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!
Yesterday was a day for big thoughts, semi-procrastination, and little epiphanies. I started the day at the computer getting bogged down in minutiae and Mercury Retrograde projects like trying to relaunch a scholarship fundraiser that went sideways four months ago. At one point, I looked up and thought "where has the day gone?" Then I realized it was only 10am. I got in the car. I thought I knew where I was going. I did not. I deliberately took a "wrong" turn, heading inland instead of...
Someone asked me in a comment on a recent post our Facebook group how the Wicked Grounds Scholarship Fund is going. The answer is honestly not great. We last shook the trees four months ago, just as this year's chaos of layoffs and tariffs and uncertainty was hitting people's pocketbooks and psyches. Our drive bombed so badly after one week that I just quietly put it to bed. We ARE still offering scholarships, but we've stopped doing it no-questions-asked for the time being. We've started...
Hello kinksters - It might be the end of summer, but Leather season is just starting to kick off in the Bay Area, as many of us turn our minds toward the Folsom Street Fair coming up the last Sunday in September. We’re marking our calendars for LeatherWalk 2025, the annual kick-off of leather week. This year’s LeatherWalk is calling for a wide range of kinksters to show up and take pride in their leather, kinky & queer histories and futures in San Francisco, and you’ll be hearing a lot more...