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.
July 12 and July 26
Consent Academy | Consent Advocate Training Part 1 ($40+ | online)
Consent Academy | Consent Advocate Training Part 2 ($40+ | online)
Consent advocates help create more consensual spaces by educating and providing support when something goes wrong with consent. It's a specialized role most people can learn to do with the proper training, support, and practice. If consent advocacy is something you're interested in, please join us for a two-part training around the skills needed to do this work, including communication, intervention, and trauma-awareness.
July 17–21
Beacon Cinema | Rate It X ($15 | in person)
What do men really think of women? This provocative documentary provides an unflinching look at sexism in America. Disturbing though sly portraits uncover obvious culprits — advertising firms and porn shops —that reinforce negative conceptions of women, but the filmmakers also reveal sexist imagery that promotes gender stereotyping in somewhat more subtle and subversive ways, showing how sexism becomes rationalized through commerce, religion and social mores. Hotly contested upon its release, RATE IT X suggests how advertising and pornography shape attitudes that may contribute to violence against women.
July 19 and Aug 1
Kink Center | Puppy Play 101 – Intro to Puppy Play ($85+ | in person)
Kink Center | Puppy Play 102 – Intro to Electronic Collars and Off-leash Obedience ($85+ | in person)
In this class, we will cover the fundamentals of Operant Conditioning, marker training, and lay foundational work for Engagement rituals and Obedience. Student handlers will learn how to evaluate and establish baselines for each pup and to modify techniques and practices to preserve safety and health. Students will learn how to play on each other's strengths, mold weaknesses into strengths, all while building a deeper bond with each other.
July 31
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. 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!
August 9
Theatre Off Jackson | Shuga Shaq ($35+ | in person)
The longest running and ONLY monthly ALL PEOPLE OF COLOR Burlesque Revue in the Pacific Northwest, The Sunday Night Shuga Shaq, is back! Please join us for an evening of dazzling dancing, tantric teasing, and all around prismatic sexy magic with some of the hottest Burlesque performers this side of the Mississippi! There will be so many shades and flavors of chocolate, caramel, mocha, lemon meringue, and red velvet dripping from the Theatre Off Jackson stage that you are guaranteed to leave with a tooth ache.