AUTHORS/ARTISTS

Lee Harrington is an internationally known spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and award-winning author and editor on human erotic and sacred experience. He is a nice guy with a disarmingly down to earth approach to the fact that we are each beautifully complex ecosystems, and we deserve to examine the human experience from that lens. He’s been traveling the globe (from Seattle to Sydney, Berlin to Boston), teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith, desire and more, and is grateful for the journeys and love he has found along the way. He has been an academic and a female adult film performer, a world class sexual adventurer, an outspoken philosopher, is a kink/bondage expert, and has been blogging about sex and spirituality since 1998.

His books include “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” (with Mollena Williams), “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” "More Shibari You Can Use: Passionate Rope Bondage and Intimate Connection," the “Toybag Guide to Age Play,” and “Shed Skins: Journeying in Self-Portraits.” He has also worked as an anthology editor on such projects as “Rope, Bondage, and Power” and “Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink,” while contributing actively to other anthologies, magazines, blogs and collaborations. Check out the trouble Lee has been getting into, as well as his regular podcast, tour schedule, free essays, videos and more over at www.PassionAndSoul.com.

A student of Nawashi Kanna in Tokyo, Shin Nawakiri began his studies of kinbaku in 2003. One of the founders of BDSM Company Taiwan in 2004, this organization was the first support group to publicly advocate for BDSM rights in Taiwan, dedicated to building sexuality communities and strengthening them. From 2006 to 2010, he began participating in the local “Dancing Rope Maiden” performances, before his 2011 debut as an international kinbaku performance artist. Beginning in Tokyo, his artistry has led to him performing and teaching in Macao, Tapei, Moscow, London, and beyond. You can learn more about Shin at http://bittersweet.asia/

Abby Helasdottir is a writer, musician and graphic designer based in New Zealand. Her spiritual path is a Rökkr one, exploring the twilight side of Norse cosmology with a particular emphasis on Hela, goddess of death and the underworld. As a musician, she creates music under the name Gydja, described as dark ambience for dark goddesses, revealing an interest in goddess figures from other mythological systems.

Alex M. Quinlan lives on the East Coast of the United States with as many spouses, pets, and children as are consenting at any given time.

They all spend too much time on the internet, but not necessarily the World Wide Web. Alex has used a variant of this for years of sex-writing, deliberately avoiding any mention of gender — just for the mischief of it.

Today, however, she’ll add that she’s been poly since age 10; she’s still with the man she married in 1988, and had two children with; Coyote, Eris, and Murphy will likely continue to ‘help’ her as they have for longer than she cares to think about; she’s dismayed she called herself het in front of her girlfriend; she hopes that she continues to enjoy all the myriad types of kink — especially new ones! — as she continues past ‘middle age’; and that she intends to never, ever, grow up.

Born into an Armenian family with strict, ethnic, conservative values, most of Alexandra’s summers were spent in the village in Lebanon that her parents grew up in.

By the age of 13, Alexandra came to the realization that she was transgendered, and over the next six years struggled with self-acceptance and the decision to begin transitioning.

She graduated college during her nineteenth year with a double major in mathematics and economics. Now twenty, Alexandra forges her way through the unknown, championing one calamity after another as she passes through life.

Andi is an Indianapolis based artist and illustrator who creates work exploring gender and sexuality. He graduated from Herron School of Art and Design with a BFA in Printmaking. His aesthetic draws heavily from his background in intaglio and screenprinting, which translates into art that revels in flat colors and ink line work. When not working on professional illustration assignments, Andi applies his creative energy to projects within his local queer, leather, and burlesque communities. He spends free time reading, traveling, celebrating connections with poly family and wrangling his cat, Penelope.

C.A. Sizemore tries to write fiction daily and read as much as he can.

He lives with his wife and her other husband, two dogs, and two turtles and a tortoise. When not riding his motorcycle or out on a date with his girlfriend, he helps his partners run the Kinky and Geeky in Arizona group on FetLife.com, and plans the semi-quarterly parties. C.A. Sizemore can be found on Twitter,

Facebook and FetLife as CASizemore.

