As Adam once said to Eve: Stand back, we don’t know how big this will get.
We’ve just added two amazing women to our Educators Directory. The legendary fetish icon and pioneer Ms. Stephanie Locke threw her stilettoes on the BED — so how could we possibly say no? Also, a transwoman who is swiftly building her own legacy, Lola Houston, is now enshrined along with 25 other stellar educators. Warm welcomes to them both!
The Board couldn’t be happier about the quality of educator applications we’ve been getting. We’re blown away by the scholarship and authority backing up so many of our educators, not to mention the many years of their lives that they have devoted to helping, healing, educating, and mentoring thousands of others. We love them hard.
It’s as true in BDSM as in public education: teaching can be a thankless job. Every hard-working teacher spends days, months, even years, honing their speeches, hand-outs, powerpoint presentations and everything else that goes into sharing their knowledge with groups of people. Very few are ever compensated for the real number of hours that they spent on preparing a class or the expenses involved in taking time away from their day jobs and spending money to travel to group events. No money can compensate for the emotional experience of teaching either — the highs as you imagine your audience reacting to what you are teaching, and the low after the class ends and you wonder if it really went as well in real life as you imagined it would in your head, and how many of your students really understand your most important points, and whether you left a lasting impression or your efforts would soon be forgotten. Teaching is not an easy job.
Yet hundreds of North American BDSMers — and thousands more globally — have made kink and fetish education their life missions. What drives us? We’re obviously not doing it for the money. We are driven from a deeper, more authentic place. We have the audacity to believe that the truth about WIITWD matters. We have the confidence and courage to speak it. We have the need to make a meaningful contribution to the world. And we have a stubborn streak that tells us that in a world filled with lies and prejudices against us, we can make a difference by making our voices heard.
Thank you and congratulations to everyone who has supported BED through their work, whether behind-the-scenes (big kisses to our Board and volunteers!) or out front in our Library and Directories. Stay tuned, more updates coming your way today.
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