In honor of Women’s History Month, LSM is sitting down to talk about past and present history in the queer kink community.
Andrea Sears, Daemonum X, Mari King, and Velvet-Storm will be sharing their personal journeys with kink and how they became publicly involved in the BDSM/leather scenes.
Join us for a moderated panel, followed by open discussion.
Our Honored Panelists:
Andrea Sears is a radio journalist, an actor on film and television and a singer/songwriter. She has served as President of Sirens Women’s Motorcycle club and has been an active member of the NYC kinky queer community for more than 20 years. She joined the Lesbian Sex Mafia in 2001, was part of the “LSM Live or Die” and L-Committee in 2006, served on Communications and Party Committees, led LSM as co-Chair in 2016, and is the creator of the classic “Lesbian Sex Mafia ~ So Sexy it Hurts!” t-shirts.
Daemonum X is a femme leatherdyke and lifestyle Dominant specializing in rope bondage and edge play. She is passionate about BDSM as femme community building and spirituality. She is the founder and Editrix of FIST, a zine for leatherdykes. DaemonumX lives in NYC where she sometimes teaches and often performs.
Mari King aka Liquid has been a fixture in the BDSM/Leather community for more than a decade. She has competed in and won Ms. Henrietta Hudson Fetish 2008/2009. She then went on to be the only woman to compete in the first New York Leather Weekend contest. She has modeled and volunteered in the community at events like Leather Pride Night, and Folsom Street East. She has presented for TES’ Dw/sm group, and has raised money for charity at TES-Fest. She was the first person and first woman of color to grace the cover of TES-Fest Prometheus Magazine two years in a row. She has participated in the We Are Leather Women project, bringing awareness to the contributions of women in the leather community. She also has been interviewed and quoted in several kink related books, blogs, and magazines. Currently Mari is the Vice President of the Onyx Pearls NY Northeast Chapter where she uses her platform and position to educate and empower others both in and outside of the BDSM/Leather community.
Velvet-Storm is a disabled Navy veteran, and LeatherWoman of Color 2019. A proud Puerto Rican Leather woman straddling both the Leather and M/s communities. She can be found volunteering her service to both, service being an integral part of her commitment to the communities in which she belongs.
She presents and advocates on a patient perspective of mental health issues and same sex domestic violence. Her mighty voice can be heard on how she navigates work and leather community on her personnel experience dealing with PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Military Sexual Trauma and same sex domestic violence she endured during her time in the United States Navy and childhood. Although a loner, she vocalizes the abuse she endured in hope it reaches those that had been silenced by their own abuse. Velvet-Storm hopes that society will stop classifying her as an angry black woman. Why she has presented on “I’m NOT an angry black woman…I just have mental health issues.”
As LeatherWoman of Color 2019, Velvet’s platform is ALL POWER TO ALL WOMEN OF COLOR. Creating awareness & speaking up about the issue’s women of color face in the M/s and Leather communities. She will continue to teach classes, sit on panels as well as speak out for matter’s in which she cares.
LSM is a support and information group for all women 18 years of age or older, including trans and intersex people who live their daily lives as women and all female-born transgender people who feel they have a connection to and respect for the women’s community, and who are interested in fantasy and role playing, bondage, discipline, S/M, fetishes, costumes, alternate gender identities and uninhibited sexual expression in a safe, sane, consensual and confidential way.