The skilled artist from the first edition of Shibari You Can Use, and the cover art for Spirit of Desire, Circle23 lives in Portland, OR.

Creator of the Academy of SM Arts, Cléo Dubois is a seasoned BDSM lifestyle educator and consummate ritualist, who, along with her life-partner Fakir Musafar, offer ritual guidance to those modern primitives seeking body rites. Since the early 80’s, Cléo’s been a positive force for community in the San Francisco Leather Scene, from fundraising and SM Ritual performance art to evening classes and the weekend Intensives she continues to offer with Eve Minax and Selina Raven. She’s made two educational docu-films, “The Pain Game” and “Tie Me Up,” and has been published in many anthologies, starting with “Different Loving” by Dr. Gloria Brame in 1993. In addition to her own blog, “In Kink with Heart,” she’s contributed to alt.com, leatherati.com, carnalnation.com as well as a yearlong series for Dr. Brame’s blog called “Cleo In Her Own Words.”

For video clips, interviews, information on initiations, private coaching for couples and newcomers to the scene and guided play/mentoring, please visit www.cleodubois.com Details about the Erotic Dominance Intensives, evening classes, and other workshops can be found on www.sm-arts.com

Crystal Gem, a visual artist, has recently discovered a new palette in the written word.

A steady stream of erotic poetry became unleashed after she was introduced to the wonderful world of kink.

She continues to paint and a collection of her poetry entitled Something Fierce is available at Lulu.com

Christopher serves his communities as a researcher and educator, studying intentional ordeals, spiritual intelligence, queer theory, and research methods.

Currently at the California Institute of Integral Studies, he also has been a faculty member and department chair at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.

He has published his research in journals and conferences such as the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, the European Transpersonal Association, and Pantheacon.

He created the Ordeal Pathwalkers Forum and is a Member of the Divine Rhythm Society.

Domme Jaguar has been an explorer for a long time, in art, sex, politics, and spirituality; bisexuality, swinger, polyamory, Universal Tao, Tantra, Kundalini...

She is a certified sex educator, dancer, and professional media maker. After some years as a lifestyler in Mexico City she went Professional in 2007. At the beginning, it was just playing, and she somehow just wanted to be a sensual, glamorous, and caring Mistress, to deny the “mainstream” views about what a Dominatrix is.

But now, having embraced Her Top Totem, The Black Jaguar, she is On a Journey Between Darkness and Light. Today Domme Jaguar accepts this Power as a Blessing, understanding that her job is to safely take other people beyond their frontiers, their taboo, their fears, and the roles they are required to play, into a journey of Erotic Alchemy where shame, pain and cruelty are transmuted into pride, pleasure, and enlightenment.

Her Calling is to be one of the very few who can do this in the well-known “macho” land that Mexico is. To know more about Domme Jaguar and her work please visit www.dommejaguar.com.

Renowned kink presenter and pleasure artist Eve Minax (www.mistressminax. com) delights in proliferating carnal knowledge with a spiritual edge.

She is a lifestyle and professional Domina, Clown, and Psychic who also acts as the Lead Staff Instructor for the Cléo Dubois Academy of SM Arts (www. sm-arts.com). Minax presents at numerous BDSM, Kink, Queer, Spiritual, and general lay events, organizations, and private parties around the globe.

She is the former coordinator for CineKink:Chicago, and the West Coast Coordinator for the Leather Archives and Museum, LA&M, Roadshow.

She writes a regular column for Carnal Nation called Welcome to My Parlor, works often with www.SeriousBondage.com, and has been pioneering a new genre of pairing kinky sex scenes with cuisine: Sexcipies.

Minax maintains a loving and extended leather family throughout the world.

Award-winning Destructo-Bot Galeogirl has been sent to Earth to prepare the planet for the coming invasion of the Rat People, or as they will soon be referred to, The Mighty Rat Lords.

Her skills include telepathy, pyrokinesis, horseback riding, dance, and the ability to make sharp stabbing weapons from most of her body parts.

