I Am Poly(amorous) & So Can You LIVE!

When:
March 22, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
2018-03-22T19:00:00-07:00
2018-03-22T22:00:00-07:00
Cost:
$25/person or $40 per couple
Contact:
ANDRE SHAKTI / ARIANNA TRAVAGLINI
I Am Poly(amorous) & So Can You LIVE!

How do we navigate this frontier of non-exclusive fornication with compassion and grace?

How do we resolve relationship conflicts in a way de-centered from heteronormativity?

For these questions and more, polyamory pundit Andre Shakti is here for you.

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“I Am Poly(amorous) & So Can You!” is a bi-weekly non-monogamy advice column written by Andre Shakti and hosted at IAmPoly.net!

The column seeks to both demystify non-monogamy for new audiences as well as act as an educational tool and growth mechanism for those active in polyamory. Fully inclusive of gender, orientation, class, race, ethnicity, age, ability and kink/BDSM, the column is also personally informed by Andre’s experience as a politically-engaged queer kinky femme sex worker living in the Bay Area. This is our second LIVE event, and we’re bringing TWO OTHER LOCAL EXPERTS on stage alongside Andre herself to answer YOUR QUESTIONS in real time!

Doors & Non-Monog Mixer at 7:00p / Panel starts at 8:00p
Tickets: $25/person or $40 per couple
There are a limited number of seats at this venue, so get yours’ STAT!
Ticketing Link: https://m.bpt.me/event/3353219
Tickets will also be available at the door (Venmo & Paypal ONLY)
Accessibility Tickets: Please email Andre personally for information on discounted tickets at [email protected]
This event IS wheelchair accessible (including accessible bathrooms!)
A limited supply of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages will be served at no cost for attendees. Attendees are also welcome to BYOB. Please drink responsibly! We reserve the right to remove anyone from the event who we feel has imbibed to an unsafe level.
This event is 21+

“I Am Poly(amorous) & So Can You LIVE!” is sponsored by O.school!

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Meet the Panelists!

ANDRE SHAKTI / ARIANNA TRAVAGLINI

Andre Shakti is a journalist, educator, performer, activist, and professional slut living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is devoted to normalizing alternative desires, de-stigmatizing sex workers and their clients, and not taking herself too seriously. Andre wrestles mediocre white men into submission and writes about sex work, queerness and non-monogamy for Cosmopolitan, Rewire, Kinkly, Thrillist, MEL, Vice, Autostraddle, and more. Andre is the reigning “polyamory pundit” at her non-monogamy advice column, “I Am Poly(amorous) & So Can You!”, which you can visit — and submit questions to! — via IAmPoly.net. Visit her on Twitter @andreshakti, on FB as Andre Shakti, and as a pleasure professional on the new inclusive educational platform O.School.

Andre graduated cum laude from Towson University in Maryland with a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and LGBT Studies in 2010. She worked in HIV risk assessment, harm reduction education, and community activism in Baltimore from 2008-2011, studied at San Francisco State University’s National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC) in 2010, and graduated from San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI)’s Sex Educator Training in Fall 2013. She’s held educator and sales associate positions at sex-positive adult boutiques Sugar (Baltimore, MD) and Feelmore510 (Oakland, CA), and is one of the founding crew members of Atlanta’s Sex Down South Conference in Atlanta, GA. Andre has taught classes, moderated panels, and filmed instructional clips for Dark Odyssey, Catalyst Con, Sugar, The Garden, PassionateU, Kink Academy, Feelmore510, Towson University, Kink University, University of Maryland, UC Berkeley, She Bop, The Feminist Porn Conference, International Ms Leather, Sex Down South, Harvard University, California College of the Arts, and many more.

ARIEL VEGOSEN / TRIXIE LAMONTE

Ariel is a professional sex educator, radical performance artist, adventure seeker, Priestess extraordinaire, workshop facilitator, inclusivity trainer, sexual liberator super hero, sex and relationship coach, writer, ritualist, social justice champion, and lover of life. Ariel enjoys playing with pronouns, being poly excellent, teaching sacred sexuality, facilitating workshops on how oppression affects our intimacy, dancing, glitter, and hosting amazing consent based safer sex play parties. Ariel is the founder of Gender Illumination (www.genderillumination.com) an organization dedicated to creating safer spaces for Trans and gender queer people through the tools of education and policy reform. For the past 16 years Ariel has facilitated trainings, workshops, and retreats for organizations, corporations, health-care providers, nonprofits, schools, communities, universities, and faith based groups.

Ariel is a founding member of the Sexual Liberation Collective (www.sexualliberationcollective.com) and the founder of Gender Blender (www.genderblenders.org). Ariel has facilitated workshops, trainings, and created spaces for sexual liberation all over the US and internationally. Ariel believes in creating communities across diverse cultural backgrounds, seeing life through an intersectional lens, and staying positive in hard times. Ariel is proud to be out as poly, kinky, queer, and gender blended. Ariel is a pleasure professional at O.School focusing on Poly Excellence, play party etiquette, ending shame, and owning our desires. Look out for Ariel’s new website coming soon polyexcellent.com. Ariel is available for workshops, performing, teaching, coaching, rituals, and speaking engagements and can be reached at [email protected]

M’KALI-HASHIKI

M’kali-Hashiki is a Renegade Sexual Mystic; A Tour Guide to the realm of Eros; & a Teacher of Somatic Erotic Possibilities. She holds certifications in Sexological Bodywork; Sound, Voice, & Music Healing; and Tantric Sacred Intimacy. A published essayist; a former professional social justice organizer; and an Ifa devoteé, she believes the sexual & the spiritual are irrevocably intertwined. Her politics, spirituality, and lived experience as a queer, feminist, polyamourous, middle-aged, fat, kinky, Black Femme Dyke trauma survivor inform all aspects of her work.

She is the author of the popular ebook “Turn Your Junk Into Treasure: Five Steps To Deepening Your Relationship With Your Nethers”. She offers both individual sessions & transformational group journeys helping QTIPOC & allied folk access their erotic energy for radical transformation fuel. She also offers Enstatic Breathwork™ For Collaboration & Employee Wellness to companies & social justice non-profits.

For more information on her work, visit her website: www.FiercePassions

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