Kink for Survivors
A Roundtable Hosted by Jimanekia Eborn
April 22 | 6:30 PM PST
90 Minutes | Virtual

What does it mean to explore kink after trauma? What can it look like to reconnect with your body, your boundaries, your desires, and your agency in ways that feel grounded, consensual, and honest?

Kink for Survivors is a virtual roundtable created for survivors who want a thoughtful, nuanced, and affirming space to explore the connection between kink and survivorship. This conversation will bring together survivors, educators, and practitioners from different backgrounds to talk about healing, pleasure, power, safety, curiosity, and the many ways people make meaning of their experiences.

This is not a space for shame, judgment, or the usual tired reminders of what month it is without offering anything useful. This is a space for real conversation, reflection, and tools. Our panelists will draw on both lived experience and professional practice, offering insights into how kink can intersect with survivorship, embodiment, choice, and healing.

The roundtable will include guided conversation from the panelists, followed by a 30-minute Q&A, where attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and hear directly from people who understand the complexity of this work.

Whether you are curious, reconnecting, questioning, or simply looking for language and support, this space is for you.

Hosted by Jimanekia Eborn & Tending The Garden

Jimanekia Eborn is a trauma specialist, comprehensive sex educator, and survivor advocate known for creating spaces that are honest, grounding, and rooted in care. Her work centers survivors, community, healing, and the messy, powerful truth of being human.

Panelists

Jordiana
Jordiana is a Black queer gender-tired individual whose 20+ years of studying theatre and emotion have guided them into healing facilitation and organizing across Los Angeles and New Orleans. They have led meditation, ceremony, libation, and healing spaces with BLM, Headspace, Dignity and Power Now, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Familia TQLM, Tending The Garden, and Deeepspacecraft NOLA. In recent years, Jordi has been navigating housing instability while adapting to a more digital healing arts practice. Their work and life currently move through Black trans erotica, photography, video, sonics, and writing.

Mistress Bettie Bondage
Mistress Bettie is a professional and lifestyle Dominatrix, BDSM educator, and fetish performer based in Los Angeles. Active in the BDSM community since 2011, she began her journey as a professional submissive at Sanctuary Studios and went on to train with some of the world’s top Dominas in LA’s most iconic dungeons. A Domme and Sadist with a deep dedication to ritual, Bettie is known for her work in heavy needle and blood play, as well as her gift for making kink education approachable, playful, and deeply informed. She has taught nationally at spaces including Stockroom University, DomCon LA, Black Thorn SF, Pleasure Chest, and more, and has been featured in podcasts, panels, films, and live kink performance spaces across the country.

Maria Hintog
Maria Hintog (she/her/siya) is a queer, neuroexpansive, decolonial, first-generation Filipinx therapist, sex educator, and intimacy coordinator. Her work is rooted in a deep belief: you are not broken, we are all connected, and rebels are allowed to have feelings too. Maria supports folks navigating big emotions, relational ruptures, identity exploration, grief, shame, rage, sex, kink, and the sacred mess of being human. Her practice centers people on the margins—rebels, misfits, deep feelers, and those told they are “too much”as they reclaim voice, desire, wholeness, and healing rooted in truth, justice, care, and humor.

Dirty Lola
Dirty Lola is an award-winning sex educator and speaker known for her honest, humorous approach to conversations around pleasure, relationships, and self-discovery.