Presenters

Each year we bring an amazing educational team for Dark Odyssey: Surrender. Top notch educators rarely seen outside of their home communities, as well as internationally renowned sexuality, kink, BDSM and spirituality educators, all converge on the Bay Area for an unparalleled weekend of learning!

Our 2025 Presenter Lineup is taking shape. More to be announced soon!


Shay

Friendly femme flyer navigating nerdy nuance & an aliteration fetish
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Syenite

Sex educator. Smut peddler. Your favorite scary femme. They/them.
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Dancehalldyke & Sluttyhands

Bay area rope villains teach you to tie, serious business, no jokes allowed
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Evie Lupine

Evie Lupine is a full-time kink educator who focuses on an emotional and psychologically-informed approach to BDSM.
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Ms. Reemah

Derives immense joy, creativity, strength, and connectedness through rope play.
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Mr. Slaughter

Renowned for creating safer spaces for QBIPOC in rope 
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Lief Bound & icky

Lief Bound (He/They) and Icky (He/They) are queer Bay Area rope educators with a decade of experience that have taught rope internationally. 
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Lee Harrington

Internationally known author, artist and educator on erotic and spiritual authenticity
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Ropeybunny

An energetic and experimental masochist with a love for all things scary
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Mr O

A creative sadist with a penchant for violent grappling and medical play
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Master Hines

Master Hines is a Dominant, Top, BDSM Educator and Professional Dominant with thirty plus years of experience in the BDSM community.
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Dear Caroline

Kinky Educator, Sharps Artist & Owner of Needle Playground
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Sejay/sejay

Smiley, pansexual, genderqueer, biracial, poly, switchtastic Boy
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Torque

Torque is just a guy who enjoys playing!
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Melee

Unabashed instigator and matchmaking aficionado who enjoys folding bodies like laundry.
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Kit

Kit is a pragmatic and sadistic switchy fox with a love for sharps, blood, and bondage!
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Conor

Mischievous masochist trans leatherman who enjoys rope, boots and blood.
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impossiblepain

Impact switch, gleeful sadist, and accomplished masochist
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NotYourAnything

Masochist rope bottom finding joy and connection in suffering.
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Zee

Zee is a life long kinkster and a kinky educator who mixes equal parts information and entertainment into their classes. 
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Mir

Full-time kink educator and coach Miriam Green owns Wicked Grounds.
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Nyxie Noc

Nyxie Noc (any/all pronouns) is a kink presenter, community organizer, and Program Coordinator at Praxium, as well as a former sex worker, content producer, and consultant dedicated to fostering consent, agency, and equity in kink communities.
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The_Silence

Kink photographer for over 14 years
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Inky Void

Inky Void is a rope/kink sWitch, sentient pile of glitter, and overall silly lil guy.
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Addy

Addy (she/her) is a a mischievous switch who enjoys scenes with lots of laughter and screaming
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Insignia

Insignia she/her is a local bay area rope bottom who specializes in body mechanics, mobility, and flexibility.
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Coco

Coco is a kink community presenter and licensed bodyworker whose classes focus on intentional touch, service, and embodied connection.
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Rhiannon & Coyote

Rhiannon & Coyote share their fanatical passion for bondage through playfully sadistic  bondage in co-created fantastic worlds.
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Psychokitty

Ryan “Psychokitty” is a performance artist and player of games
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Beatrice

I’m a queer, bisexual woman and an active Dominant who has spent the last 25+ years wielding influence across two seemingly contrasting worlds: the high-consent realms of BDSM and the high-stakes territory of corporate sales and leadership.
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TASHRA

TASHRA–The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance–is a community-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, founded in 2012, centered on kink identities and communities.
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Alexandria

Alexandria Nichandros - somatic queen of improv, performer, teacher, queer, leather, poly, flirt-femme-nomenon!
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William Winters

William Winters is President of OPEN (Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Nonmonogamy) and founder/CEO of Bonobo Network, building consent-centered, sex-positive community through events, education, and advocacy for ethical nonmonogamy in the Bay Area.
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