In addition to sharing the words of The Mighty Rat Lords, she also enjoys crocheting, watching movies, plotting the downfall of every major government on Earth, and vegetarian cooking. To help her in her preparations, she recruits creatures from all across the animal kingdom, although primarily those with more than two eyes,

“So they can see the infidels,” she says. With lightning-fast reflexes and venom the toxicity of which has never actually been lab tested, all of her projects tend to succeed. “It’s all about luck, perseverance, and attrition,” she says. “Especially attrition.”

JakiGriot (pronounced: Jackie-Gree-Oh, the t is silent) is a Black gay-as-fuck feminist pervert of color with a passion for alternative sexuality and getting her rocks off. She is a proud bootysexual which means she is probably checking out your ass. Among other things, Jaki is a griot. In West African oral tradition, a griot (storyteller) is a collector and a historian that delivers poetry, music, social commentary and stories to the people.

Jaki found a local BDSM community through the TNG movement and served on the Steering Committee for The Next Generation, Baltimore for six years. Jaki worked for PEPlove.com (People Exchanging Power) as a phone dominant and sex counselor. After that, Jaki worked at Sugar the Shop (a woman and trans operated adult toy store) as a sex educator. Since 2007, She has taught classes for local and national organizations including (but not limited to): Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Dark Odyssey Winter Fire, Dark Odyssey Fusion, Floating World, Baltimore Educational Social Society (BESS), BlackBeat, FetFest, Primal Arts, TNG Baltimore, DCTNG and Touch of Flavor. Jaki's published erotica and essays related to kink and BDSM appear in Salacious Magazine, Sacred Kink Anthology and the Carter/Johnson Leather Library.

Jaki is one of the moderators for More Like Us (MLU) the first National TNG group for kinky people of color between 18-35. She also run www.pervertsofcolor.tumblr.com. Jaki is a freelance sexual health educator and Ms. Jaki, the Switchinatrix. Contact at jakigriot@gmail.com about bookings for adult sex ed classes, private parties and/or Professional Black Domination.

Joshua is Raven’s Boy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the vast enterprise that is Raven Kaldera.

He is a professional massage therapist, Shiatsu practitioner, and yoga teacher.

He is polymorphously perverse, and finds spiritual fulfillment through any kind of worthy service.

Kaye Buckley entered the BDSM community as part of a triad in 1975. Together they created the first women’s San Francisco BDSM support group, Cardea. Pro-player, belly dancer and performance artist, her explorations took her to Japan where she lived and worked for two-and-a-half years and met her Matron Saint, Benzaiten, goddess of love, art, prosperity and sex workers.

Over the years, she has created five San Francisco play spaces, three of which have been based on a Japanese theme. She is currently building a practice as a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist with advanced training in past life regression and spirit releasement therapy. She continues to be a sex educator, player and also does one-on-one mentoring for community members and pro-players. For more info, please visit her websites: shibarimagic7.com and
sf-interactivehypnotherapy.net.

Kyndyl lives in the Northeastern United States.

Currently exploring the lifestyle and pagan communities in their new location, he has degrees in religious studies and psychology.

Lady Elsa is a femme leatherdyke with a passion for making heart and spirit connections via BDSM. She is very active in the Indianapolis area community, where she co-founded and leads Andromeda, a kink group for women and transfolk, and has held various offices in National Leather Association Indianapolis. She is proud to have been one-half of the very first International Power Exchange couple in 2012, and continues to be involved in helping people with non-traditional power exchange relationships find their voices.

Lady Elsa’s primary spiritual influence has been Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue. In her 10+ years of participating in a study group for Walsch’s books, she has transitioned from a liberal mainline Protestant to an avid devotee of New Thought spirituality. She writes about spirituality and BDSM at www.ladyelsa.com.

Lady Jazelle (aka heather) has been an active member of the lifestyle for over a decade.

Her passion can be seen through the grace, loyalty, protocol positions and service of many forms that she provides. she has presented for such educational sexuality gatherings as Beat Me In St. Louis, Spanksgiving, Eros Bound, and for various BDSM clubs.

Through her experiences, heather passionately shares the world of power exchange and relationship dynamics with others.

layla tromble is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. She is a strong, opinionated, outspoken, queer, submissive who is proudly owned by her Lady.

