Broaden Your Mind - 11.12.26
Other Community Events to Enjoy!
The CSPC throws amazing parties and hosts many important discussions on various topics. But luckily, we live in a place where there are many more options to dive into sex- and body-positive culture. The list below is just a sampling of some great events coming up in the next month.
We include non-CSPC events in every issue. If you have an event suggestion or feedback from a past event you’ve attended, please email Marissa at newsletter@thecspc.org and it might make it into our next issue!
Editor’s note for all events*
As a reminder, these are non-CSPC events. We include them as a way to open your mind to other experiences, but we have no control over them, their content, or their missions. We encourage you to vet other organizations to see if they are places you would feel comfortable, and we appreciate feedback if we have listed an organization/event that does not appear to share CSPC values.
November 21
Pan Eros Foundation | Hypnokink Enthusiast Group (donation | in person)
Have you thought about including hypnosis in your kink or sex life? Infinitely adaptable, you can use hypnosis to enhance arousal, do bondage without restraints, build fear play and mindf*ck scenes, strengthen D/s training, increase relaxation for sensual scenes, and much more!
November 21
Quake Rugby | Rugby Is a Drag ($25 | in person)
Join Seattle's queer-inclusive rugby team, Quake Rugby, for a drag performance unlike any other: we pair up real life (and real hunky) rugby players from the team with a drag mother and they perform drag live on stage for all to enjoy. All ticket sales go to support LGBT-inclusive rugby in Seattle.
November 24
Kink Center | Introduction to Political Advocacy (free | in person)
There's no time like right after the midterms to learn how to (effectively) cause trouble. This class will cover the basics of engaging with the US electoral system as a form of harm reduction. We'll cover all the basics you forgot (or never learned) in civics class: the branches and levels of government, how to figure out who ostensibly represents you, and how to pester them into actually representing you and the rest of the kink community. This class assumes no prior knowledge and no political affiliation. The first hour will be lecture and Q&A-based, while the second hour will give you the opportunity to put what you learned into practice by writing to your reps.
December 3
Asylum Collective | SCULPT & SIP ($45 | in person)
Step into the Seattle Underground, home of Asylum Collective, for an evening of twisted creativity. This isn’t your mom’s wine & art night! In this guided class, you'll have access to wine and/or N/A options and everything else needed to create a sculpture you can take home. The gallery comes alive with nude art models, setting the stage for your masterpieces and offering an opportunity to work with a live figure. We'll provide clay, sculpting tools, and more. Make sure to dress to get messy. 21+ / RSVP Required / Limited Seats.
December 4
SubSpace | Cuddle Party ($25+ | in person)
We are super excited to host another Cuddle Party. We'll start off with a mandatory social hour between 8 and 9 so everyone can get to know each other a little bit. Please arrive no later than 8:30, we will NOT allow late admission. After that, we'll engage in an evening of connection focused on hugs, back rubs, foot rubs, nuzzling, head scratching, spooning and all forms of non-sexual snuggling!
December 12
Pan Eros Foundation | The Towel & The Stick: The fundamentals of impact play ($100 | in person)
Impact play (A.K.A hitting someone in a “Oh! It hurts so good.” way) is one of the most popular BDSM activities. It’s enjoyable when it’s light and easy, painful and challenging, or anything in between. Come join KinkRx instructors for this workshop that teaches the fundamental hard and soft skills of impact play. The skills you will learn will translate to virtually any impact toy, using only 2 tools in the class: a towel as an example of flexible toys such as floggers or whips, and wooden dowels as an example of rigid impact toys.
December 12
Kink Center | Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building - a 1980s gay leather bar LARP (donation | in person)
Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building is a larp about intimacy and community connection through kink, set in the underground gay men’s Leather scene in the 1980s under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. When your most-familiar forms of sexual expression have become dangerous, alienating, unfamiliar can you learn to share your heart’s deepest fears and desires? At this bar the music’s pulsing beat and the burning heat of other men’s bodies call to you. Beautiful boy, when the clock strikes midnight are you going hard or going home? In this larp players use a variety of embodied meta-techniques to stand in for BDSM play, reaching for the sensations and emotions their characters do. Play is an emotional mix of discovery and anxiety as characters decide how to re-enter BDSM and whether to forsake the exchange of body fluids.