Presenters Bios

Angel

Angel has been a professional pervert since 1993. He came out as a leather dyke in San Francisco and is now a trans, femme, daddy living in NYC. He is an elitist and also a populist, spiritual and an atheist, an optimistic nihilist. He is an activist both in and out of the leather/kink community and was once called 'the nicest mean person I've ever met'. As a person of mixed race he advocates for a less white scene for all of us.

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Capt. Gordon Staub (Sacred Mark Sanctuary)

For nearly two decades, Capt.Gordon has been deeply involved with the Body Modification and Tattooing industry. After much reflection it was his spirituality that brought that brought him to that place to learn about tribal cultures of all kinds. Over the years,with his experience, he has been able to bring a wide range of skills and techniques to many different communities. As Vice President and now Ambassador of SMS he has sought to improve the communities he works within through safety awareness, art, and sacred sexuality. Some of his interests include ritual and ceremonial facilitation, ritual tattooing, piercing, flesh hook suspension facilitation (both safety and technique), cutting and branding, body transformation weekends, healing arts, ritual art and theater, body play, BDSM, D/s and M/s relationships, fire performance, and ordeal facilitation. He also gives various educational workshops on safe blood play, piercing art, extreme vs.edge play, sensual take-down, and more.

Claire Adams

Claire Adams is a pro bondage rigger, model, director, rope maker and body mod enthusiast. Active in both professional and private BDSM community since her start in 2001, she has been a prominent kink positive face in the adult industry. From Vanity Fair magazine, Insex, former House of Gord resident, Kink.com's pornglomerate Guest Director/Rigger/Top, Adam & Eve’s Instructional Bondage Guides, former head piercer of the LA Chapter of CoRE, and of course her own site, ClaireBondage.com, she has some interesting bondage insight. As a lover, player, rigger, collared slave and lots of things in between, her love of intense bondage encourages her to test both her physical and intellectual limits as much as possible especially with her current exploits as a handler for Intersec Interactive (formerly known as Insex.com). Experimenting with everything she could get her hands on from circus school to rope crafting she hopes to provide a zany but unique BSDM perspective from her play style!

Damon Pierce

Damon Pierce is an internationally recognized and award winning Bondage Rigger, Director, Producer, Rope Artist, Master/Dominant/Owner, BDSM Educator, Rope Maker, Dominant of SlaveToBondage.com, and handler for Intersec Interactive (formerly known as Insex.com). Damon is a perpetual student and lover of bondage. He has studied rope bondage and other forms of restraint in the USA and in Japan since the early 90's. His love of restraint also inspired him to create his rope company, VintageRope.com with Claire Adams. His work can be seen in places like Dave Naz's LA Bondage book, to the erotic work of Andrew Blake, rock videos, and hundreds of publications and numerous appearances in adult BDSM.

Danielle dv8

Active in the BDSM/Leather community for fourteen years, Danielle is the Matriarch of House dv8, Houston, TX - a Polyamorous, Spiritually Focused, BDSM family. She is a practicing Zen Buddhist but House dv8 is all-denominational, pan-sexual and gender/sexual orientation bending. She started presenting in the lifestyle in 2007 but has been a public speaker on various aspects of wellness for ten years. She is a certified personal trainer, kick-boxing, yoga, Pilates, and aerobics instructor and practices homeopathy and energy medicine professionally.

Darian IL Re

Darian Il Re is a Kinky Poly Dom who's been kinky longer than he can remember. He found the community in 2005 and is an active participant in the local MD/DC/VA scene. In addition to being a TNGB steering committee member, he is a House Dom for DXS Rapture DC, Ambassador of Sacred Mark Sanctuary, and a member of MAsT Baltimore. Darian enjoys teaching others and sharing knowledge. Favorites include the single tail, violet wand, rope bondage, knitting & crocheting. He enjoys expanding limits, helping others see their potential, making new friends and giving lap dances.

