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!
This Week with Wicked Grounds (4/23 - 5/3)
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Howdy kinksters - I recently got to take part in an interesting interview to help build new mental health resources for kinksters in the Bay Area, and promised the researcher I’d let y’all know about it too. If you are in the SF Bay Area, qualify for the research, and take part in the online interview, you’ll receive a token honorarium of a $10 gift certificate to thank you for your time and more importantly you’ll have a say in helping create better resources for kinksters. Here’s the information:
Val Garcia (Social Justice Fellow at The Wright Institute) is conducting exploratory research about the intersection of group therapy and kink or alternative relationship structures. If you would be interested in doing a one hour anonymous remote interview to support this research please fill out this short 6 question multiple choice intake form.
Interview participants will be compensated with a $10 gift card to their choice of Safeway, Trader Joe’s, or Amazon.
We have some great classes for you this week both online and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. (And, speaking of getting out there: Are you a neighbor in Arizona? Mark your calendars! I’ll be teaching live in Tucson 5/28 and in Phoenix 5/30 - 6/1, and we’ll have ticketing information available for you very soon!) As we close out April, we’d also like to close out our annual scholarship fundraiser and membership drive. If you haven’t yet made your contribution, please take a look! Every single contributor and member makes a big difference our our ability to develop new kink education and keep it accessible to the widest possible audience. Now, let’s take a look at this week’s events. This Week!Thursday, April 23Online: If you enjoy cannabis and love kinky play, you’ll want to keep consent and communication at the forefront to be safe and have more connection and fun. Tonight, we hope you’ll join Lilithfoxx online for Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent While Using Cannabis. Attend live or through the recording with you advanced tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, April 24No live classes today, but you can check our all our digital downloads on Teachable. Saturday, April 25Online: Join Mel & Memi online today for a special three-hour workshop on Erotic Humiliation! You’ll need advanced tickets to attend this class either live or through the recording. Don’t be too embarrassed to get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Mendocino, CA: Are you in northern coastal California? Looking to find your people? Our own Miriam Green hosts a monthly Mendocino Munch, usually in Mendocino or Fort Bragg, CA. This month we’ll meet from 1-3pm on the back deck of The Waiting Room in Mendocino (with a slight possibility of relocation if the weather forecast changes to rain – so far so good!). Find out more and RSVP here! Online: Good boundaries are key to excellent negotiation and consent, but we’re not always brought up knowing ours. Join Buzz Stingyear online this afternoon to explore yours in Badass Boundaries: The Discipline of Power: The Zero-Defect Protocol for Interpersonal Leadership. This class is particularly geared toward the guys in the room, but all are welcome to attend. Learn more about the class and sign up to attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, April 26Online: Whether you are autistic, love someone who is autistic, or just want to create better kink communities, we invite you to join us today for Autism & Kink, a popular online class with UK educator John Pendal. Please note that this popular class is never recorded, so you’ll need to mark your calendars and plan to attend live. Get your advanced tickets for the class through Forbidden Tickets or Plura and we’ll see you there! Online: Curious about position training as another way to enhance D/s play and relationships? Join Hannah The Scribe online this afternoon for Creating Practical Slave Positions. Whether you already use position training or you’re simply curious about what these can do to enhance your play, we’d love to see you there. You can join live or through the recording with your advanced ticketing from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, April 27Online: Our annual Kink Class Incubator launches today and it’s our first live session tonight. All brand-new instructors need to be registered by today! (Experienced instructors have the option to skip the first live session and can register through 5/4). If you’re curious about the incubator and whether it’s right for you, learn more and register here. Online: Interested in learning more about the fun, thrills, and safety behind CBT? Join Miss Mackenzee online tonight for Handling Their Precious Bits: CBT for Beginners and Beyond. You may attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, April 28No live classes today, but you can check our all our digital downloads on Teachable. Wednesday, April 29Online: Cowprint & cows have become all the rage in fashion & even in the bedroom in recent years. Let’s learn about how to bring it all into the dungeon in tonight’s Holy Cow! Intro to Hucow Play with Lady V. Whether you’re an experienced hucow player looking for new ideas or curious about what all the fuss is about, join us live online tonight or through the recording all week with your advanced tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday, April 30Online: We at Wicked Grounds honestly believe the single best way to improve your play, have more fun and be safer it to bet involved in the public kink scene. Curious about the world of kinky play parties but not sure how to get started? Let Princess Rara show you how in tonight’s Dungeons Demystified: Navigating Etiquette, Attire, and Atmosphere in BDSM Spaces. Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, May 1No live classes today, but you can check our all our digital downloads on Teachable. Saturday, May 2We have an online class and two San Francisco classes today! Online: Join Faun online today for Negotiation Skills for subs and Bottoms and let’s get those skills to the next level! We always recommend attending live if you can, but we’ll record this session for those who can’t make it today, as long as you have advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. San Francisco, CA: Curious about getting involved with the public kink scene in San Francisco? Whether you want to connect with classes, social events, or play parties, there is a rich world in the SF Bay Area to explore. Our own Miriam Green has been teaching orientations to the local scene for over ten years, and is ready to help you find your ideal places to learn, grow, and play! Join them in downtown San Francisco at noon today for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene to learn all the ins and outs! Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. San Francisco, CA: Dating is already hard enough. Add being kinky to the mix and it seems exponentially harder – but we can help! Join Miriam Green live in San Francisco today for our live class Dating While Kinky. We’ll talk about strategies, resources, and considerations for getting the most out of dating as a kinky person. This class is for people of all genders, orientations, and relationship styles who identify as kinky or want to successfully date kinky people. Join us at 3pm! Advanced tickets are recommended through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. And bonus: if you’re hanging out between the noon and 3pm classes, you’ll have plenty of time to pick Mir’s brain between classes! Sunday, May 3San Francisco, CA: Feeling a bit out of sorts at the world around us right now? Want to get back into your body, claim your power, and step into embodied authenticity regardless of what’s going on in the world? Join us live in San Francisco today for The Embodied Feminine Daylong Intensive with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. This is a day-long workshop to help us each recover and deepen our somatic connection to that elemental spirit of the feminine, which is part of the pulse of the universe. This is the only body you will ever have. What if your body was your partner? A source of energy, strength, and renewal? This workshop is for people who have, past or present, deep-lived experiences of femmephobia and/or misogyny, and want to engage with and embrace their innate feminine power, regardless of your gender or presentation. Learn more and sign up for this daylong intensive through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Intensives!We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and online.
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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!
Howdy kinksters - We have some great classes for you this week all over the place – in the SF Bay Area, in downtown Los Angeles, and online. We’re midway through April, and that means we’re also midway through our annual scholarship fundraiser and membership drive. If you haven’t yet made your contribution, please take a look! Every single contributor and member makes a big difference our our ability to develop new kink education and keep it accessible to the widest possible audience. Now,...
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