April 20 - 23, 2023

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AbundantMischief is a queer polyamorous toppy switch, gleeful sadomasochist, and enthusiastic boot fetishist. She has been active in the Northeast US kink community for over 14 years, and enjoys bringing crossover knowledge from her 2 decades of experience as a professional dancer, circus artist, and performing arts educator into her kink teaching. She has taught for Dark Odyssey, TES, TESFest, Tethered Together, Pragmatic Kink, MAsT: Auckland, House of Kush, House of SCK, and Black Rose.

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Domina Atua and Akashic Eden are womanists, neurovariant cerebral seducers and leather lifestyle cannabisseurs from the House of Kush. HoK was founded in 2021 by matriarch: Domina Atua— and is majority queer, BIPOC and woman led. House of Kush centers its educational reach covering (but not limited to) the following topics: cannakink, cannabis and mental health, lifestyle education, safety awareness practices, sociopolitical advocacy, BIPOC/queer/neurodivergent matters, and transformative justice. HoK aims to build tables, generate ideas and gift services to the community using sliding scale and/or equitable access practices. HoK provides 3-4 FREE, ONLINE lifestyle events a month. Our mission, beyond cannakink, lifestyle education and safety practices, is to advocate for those incarcerated for cannabis related crimes and suffering the consequences of a legal system woefully behind its recreational laws. M/members of O/our house cross many intersectional divides, and W/we celebrate our authenticity and rebellious passion for leather as often as W/we can.

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Andy Roginous is a harm reductionist and kinky switch of olde. They have lived many lives in 15 years of Leather: social working drag king, polyamorous houseboi, kinky disabled parent. Through it all Andy has remained committed to designing workshops that explore all our complex intersections.

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For over 30 years Cecilia Tan has been writing kinky fiction and promoting BDSM community activism. As the author of Telepaths Don’t Need Safewords, Slow Surrender, The Prince’s Boy, and many other works of BDSM erotica, founder of Circlet Press, and creator and longtime director of the Fetish Fair Fleamarkets, she has accumulated many leather community awards, including the Pantheon of Leather President's Award, NLA: International Lifetime Achievement Award, and NLA Woman of the Year.

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Domina Atua and Akashic Eden are womanists, neurovariant cerebral seducers and leather lifestyle cannabisseurs from the House of Kush. HoK was founded in 2021 by matriarch: Domina Atua— and is majority queer, BIPOC and woman led. House of Kush centers its educational reach covering (but not limited to) the following topics: cannakink, cannabis and mental health, lifestyle education, safety awareness practices, sociopolitical advocacy, BIPOC/queer/neurodivergent matters, and transformative justice. HoK aims to build tables, generate ideas and gift services to the community using sliding scale and/or equitable access practices. HoK provides 3-4 FREE, ONLINE lifestyle events a month. Our mission, beyond cannakink, lifestyle education and safety practices, is to advocate for those incarcerated for cannabis related crimes and suffering the consequences of a legal system woefully behind its recreational laws. M/members of O/our house cross many intersectional divides, and W/we celebrate our authenticity and rebellious passion for leather as often as W/we can.

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Emily is the North American Pony Trainer 2023. She has taught pony play classes on all three coasts. She loves sharing her love of pony play with everyone. She has trained and developed a grand champion, she has earned numerous handler awards and ribbons for her ponies.

Identifying as a queerpanpolyswitch she likes people. She's an out and proud pig who likes to share stories, experiences and space with strangers and friends.

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Ezulie is a pro fro pro hoe queer non-binary Leather person of color that believes in empowering others to learn about BDSM and Leather history. Ezulie is a leather kink educator and pleasure enthusiast that focuses on making education accessible for BIPOC communities and their allies. They understand the necessity of connecting folks to useful resources to ensure safer play within BDSM and Kink environments.

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Who do you find if you cross Dear Abby with a tender Queer Femme toughie who swoons at people’s breathtaking sexual, physical and emotional feats? Felice Shays. Based in Brooklyn, Felice has presented at countless events across North America. She believes in love, respect, kicking ass, laughing hard, making out, showing up, and having conversations that scare us. Felice is also quite fond of old dogs, stilettos, thrifting, grammar, and revolution.

