2018 Presenters

Arli

Arli is a triple threat: FIERCE FAT FEMME.  A poly queer LeatherDyke, Arli has been exploring kink and leather for more 30 years.  Arli is a founding member of the famous Vancouver Away Team.  Her Easy Bake Oven has been to almost as many events as she has.

babypig ax

babypig ax is a submissive, service-oriented, sadomasochistic, mixed (Puerto Rican/Lebanese), transgender boy. They’ve been beaten and in service for over 7 years, and for the past 4 years have been throwing FRESH MEAT Los Angeles: a play party for queer and trans people of color and those in solidarity with us. ax is passionate about sexual liberation for all and making BDSM more accessible to people of color. If you are POC or have a POC-centered group and are interested in throwing your own play parties, please message me online! Outside of BDSM, ax is a union carpenter and is always looking for new areas in which to build his skills.

Bikkja Amy

Bikkja Amy is the new Co-owner/Producer of DESIRE and the Contestant Coordinator for IMsL/IMsBB (2007- current). She has been creating mischief in the San Diego and Central Valley Leather Communities for the last 17 years. True to her Capricorn nature, she jumped right into her career as a Kinky Woman when she first moved to San Diego in 2000, by becoming a member and board member of Leather and Sisterhood (L.A.S.H.) She then became Knight of Leather 2002. She facilitated the San Diego Women’s Leather Rap group and co-founded the Modesto Women’s BDSM Forum in 2004-06. She became Southern California Leather Woman (SCLW) in 2006 and sat on the board until the title retired in 2015. Bikkja was on The Leather Realm committee at San Diego Gay Pride from 2007 to 2017. She has the honor of being Mama’s Bikkja. As a player, she is a true Switch who is particularly fond of blood. She spends her time in San Diego with her wife, Naria, her submissive and partner “toi”.  She is also Mommy to her little boi, her 2 cats and 2 dogs, as well as a household of assorted pervs.

Bikkja’s toi, Kelli Kae

toi, also know as Bikkja’s toi and Mama’s Desire’d Chef, has been a volunteer for the Leather Realm since 2013. She is also one of the EPIC Chefs at DESIRE every year. She has helped out in workshops and presentations on such topics as Shaving, Piercing, Saline Infusion, Cutting, Cell Popping, and Polyamory.

Briar Wood

Briar is queer switch Leather Woman driven by service but will happily steer that bus as she educates and shares her talents in the art of Bootblacking and Community Service. Briar’s journey has taken her from a quiet and shy thing to a proud force to be reckoned with that you see today. She supports many events as staff, organizing the bootblacks to provide a fun environment to do their thing. She has held titles, serves on committees and has judged several contests across the US.

Carol

Carol discovered her kinky and submissive inclinations about 7 years ago and found the Southern California community in 2012. She has been a participant at DESIRE every year since and the event has been an integral part of her journey in kink and Leather as well as a pivotal influence in her relationship with her Daddy. She is also an active member and current Secretary of the San Diego Girls of Leather. She’s excited for the opportunity to give back to the event that has been such shaping force in her Leather life.

Crys&Ronise

Crys&Ronise (Xeta and LoveSexyMuffin on FetLife) have been married and in a D/s relationship since 1993 and out in the San Diego Kink Community since 2011. They continue to explore new skills and expressions of their power exchange while balancing careers and kids. Both enjoy impact, breath, and objectification play.

Denise

Denise is everyone’s favorite (according to her Ma’am) unofficial official photographer. If you don’t recognize her from her 13 years in the Leather community, it may be because a camera has hidden her from your view. A native of Arizona, you may say Denise likes it hot. It is there that she lives with her most benevolent Ma’am and a horde of furbabies. She is excited and honored to serve on her first ever panel. She is also grateful to the producers, both past and present, for making her part of the DESIRE family.

girl ang

girl ang is IMsL 2018 and a rugged Femme hedonistic switch, service oriented Leather woman based in Melbourne, Australia. Her kinks include squirting, fisting, energy exchange, sensation play, tea parties, leather and latex. She is passionate about the leatherwork she has created over the last 2.5 years through her business Little Miss Leather. girl ang is well into her psychology degree and completed her Certificate IV in Training and Assessment in 2011; she loves to learn and share knowledge. She chooses happiness and is an insatiable flirt.

