Presenters for the Previous Event (Spring Break 2024)
Lady V (She/Her)
Lady V is a sex-positive organizer & educator with a passion for empowering others. She is a fierce-as-fire Professional Domina, Bootblack, & hucow, with a personality best described as “Fran Drescher with a whip”. While hailing from Detroit, Michigan, she has settled in Salem, Oregon, where she serves as the majordomo for her leather family, the Atomic Army. Her love of community, education, & sharing ideas with other sex-positive folx is insatiable & hopes to inspire others to enjoy sexuality & dynamics from an authentic place world-wide. Lady V has taught all over the US for events such as Kinkfest, SELF, SubSpace, & more! Lady V serves as the lead organizer for the Salem Munch & resident bootblack for the Portland Eagle.
Mark and Rhiannon
Though he is often loathe to admit it, Mark is a polysexual dominant who has been in the scene for almost twenty years. He takes the word sadist seriously, and can frequently be found whipping his girl, Rhiannon, to shreds at annual area events…much to her delight! In addition to sex and violence, his kinky passions include consent education, emotional awareness, and all things impact play. Rhiannon is a late-stage submissive with an anxiety problem who is fortunate to skillfully serve via housecleaning and hot sex (though she much prefers the latter!) She enjoys a variety of guilty pleasures, including vintage-inspired outfits, clove cigarettes, and the occasional tiki drink. They have taught at local and national events, including International Pup and Handler Weekend and Frolicon. They currently reside in Indianapolis with their two squishy-faced dogs, Chicken and Waffle.
Mx Bliss (she/they)
Mx Bliss is a gleeful Dominant, sensation empath, consent enthusiast, rope switch, and quinkster (queer kinkster). They identify as Daddy AF, on both sides of the slash. She is an attorney, kink-business consultant, dominance and executive coach, performance artist, prorigger, and the former General Counsel of kink.com. In her spare time, she produces the Jiffy Kink events, co-hosts Friction events, and operates a kink-positive education space. MxBliss presents on a wide range of BDSM and rope topics but especially loves matchmaking and presenting information about negotiation, consent, kink and the law, and diversity in kink.
Natalie Rose and Roin Riot
Natalie Rose (they/she)
Nat is an AAPI, queer, poly, body positive Lifestyle Coach and Kink Educator. Their practice centers around platonic kink, with a special emphasis on rope suspensions, and they bring hands-on classes that focus on building blocks for all bodies, genders, design of relationships and community. Creating a private rope studio in 2016, ROpenSpace in Portland Oregon, which is the home of Bondage Soup, a 12-month progressive rope program.
Rion Riot (they/them)
Rion is an educator, personal trainer, athlete, model, advocate and performer. They are dedicated to helping people find the confluence of physical, mental and sexual health. Though they have made a name for themself as an educator with classes like “Ass Like That” and “Fellatio 2.0”, their unique background in competitive athletics, psychology, and crisis intervention keeps their teaching style both grounded in the physical body and acutely aware of the infinite ways humans can give, receive, and express pleasure. Rion’s style is distinctly comfortable, humorous, dynamic, direct and trauma-informed.
Ninjet Kitty (She/Her)
Ninjet Kitty has been an enthusiastic member of the Leather community for a decade. In that short she has volunteered at various events and used her skills as an entertainer and dancer for countless fundraisers. She can also be seen presenting a variety of workshops that have enlightened and enthralled attendees. In Ninjet Kitty served as Ms. Corazon Leather, during her title year she traveled the country promoting New Mexico events and the Corazon title while learning all she could to further benefit her home community. Most recently Ninjet has relocated to Wisconsin where she is looking forward to continuing her Leather journey. When she is not attending and organizing community events you can find Ninjet training on her pole or kayaking around the Great Lakes.
Nirathekitten (she/her)
Nirathekitten is a rope loving, latex wearing, often bloody, switch and self-player who joined the larger kink community in 2018 while living in Michigan. Now located in Central Florida, she dedicates a large portion of her time volunteering for her local community and co-leading the Orlando Rope Bite hosted at The Woodshed. Whether it’s traveling cross-country, or in her own backyard, Nira can be found pushing her abilities in kink and proving that “mind over matter” is more than just an expression. She can be found on Fetlife, Instagram, and Twitter as NiratheKitten.