Her spiritual path has been a winding one and has arrived at an eclectic mix of the physical, natural, and supernatural. She believes firmly that the closest we humans get to touching the divine within ourselves is at the moments of true vulnerability with another person.

She is passionate about sex-positivity, kink, polyamory, and revolutionary kissing.

She resides in the Pacific Northwest with her large and varied chosen family and is working on her first novel.

Leon MonkeyFetish is an international presenter, performer and artist. He started his public kink life in the Chicago kink community at one of the munches and quickly progressed to being president of the local TNG chapter. He first presented rope at a local BDSM club in 2002 and has presented on rope, rough body play, D/s dynamics and other kink topics in the years since.

He currently travels the North American continent teaching, performing rope and making art with his photography throughout the year. He’s happy to share with anyone willing to listen to his particular brand of deviance and to spend as much time as necessary working on those who don’t.

He serves as Secretary of the Leather Archives & Museum and encourages you to ask about the organization and spend time perusing their website in your free time.

Margo Eve is a passionate lifestyle kink and energetic explorer, long term sexuality geek, and holds multiple degrees in Communication… but prefers to put them down and do other things on occasion.

When not engrossed in gender and sexuality debates, unraveling the nature of human experience (social, psychological, spiritual, and otherwise), adventuring with her partner/husband, or reading a good book, she is either dancing (with or without fire), experimenting with makeup, or thinking up something devious to do to others.

Margo has also been known to give out hugs on a regular basis.

Master Dennis has been a member of APEX (Arizona Power Exchange) since 1997, of MAsT AZ, and been a part of the Butchmann’s Experience for many years.

He founded the ‘Dom Roundtable’ at APEX in 1998. A contributing writer to Leather and Roses as “Dragon~Lord” (www.leathernroses.com), Master Dennis has been a speaker/presenter of lifestyle topics from the basics to the extremes for such organizations as APEX, AZ-TNG (Phoenix), SHIBARI (Las Vegas), Desert Dominion (Tucson), Rio Grande Leather (New Mexico), GLLA (Indianapolis), SDL (San Diego), and Leather Spirit, Lair and Threshold in Los Angeles.

In addition he has also presented at the 2005 and 2006 AZ Fetish Balls Phoenix, and the Tucson Fetish Ball in 2004. He has also served as a requested guest lecturer helping to demystify the BDSM lifestyle at various colleges for their sociology and psychology classes over the past 9 years, and has been a judge or head judge for many M/s or leather events across the country. He is the proud Master to Mistress Bonnie, Slave Kia, and Slave Tiffany.

As a student of life, Leather and BDSM, Master Malik is always eager to share his views, thoughts, and ideas with any willing people who give him some of their time to listen.

He has been part of organized BDSM/Leather lifestyle since early part of 1999 when he joined Tulsa Dungeon Society in Tulsa, OK.

Significant similarities between Leather and Sufism have helped Master Malik to continue his journey on the path of mastery and slavery with his precious slave Cathy. This is not a lifestyle for them anymore but life itself. Master Malik is an avid practitioner of old fashion SM and strongly believes in a powerful connection between SM and spiritual realm.

He also believes with passion about “Acceptance,” “Tolerance,” and “Diversity” of our larger tribe.

Master Malik is proud to serve as Southwest Master 2008. He is also co-owner of Xpressions, and Alternative Lifestyle Food Pantry in Tulsa, OK.

Michelle Belanger is an author, lecturer, and television personality who is also openly bisexual, kinky, and intersexed.

She is best known for her work within the modern vampire community.

Her 2004 book, The Psychic Energy Codex, pioneered the concept of psychic vampires as people, not predators.

The founder of the magickal society House Kheperu (www.Kheperu.org), she also works on A&E’s Paranormal State. For more information visit www.michellebelanger.com.

Mollena (Mo) Williams, “Delicate, Trembling Flower of Submission” ©, is a NYC-born and raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator, fat fetish model, and Executive Pervert.

She is extremely honored, humbled, and proud to be International Ms. Leather 2010. She is also thrilled to have been named Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009 after that contest’s decade-long slumber. Active in the Leather and BDSM communities since 1996, she speaks at Leather events across the U.S., Europe, and Canada on many BDSM, Leather and kinkcentric topics.