Glenda Rider

Glenda Rider co-founded Lesborados in 1991, was the first female Eagle Bar titleholder as Ms. Baltimore Eagle 1992 and in 1993 co-founded FIST– Females Investigating Sexual Terrain which celebrates 25 years this summer. In 1996, she and Sarah Humble created Play House Studios and Gallery which was a community based playspace and art gallery. Glenda was also the Owner and one of the Producers of International Ms Leather & International Ms Bootblack from 2006 – 2013. Currently serving on the BoD of the Mid-Atlantic Deaf Interpreters Fund and residing in Baltimore, Glenda’s passions are all about Making Play Happen!

Jesbian

Jesbian Bagheera is a leather femme dandy. She gets down and dirty at the SF Eagle bootblack stand as a switchy ashtray. When she is not up to her knees in shenanigans and sass, she is volunteering with The SF Little Scouts and SF girls of Leather. She has been licking leathers and force feeding cupcakes in the community since 2011. She previously held the title International Little Miss Little 2014. She is the current Ms California Leather 2017. She continues to advocate for Leather Littles everywhere while continuing to build her education directory V.I.V.I.D. Leather for POC visibility.

Jesse

Jesse Duran is a Leather Woman, beginning as a slave in 1991, revisited as a temple slave to the Temple of Atonement at Burning Man in 2004 prior to receiving a Master’s cover. A versatile switch who walked a traditional “old guard” path toward mastery, and identifies as a Daddy/Sir/Sadist in Top space, and boi/bottom/masochist in bottom space.

She enjoys and teaches a variety of topics including medical play, bondage, mummification (dry and wet), sensory deprivation, fire play, massage: therapeutic, service-oriented and sensual, cupping and vacuum pumping, play piercing, sutures, urethral play (catheters and sounds), fisting, genital play, spanking, caning, flogging. She has presented for APEX, L.A.S.H., Club X, Avatar, Threshold, Exiles, OCLA, and many munches and private groups, classes, conferences, and professional groups since 1993.

Lady Carrie

I’ve been in the lifestyle 35+ years. I was ProDomme but prefer playing for the pleasure of it. I am an introvert. My expertise includes mentoring, teaching the Art of Scratching, flogging, hot wax, tit torture, pussy play, tickling, sensual play, and to help educate both the community and others.

Madison

Madison identifies as a poly, lesbian, service-oriented switch who thoroughly enjoys participating in the Art that is D/s, as well as the Fun of topping and bottoming. As a member of the Leather/BDSM Community for 17 years, she has served on panels discussing poly relationships, D/s dynamics, and ageplay, has co-taught a workshop on the wonderful joys of service, and has presented workshops on D/S Protocols and Sensual Spanking at various events. Currently residing in the Phoenix Valley, Madison serves the Community further by offering ASL interpretation at conferences all over the SouthWest, not to mention working hard for her favorite event every year, DESIRE! Madison has been a member of the Society of Janus, the Exiles, APEX and the San Francisco Girls of Leather.

miss jamila

miss jamila is a sex therapist, sex educator and presenter. She is also a 2 time DESIRE Fist-a-Thon winner, unowned s-type, a proud Leatherwoman, and a lover of the Erotic. On a personal level, she spends her time reading, smoking cigars and circulating in the kink and polyamory communities in LA. Professionally, she presents on a variety of sexuality topics, and in her private practice, she focuses on helping people in the BDSM/polyamory/swinger communities to enhance their relationships, and supports people to move beyond sexual challenges and trains other clinicians to do the same.

Mistieyes

Her Sweet Princess Domina Mistieyes (aka KL) is a San Diego-based lesbian, Dominant bottom who enjoys being in control of having her desires fulfilled through sensation, impact and other forms of play. She entered the leather scene in 2012 by attending Girls Night Out! (GNO) women’s play parties. In 2013, she joined BikkjaAmy as co-host of GNO. They along with Naria, also co-host Genderqueer Night Out! (GqNO). She serves as Advertising Coordinator for DESIRE Leather Women Unleashed. She has volunteered in the Leather Realm at San Diego Pride and the Leather Tent at Long Beach Pride since 2013. She is a certified life coach, bestselling self-published author and a bonafide joy junkie. She has been with her wife and EPIC Chef, Brownsexy for 13 years. They are co-Dominants to their submissive, Carla doll.