Phoenix and lucky
Phoenix identifies as queer, heteroflexible, sapiosexual, demisexual, polyamorous Primal Predator-Hunter, Impact Top, Exhibitionist, Daddy, Protector, Brat-Enthusiast, Dominant, Master, Owner and Demi-Sadist, and has a pervasive love of Power Exchange and prismatic interpersonal dynamics. lucky identifies as a queer, ambiamorous, hedonistic energy-sexual and brat. She has a deep affection for HDO, cigar service, primal, dark age and pup play. Their passions are for Community and service in all forms. Together, they have a passion for breaking the mold of traditional dynamics through kink theorycrafting, authentically relating with their chosen Community and are constantly working to help others affirm their truest selves as the 2022-TXPE & 2023-IPE title holders.
PlumpPeaches (She/Her)
PlumpPeaches is a Certified Pilates Instructor. Ms Peaches runs KinkyPilates, Cleveland POC Events Group, Cleveland Black FemDoms and Black Voices in Kink in Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Peaches is a retired professional dancer and brings her experiences from dance, Pilates and Kink together for KinkyPilates. Ms. Peaches enjoys leading classes, workshops, Munches, parties and weekly KinkyPilates classes.
Rain DeGrey (She/Her)
Rain DeGrey is an international educator, writer, presenter, podcaster and performer that has been writing articles and teaching classes focusing on kink, relationships, and sex education since 2009. After getting her start as a fetish model, Pro Domme, and competitive wrestler, she was motivated to branch out into education, something she is extremely passionate about. Demystifying sexuality, presenting in a clear humorous way, and making sex education fun are trademarks of her teaching style. She has taught on a wide variety of topics at numerous venues including Harvard, Northwestern, and Adler Universities, Kink.com, The Citadel, Dark Odyssey, Folsom Street Fair, Kink Academy, Thunder in the Mountains, Black Thorn, Kinky Kollege and Boundcon. She has been featured in Playboy TV’s “69 sexiest things to do before you die”, Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, The SF Fetish Ball, Epix’s “Sex Life”, Bawdy Storytelling, Mystery Box Theater, RISK! and is a multiple crown winner of the Dirty Talk Game Show. Rain DeGrey spends her time teaching classes, writing articles, her online advice column, producing podcasts, and providing one on one coaching to select clients.
redwarrior (she/her)
redwarrior is a feisty, switchy Leatherwoman who brings a primal, feral, and rough energy to all her play. She plays with all gender identifications and sexual orientations and mostly Tops unless she finds that rare gem of a Sadist or Dominant to surrender to. She has presented throughout the US and Canada on topics like primal play, rough body play, and psychological BDSM topics. She has served her community as Southeast Community Bootblack in 2010 as well as International Community Bootblack 2010 and was honored as Pantheon of Leather Woman of the Year in 2011. She’s a wild woman at heart and when not prowling the dungeon, she can be found riding her Harley or out in the woods howling at the moon.
Seq (they/she)
Seq first joined the BDSM & Leather communities back in the late 90’s. Identifying as left side of the slash and as a creative, nurturing edge player, Seq is pansexual and neurodivergent. Seq cares about building consent culture, fighting the stigmas against our communities, and working to increase inclusion and accessibility in our communities.
You may know Seq from: National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (Board Member & Committee Chair), Navigating Consent (Facilitation Team & Educator), Consent Academy (Educator & Curriculum Developer), Member of staff at various conferences, Consent Teams and Community Support Teams at Events Leather titleholder: Mx Michigan Leather Pride 2023
Sir Prussian Fire (He/Him) and lucky (They/she/it)
Sir Prussian Fire and his collared Slave, lucky live in Houston Texas. He is a Leatherman, Hedonistic Sadist, and army veteran. She is a Leathergirl, devoted slave, hedonistic masochist, and degradation slut. They operate within a 24/7 Primal M/s dynamic, and have been in the BDSM community for nearly three decades between them. They have a passion for education and service to the community both together and individually with their dedication to teaching Fire, Blood, and the tabooest of play in all forms. They also have a passion for unconventional M/s and other dynamic styles and believe all journeys are valid!
