Sex, Death, and Kink

Queer Death Salon is a virtual community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space, with the purpose of building connection, skill, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities.

Join Badly Licked Bear for a deep conversation about the ways that sex and death are woven together in fetish, kink and BDSM, seen through and with a critical eye towards the realities and illusions of the “kink escalator,” which like the “relationship escalator,” both suggests and expects illusions of “progress” as a goal, while also looking at the advantages of living and playing and loving in both the deep and the shallow ends of the pool.

Badly Licked Bear is an educator, storyteller, artist, and mutual aid worker. A former curator and college professor, she teaches, speaks, and writes at the intersections of film, culture, politics and sexuality. She also works as a voice and activist for transgender civil rights and practical, transformative sexuality in the BDSM, kink, and leather communities.