, so get those through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday 1/31 No live classes today, but you can always check out our video classes and other digital downloads over at WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ Saturday 2/1 We have two in-person Kink 101 classes today in San Francisco, including a rare live session of our BDSM Negotiation Basics! Both classes will be at our offices at Trellis, near 5th and Mission in downtown San Francisco. We’ll also have just a few books that might help you along on your journey! Curious about getting involved in the public BDSM scene in San Francisco? Join us at noon for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Miriam Green. You’ll learn all about the culture, organizations, venues, parties, and people that make the SF Bay Area scene so special, and walk away knowing exactly which resources and events might be the best fit for you! Advanced ticketing recommended; door ticketing available. Get advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then stick around for our 2:30 pm class BDSM Negotiation Basics. You’ll learn everything you need to know about the basics of consent, how to negotiate for BDSM scenes, and how to stay in great communication with your partner(s) before, during, and after a scene. Advanced ticketing recommended, or you may get door tickets starting at 2pm Pacific. Make it easy and get advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 2/2 If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. Find more information and registration here. Our six-week journey officially launches on Sunday, Feb 2 and our first live session will be on Monday evening, Feb 3. Join us in San Francisco for two classes at Mukunda Studios near Folsom & 8th Street: At 11am, get your moves on with Alexandria from Click Your Heels, with Lap Dancing 101. You’ll learn all the basics of lap dancing for your partners or anyone else! Advanced ticketing strongly recommended – this class usually sells out! Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then we’ll host our Submissives in Solidarity discussion group from 2pm – 4pm. All s-types are warmly invited, whether you identify as a bottom, switch, submissive, or any other s-type dynamic. Advanced ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, 2/3 This evening, Pentacles of Power will hold our first live session from 6-7:30pm Pacific. This will mark the last date of registration available for the course – so get those tickets now if you want to join! Find more information and registration here.​ Or, join us only from 6-8pm Pacific for The Sensation of Touch with Keiden Bren. Explore all the ways we can use our hands and bodies for impact play, and extend those ideas to our impact play with toys. Advanced ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, 2/4 Kink is for everyone! But kink is not one-size-fits-all. There are a variety of factors that might influence how we think about play and engage with it in the most satisfying and supportive ways, and age is definitely one of those factors. If you are – or love – an aging kinkster (whatever that means to you), please join us for Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster with our own kinkster-of-a-certain-age Miriam Green. Advance ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, 2/5 If you’re in San Francisco, join us for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night. It’s SpankLab! with your intrepid impact instructor impossiblepain. SpankLab is a hands-on playshop including a demo, social time, and time for mentored hands-on impact play practice. Advance ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (Want more fun afterward? Head up to the Cat Club for PlayXLand after!) Thursday, 2/6 Want to get more out of writing erotica? Interested in exploring writing as a form of erotic self-expression? Join author, anthology editor, and educator Sinclair Sexsmith for a two-week workshop on Writing Spicy this and next Thursday evening at 6pm Pacific. This online workshop has advance ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, 2/7 No live classes today, but you can always check out our video classes and other digital downloads over at WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ Saturday, 2/8 As much as we want to avoid it, and as good as our intentions are, accidents and consent collisions happen. Let’s make some good strategies to avoid them when possible and address them when they occur in From Harm to Healing: A Guide to Community Accountability with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy. This online class meets at 11am Pacific today. Advance ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, 2/9 When engaging in age play, it’s a good idea to use a trauma-informed perspective. That perspective can be approached from a variety of perspectives. Draven will be exploring these in a series of