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As a queer, trans, disabled member of kink and leather communities, Ferris Oxide, current Mx International Olympus Leather works to create/support queer and intersectionally centered spaces. Ferris is a dominant switch and has taught workshops about communication, conflict resolution, restorative justice, cultural humility, and various hard skills at events throughout the Los Angeles area and beyond. When they aren’t stomping an eager masochist, they can be found wielding electrified knives and a wry smile.

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Jak is Bootblack Europe 2022, following in his Daddy's footsteps, having won the title at Alistair's step down in May 22. Jak is a service oriented, ageplayer leather boy, very much a little boy and Alistair's loyal assistance pup. He is focused on bringing the ageplay and bootblack community together. Jak is earning his leathers through his Daddy and Sir, Alistair LeatherHiraeth. They live together in beautiful West Wales.

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Liza’s slave, Jody, came out as a leatherdyke and slave in 1980 in Los Angeles, founding Leather and Lace, an early women's leather group. She is a member of Portland Bad Girls, San Francisco Exiles, MAsT and LTHR (Long Term HierarchicalRelationships discussion group). Jody has taught in the US and abroad, judged contests, organized events, keynoted and competed (serving as International slave 2011). Jody has received numerous awards, including MAsT International’s 2012 Presenter of the Year, co-held with her Mistress, Liza.

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Joe Cool is a queer, polyamorous switch who enjoys a variety of kinky activities. He’s been a happy, occasionally active member of the DC/Baltimore scene for almost a decade. His passions include service, leather, and puns. He's a proud member of PQLF

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June is a queer trans polyamorous woman, activist, educator, anti-capitalist and historian who spends most of her time challenging others to grow and nurturing relationships with her extensive polycule. June enjoys various types of play including stomping and biting as a bottom, and canes and rough body play as a top. June is an intimacy junkie above all and values shared experiences, deep conversations, and holding space for herself and others.

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Lady Elsa, International Power Exchange 2012, has been serving the Leather and BDSM community for 17+ years, in roles including contest producer, community leader, presenter, keynote speaker, contest judge, and mentor, and in 2016 received the Leathertarian Award for long-standing service to the Leather and Fetish communities. She co-founded and leads Andromeda, a group for women, trans*, and non-binary kinky people in Central Indiana, and serves as Membership/Mentorship chair for Indiana Leather Club.

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Lady Steele has served the Leather community since 1999 and presented and volunteered internationally. She resides in Atlanta where she operates her law practice that serves alternative lifestyles. She founded the Center of Learning and School of Success & the Worthless Bastards (Cigar) Club. She continues to give back to the community through her groups and by being a proud Associate Member of Onyx Pearls - Southern Leather.

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IMsL2016 LasciviousJane is a power-femme switch, kinky burlesqueer, and sex educator, and is perpetually covered in leather and glitter (a bootblack’s worst nightmare). A multi-award winning performer/producer, in the past 15 years she has performed on leather, drag, and burlesque stages across the USA as well as her home country Canada. She currently enjoys raising her mini me and putting her PhD to use educating and empowering youth.

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Liza came to power at Woodstock and has been kinky since. She is a member of Portland Bad Girls, San Francisco Exiles, MAsT and LTHR (Long Term HierarchicalRelationships discussion group). She has always been interested in teaching and training. Among her pupils have been horses, dogs, dolphins, children and inmates. She is honored to have served as International Master 2011. Liza has received numerous awards, including MAsT International’s 2012 Presenter of the Year, co-held with her slave, Jody.

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Meredith has been kinky for decades and Leather for almost as long. She is an enthusiastic educator in the DC area, where she specializes in classes for newcomers to the kink scene. She is Deaf, neurodivergent, and queer (in every definition of the word).

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Momo is a full-spectrum doula, hot femme-bootblack, and sexual health advocate and educator living in Vancouver, BC. Her work is in service to the communities who hold her. She looks at sex & BDSM through a lens informed by sociopolitical power structures, and each person’s individual experiences with systemic oppression. Momo works predominantly with people under 35, new to kink, exploring their desires, sexuality, and/or intimacy.

