This Week with Wicked Grounds (9/21 – 9/29)

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!

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Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team

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