Hello kinksters – How are you doing this week? It feels like it’s been a month since I last wrote you! I thank the folks in our month of mindfulness every day for providing me with a needed anchor throughout the week. One bright spot for me this week has been preparing for our upcoming sex magick intensive ​Pentacles of Power​, which launches a six-week journey at the start of February. This workshop is the culmination of over twenty years of my work and finally brings together threads of my personal, spiritual, and kinky work in a way I’ve never taught before. I’m excited, thrilled, and engaged in a way that’s been comforting and necessary in these times. ​If you’re curious about deepening the intersection of kink and power through a spiritual and magickal lens, I invite you to join.​ Whatever feels close to you right now, please take time for it: family, play, hobbies, travel, self-care. Play and rest is not trivial. Play matters deeply because it keeps us creative and resilient. Done well, play helps us become ever more deeply ourselves. This is more important now than ever. Another thing that matters: getting out and connecting with people. This coming weekend is the first of the month, and that means Wicked Grounds will have a range of live, in-person classes in San Francisco. If you’re in the Bay Area, come out to learn new things and make new friends! If you’re not in San Francisco but you’d like more in-person instruction, let’s talk! I’m currently planning some dates for Wicked Grounds classes in Phoenix and the Pacific Northwest. If you’d like me to get to your fair city, I’d love to hear from you about where you are and what venues you love. Here are a few things to consider for this week: This week! Friday 1/24 No live classes today but check out ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ for a wide range of video classes and other digital downloads. Saturday 1/25 Consent and communication for kink varies somewhat based on our overall communication styles and strategies, and this can be different when we add in neurodivergence. Join us for one of two workshops exploring this today at 11am Pacific in Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 1 with Draven and Adam.Participants can choose to participate in either workshop or both. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. ​TASHRA​ is the world’s foremost healthcare research organization working to improve the physical and mental health of adults who engage in consensual and alternative sexual practices including kink, BDSM (bondage/discipline, domination/submission, sadism/masochism), and sexual fetishism. For over ten years, they have helped mental health and other practitioners gain access to grounded research about the issues affecting the kink community. Now, they are bringing some of that deep knowledge to kinksters everywhere in a set of workshops for the community. We hope you’ll join us at 2pm Pacific today for Kink, Flourishing, and Healing: Exploring the Transformative Power of Kink, our first online class partnering with TASHRA. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Sunday 1/26 Consent and communication for kink varies somewhat based on our overall communication styles and strategies, and this can be different when we add in neurodivergence. Join us for one of two workshops exploring this today at 11am Pacific in Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 2 with Draven and Adam.Participants can choose to participate in either workshop or both. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Playing at the edges requires more care, detail, and self-awareness in our consent discussions. Please join Laura Boyle at 2pm Pacific to explore this in Bottoming Safety 201: Negotiating Edgeplay Safely as a Bottom or Submissive. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Monday 1/27 Want to keep your skills sharp? Looking for some new piercing insights? Join Miss Mackenzee on Monday 1/27 for Beginner Sharps Play: Staples Edition. You’ll learn the basics of how to engage with this unique form of sharps play as well as some new and interesting ways to play. Advanced tickets required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday 1/28 Want to explore the world of fear play? Join us on Tuesday, 1/28 for Playing with Fear: Empowered Navigation of Thrills and Risks with vahavta. Bottoms and tops alike will leave better prepared to create a thrilling yet controlled fearplay environment based on mutual experiencing, risk awareness, and care. Advanced ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 1/29 No live classes today, but you can always check out our video classes and other digital downloads over at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ Thursday 1/30 Brats! Love them or . . . don’t love them as much . . . brats have a strong reputation in kink communities. But what’s real, and what’s a misconception? That’s what we’ll explore tonight with Princess Rara in Bratting Beyond Make Me: Navigating Misconceptions and Embracing the Brat. Learn how to embrace and incorporate brat behavior into your scenes safely and responsibly! Advanced ticketing required, so get those through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 1/31 No live classes today, but you can always check out our video classes and other digital downloads over at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ Saturday 2/1 We have two in-person Kink 101 classes today in San Francisco, including a rare live session of our BDSM Negotiation Basics! Both classes will be at our offices at Trellis, near 5th and Mission in downtown San Francisco. We’ll also have just a few books that might help you along on your journey! Curious about getting involved in the public BDSM scene in San Francisco? Join us at noon for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Miriam Green. You’ll learn all about the culture, organizations, venues, parties, and people that make the SF Bay Area scene so special, and walk away knowing exactly which resources and events might be the best fit for you! Advanced ticketing recommended; door ticketing available. Get advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Then stick around for our 2:30 pm class BDSM Negotiation Basics. You’ll learn everything you need to know about the basics of consent,

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