Visiting Mom

I am, as the title says, on a short vacation visiting Mom!  So catch me next Friday for my “K is for…” entry.  I’ll be back with downloaded brains on Monday, so don’t wait a whole week to come on back and settle in with more kinky thoughts from this performance artist’s mind.

This is not what my mom looks like, but she DOES make amazing cookies...

This is not what my mom looks like, but she DOES make amazing cookies… (Photo by Molly Z)

In the meantime you should know that my mother said to tell you she is very proud of me and reads this blog entry by entry – she hasn’t missed one yet.  I’m proud of her too, and crazy glad I come from such supportive stock.

To Breath and Being,
~ Karin

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~Thank you.

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Introducing: M.O.B.

I was at a MOB meeting this weekend, and attended their “Sadistic Micro-Bondage” workshop with fabulous guest presenter Athena_Kali (which you could take at this spring’s Bound in Boston weekend).  I had an absolute blast, so this Wednesday I thought I’d write about the group I’ve know about the longest here in kinky Boston: the one and only collective of ‘Multi-Orgasmic Bitches’ known as MOB!

The official bio goes like this:  

Mob New England is a group for all women, including transsexual/transgender/intersex women who live their daily lives as women, and all female-born transgender/genderqueer persons age 21 and over who have an interest in BDSM. We offer social and play events, educational demos, and informal opportunities to socialize, have fun and build a sense of community. We claim as positive forces in our lives our many and varied interests in kink, bondage, domination and submission, sadomasochism, leather and perversion.  Please visit our website for more info: mobnewengland.org

I’ve known about MOB since 1999 when I started working at Grand Opening! Sexuality Boutique.  I would work the Fetish Fairs as a vendor, and these sexy leather and sometimes hanky clad women would come by my table, flirt, and drop me info about the party they were hosting that weekend (MOB is known for the awesome parties it hosts)…  I went to one with a performer friend of mine, and it was the first kink/sex party I’d ever been to!  It was amazing.  I remember not knowing anyone and being nervous around all the leather and implements of destruction, nipple clamps, spanking sounds, and obviously loving and developed connections between partygoers.  So I sat quietly in a corner out of the way and watched.  I was drawn to a scene where a woman was being mummified with plastic wrap and scotch tape by a group of attendees.  It was beautiful, raw, loving, and I couldn’t take my eyes off of what was happening.  I caught the eye of the ringleader and was offered a place to come help…  and so I was invited into my first ever kinky interaction.  After finishing the mummification and some rough play, we led this person, blindfolded and vulnerable all over the hotel.  I remember we ended up in Midori’s room (one of my by-far favorite kink teachers), where she asked if anyone knew how to blow an egg.  I did, so proceeded to blow the raw egg white and yolk out of it’s shell while the rest of the party hung out and chatted about Midori’s workshop the following day – something about redirecting people’s expectations in a scene.  The egg was going to be filled with lemon juice before being used on a workshop participant as a ball gag.  The participant would be told that the egg had been filled with some other liquid that morning, as it put in their mouth, and it would be mentioned that Midori had drunk a lot of water the night before…  It was a fun time hanging out, and eventually we left, brought the mummified woman and her partner to their room and went our separate ways.

It was one of the first magical evenings in my life.  It spun my head around 360 degrees, and I never looked at my own sexuality the same way again, though it would be almost 15 years until I was ready to find the kink community and find myself in that world again.  When I realized I had to be a part of the kink community here in Boston, that I needed to find myself outside of the relationships I’d had where there was no room for that over the years, I re-found MOB.  I will never be less than grateful that they still exist and that they create a space for people – wherever they are at on their journey – to find safety, inspiration, and sometimes home.

If you’re at the Winter Fleamarket this March in Warwick/Providence area Rhode Island, hit up the MOB table and support them if you can.

To Breath and Being,
~ Karin

If you like my blog, please check out my Patreon Page and consider supporting me, or just click here: Support the Artist

~Thank you.

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Transparency

 Transparency in relationships is something that’s been on my mind a lot lately…  How does it work for you?

Photo by Yellow.Cat

Photo by Yellow.Cat

I am the type of person who needs complete transparency to feel safe and build trust or keep trust with my partners.  I know it doesn’t function like this for everyone.  I will say that it seems to me that the successful poly-type people I know who are in relationships all seem to be people who tell one another everything (whatever everything means to them) and who can process with one another/communicate with one another extremely well.  They also are people who care deeply for one another’s feelings and needs as well as their own.

I like that.  I like that both as a person who dates people who have primary partners (I don’t often have to worry where I stand with someone’s significant other, and I know I can reach out to them personally if something seems awry), and as someone who endeavors to build relationships that are lasting, respectful, and healthy for everyone involved.  I like that practicing transparency will probably bring me closer to the people I love in the long run.

For more ideas related to transparency, you can do some research on Radical Honesty, and think about the ways you might censor yourself (much less mislead or edit your thoughts and feelings when sharing them with the people around you).

What does transparency mean to me?   It means being 100% honest with yourself.  It means taking that honesty and sharing it with your partners.  It means risking displeasing your partners at times because it is as important to name your needs outside the relationship as it is to cultivate what happens within the relationship itself.  It means listening to the parts of your brain that don’t want to broach an important subject because you are afraid of what will happen if you do, how you will feel, how the energy in the room might change…, but taking the steps to do it anyhow.  It means telling the people you care about the things you know they’ll want to know before they ask a half dozen questions about a subject.  It means taking responsibility for making mistakes – we all make mistakes.  It means letting the people around you know when something has shifted or changed, and advocating for that shift to be worked through.  It means taking responsibility for your feelings, your fears, and your part in the communication process.  It indicates (to me) a level of loyalty to both yourself and your partners.  It is taking responsibility for your autonomy by sharing yourself with the people who you have chosen to be, in some ways, your biggest supporters.

In short if means telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth…  and then admitting the times you realize you haven’t been so good at doing that and getting better.

The best part about it it that it gets easier the more you practice.  You might be astonished by what happens when you find people who want to support you – who love you for who you are, not who they wish you’d be – and who give you positive reinforcement for sharing your needs, thoughts, desires, and most intimate self.

To Breath and Being,
~ Karin

If you like my blog, please check out my Patreon Page and consider supporting me, or just click here: Support the Artist

~Thank you.

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