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Beloved kinksters – I will be perfectly honest: I woke up this morning, and my first thought was “I don’t want to write today’s newsletter.” That’s because many of us woke up yesterday in a different world than we’d hoped. But I don’t have a cafe table to jump on today, so the newsletter it is. I’m profoundly worried about where things are headed. We have about ten weeks before the civil climate in the US changes drastically. As a queer, trans, and sex-positive person, I am profoundly aware of my fears. Many of you are, too. I have a couple of anchors to hold onto today. First, I’m pledging to listen to my fear and anger. Not to be paralyzed by them. Not to push them away. Just to listen. Anger is a signal that your boundaries have been crossed. Fear is a signal that you still have the power to act. As kinksters, we have learned to listen to these signals, and to act on them. We are lucky in that way. Second, I am remembering the profound impact of sex-positive warriors of my youth. When I was coming up queer and polyamorous in a red state during the Reagan administration, voices like Annie Sprinkle, Carol Queen, and Susie Bright reminded me that my erotic expression had power. There is a reason that repressive movements tamp down on the erotic. The erotic life has power. Queer folks, kinky folks, and polyamorous folks have always been targets because our lives encourage our communities and others toward self-awareness and self-expression. This is dangerous to oppressive regimes. I’m going to honor the voices that literally saved my life by keeping and amplifying my own voice. So: we’re not going to shut up. We’re going to get louder. We’re going to get stronger. If that puts me at risk, so be it. I’ve spent my whole life gearing up for this fight. In somewhat related news, I’ve launched our 2025 Month of Mindfulness in January. This will be a month of live and recorded meditation, journaling, habit-building and other resilience-focused self-care. I think we’re going to need it. Pricing is designed to be extremely accessible while remaining sustainable. You can sign up here. This week! Just launched for January Join us in January for a full Month of Mindfulness with daily meditation sessions, journaling, habit-building and more with a focus on making more space for kinky, queer, and other sex-positive folks. Learn more and sign up with our sliding scale here, at rates starting at low as $1/day. We’d spare you the “it’s much less than a cup of coffee, joke, except we just didn’t . . . Saturday 11/9 How can productivity theory make for better D/s service? Learn the basics today with Hannah the Scribe at 2pm Pacific! Tickets available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday 11/12 Interested in electro and wax play? Join Jamie Joy online at 6pm Pacific for Ignite the Spark: The Art of Wax and Electro Play. You’ll learn how to expand your kinky skillset with some hot new skills safely and have more fun! We could use that right now. Tickets available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 11/13 You want my opinion? This week more than ever, it would help to have a deep bench of kinky friends who get it. Yes, come to meet potential partners! Yes, come to have fun! But also: get to know your kink community right now. Meet a lot of people, fast, and figure out who you vibe with. We could use that right now. Live in San Francisco at 7pm, join us for Kinky Speed Friending + Dating with Psychokitty. Tickets available exclusively through 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. 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)

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Howdy kinksters – If you are neurodivergent, love friends and partners who are, or just want to create more inclusive community, I hope you’ll join us for two special classes on neurodivergence and kink this weekend. Today, we host Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven and tomorrow we host Autism & Kink with London-based BDSM educator John Pendal. Oh, and if you’re in far northern California, make a trek out to Mendocino today! I’m hosting a coastal Mendocino county munch in the beautiful town of Mendocino today. You can find out more here. The rest of the week brings classes on sex magick, staples (!!!), switching, disabilities, and compassionate breakups. Whew! And then, it’s the biggest Leather weekend of the year. We hope to see you next Sunday at Wicked Grounds Booth at Folsom Street Fair — RSVP to let friends know you’re coming and get updates about what’s happening! As you may have already heard, we are going to have an epic sale of remaining books and gear in stock, as well as mystery bags to get the gear rehomed. Starting this winter, we’ll focus our sales on digital downloads and other educational products, so everything else must go! We will also have new gear from our friends at Rough Cut Leather on hand. Come check it all out and get some great bargains! We are now two weeks away from launching the fall cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires. Space is limited, and with Folsom just weeks before our