Today's the Last Day to Get Your KinkFest Tickets

The 22^nd annual KinkFest Portland, Oregon’s three-day celebration of sexual diversity, BDSM, fetish, and leather communities, will be first to be held completely online. Pre-registration is required for the April 23-25, 2021 festival that will be hosted on the freeQ system and accessible to a global audience.

The festival features kink-specific social events and workshops from some of the leading queer leather and BDSM personalities. The majority of the presenters are women, trans, or nonbinary and workshops include those for playing with disabled or trans partners, preventing dungeon disasters, addressing racism, and exploring the psychology of kinks.

Here’s the full list of workshops, with links to more details and the name(s) of presenters.

• Becoming a Sexually Dominant Woman (Princess Kali)
• Best Kink Advice Nobody Told You (Midori)
• Communication and Problem Solving in Alternative Relationships (Redrobin)
• Creative Strategies for Erotically Mixed Relationships (Mia Fine, MS, LMFT, CST, Nancy Owen, MA, LMHC, CST)
• Demystifying Leather (Ivarr B. (Mr. Oregon State Leather 2019))
• DUNGEON DISASTERS (John Pendal)
• Enabling ability: Playing with Disabled Partners (Ferris Oxide (Mx. International Olympus Leather 2019))
• Enough To Make You Blush: Exploring Erotic Humiliation (Princess Kali)
• Failure Isn't An Option, It's a Requirement (JustRob)
• Female Presenting Tops in a Male Dominated Culture (Redrobin)
• Fuck Your Box! D/s for the rest of us (Shay, Stefanos)
• Gender Trouble: Playing with Trans People and Beyond the Binaries (Ferris Oxide (Mx. International Olympus Leather 2019))
• Group Sex: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Whoredom (Courtney Jane)
• Interrogation Scenes and Military Play - Part 1. Discussion of Structure & Psychology (Midori)
• Kinkology: The Psychology of BDSM (Melody Anne)
• On the Edge of Consent (Sir Luke (Southeast Master 2019), His victor (Southeast slave 2019))
• Overcoming Mental Illness in an M/s Dynamic (Sir Luke (Southeast Master 2019), His victor (Southeast slave 2019))
• Play Partnerships & Vetting (Blane, Lotus RopeWolf)
• Plural Dating 201 (Dr. Liz Powell)
• Pyro-Passion: Fire Play Foundations (2hr 11am-1pm) (Shay, Stefanos)
• Racism Defined Allies Through Z (Mx. Pucks A'Plenty)
• Relationships on Purpose (Dr. Liz Powell)
• Scene Negotiations: A Mindful Approach (Mia Fine, MS, LMFT, CST)
• Self-Care: You Come First (Bri Burning (International Person of Leather 2020))
• Singularity: A Self-Suspension Symposium 
• Talk Dirty To Me: Enthusiastic Consent & Keeping it Fresh (Mx. Pucks A'Plenty)
• When One Isn't Enough! The Why and How of Co-Topping (JustRob)
• You're A Filthy Little Aren't You? Dark Age Play 101 (Bri Burning (International Person of Leather 2020))

KinkFest is hosted on freeQ, a video platform developed by queers without the censorship and monitoring baked into many mainstream options. Sarah Massey one of the co-founders says the platform was created to keep “our queer and kink communities connected during Covid and beyond. There is a great demand for online alternatives to the IRL events we all miss, and our communities seek safer tech to host them.”

freeQ and collaborators also produce their own content from classes, cocktail hours, and the weekly nightclub Queer Dance Naked Party, which will unofficially close KinkFest 2021.

(There is also going to be a special *Kinky Queer Dance Naked Party in partnership with International Ms. Leather and Boot Black starring Darien Sounds and DJ Sub Woofer on April 17)