The next Exiles New Member Orientation is Friday June 7th, 7:30 pm, at The Women’s Building in San Francisco.  This class is a requirement to become an Exiles member.

This is an interactive class.  The material is presented in skit format.  This is not a class to learn how to do everything! This is a BDSM 101 class.  Class provides basic safety and community information.

Cost: $10 non-members (and receive a pass to a future program); *free* for members.  Open to women, and those who identify as “other than male”, 18+

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When: Sunday, April 07, 2013 • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Where: Niebyl-Proctor Library (Marxist Library)

6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA @ map

Cost: $10 donation at the door

Dress code: Whatever makes you happy

Who: Women and those whose gender self-identification is “other than male.”

Description: WEB: www.thexiles.org

and theexiles.org/membership/orient/

Cost: $10 (Nobody turned away for lack of funds!)

The Exiles is an educational group for women and those who identify as other than male who have a positive personal interest in BDSM between women. The group provides educational events in the San Francisco Bay Area where women with all levels of experience will have a safe place to meet, explore and share information about safety, play techniques, and resources, and connect with the leather community locally and nationally.

FAQ:

Q: Who Can Join?

A: All women (and those whose gender self-identity is other than male) who are over 18 are welcome. Local members must attend an Orientation before joining.

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Q: How Do I Join?

A: To join as an individual, you must attend Orientation. Then you fill out a membership form and pay your membership fee. Memberships are prorated throughout the year, and everyone’s membership expires July 1.

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Q: How does Orientation work?

A: No RSVP necessary; just show up. It costs $10.00 to help with the rental cost for the room (no one turned away for lack of funds). In exchange, we’ll give you a free pass to an Exiles monthly program. To make things faster and easier on everyone, bring small bills if you can. You must bring a legal picture ID with you, for age verification. We start on time and do not admit latecomers, so please plan accordingly. The doors are closed shortly after the meeting begins. If you live outside the area, you can join as an associate without attending an orientation, but you don’t get all the benefits either.

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Q: Why Must I Attend an Orientation?

A: Because we want to make sure all our members are introduced to basic BDSM safety and concepts like RACK (Risk Aware Consensual Kink).

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Q: What Will I Learn in the Orientation?

A: In Orientation, we’ll cover the basics of several different kinds of BDSM play. While this by no means will make you an BDSM expert, we want to emphasize that keeping you safe – and keeping those you play with safe – is an important goal of The Exiles. Our main focus is education and safety, so if you just want some good information and aren’t interested in joining The Exiles, that’s okay.

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Q: Anything else I should know before I attend orientation?

A: It’s really a lot of fun!

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Ergonomic Roughhousing
Presented by Lamalani
Friday Apr 26, 2013 – doors open at 7:30pm

Lamalani draws from seven years of self-defense training and 22 years as a percussionist to teach how to hit ergonomically, ways to strike, and how to balance out size differences. This class will teach tops to pack a better punch. Both tops and bottoms will learn how to grapple with maximum efficiency and minimal effort. This is a hands-on workshop where people will be encouraged to practice.

Presenter Bio(s)

Lamalani held the title of Washington State Ms Leather 2008 before winning International Ms Leather 2009. She has been active in the leather community since 1999 when she started teaching workshops through the women-owned sex toy store Babeland. Professionally, Lamalani makes hemp bondage rope with Twisted Monk and has recently relocated to San Francisco to work with Mr S. Lamalani has presented at conferences such as Desire Leatherwomen’s conference, Michigan Womyn’s Festival, Southwest Leather Conference, Queer Playcon, Lupercalia, Tribal Fire, and offers private classes around the Bay area. She is an enthusiastic practitioner of rope bondage, fire play and roughhousing. Lamalani relaxes by playing percussion and riding her motorcycles. In 2011 she was awarded the Northwest Regional Pantheon XV and Leather Emerald Award.

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Elections and Talents, reading, singing, demonstrations, comedy, examples..
Presented by The Exiles
Friday Mar 15, 2013 – doors open at 7:30pm

Have you something you’ve wanted to try out in front of an audience? Do you want to be heard or seen?

The March Exiles program is election time. Elections happpen, new officers step up and we are normally left with a good hour to an hour and a half to fill. You made the effort to show up, now we will give you the chance to fill the air. Read a speech you are working on giving, give a snippet of a workshop you want to develop, show us your new juggling skills, read us a poem or short story, or just come out and socialize!

Slots are available from 5- 20 minutes depending on the number of people we have interested. If you would like to participate please email lou@theexiles.org as soon as possible. I will need the length of your reading, or presentation, skit or gig. How many people will be involved? Any special items you’ll need, within reason. A title of the thing you’ll be doing, and your title and name.

I am looking forward to some fun, touching and whacky pieces!

Presenter Bio(s)

Check back for more info

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– AT Hesperian Health Guides, located at 1919 Addison Street, Suite 304, Berkeley. We’ll meet in the second floor conference room. The building has an elevator, and the gender-free bathrooms are accessible. We have a small kitchen, so feel free to bring snacks. Rio will provide the candy.