Monica aka Auntie M

Monica has been out in BDSM for well over 20 years, and has been Owned and operated by Sharrin Spector for the last 20. Monica lives in Oakland with her Lady and leather family in a polycule relationship. She has been an age player all that time.

Naria

Naria Lei B. Jordan is the new Co-owner/Producer of DESIRE, IMsL Dungeon Coordinator, Southern California Leather Woman (SCLW) 2012/2013, and Ms. San Diego Leather 2002. She is a longtime Radical Sex Perv Poly Daddy who has been involved in the Queer BDSM Community for 35 years as a practitioner, organizer, activist, and educator in the Kinky Arts. She co-founded two Women’s-only Leather groups in Washington, DC–Lesborados and S/Mazons. She was a co-founder, editor, and writer for the collectively published “Black Leather…In Color” and was the facilitator of the Women’s BDSM Rap in San Diego from 2007-2014. She was also the Co-facilitator for the Women’s BDSM Forum in the Modesto/Central Valley area from 2004-2006. A writer, national speaker and presenter, photographer, and fancier of Fine Fierce Femme Women, Naria is a relentless sex educator, a misunderstood yet flaming Pisces, a true Water Tiger, and always enjoys pushing the envelope–as often as possible! She spends her time in San Diego and Orange County with her primary partners, Bikkja Amy and Brigette, as well as 2 cats and 2 dogs, and a household of assorted pervs.

Pat Baillie

California born, Pat Baillie is a retired Air Force Major and a trainer by profession. Her work with the LGBTQ Community and Diversity are highlights of her career. On the leather side, she was Ms. San Jose Leather 1995 and then IMsL 1995. She worked to build community through LeatherWomen United, Albuquerque Pride, Consent Counts and producing Rio Grande Leather in Albuquerque, NM. She is the current Board President of the IMsL Foundation focusing on women’s leadership development, digitizing our history and creating quality education. She is a boy at heart and is in service to Lady Sharrin.

Q

A social justice activist for more than 20 years, Q consistently strives to bring together the various communities to which he belongs. Q is a self-identified queer, gender independent, sex worker, actively non-monogamous/polyamorous, sex-positive, leather boi, pleasure professional. It’s well known that flirting is Q’s default mode of communication.

River Dark with domenique

Shann Carr

Shann Carr is International Ms Leather 88, a comedian, film and event producer, author and philanthropist. She is the Executive Producer of The Moxie Complex LLC., a visionary company hoping to build a home for the burgeoning industry of gay entertainment production in Palm Springs, CA. The Moxie has produced media-based events in Palm Springs including Gay TV Week, Gay Commercial-Making Contests, films, live shows, national tours and weekend events. Shann has a special way with volunteers serving as the Volunteer Coordinator staffing the LGBT Community Center, The Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast, The LGBT Film Festival, The American Documentary Film Festival, The Palm Springs chapter of Gay For Good and is the Co-Chair of One-PS’s Modernism Home Tour. Shann works with the PS Animal Shelter, The Center’s Food bank and gives a substantial portion of most every event she produces to charity. Shann won the “Pride of Palm Springs” award for community service and Curve Magazine’s “America’s Top 10 Funniest Comedians” and this June will be awarded “80 Voices for Palm Springs’ 80th birthday.” She continues to find new ways to contribute.

Sharrin

Sharrin Spector, Executive Producer, IMsLBB Productions, LLC, found the leather community in Seattle in the early 90’s. She was eager to learn “pervert”, not only canes, blood, and service, but also what community meant. She was one of the co-creators of Powersurge, the first women’s BDSM conference in 1992. She is an educator and owned Pierce Ink for 20 years. She continues that legacy through the IMsLBB Weekend attracting over 700 women and those who love them. She lives in Oakland, CA, with her “polycule” which includes her girl, her husbutch/boy, a stray wolf and a pack of chihuahuas.

Teagan

Teagan fell in love with bootblacking at a young age, doing her shoes before church.  Although these days her skills are being put to more salacious uses, she still identifies as a spiritual bootblack. For her, bootblacking harkens back to the foot-washing ritual. Teagan is International Ms. Bootblack 2018, and the 20th person to hold that title. She is based in Oakland, CA. During her title year she invited our community to “Take Refuge” in the capable hands of our bootblacks. She’s the Executive Producer of the San Francisco Bootblack Contest.

Z

Z is a drummer, teacher, dancer, and retired massage therapist. This is her third time drumming and first time presenting at Desire this year!