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 (7/10 - 7/20)
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Hello kinksters - The San Francisco community got hit yesterday by news that our beloved local community space Stopgap is under attack, and a lot of community energy is being taken up by that. It’s certain that more information will be coming out – especially how to help – but if you are already a Stopgap fan and want to help, they are running some emergency fundraising through Venmo, and you can find out more about the situation on Fetlife. (If you want to be cheeky about it, put “Wicked Grounds sent me” in your payment memo.) We recommend this space frequently to local folks in our classes, and I feel strongly committed to having this space as the San Francisco community clubhouse, just as we were privileged to be for many years. As fundraising and action becomes more solidified, we’ll keep you posted. One quick administrative note: We did some major cleanup to our mailing list last week. If you normally get our newsletter through email and you’re not seeing it there this week – or you see this content elsewhere and want to sign up – you can sign up here. Social networks are not completely stable, even custom ones like FetLife. Staying on our mailing list is the best way to guarantee you always get the information you need about our classes, events, and urgent news. We’ll keep the kink flowing this week. Wicked Grounds is offering some excellent classes this week, including two daylong intensives this weekend in the SF Bay Area. We’d love to see you, so please read on for details. This Week!Thursday, July 10And all players can use a good toolkit for Dealing with Drop. What the heck is this crashout that we have after great scenes (or kinky camps, or Pride . . . ) and what can be done to prevent and manage it? Join us for an online class with Miriam Green to explore just that! Advanced ticketing required. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 11No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com Saturday, July 12Join us live in San Francisco today for a full daylong impact play workshop: Increasing Your Impact! A Daylong Impact Play Intensive with Miriam Green and impossiblepain. We’ll explore the practical, emotional, engaged, and somatic sides of impact play, including spanking, paddling, caning, and other (non-flogging) impact techniques, capping the day with a practical capstone exercise. You are welcome to get tickets with a partner, or come alone (and pair with a new friend for the capstone). There are only 11 seats left as we write this! Get your space through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Speaking of Stopgap, they’ll be hosting the Society of Janus Ignite party tonight. This is not our event, and we are not affiliated with it, but it is one of the events we recommend most frequently. You can find out more here. Sunday, July 13Get out of your head in into your body! Join us in Oakland, California for a daylong Erotic Movement workshop with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. We’ll explore a full range of somatic, dance, and movement techniques to connect deeply with our erotic sense of ourselves. All bodies, genders, orientations, and experience levels are warmly welcomed! Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, July 14Join us online at 6pm to explore kink Beyond the Basics with Jamie Joy. This class is intended for more advanced players, but anyone is welcome to learn some of the more intense styles of BDSM and kink play available. We will discuss heavy impact, predicament bondage, and intense sensation play. Prepare to explore the edges with demos on punching, kicking, sensory deprivation, orgasm control, knife play, electro stimulation, and more! Advanced ticketing required, whether you plan to attend live or watch the recording. You can get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, July 15No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com Wednesday, July 16Looking to mooooove into some new play? Chewing the cud on what your next kinky roleplay might be? Just want to be outstanding in your field by gaining knowledge into a wider range of kinky play? Join us Lady V online Wednesday 7/16 for Holy Cow! - Intro to Hucow & Bovine Play. You are welcome to either attend live or watch the recording later, but you’ll need advanced tickets to get the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday, July 17New to kink? You’ll want to check out munches! Those are the fun, lighthearted social events where kinksters get to know one another, explore resources, and build community. Learn everything about how to navigate the world of munches and start building your kink reputation in our online class Starting Out in Kink: Navigating Your First Munch with Princess Rara. Can’t attend live? We will record this one. Just be sure to get advanced tickets to get the recording. Advanced ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 18No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com And check out Saturday and Sunday for a “Mir’s Brain-a-thon”! Saturday, July 19Miriam Green is teaching four classes in three days. Let’s dive in! When dealing with sex magick, theory is important – but practice is where the magick literally happens. If you’d like a practical, hands-on approach to working sex magick, join us at 11am Pacific online for Put a Sigil On It! with Miriam BatAsherah Green. You’ll learn how to create, design, and charge a practical object for directing your energy. Whether you plan to attend live or watch the recording, you’ll need advance tickets. Invoke yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then join us at 2pm Pacific for This is Your Brain on Kink with Miriam Green. Learn about the factors that drive everything from newbie frenzy to new relationship energy to drop, not to mention many of the fun physical and emotional sensations from play. You’ll need advanced ticketing to either attend live or watch the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, July 20If you are planning to attend KinkedIn Konnect: The Worldwide Kinky Educator and Presenter Virtual Summit and Social, we will be there! Find the listing on FetLife to learn more (we’re RSVPed, if that helps your breadcrumbs!) Then join Miriam Green online at 3pm Pacific for Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play. Whether you’re solo, between partners, or in a long-distance relationship, there’s no reason to miss out on kinky play! Learn some considerations to have safety, depth, and fun in your personal play in this online and recorded class. Be sure to get advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, July 21Join us for our core class BDSM Negotiation Basics online tonight starting at 6pm Pacific. Miriam Green will cover all the basics about what to ask – and why – when negotiating for BDSM play. We’ll cover the basics of consent, key negotiation questions, and how to stay in great communication throughout a BDSM scene. Get advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Upcoming Intensives!We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and online. Here are a few that have just been opened for registration that you might want to check out.
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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!
San Francisco Bay Area: We have two daylong intensives this weekend: Impact Play and Erotic Movement
Howdy Bay Area kinksters - We are in the last days of ticketing for our Impact Play intensive on Saturday and our Erotic Movement intensive on Sunday! Details below! Please note that Increasing Your Impact is down to just six seats remaining for Saturday, so we recommend jumping on those tickets soon! Increasing Your Impact! A Daylong Impact Play Intensive with Miriam Green and impossiblepain Saturday, July 12: 10 am - 6 pm Folsom Street Community Center, San Francisco Ticketing through...
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...