Category: Presenter

Joshua Tenpenny has been in service to Raven Kaldera since 2002. He is Raven’s devoted assistant, partner, and slave for life. Josh is also a massage therapist, Shiatsu practitioner, and yoga teacher. The 2014 Northeast Slave titleholder, he and his master Raven Kaldera were chosen as the MAsT 2011 Presenters of the Year, and given the 2018 Jack McGeorge Excellence in Education award. He is the author of “Real Service” and the creator of the Service Notebook. He finds spiritual fulfillment through any kind of worthy service. ’Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

A Narrow Thorny Road: Master/Slave Relationships as a Spiritual Path

Goddess MsTique is a poet, writer/researcher, FemDom and facilitator/presenter who has been in BDSM and kink community for 17 years. She has been with her slave, kayode for 14 of those. MsTique has been presenting and facilitating for 10+ years finding community and kinship in Leather and M/s. Her interests lie in nurturing community and contributing work to intersections that include Black folks, Disabled and neurodiverse people, and Spiritualists.

As a Hoodoo whose maternal lineage is rooted in America’s upper South and whose paternal lineage is Gullah Geechee by way of Barbados, she is a wisdom keeper and spiritual historian. As a Priestess MsTique enjoys engaging ritual and liberation praxis and preserving tradition while building bridges with modern solutions.

Dignityinruin (he/him) has been practicing BDSM and power exchange relationships in some form since 2008, with extended breaks for an existential crisis or two. He has been consistently involved in the BDSM community since 2018. During one of those existential crises, he was a student of Jewish law and mysticism. Dignityinruin is a critical theorist and published academic researcher who has lectured at Australian universities in gender and sexuality studies – His proudest achievement is being his owner’s property.   

Raven Kaldera is a queer FTM transgendered intersexual shaman. He is the author/editor of 42 books, including “Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path,” and “Power Circuits: Polyamory In A Power Dynamic.” He and his slaveboy Joshua have been teaching and presenting workshops regularly for many years to the BDSM, Neo-Pagan, Sex/Spirituality, transgender, and other communities. Raven is the 2014 Northeast Master titleholder, and He lives with his big poly family on a homestead in Massachusetts.

A Narrow Thorny Road: Master/Slave Relationships as a Spiritual Path