Visit www.MorganSwitzerRodney.com for more!

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Mrs. Dee (She/Her/Princess) is a Queer Switch, age player, Professional Dominatrix, cuddle therapist and experienced social services professional from NYC. Mrs. Dee focuses on supporting, educating and empowering people newly exploring BDSM, Leather, Fetish and Kink.

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A proud Anishinaabe Algonquin, Ms Jay, is a public speaker, storyteller, Dominant and River Protector. She specializes in ritual body modification and in using natural elements in play. Ms Jay strives to passionately decolonize sex, kink and Leather. As the Matriarch to House of Iron, an Indigenous Leather House, she believes that the activism work of ending white supremacy begins first with body autonomy and radiates outward into change.

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MzJewcy is a playful sadistic Top with a firm hand and a gentle touch. She enjoys laughter, games, and reciprocating energy. She has a passion for education and teaching. She enjoys co-topping because she feels it's a great way to learn, share skills, ideas, and conserve energy. MzJewcy has been an active participant in the lifestyle for 16 years and is the Program Director for the Atlanta Mentors program (http://www.AtlantaMentors.com)

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Patty is a butch leatherdyke from Toronto who has taken a few trips around Kinky Block and is honoured to hold the title of International Ms Leather 2014. In addition to regularly presenting on various kink related topics, she has also emceed and spoken at a host of leather events. When not doing these things, she plays as hard as she works and is a huge fan of dangerous things wrapped in pretty packages.

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Shilo is an accomplished visual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and she is proud to have been the IMsLBB Director of Photography from 2014-2020. In addition to being featured in a number of publications, her photography is also in the permanent collection at the Kinsey Institute. Passionate about the Hanky Code and Femme Visibility, Shilo notably created Femme Flagging Flowers under the KinkyCraft banner and now presents on flagging history and culture.

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Sir Damien has had the honor of working with the NCSF on the Board of Directors since 2020. In addition to serving on the board, Sir Damien also works with the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committee, the Public Relations committee, and the Education committee. He is passionate about demystifying consent and how it relates to the leather/kink/BDSM communities.

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Starr is a masochistic switch on a journey to explore the deeper meaning of slavehood and power exchanges. She is an advocate for spreading knowledge towards safe play practices within the BDSM and Leather community while staying supportive and inclusive of others who practice alternative lifestyle choices.

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Susan Wright founded the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom in 1997. She currently serves as Director of Incident Reporting & Response and chairs the Consent Counts Committee, which helped create the new legal framework for consent to kink called Explicit Prior Permission in the updated Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault. Her extensive research on alternative sexual practices includes consent, mental and physical health, discrimination and violence against practitioners.

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We are Team Soup! Perverts who really like to do dirty soupy things. We are dedicated to having fun and laughter within our lives. We are committed to a leather lifestyle, M/s and heavy play.  

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We are Team Soup! Perverts who really like to do dirty soupy things. We are dedicated to having fun and laughter within our lives. We are committed to a leather lifestyle, M/s and heavy play. 

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Tomo is a queer butch leatherdyke who found the leather community with her wife Mel decades ago and has presented classes, served as a producer, judge, keynote speaker, auctioneer and emcee since. Tomo is Owner and Producer of South Plains Leatherfest, the International M/s Contest and the International Person of Leather Contest and was a producer of IMsLBB (Gen3) for seven years. Tomo has been served by her Majordomo Levi for over 15 years.

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Aerabelle is a queer, non-binary, bottom-heavy switch. They are passionate about making kink accessible to everyone and educating on negotiation, bottoming skills and injury prevention. In the vanilla world, they are an infectious disease researcher and they love using their classes to pass their professional knowledge on to the kink community.

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hot tub is a white, fat, trans, queer who works as a workshop facilitator and somatic healing practitioner. Combining their years in kink community, a Masters degree in Somatic psychotherapy and background as a theater teacher and director, hot tub creates workshop spaces that invite participants to nurture curiosity about their relationships with bodies, sensations, and power. hot tub lives & plays as a switch, committed to holding multitudes.