DECOLONIZING KINK

Decolonizing Kink is a consulting and training program designed for members of the kink/BDSM community, event organizers, and hosts of play spaces who want to build safer, more liberatory environments rooted in consent, agency, embodiment, and cultural humility. This offering explores how colonialism, patriarchy, anti-Blackness, and other systems of domination shape how we experience power, desire, and play — and how we can unlearn those scripts to co-create spaces of deeper safety, erotic authenticity, and collective care.

Target Audience:

  • Kink/BDSM educators

  • Hosts of public and private play parties

  • Dungeons, sex-positive spaces, and kink community leaders

  • Consent monitors, event safety staff

  • Queer- and BIPOC-led kink collectives seeking anti-oppressive frameworks

Program Goals:

Participants will:

  • Understand how colonial systems shape current kink dynamics and power structures

  • Identify and unlearn internalized messages about worth, desire, control, and punishment

  • Explore the intersections of trauma, pleasure, and consent

  • Gain practical tools for co-creating play spaces that are culturally responsive and emotionally safe

  • Learn trauma-informed, community-centered approaches to accountability and repair