SMIRC 2025 PRESENTERS
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Two Knotty Boys
Two Knotty Boys began teaching their world-famous rope bondage classes in 1999.
Having published two how-to bondage books ("Two Knotty Boys: Showing You the Ropes" and "Two Knotty Boys: Back on the Ropes"), as well as more than 100 free video tutorials, over the past 23 years they've taught more than a million people how to enjoy a wide variety of rope bondage techniques, from basic, to decorative, to downright dominating.
Danarama
About Danarama
A lifestyle Dom, performer, and BDSM educator for more than two decades, Danarama has taught at least a million people how to have better, safer, more creative sex and BDSM in the dungeon (or the bedroom).
In addition to directing KinkUniversity.com, he is a founder of the Two Knotty Boys, co-teaching workshops since 1999, and co-author of two best-selling rope bondage books.
He has rigged, directed, and performed in hundreds of instructional and hardcore fetish videos. Danarama continues teaching BDSM and sex/intimacy classes online and at conferences worldwide.
Fetlife: Danarama
Twitter: @DanaramaSF
Website: CreativeBDSM.com
KinkUniversity: bit.ly/DanKU
JD &
Mackenzie
JD of RopeRigger / Two Knotty Boys
Author, Bondage & Restraint Educator
JD (IG: @RopeRigger) is one half of the internationally acclaimed rope bondage duo Two Knotty Boys, and has been teaching interactive rope bondage and restraint workshops for over two decades.
He co-authored, along with Dan of Two Knotty Boys, the bestselling books, Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes and Two Knotty Boys Back on the Ropes.
Since then, JD has traveled around the world teaching his unique brand of fusion rope bondage and techniques for restraint. His personal knowledge, extensive rigging innovations, and perspective of our lifestyle are simply invaluable, and we’re extremely excited to have him!
Mackenzie Milque
Mackenzie Milque has been training in the circus arts since 2014. An interest in hula hoop grew into a love for aerial hoop, and since then she has followed her heart skyward! Mackenzie and her partner, JD (of RopeRigger / TKB), will be presenting together throughout the SMIRC weekend.
lex_red
lex_red is a rope switch whose style focuses on technicality and comfortability in dynamic suspensions.
As a top, her motto is "help me hurt you" and she enjoys tying partners in complex suspensions with a focus on making them as comfortable and safe as possible. She identifies as a “facilitator of pain” more than a sadist, and enjoys collaborative ties where bottoms are an active participant in where the tie goes.
She has been in the community for over 10 years and has taught rope classes and workshops in her hometown of St. Louis, as well as a weekend workshop in Tulsa.
Chingon Cuerdas
& ADelightfulPain
Chingon_Cuerdas (He/Him)
Chingón Cuerdas is a Chicago-based Kinbaku educator and performer. Beginning his kink journey in 2013, he has quickly developed an immense passion for rope bondage and rough body play.
He enjoys creating scenes that are both physically and mentally engaging using his personal/educational background and drive for learning about topics on anatomy, sports science, and martial arts.
He has been part of various local rope education initiatives such as Tying by Twilight, Chicago Rope, and Second City Kinbaku. Having also presented and performed at various events such as Ropecraft, Kinky Kollege, B.A.N.K., Snowbound, and Dark Odyssey Events. His style is centered around efficiency, body mechanics, and engagement, breaking down concepts into digestible logic and exercises for students to apply to their practice.
ADelightfulPain (She/Her)
ADelightfulPain is a polyam bondage and sex enthusiast based in Chicago who has been engaging with her kinks since 2015. Continually molding her philosophy and relationship to rope bondage in her roles as both a student and an educator, she has taught and co-facilitated bottoming education locally in Chicago and around the Midwest. A wanderluster at heart, she also enjoys traveling all over to learn and engage in her interests.
Miss Acacia has been actively pursuing the intricacies and beauty of rope as an art form and science since 2014. With an appreciation for the beauty of symmetry and the details of ties, her path to rope suspension was a natural progression. She believes in focusing on the fundamentals in order to understand not just the “how,” but the “why” behind the structure of each tie. Her foundational perspective is that rope should not be about memorization of a preexisting tie, but about knowing why it's a stable tie, what makes it safer, and why people use it in certain circumstances. She is known for her functional, yet intricate, pretty rope and her ability to build harnesses and experiences for the specific bottom she is tying.
Currently, Miss Acacia focuses on tying different bodies because she is most interested in how to tie people, not rope. She approaches each new tie with expertise from years of tying a multitude of others as well as her own experiences with self-suspension. As an avid learner, she is always open to brainstorming with fellow rope enthusiasts and truly enjoys the challenge of creating ties and experiences to fit the needs and desires of her bottoms and their shared intention.
She challenges herself by working on personal projects, finding harnesses and suspension sequences for people who struggle with disabilities, both physical and mental, and working with people who are new to suspension or have had difficult experiences with suspension in the past. Miss Acacia prides herself on providing safer opportunities for bottoms to experience rope suspension.
Miss Acacia
Miss Acacia
SabreHyde
SabreHyde (she/her) is a rope switch and teacher-organizer from Traverse City, Michigan, who enjoys traveling, metal concerts, and backpacking.
In January 2017, Sabre co-founded the TC Rope Jam (currently on hiatus) to bring rope education and practice to the nascent rope community in Northern Lower Michigan.
You can find her enthusiastically attending events across Michigan and in Chicago.
She believes rope should be accessible to anyone with a passion for it, and strives to have and teach a variety of options for different genders, physical limitations, body sizes and shapes, and goals.
A lifelong learner, she invites you to provide candid feedback on or ask questions about any class, tie, or technique you see her use.
ValueableBoy
Valuableboy is trans boy service submissive, Leatherboy, and rope bottom with twenty years experience (on and off for health) of being a student in the kink scene.
He is eager to take the wisdom of others and his own experiences into his own words, with a focus on service, mental illness, neurodivergence and disability-related classes, as he identifies with all of those labels.
He has the honor of being the servant to Sir Seq and supporting their work for the upcoming Detroit Annex of the Carter-Johnson Leather Library, the privilege of being the Volunteer Coordinator to the Service Oriented conference, and is a proud community servant.