A founding member of Crowded Fire Theater Company (www.crowdedfire.org), she blogs on The Perverted Negress: www.mollena.com. Mo is also author of the The Toybag Guide: Taboo Play and of the essay BDSM and Playing with Race which appears in the Best Sex Writing 2010.

Nanodot is a scientific shell over a being of passionate love.

After a 15-year vanilla marriage, Nanodot sought out the kink community to feed her need for acceptance, growth, and violent sex.

A masochistic pain-slut and slave-heart, Nanodot serves her local community by maintaining a public calendar of a wide variety of kink events.

Otterdancing, a polyamorous, bisexual witch, has been a priestess and spiritual seeker for over two decades. She is on staff with three different mystery school/festival events, where she is most often called upon to perform ritual, lead workshops, or offer rites of passage ceremonies.

Introduced to kink in 2007 within a sacred spirituality context, she has found it to be cathartic and transformative.

Otterdancing is also a middle-aged married public high school teacher with four kids, proving that the universe has a lot of space for a sense of humor and mystery.

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus is a founding member of the Ekklesía Antínoou (a queer, Graeco-Roman-Egyptian syncretist reconstructionist polytheist religious group dedicated to Antinous, the deified lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and other related gods and divine figures), a contributing member of Neos Alexandria, and a Celtic Reconstructionist pagan.

You can find Lupus’ work published in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina volumes dedicated to Hekate, Isis, Serapis, and Artemis, with upcoming writings and poems in the devotionals to Zeus, Pan, and the Dioskouroi.

Lupus has published a book of poems, The Phillupic Hymns (2008), and also has poems printed in the Scarlet Imprint anthology Datura: An Anthology of Esoteric Poesis (2010).

You can find Lupus’ blog, Aedicula Antinoi, at http://aediculaantinoi.wordpress.com/.

Piez Jeng began his pursuit of photographing the human form while still in school. An expert at using light and shadow to sculpt the figure, he applies numerous classical and modern techniques to produce engaging images. Despite the popularity of digital photography these days, Piez insists on traditional approaches to create his themed photographic aesthetics. He believes in helping his models present their own multifaceted characters, which distinguishes him from the singular standard of commercial photography. In addition to his work with models, Piez has been involved in design, illustration, creative work, and other photography for over ten years. His website is http://piezphoto.com/

Raven Kaldera is a queer FTM transgendered intersexual shaman.

He is the author of too many books to list here, including Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path and Dear Raven and Joshua: Questions and Answers About Master/Slave Relationships. He is the author of too many books to list here, including Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path and Dear Raven and Joshua: Questions and Answers About Master/Slave Relationships.

He and his slaveboy Joshua have been teaching and presenting workshops regularly for 6 years, bringing BDSM to the Neo-Pagan, Sex/Spirituality, transgender, and other communities. He and his slaveboy Joshua have been teaching and presenting workshops regularly for 6 years, bringing BDSM to the Neo-Pagan, Sex/Spirituality, transgender, and other communities.

His hub website is www.ravenkaldera.org, and his spiritual BDSM website is www. paganbdsm.org. ‘Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

RiggerJay is a Canadian born Baltimore based rope enthusiast who is also often seen in NYC and sometimes Montreal with a camera in hand and a rope bag over the shoulder.

Sassafras Lowrey is an international award-winning author, artist, and storyteller. Sassafras Lowrey is an international award-winning author, artist, and storyteller.

Ze is a genderqueer-identified high femme Daddy’s boy with a complicated gender history. Ze is a genderqueer-identified high femme Daddy’s boy with a complicated gender history.

Sassafras is the editor of the Kicked Out anthology which brought together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth, and hir stories have been published in numerous anthologies. Sassafras is the editor of the Kicked Out anthology which brought together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth, and hir stories have been published in numerous anthologies.

Ze teaches storytelling workshops at colleges, conferences, and community centers across the country. To learn more about Sassafras and her work, visit www.PoMoFreakshow.com.