Janice Stine

Janice Stine is many things to many people: Ms. J, Mistress Mary Poppins, A toaster, a chew toy... The list goes on. If you try to put her in a box, she'll deconstruct it, color it with glitter pens, and turn it into something unexpected. Kink just happens to be an outlet where her creativity and love of the absurd can be channeled. For Janice, the conventions of the scene are not hard and fast rules, but rather tools that she can mold and use to create something that is all her own. She identifies less as an educator and more as an avid learner, who will happily share whatever skills and lessons she acquires on her journey, so that others may carve out their own path. In her experience, BDSM is all about individuals enjoying and taking charge of their own sexual preference, not trying to fit themselves into predefined roles.

Julian Wolf

Julian Wolf discovered the world of kink at the turn of the century and quickly found her continuing passion for play and education. In addition to teaching frequently around the country, Julian still serves as advocate, producer and organizer for their local and regional community and is the author of Carnal Conundrums, a Sex Positive Alternative Advice Column running at SaucySW.com. Julian is part of the Kink Academy Faculty, as well as being a sought after performer and MC. For more details on the numerous projects and adventures this egalitarian sadomasochistic dandy, view the tabs on your right.

Klawdya Rothschild

Klawdya Rothschild is an independent curator, artist, Alt Sex and Spirituality educator, Kink Rights Advocate, PR machine, and Occultist. Klawdya's academic background is in Social Psychology, Fiber Arts, and Curatorial and Museum Studies. She has served on the Board of the NCSF and has participated in the BDSM/Fetish and Occulture Communities for over a decade. She has worked as a switch model, performer, bondage rigger, spiritual healer, Temple Whore—and through all these things as an artist. In the BDSM and Fetish Community she is best known for her Self Bondage Manifesto and for fucking with gender while being decidedly femme. Additionally, she is the founder of the Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival, and a recipient of the Annie Sprinkle Aphrodite Award.

Lee Harrington

Lee Harrington is an eclectic artist, spiritual and erotic educator, gender radical and published author and editor on human sexuality and spiritual experience- including "Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond," "Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé," and the “Toybag Guide to Age Play”. He has also worked as an anthology editor on such projects as “Rope, Bondage & Power” from Nazca Plains. Well known for his fun and informative approach to education, he approaches sexuality as yet another art to master, or simply an art to enjoy to its fullest! He has been an active part of the international kink and sex positive communities for 15 years, and his stories make people laugh while showing you that eroticism can be as serious, sexy, or silly as you make it. Lee's writings and photography have appeared in numerous anthologies including "Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path" (also under his previous pen name, Bridgett Harrington), and his image has been seen everywhere from PlayBoy TV to the pages of Skin Two Magazine. To learn more about Lee visit www.PassionAndSoul.com.

Lochai Stine

Although he's been part of the public kink scene for thirteen years, Lochai has been exploring kink and fetish since he was a six year old riding the school bus when he tied up his first "girlfriend". Since those humble beginnings, Lochai has built up an impressive resume not only as an award winning photographer, but also as a renowned bondage rigger, educator, and stalwart of the greater BDSM CommUNITY. He brings the same flair and energy to his rope work, whether he's performing or teaching erotic rope, photography and bdsm lifestyle classes at any number of national kink events. As an educator and organizer, Lochai is fiercely dedicated to his CommUNITY. He helps monitor and organize online communication platforms such as the AlternativePresenters.com, which he created, and freely shares his skills and knowledge to rope enthusiasts and photographers of all experience levels and from all walks of life.

Master Abraham (Sacred Mark Sanctuary)

For more than a decade, Master Abraham has been an educator and facilitator of everything from body modification to spirituality to kink—sometimes merging all three together. With interests including BDSM, Tantra, D/s and M/s relationships, rigging, and sacred sexuality, Abraham offers his unique and sacred/profane view on subjects ranging from blood play to energy play and beyond. Abraham is a professional body mod artist and as co-president of Sacred Mark Sanctuary, he works to help people connect their bodies and spirits through ritual and ordeal.

Nayland

Nayland is an artist and educator, an investigator and instigator. He has presented on kink related topics at TESFest and Leather Retreat, IMsL and GMSMA, LSM, and Winter Wickedness, and has taught and lectured on art at numerous colleges around the United States, including Harvard, Yale, UC Berkely and the Art institute of Chicago. In 2004 he was named International Pipebear at Briar Bash.