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The Art and History of Fetish Worship
Presented by Liliane Hunt
Friday Feb 15, 2013 – doors open at 7:30pm

Liliane Hunt will present on The Art and History of Fetish Worship. Offering a peek behind the curtain, into the psychology, history and meaning of fetishism. In this delightfully informative class Ms. Liliane uses art, media, music and literature to prove human nature has always delighted in fetishism. What were those naughty Victorians interested in?

Presenter Bio(s)

Liliane Hunt admits to becoming aware of her fetishistic tendencies from the age of fourteen. Trained in classical theatre, she toured professionally throughout England. Off tour, she dressed in Victorian clothes and taught Victorian history.

By 2007 she had found her true calling and was an established San Francisco Mistress, discovering and embracing animal role-play and the exploration of fetishism as two of her greatest passions. She has taught classes for JT Stockroom, SF Citadel, Rocky Mountain Olympus Leather, KinkAcademy.com, Folsom Fringe and Dark Odyssey; has been a guest speaker for San Francisco Center for Sex and Information; and for Kirsten Beuthin’s course for psychotherapists on “Working With Kinky Clients”.

She has filmed with the Discovery Channel and National Geographic; and was voted as Monika’s all-time favorite radio guest on Sexploration with Monika. Additionally, she has choreographed, directed and performed with her human animal troupe for Nancy Peaches art show, San Francisco’s Masqerotica Ball and Dark Odyssey.

She is also responsible for organizing the parade of pony carts for the Leather Contingent at the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade each year, where she was awarded “Absolute Fabulous Street Act”. In her free time, she puts on a yearly event called Training Camp that combines camping, military fetish and animal role play.

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While in Indiana for the Holidays our recorder, Summer, had to have an emergency surgery, I have set up this account to help her raise funds. As you know Summer is a student and doesn’t have insurance. Please give, any amount will help, the bills are over $15,000. Thanks

Ckick here to Donate to help Summer

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Female Genitorture: How to Make a Woman Scream
Presented by Olga
Friday January 18 2013 – doors open at 7:30pm

Cunt play, also known as genitorture, can involve a wide variety of sensations, ranging from sheer pleasure to the most exquisite pain. The female genitals can be a playground of endless possibilities for the kinky player regardless of skill level or experience. It’s play everyone can participate in – from novices to advanced players. Come hear Olga discuss and demonstrate some of the wide variety of options that this form of play presents. This exciting presentation can help you to discover new ways to stimulate and torture female genitals.

Presenter Bio(s)

Olga is an educator, community leader, and kinky woman who loves to play and have fun. She is the Coordinator of LARAWW (Los Angeles Radical and Wicked Women) and Co-Producer of DESIRE (www.desireleatherwomen.com). She loves to present both locally and across the country whenever she can and haspresented at: Leatherfest X, Black Rose, Kinkfest, Pacific Friction, Wicked Womyn, Sampler, DESIRE, Perversity in P-town, Odyssey, Lifestyles, and Leather Leadership Conferences. She was co-chair of Leather Leadership Conference Six. Olga is served and loved by her boi blu. In her professional life, Olga is a sexologist and therapist, and has taught human sexuality classes at a community college for 33 years. Olga is dedicated to helping people increase their sexual comfort and expand their sexual horizons.

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Caning 101 – An Introduction to the Pains and Pleasures
Presented by Glenda Rider
At the Center for Sex & Culture (see map below)
Friday November 16th, 2012 – doors open at 7:30pm

This workshop will cover the basic techniques of using a cane for pain and pleasure. We will also discuss some of the history and traditions surrounding canes, the types of canes available today and their care. This toy strikes fear into the souls of many bottoms at its very mention – come find out WHY. Volunteers from the audience are welcome.

Presenter Bio(s)

Glenda Rider founded her first BDSM/leather group, Lesborados in 1991 and was the first female Eagle Bar titleholder as Ms Baltimore Eagle 1992. In 1993 she founded FIST – Females Investigating Sexual Terrain, a backpatch club which is still vibrant today.

Retired from the Boards of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and the Leather Leadership Conference, Glenda has received numerous awards including Pantheon of Leather’s Woman of the Year; Black Rose’s Distinguished Elder; and Leather University’s Tony DeBlase Educator.

In 1996, she founded Play House Studios, a play space in Baltimore decorated with her extensive fetish art collection. Glenda has been the Owner and one of the Producers of International Ms Leather since 2006 – the next IMsL Weekend celebrates the 15th Annual International Ms Bootblack Contest and will be held in the Spring of 2013 in San Francisco, please visit www.IMsL.org for more info.

Glenda lives in Oakland with her Leather Family when she is not on the road teaching, judging or volunteering at a Leather Community event, and she fears the day her Mother learns how to use Google.

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