We are a queer-centered educational and community building space for sex-positive adult education, including relationships, dating, BDSM, kinky, polyamory and more. Posts mostly written by Mir (that dude in the chair) on behalf of the Wicked Grounds team. Welcome aboard!
Not a drill. To keep our current scholarship model, we need your help.
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Since launching our scholarship program in 2022, Wicked Grounds has awarded over 600 scholarship seats to our classes and workshops. We will find a way to keep doing this, but we're facing a potentially radical restructuring of the program. Up to this point, we've had earmarked seats available to award new requests for seats, no questions asked. We've never yet turned down a scholarship seat request. We're starting to give out scholarships that haven't been funded yet, in part because I haven't reached out to the community with a scholarship-focused fundraiser since last fall. Needless to say, this isn't sustainable. We will be able to give away some scholarship seats each month; some of our Patreon subscribers have earmarked their contributions to the fund. However, we won't be able to keep giving out all the scholarships that are requested without topping up the funds, and many requests will need to be turned down. I want to make a large, multi-seat contribution! Thank you! Be sure to note your contribution is for the scholarship fund:
Want your gift to have even more impact? Let's talk about doing "matching funds," NPR style. Just reply to this email. I want to buy a seat or two You can use the channels above, or just get some seats through our website: I want to keep this program going long-term. Please let us know that we can do that safely, with your support. Warmly Mir |
Wicked Musings
We are a queer-centered educational and community building space for sex-positive adult education, including relationships, dating, BDSM, kinky, polyamory and more. Posts mostly written by Mir (that dude in the chair) on behalf of the Wicked Grounds team. Welcome aboard!
Hello kinksters - For those of you in the US, I wish you a good holiday weekend full of light, life, love, and liberty. I’m still recovering from two back-to-back weeks of very different Pride experiences. If you’d like my thoughts on a tale of two Prides, I recently wrote them up for my personal Substack. I am also very proud of some of the deep, meaningful explorations we have coming up for you, including two live daylong intensives in San Francisco and Oakland this coming weekend. Let’s...
Hello kinksters - I had a strange and interesting experience last week, tabling for Wicked Grounds at the first ever Mendocino County Pride in coastal Fort Bragg, California. The parade and festival was lovely, with a huge turnout (hundreds of people in a fairly small town), great music, heartfelt speeches, and so much resilience. I tabled among a mostly vanilla crowd, and allowed the folks who recognized our Leather Pride Flag branding to come to me. More than two-dozen times over the course...
Hello kinksters - I personally moderated our class on Pedi Pain last night, and learned a lot of great new material. I laughed, I winced, and you bet I took notes for my own creatively sadistic scenes! That’s the thing about the world of kink: no matter how long you’ve been around, there’s always something new to learn! I’ve been in the public kink scene for thirty years, but there is always a new idea, new technique, or different perspective that changes the way I see myself, my play, and my...