Risk-aware consensual kink

I have been in the roles of a dominant, a consent educator, a performance artist.

I am also the creator of Trauma Informed Consensual Kink, which is a BDSM and kink consent framework.

that supports navigating through the shit that we sometimes can't see or don't consider.

I've been doing that since about 2019, but I've been in the lifestyle since I was like 21.

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Speaking of gaps, what gaps are you seeing in the conversations happening around kink and consent today?

So some of the gaps that happen in consent conversation, I would like to think that I'm trying to fill some of those gaps with trauma-informed consensual kink.

But the large part of it is just awareness, lack of self-awareness, situational awareness, power dynamics.

And today, we are going to talk about something that gets people often into some spirited debates, um, whether you're into BDSM or kink, or you get a group of those people together.

Those safety frameworks that are out there designed to keep us safer, um, like SSC and RACK or even PRICK.

Uh, you gotta love it, only in BDSM and kink can being a prick actually be talking about something being safe, um, rather than, well, just being a dick.

So while these are often spirited debates, um, hopefully we're gonna remove that bit of spiritedness, spiritedness from the discussion today and just talk about what they mean, what they are, um, what they meant, and also, of course, what people who are critical about them have to say about them.

So that's, that's the big one.

Um, it also-- People also criticize it saying it is so overused that it's become more of a slogan than a genuine guide.

So after there was SSC, next came risk aware consensual kink, or RACK.

And RACK grew out of people who were not necessarily...