Princess Kali

Princess Kali is a foot-fetishist and lifestyle dominatrix with extensive experience in humiliation, corporal punishment, female supremacy and TPE play. Hailing from sunny California but now based in Boston, this vivacious blond hair, blue-eyed Domina is best known for the unique way she combines her sweet-natured appearance and natural charm with her insatiable appetite for cruelty and unbridled sadism. Transitioning into the BDSM community was a natural step for this dominant Diva, who has actively been cutting boys (and often girls) down to size her entire life. Princess Kali has been lecturing on a variety of BDSM topics throughout the country since 2003 in the US and internationally. Presenting at such educational institutions as Harvard, RISD, and Brown University as well has Lifestyle venues such Black Rose, Fetish Flea Fair, Leather Retreat and Kink in the Caribbean has garnered Princess Kali respect in both the vanilla and kink worlds. Founding the Kink Academy in 2007 has allowed Princess Kali to reach an even broader audience in a more personal way, with her particular form of kink positive sex education, helping couples and singles reach a deeper understanding as well has a heightened creativity in their personal perversions.

Rhiannon

Rhiannon discovered the MD/DC BDSM scene in 2007 and has been highly active ever since. Looking back she can see that she was kinky long before she was aware of it. She identifies as a poly queer submissive with occasional switch tendencies when the mood strikes. She is currently collared in service to Ilre/Darian. In addition to being a Steering Committee member of TNG Baltimore, Rhiannon is Secretary of Sacred Mark Sanctuary, and a member of MAsT Baltimore. She enjoys receiving impact play, knife play, hair pulling, rope bondage, and many other things. Outside of kink she enjoys science, gardening, and spending time with her Boston Terrier.

Sacred Mark Sanctuary

Sacred Mark Sanctuary (SMS) promotes and explores the connection of body and spirit, assisting individuals and communities in their spiritual evolution. We believe that life's journey can be enriched by integrating ancient, modern, tribal, and nontraditional spiritual practices. Some of our favorites include ordeal and ecstatic ritual, alternative relationships and sacred sexuality, kink and spirituality educational offerings, ritual body modification, and performance art.

Sarah Sloane

(sarahsloane.net) hails from the metro Washington DC area, where she lives and works as a sexuality & relationships educator, writer, editor, and sex-positive business consultant. She identifies as a kinky poly queer woman with a penchant for service (individual and community) and a desire to empower others to succeed. Her website has pretty much anything you could ever want to know about her, including her upcoming projects and schedule of classes.

Sebastien

Sebastien is a gender-fucked butch top and a half breed Lakota who came out in the San Francisco leather community in 1999 and currently resides in New York City. A Paramedic and a pervert with a degree in Fire Science, a hero complex and daddy issues, Sebastien has been teaching classes/facilitating workshops for the past seven years. Well mannered, foul mouthed, clever, and respectful, he’s fond of D/S dynamics, dark age-play, rough trade, anticipatory service, brilliance, tradition and folks meaner than himself.

Sir C

Sir C is a sadistic, bisexual, poly, Master and BDSM educator. She shares a home and Her life with Her Alpha Mate, Bobby and is pleased to be part of PQLF leather family. She is well known for Her rope rigging, interesting training perspectives, unique M/s philosophy, and "evil" genius. She has pursued Her passion for strenuous bondage and suspension professionally on sites like Hogtied, Waterbondage, Men in Pain, InSexM and InSex. Her personal passion is evident in Her local and national affiliations, participation, and teaching. She was the founding Associate Director of MAsT: Metro New York, is a Trainer with The Estate, and has taught at a number of group meetings and munches, as well as these national events - BR, Dark Odyssey, Dark Odyssey Winter Fire, Kinkfest, Ohio Leatherfest, Leather Retreat Master/slave Camp, TES Fest, South Plains Leatherfest and Shibaricon. She is currently seeking a slave.