ONLINE: What Now? Responding to Consent Injuries

We talk a lot about what consent is and how to reach good consent in play and with partners. Yet consent injuries happen all the time. What happens after things go wrong, and a consent incident shakes up a person, a couple, or a community?

This class will briefly touch on what consent is and how to secure it, then go beyond and examine how to best react when a consent incident touches us as a stranger, a friend, or an event host.

We’ll look at some recommended responses, including incident reporting and consequences such as apologies, punishments, and restorative justice.

PRESENTER:

Sir Panda (He/Him) is a Dominant and sadist who lives his busy polyamorous and kinky life in the Seattle area with his wife and his collared life partner. He has been a kink educator since he originated the Passport Program at the Center for Sex Positive Culture (CSPC) in 2011, teaching consent and BDSM basics to new members. In 2015, Sir Panda founded the View From the Top dominant discussion group, now hosted online on the fourth Tuesday of the month (https://thecspc.org/event).

Sir Panda has served in a variety of roles in the kink community, including event host for Arborea Falls and the CSPC, BDSM Lead for Fantasy Forrest Events, and Program Lead for KinkFest 2023. He has been a presenter for the CSPC, Pragmatically Kinking, the Kink Center, and Leather Reign, and is currently an educator with D/s Pacific Northwest (www.dspnw.org).

Sir Panda can be contacted on FetLife and Discord as SirPandaSeattle.

TICKETING:

$20 - $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.

https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/142de155dc

We offer a sliding scale so that cost is not a barrier to attendance.

So—that's it! Choose the level you can comfortably afford.

Patreon members at the VIP+ level may get discounted tickets for $10. Just see your Patreon membership emails for this month's discount code. Find out more at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds!

If cost is a barrier at any level, please use the "Volunteer List" to request a free scholarship ticket. We will award as many scholarship tickets as we can on a space-available basis.

ACCESS:

This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you may need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class!

This class will be recorded and distributed after.

Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.