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Presenter Bios
Abby and Christa – Ottawa, ON
Fisting
Abby and Christa are your garden variety poly kinksters who have been experimenting with fisting for a few years. Both have been involved with the Ottawa queer scene for a number of years and have been most recently enmeshing themselves in Ottawa’s kink scene. Christa has previously facilitated a variety of workshops on sex and sexuality. Both are equally excited to co-facilitate their first workshop together.
Andrea Zanin – Toronto, ON
Making an Impact
Andrea Zanin has been kinky since birth and active in the BDSM community since 2000. She makes her home in Toronto, Canada, as a recent transplant from Montreal. She’ s a trans ally with an academic background in women’s studies and sexuality studies, and is an organizer, educator and writer within the queer, polyamory and BDSM communities. Andrea frequently speaks about alternative sexuality for universities, colleges, sex shops, community groups and conferences in Canada and the States, and she co-organizes An Unholy Harvest. She blogs obsessively at http://sexgeek.wordpress.com. She’s the very lucky owner of two wonderful bois.
Anika Bergstrom – Montreal, QC
Sacred Exchange
Anika Bergstrom is a Montreal leatherdyke who’s been an organizer in the Unholy Army since 2005. She has a strong sense of vocation and has been involved with spiritual leadership in one form or another for about ten years. Her spiritual world and her experiences of power exchange are so symbiotic that she probably couldn’t separate them if she tried—and she doesn’t want to. Her latest personal project has been creating and moderating a FetLife group called Sacred Exchange, where she encourages dialogue about the intersections of kink and spirituality on a list with over 275 members.
Anna Peak – Kitchener, ON
D.I.Y. SM Porn
Anna Peak is the proud little girl of her Daddy, Ingrid. She is a queer femme, video and performance artist, leftist activist, housewife, communication designer, porn star, carpenter, ice cream addict, aunt... and she has just spent six months creating an interactive DVD about queer porn and how to make it as her final university project in Berlin.
Charlie – Montreal, QC / Ottawa, ON
Long Distance Relationships – Now THAT’s Kinky!
Charlie’s a charming Montreal chick who has been residing in Ottawa for a couple of months now. She’s been involved in the community off and on for a number of years, mostly in the organization of kinky workshops and events, with the Unholy Army and otherwise. Her interest in kinky relationships derives from her own personal experience. Her interest in discussion facilitation comes from her academic and professional background.
Claire Dalmyn – Winnipeg, AB / Toronto, ON
Kink in the Academy: The Beginnings of an Anthropology of BDSM
Claire Dalmyn recently graduated from the University of Winnipeg (BA Hons Anthropology) and is now working on her MA in Social Anthropology at York University in Toronto. She plans to focus her thesis research on questions regarding identity and embodied experiences in BDSM. She has been actively involved in BDSM communities since January 2007, and began her academic investigations of the subculture shortly thereafter, after discovering how little credible, sympathetic research has been published to date. She identifies at this point as queer and primarily submissive, but is eager to explore, learn and see where her experiences take her!
Ericka Black – Ottawa, ON
Role Play 101
Ericka Black is an Ottawa kink enthusiast, sex educator and Religious Studies scholar. One of her favourite activities in the world after engaging in kinky pleasures is teaching about them: BDSM 101, strap-on sex, anal sex, and most especially edge play (piercing and cutting). This year, Ericka gets to teach one of her most favourite things to the curious and excitable: role play.
Ingrid Olson – Waterloo, ON
Corsets, Kites and Wings: Advanced Needle Play
Ingrid is one of the rare species known as the butch M2F. She is also known as Daddy to Anna, her little girl. She describes herself as a hands-on sensation Top who enjoys spanking, slapping, punching, fisting, choking, fire, and sharp things, including needles. Ingrid has previously presented workshops for The Exiles in San Francisco, By Invitation Only (BIO) in Vancouver, the Wicked Womyn conference in Seattle, The 101s in Toronto, Unholy Harvest 2007, Mr. Leatherman Toronto 2008, and at The Gargoyle in Berlin. Ingrid is a philosophy graduate student at Wilfred Laurier University and plans to do a PhD in sexual ethics, specifically BDSM, and go on to teach young, impressionable vanilla minds.
Jacqueline St-Urbain – Ottawa, ON
Fresh Meet
Jacqueline Saint-Urbain is a Montrealer who was transplanted to Ottawa in 2006. She is active in the queer and leather communities in both cities and is the founder and Moderatrix of the Unholy Army of the Night. With over 20 years’ teaching experience in subjects ranging from CPR to SM, Jacqueline works with not only the experienced and curious, but also does outreach to crisis line workers, sexual assault counsellors and group therapists on SM awareness and sensitivity. This is her second year co-organizing Harvest.
MediKaT – Ottawa, ON
Play Safe with Safe Play
MediKaT is an experienced paramedic who has been in the Scene for six years. A long-time member of the Unholy Army of the Night, MediKaT still needs to pack at the Lookout to pay off a bet. She’s excited to share her inside knowledge of First Aid and the emergency medical system with other kinky folks who may have to make use of it one day.
Mitch – Toronto, ON
The Call to Serve
Mitch is a paddler (canoes, you perverts), a tree-hugger, an academic, a high school teacher, a queer and trans youth mentor, and a fairy, or maybe a pirate, depending on the day. He made his way into the leather scene in early 2007 and later that year found himself snatched up by a dyke dominant who wanted to own his cute butt (and the rest of him too). Since then he’s lived as a collared boi in a 24/7 D/s relationship that gives him a place to channel his lifelong desire to serve. He’s interested in exploring many aspects of kink, including bootblacking and his own toppish tendencies.
Ms. Pet – Gatineau, QC
Leathercrips: Who We Are, Why We Matter and How to Show Respect to and Play with People with Disabilities
Ms. Pet is a Leathercrip (she coined the term) who has fibromyalgia, a chronic pain disorder that is thought to be due to a damaged central nervous system and affects a variety of physical and cognitive functions. She also has psych and learning differences/disAbilities. She is many things: a published writer, an artist, a once and probably future small business owner, a person with disabilities, a sometime employee, a thriver, a femme, a second-wave sex radical, a white trash welfare bum, a disability and poverty activist, a happily married poly housedyke, a pet submissive and a full-powered bottom.
Sarah Pie – Toronto, ON
Practical Bondage Magic
Sarah Pie is a leatherdyke switch who has lived a life moistened by kink for more than 15 years, and has been active in the southwestern Ontario and Toronto communities for seven of those as a volunteer, educator, and fun-loving slut. A passionate bondage bottom since her first introduction to kink, she crossed the line to become a novice but enthusastic rope top. She strives endlessly to learn, share, and open herself up to the beauty and passion of play in all its forms.
Susan – Toronto, ON
Dyke Cocksucking
Susan is a therapist, writer, presenter and educator who has her fingers, toes and other body parts in all sorts of communities around Ontario. She’s a leatherdyke, a suburban mom, a smut writer, and an eternal academic. She loves to drag a little bit of every part of her into these disparate worlds. She’s also a theory fetishist, so nothing makes her happier than talking about identity, politics, kink and sex all at the same time.
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