launch, our fall cohort always sells out. If you want to get the ticketing tier with four consult sessions, please book by Monday, 9/23! To appropriately manage our time, we usually close that tier early. Read on for this week’s events, and plan ahead by checking out all our ticketed events. This week! Saturday 9/21 This weekend, we are offering two critical perspectives on neurodivergence and kink. Join us Saturday at 2pm Pacific for Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven. How does neurodivergence affect consent mistakes, incidents, and violations? How does it affect boundaries, grappling with hurt and harm (and discerning between the two), and accountability at the personal, interpersonal, and community levels? You’ll learn all this and more in this critical online class! Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Our own Miriam Green will be hosting a Mendocino Munch today at noon. This isn’t a Wicked Grounds event, but you can definitely connect with information about the Ground there. Details here. Sunday 9/22 Join us at 11am Pacific for our extremely popular class Autism & Kink with London-based BDSM educator John Pendal. In this workshop we look at the overlap of autism and kink. This workshop isn’t just for autistic folk, it can help anyone who feels like an outsider or would like to create a more inclusive environment. Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday 9/23 Want to learn an S/m technique that’s anything but run of the mill? Join Miss Mackenzee at 6pm Pacific for Staples 101. This beginner’s class is designed to introduce you to the safety precautions necessary when it comes to playing with piercing someone’s skin using medical staples. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday 9/24 Why stick to one side of the slash when you can have both? Join Lee Harrington tonight at 6pm Pacific to learn about Strategies for Switching. Let’s look at switching, and see what notions we are ready to embrace, and which need to be switched around. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 9/25 Kink is for everyone! But whether it’s due to aging, injury, or disability, sometimes it can be a challenge to find the best strategies for all of our individual bodies. Join HG Wyndell to get some strategies at 6pm Pacific tonight in Mobility, Disability, and Kink. Let’s get together to talk about how we can continue to enjoy our best kinky lives when presented with mobility issues. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday 9/26 Breaking up is hard to do. While it’s difficult, it doesn’t need to be harmful or hurtful. It can be done with compassion and grace. Learn more tonight about some strategies and frameworks that might work for you and your relationships in The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups with Lilith Foxx. This online class meets at 6pm Pacific, and you can get tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 9/29 We hope to see you at Folsom Street Fair this Sunday! RSVP for our FetLife event to get any updates about where to find us! 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. 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)

Hi all – I’m delighted to advise that we’ve added two new core classes to our suite of video classes for digital download at [WickedGroundsAnnex.com](https://wickedgroundsannex.com/). When we talk about the things your memberships make possible? These are the kinds of things we’re talking about. Having a regular budget to work toward for key software subscriptions, staffing and all the other things it takes to create new content? It’s a huge blessing and we truly couldn’t do it without you. If you’re a VIP member, these classes are available to do at no charge. Hang tight, and I’ll have discount codes viewable to folks at the VIP + level within the hour. **[Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics](https://wickedgroundsannex.com/p/kink-101-bdsm-negotiation-basics-662766)** is the core soft skills class I’ve offered monthly for over ten years! This is where it all started. You’ll learn the basics of consent and negotiation, key negotiation questions for scenes, and even what’s going on in your brain that makes communicating during a scene more complex. **[Kink 201: Advanced Negotiation for Dynamics and Relationships](https://wickedgroundsannex.com/p/kink-201-advanced-negotiations-video-class)** builds on the basic negotiation skills and applies them to co-creating D/s and other kinky relationships that work. This class is designed for kinksters with a bit of experience, but will help anyone that wants to create and improve relationship dynamics. Do you prefer your classes live? **We’ve just added monthly, quarterly, and annual event passes to our [digital downloads](https://wickedgroundsannex.com/courses/)**! Those get you all-you-can-kink access to all ticketed Wicked Grounds events for a full calendar month (or more), and provide critical support to Wicked Grounds as we build out our future educational offerings. xoxo Mir & the Wicked Grounds team PS: Thanks again to every single member here for believing in us and making this type of production possible.

