ONLINE: Hypnokink 101 with Faun
2026-08-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Get to know the kink that is limited only by your imagination, hypnosis! Requiring no physical interaction or any equipment aside from your very own mind, hypnokink is highly accessible, tailored especially to your desires, and can be done solo or partnered. Hypnosis can be entirely non-sexual and Safe For Work, while also resulting in euphoric levels of pleasure. If this tantalizes you, allow me to introduce you to the beauty that is hypnokink!
In this class, we’ll discuss basic hypnosis practices and how they can benefit you, while exploring specifics about how we can interact with hypnokink from any position or role without compromising boundaries or comfort levels. The class is open to all, so if you or a loved one is curious about hypnosis or just want to explore something new, please come join us!
PRESENTER:
Faun (he/him) is a smut writer and kink educator from the Pacific Northwest. Despite knowing he was firmly on the ace spectrum in his teenage years, he always felt that something was missing. One day, he stumbled upon a website chock full of hypnokinky stories, and the rest is history. Now, he hopes to help others find their own niche in the kink community by sharing what he’s learned through study and experience. You can find him on AO3 and tumblr as spiraledfaun, and on Fet as deerfaun.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/f162c58926

ONLINE: Bottom Responsibility: Agency, Accountability, and Risk Literacy in Kink with Sarai
2026-08-18 18:00 - 20:00
Bottoming is not passive, and submission is not a waiver. This course confronts the cultural tendency to outsource responsibility to Tops while treating bottom education as optional. Using psychological frameworks including learned helplessness, authority bias, and cognitive avoidance, alongside real-world scenarios, we examine how unexamined conditioning, deference to erotic authority, and avoidance of risk literacy contribute to unsafe dynamics, misattributed harm, and repeated community conflict. We also address the distinction between regret and consent violation, how harm narratives get distorted when decision-making is omitted from the story, and why an educated bottom is significantly harder to exploit than an uninformed one.
This class is designed for bottoms who are willing to show up informed, self-aware, and accountable. It is not a validation space and does not center comfort. Participants may find their assumptions challenged and their feelings tested. Come prepared, or don’t come at all. Growth requires honesty, and honesty can sting, but it also saves lives, relationships, and communities.
PRESENTER:
Sarai311 (any/all) is a BIPOC kink educator, poet, and event organizer with a decade of experience across classroom and community learning spaces. She brings eight years of formal teaching and three years of active kink engagement into her work, blending curriculum design, emotionally grounded facilitation, and embodied pedagogy. A doctoral candidate, her research on identity development and culturally relevant pedagogy directly informs her kink education practice.
Within the kink community, she has served as a Dungeon Monitor, demo bottom, and board member for Whippersnappers TNG, and is the founder and lead organizer of BIPOC at Frolicon. She presents across the Southeast at events including Frolicon, Southeast Leatherfest, and Dark Odyssey, and has been published thrice in Black Leather in Color Magazine. Sarai311 is also the author of ‘What We Could Never Be’ and ‘Unholy Attachments’, and is known for creating spaces where kink, identity, and intentional self-exploration can safely coexist.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/6c953c13eb

ONLINE: Grounding and Centering for Kinksters: An Introduction to Defining Space and Self with HG Wyndell
2026-08-19 18:00 - 20:00
There is deep power in being rooted with purpose, with intimate awareness of yourself and the currents of the intended scene. In the bedroom, creating a container separate from the doldrums of daily life can create more meaningful and satisfying play. At a public play event, it is particularly important to be able to define the boundaries of both ourselves and the space for a scene, to keep that which is outside the scene outside, and mind your splash zone.
In this class, we will learn techniques for being present within your own body for better play and creating containers for fulfilling scenes.
PRESENTER:
HG Wyndell is an activist, educator, and Spiritworker who is driven to facilitate accessible ritual spaces for folks seeking access to more deeply nourishing relationships with themselves and others. They are committed to living life through a lens of wonder, and in our experience, they don’t mess around when it comes to embracing the complex beingness of whoever is blessed to be in their presence and consideration. They weave their lived experiences with intentional relationship, genuine gender expression, ceremony, creative arts, chronic illness, and embracing pleasure seamlessly with a whole lot of love and a good bit of magic into the rich curriculum they offer.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/adc5102b17

ONLINE: Actionable Access: Creating Accessible Kink Spaces with Eva Heart
2026-08-22 11:00 - 13:00
Accessibility doesn’t happen by accident, it’s built with intention. Designed for organizers, event producers, and patrons, this course equips participants to identify barriers (physical, social, and systemic) implement inclusive practices, and respond to access needs with clarity, care, and accountability.
PRESENTER:
Miss_Eva (She/Ella) has been rooted in the Utah kink community since 2019. A sadistic switch with a tongue sharper than her eyeliner, she brings humor, precision, and intensity to every space she teaches in. As a Disabled Latine woman, she is fiercely committed to intersectional, accessible, and inclusive kink education. She has taught a wide range of classes across Utah and is widely recognized as a community leader, organizer, and educator.
She has organized skill-shares, countless mutual aid projects, facilitated peer groups, and consulted for local orgs on accessibility and event safety. She is also the creator of a community access kit, an ever-growing set of tools venues can rent to make their spaces more inclusive for attendees of all ability levels.
Above all, Miss Eva teaches from the belief that kink is a place where power becomes possibility; a space where laughter, risk, tenderness, and desire shape something holy at the edges of our bodies.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/1adb0b8144
