Excited to be heading over to the new Victoria Disabled Artists Collective Craft Fair this afternoon. So I wanted to muse here a bit about the intersection between craft and erotic wellness. Those who have been following my work for a minute now will now that I run a monthly casual online event where we…
This Wednesday is already the last one of the month! Which means it is time for my monthly online event – Soft Touch Intimate Craft Crossover. This month, the theme is zine making. Without fully knowing that is what I was doing, my friends and I made our first zine in 1991 with a typewriter…
Growing up in the church, especially for those of us who were raised as girls and women, involved a lot of disconnection from the body. The patriarchal modern christian church operates with a power structure where someone else knows more or knows better all the way up the line. Fathers, husbands, pastors, bishops and the…
As a student of somatic sex education I find myself prompting students and clients to notice sensation in their bodies in the ways that I have learned to practice through studying in this field. It took me some time to get to the place where I could understand that the assignment was often just to…
I am excited to join folks this evening for a little time of togetherness. I originally wanted to offer the option of an afternoon time block, especially if there were folks from further east that wanted in and the evening time slot was too late for them, but when it came right down to it,…
A few months ago my pierogi (a term of endearment for one of my polyamourous partners) Caitlin, came to Jess and I with an idea. The progressive church, Open Way, where they are co-pastor curates a community building, educational offering each year, focused on a different matter of collective liberation. This year, they proposed, members…
Next month, rather than planning a 3rd Wednesday afternoon Craft Crossover (especially because the 3rd wednesday is the 25th) I’m cooking up something else instead. I’m trying doing 2 different times, one in the afternoon and one after my kid’s bed time. I hope that y’all will join me to explore and practice tools and…
When I first launched into doing this freelance educator stuff, coaching was a part of it. I was seeing clients and practicing using mapping tools, deep imagination, divination and more to help folks find their way to a more full and honest version of themselves. I took a huge step back from that work about…
The theme for this month’s Soft Touch Intimate Craft Crossover was costumes & erotic role play. A number of key teachables came up over the 2 hour cozy crafternoon and I thought better than to just leave those points for only those who made it in person. Obviously, I am not going to share anyone…
After wrapping up the 5th cohort through the “Pleasure (Your) Chest” workshop series we wanted to give an update to the folks in our community who have been helping us keep this going. As you probably know, we offer this to folks on a sliding scale. We know that there are significant, compounding axis of…
I have been having a lot of fun so far this year working on my Halloween costume, which, to be real, is mostly a very intricate hat. But, as I am taking cues from my daughter who says, “for halloween, I am always the main character, papa is the goofy guy i meet along the…
Celebrating booty abundance, grief and growth.
Hello kind internet friends,I know I have not been doing the best job keeping things up to date here on the website front- I have been as trapped in the dopamine & engagement mines as the masses, but am often annoyed & discouraged by the ways that algorithm driven platforms that have the user reach…
Hey folks, I haven’t been keeping up with posting here as often these days. For all the reasons, the algorithm pages and my supporter sponsored Patreon get all the freshest news and updates, and it can take me minute to bring the news over to these parts. First thing, you might have gotten an email…
These poems were written during the month of October 2023, while Kori was care taking their terminally ill partner and co-parent. This writing challenge process offered a space for the immensity of emotions directly associated with the second hand experience of cancer treatment and coming to terms with one’s mortality, but also includes some pieces…