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Howdy kinksters – It’s Leather Month! Yay! Will you be in San Francisco for Folsom Street Fair? We’d love to see you! We’ve just created our FetLife listing for Wicked Grounds at Folsom Street Fair — RSVP to let friends know you’re coming, and get the booth location details as soon as we have them. We are winding down our retail operations so that we can fully focus on education, so we’ll be running a Wicked Grounds Garage Sale at Folsom and Dark Odyssey: Surrender this year. Swing by the booth for some exceptional deals on what’s left of our books and gear, and go learn all about our increasing educational resources. Speaking of which, we have lots of great events for you this week and this fall! If you’re interested in joining the fall cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires please don’t wait too long. Space is limited, and with Folsom just weeks before our launch, our fall cohort always sells out. This week! Saturday 9/7 Want to get involved in your local kink scene, but not sure where to start? We can help! Join Miriam Green online at 11am Pacific for Welcome to the Kink Scene. We’ll cover etiquette, culture, vetting, and what to expect for quality classes, munches, play parties and more! Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday 9/9 Interested in erotic hypnosis? Need some help with your hypnosis inductions? Join Hypnostory and PandaPet tonight at 6pm Pacific for an Induction Sampler. This online workshop will not be recorded, so you’ll only be able to catch it live. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday 9/10 There are a lot of emotional and social reasons to be polyamorous. But there are some practical reasons too! Let’s explore them tonight in Monogamy? In this Economy? Polyamorous Cohabitation with Laura Boyle. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 9/11 In the San Francisco Bay Area? Want to meet a lot of potential new friends, play partners and possibly even romantic connections — fast? Join us for Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty. This collaboration between Wicked Grounds and Plura will get you meeting lots of potential new connections, which is always the best way to get involved in the local community for collaboration, connection and fun! Tickets available exclusively through Plura. Thursday 9/12 Curious about primal and animal play? Already love playing primally, and want to pick up some new tricks? Join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Waking the Beast: Primal Play 101 with Wiley Wolfe! Learn more and get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 9/15 D!ck pics can be a lot of things. Artistic? Maybe! Join Lady V to learn about Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D!ck Pics online today at 2pm Pacific. (Or, get a ticket and watch the recording later.) Get your tickets in advance via 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. 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 – I am so excited! I’ll be in San Francisco this Sunday to host author and educator Anton Fulmen for a full-day workshop on The Heart of Dominance. Many of you already know that Anton is the author whose work on D/s I recommend most. I truly cannot wait to see what we all get up to. Now, let’s look at what next week has in store! Thursday, August 22nd Dating can be frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be! Join sex therapist and educator Lilith Foxx for “Kinktuitive” Dating tonight at 6pm Pacific to learn a different approach! Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 23rd No classes today, but check out our pre-recorded classes at Wicked Grounds Annex Saturday, August 24th Join us at 11am Pacific for The More the Merrier: Group Sex 101 with Jamie Joy. Whether you’re curious about group play or want ways to make it even more fun, join us! Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Want to change how you approach S/m? Join us at 2pm Pacific for Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain with vahavta. Get tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, August 25th If you’re in San Francisco, join us for The Heart of Dominance Daylong Intensive with author and educator Anton Fulmen. This is a full day of instruction, that gets to the heart of what it takes to be great at consensual dominance. Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, August 26th There are a lot of ways to enjoy consensual sadomasochism! Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Spanking for Punishment or Reward with Miss Mackenzee. You’ll learn everything you need to know to make the most out of spanking scenes. Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or [Plura(https://plra.io/m/online-spanking-for-punishment-or-reward). Thursday, August 29th Tonight we host the second part of Kink and Trauma with BearJew, however registration is restricted to those who attended part one. Saturday, August 31st Some conflict in kink is to be expected. Rather than avoiding or minimizing it, learn to deal with inevitable conflict productively and proactively. Join us at 2pm Pacific for Conflict in Kink with Mistress Solaris for strategies, tips and tricks. You may get 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! 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)

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