Scratch Hunter is a Utah native, and while that doesn’t make him a Ute by blood or birthright, he’s still proud to be a “Ute,” graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in Film Studies. Scratch Hunter is a Utah native, and while that doesn’t make him a Ute by blood or birthright, he’s still proud to be a “Ute,” graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in Film Studies.

Scratch is fascinated by the human condition, its narratives, and the archetypes that each of us explore (whether you admit it or not). Scratch is fascinated by the human condition, its narratives, and the archetypes that each of us explore (whether you admit it or not).

He is a producer, writer, and provocateur slinging rhetorical arrows at anything that moves — so watch your tail. *Prrr* =^_^~

Shuphrique is a long-time perv femme who loves to scare subs with needles. Shuphrique is a long-time perv femme who loves to scare subs with needles.

A natural female, she is a fan of all kinds of extreme play and a big believer in laughter in scene play. A natural female, she is a fan of all kinds of extreme play and a big believer in laughter in scene play.

Product of the anti-femme years of women’s lib, she adores being a girl, especially when it involves the wearing of corsets and heels. Product of the anti-femme years of women’s lib, she adores being a girl, especially when it involves the wearing of corsets and heels.

She loves to make long-haired men and short-haired bois cry.

Sybil Holiday, co-author with William A. Henkin, Ph. D. of Consensual Sadomasochism: How To Talk About & Do It Safely, has been active in San Francisco’s Leather Communities since 1980, and in 1984 was a founding member of The Outcasts, San Francisco’s second woman-to Sybil Holiday, co-author with William A. Henkin, Ph. D. of Consensual Sadomasochism: How To Talk About & Do It Safely, has been active in San Francisco’s Leather Communities since 1980, and in 1984 was a founding member of The Outcasts, San Francisco’s second woman-to-woman educational and social organization. woman educational and social organization.

She has presented on the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of BDSM at organizations, conferences, and universities nationwide, and on radio and television. Sybil — as M. Cybelle — was a professional domina specializing in energy-based SM, Tantric surrender and service, and age and gender explorations from 1983 to 2005.

Taylor Ellwood is the co-author of Kink Magic and solo author of other books on magic such as Inner Alchemy and Space/Time Magic. Taylor Ellwood is the co-author of Kink Magic and solo author of other books on magic such as Inner Alchemy and Space/Time Magic.

Taylor is currently working on Inner Alchemy 2. Taylor is currently working on Inner Alchemy 2.

When he isn’t working on his new book, Taylor is experimenting with magic and kink. When he isn’t working on his new book, Taylor is experimenting with magic and kink.

For more information, please visit www.magicalexperiments.com.

Xochiquetzal Duti has worked and traveled in the realms of kink, sexual exploration, leather, magic, sexwork, and all the varying cross sections she could find or create for as long as she’s realized that there was a way to put these two things together. Xochiquetzal Duti has worked and traveled in the realms of kink, sexual exploration, leather, magic, sexwork, and all the varying cross sections she could find or create for as long as she’s realized that there was a way to put these two things together.

Identified as a bio-female (in presentation only) genderqueer, gender pronouns tend to fit, no matter which ones are used. Identified as a bio-female (in presentation only) genderqueer, gender pronouns tend to fit, no matter which ones are used.

Her journey in pagan studies started back almost 5 years ago at a womens’ leather conference where the result was deeply embarrassing but understandable. Her journey in pagan studies started back almost 5 years ago at a womens’ leather conference where the result was deeply embarrassing but understandable.

Since then she’s studied and delved deeper into the way the body processes work to expand the mind and allow the possibility of manifesting a reality unseen. She also does some sick and twisted things to challenge herself and her preconceived notions (most of which aren’t even fully formed thoughts) because she knows she can, and because she’s good at following orders. Since then she’s studied and delved deeper into the way the body processes work to expand the mind and allow the possibility of manifesting a reality unseen. She also does some sick and twisted things to challenge herself and her preconceived notions (most of which aren’t even fully formed thoughts) because she knows she can, and because she’s good at following orders.

She believes that each and every one of us deserves the life and reality we work towards and offers herself and her open thinking and presentation skills to enable others to catch glimpses of who they can become.