Sir Tressa (any)
Sir Tressa is a Queer, non-binary, homoflexible, genderfluid butch. Service is not only one of Sir Tressa’s primary love languages, but it is also part of their spiritual calling. For them, there is no greater honor than to serve their community, and in turn their Gods. Sir Tressa began their BDSM/Leather journey in 2011 graduating from the Dallas Mentors Program and has developed a lasting connection to the Dallas/Ft. Worth kink community as both a leader and educator. Sir Tressa serves as Secretary for NLA-Dallas and Co-Director for Beyond Vanilla. Sir Tressa has developed a passion for both the sensual and sadistic sides of play with fire and bastinado (foot torture) among other things. Sir Tressa leverages their daytime role as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion evangelist to facilitate conversations about how to accommodate different people’s disabilities in kink and empower them to be their best selves. Sir Tressa lives on the bleeding edge of civility of the DFW metroplex with their human, furry, and scaly housemates.
Slave Reba
Reba is a polyamorous femme queer slave who has been ingrained in her regional and local community since 2014. She is blessed along with her sibling lyon to serve Master Scott. All three call Indianapolis home. Prior to 2020 you would often find reba bootblacking, handling contestants, teaching, serving, or getting down and dirty in the dungeon! Now she is a bit more private but still enjoys events from time to time. She is a RACK player, consent enthusiast, mental health advocate, and service slut. She is lucky enough to have presented at local, regional, and international events. She’s also the “head” instigator of House Awkward Turtle.
Team Soup
We are Team Soup… perverts who really like to do dirty soupy things! We are into s/m and
leather, while injecting a little chaos and whimsy. We strive to bring humor, sexuality and
passion into our brutality. Polar and nephesh are known for a play style and workshops that lean towards the edgier styles of play; knives, bare handed impact, and blood play to name a few. We live in a 24/7 authority transfer dynamic and we are deeply passionate about power imbalance dynamics and the people who live and explore within them.
The Duke of Pudding (He/Him)
The Duke of Pudding has a penchant for silliness while maintaining respect for his personal history, Leather heart, and the kink community. Duke is an advocate of creative play who often enjoys finding uniquely deviant ways to apply his sadism. He further enjoys facilitating workshops and teaching people how to play safely with their chosen toys, with a particular emphasis on piercing, electricity, and fire. Duke is a proud member of the House of AndOr, and one of the Co-founders of Ritual Steel. When not elbow-deep in the ass of a community event, he can be found driving hovercraft in the Arctic, or with Gogo and Kit enjoying their clothing optional swimming pool near downtown Las Vegas.
AndrogynousKit (She/her)
Androgynous Kit has been in the community for 10 years, primarily as a brat. Her passion for dad jokes and puns is nearly unmatched to her practical jokes. Through exposure to the BDSM she has experienced personal growth, introspection and life-long friendships. As open of a book as they come, she loves deep, introspective conversations, challenging ideas, tacos and dinosaurs.
Tisiphone
Tisiphone is a polyamorous, queer, and femme fairy princess who is as playful as she can be dark. Her interests in kink are as eclectic as she is, but she primarily identifies as a sadomasochist, switch, little, and kitten. But everything is complicated™ and she wears many tiaras. Tisiphone has been involved in the kink community since 2010 and helps organize for Pittsburgh Bridge, Bridge- TNG, and Pittsburgh Age Players Anonymous (P.A.P.A). As an event organizer and kink educator, she imbues her every project with a touch of whimsy. Tisiphone is proudly a featured educator on KinkAcademy.com. The energy and enthusiasm that she brings as a presenter is as unique as it is unforgettable. Enter Tisiphone’s madcap world and prepare to embark on an awfully big adventure.
Traveling Fool
I am a master at the sensuous art of violet wands, getting the violet wand orgasm, and the smiles and sighs of pleasure from slow, sensual violet wand play. If you are not into pain, and prefer the squeals of pleasure, my style is for you. I love to teach and demonstrate how to maximize your violet wand play by combining various violet wand tools and accessories with many sensual techniques. I have been a board member of the TES. I am a certified wand demonstrator and member of the Violet Wand Guild. Traveling Fool/Jay travels the world for work, and plays, demos and teaches at many kink events.