Dark Moon Rising Campout: Presenters

Wintersong Tashlin

Wintersong Tashlin (www.barkingshaman.com) is a magician, shaman, educator, and activist, with over a decade of experience running rituals and teaching classes on topics such as magic, spirituality, and alternative sexuality and relationships. His ritual work particularly focuses around rites of personal transformation, and he is a founder and council member of Clan Tashlin, a magical and spiritual order built around a unique approach to magic and the relationship between people, the land and the gods. Wintersong has presented and/or run ritual at Free Spirit Gathering, various Pagan Pride Celebrations, The Primal Arts Festival, The Pagan Kingdom of Asphodel, and many others. He is the past dean of the College of Brigantia, a pagan adult education program based in central Massachusetts, and his writing has been published in NewWitch Magazine, as well as in books by Galina Krasscova and Raven Kaldera. Wintersong has been in multiple documentaries addressing topics such as polyamory, spirituality and genital integrity in both the United States and Great Britain.

Braden Darkwind

Braden Darkwind is an eclectic, solitary, polytheistic pagan hailing from the Deep South, now living in Boston, MA. Previously, he has been Baptist, atheist, Episcopalian, and Muslim. He is unowned with no official patron (but feels rather partial to Frigga and Cerridwen), nor does he have a god-phone or any pronounced magical or psychic abilities. However, he knows how to gather and synthesize information into novel and useful forms. He has a growing interest in the transformative capacities of both light and dark spiritualities. In his mundane life, Braden likes arts and crafts, anime, and electronic music, and he is a former sociology PhD student, now preparing for a career in software.

Raven Kaldera

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 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.’Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

Joshua Tenpenny

Joshua Tenpenny is Raven's Boy, and his devoted assistant, partner, and slave for life. He is a massage therapist, Shiatsu practitioner, and yoga teacher. He is polymorphously perverse, and finds spiritual fulfillment through any kind of worthy service.

Asrik

Asrik is a presenter, kinkster, body mod enthusiast, and explorer of the otherworldly who has been part of the pagan and BDSM scenes for the past decade. He is actively engaged in teaching classes on kink, facilitating amazing scenes, profound rituals, and chronicling his experiences in the BDSM community. He is a member of Clan Tashlin and has played an active role in shaping the Clan’s direction since soon after its founding. Over the past year Asrik has been a frequent sight at Seattle’s Center for Sex Positive Culture and on Rain City TNG excursions. His newest passion is creating a space ( cartographersoftransgression.wordpress.com) to chronicle the transformative experiences found by those who use tools from the kink and body mod communities to achieve exaltation.

The Pink Sphinx (AKA Tannin Schwartzstein)

The Pink Sphinx (AKA: Tannin Schwartzstein) is an Agent of The Whore of Babylon. She has presented Sacred Sexuality oriented material at many gatherings including more than a handful here at Cauldron Farm. Most recently she has offered classes at Babalon Rising 2011 (IN) and Sacred Sexuality Beltane (MD) 2011. Please Note: During the time she is on site at the farm this weekend she may be available for divination & occult consultations as time is available. If you are interested, look for the lady wearing stunning evening wear, a fabulous coat & fantastic shoes. For the duration of DMR, these services will be "pro-bono". However, donations and trades are welcome!

Rev. Matthew

Rev Matthew: I am an ordained Protestant minister serving a joint pastoral and social justice ministry. My seminary education focused on the interplay of religion and sexuality and on the ethics that surround sexuality and relationships of both the traditional and non-traditional varieties. My own understanding of the divine is primarily through the lens of Christianity. However, I come to ministry with the firm belief that the sacred is too all-encompassing and beautiful to be confined to any one spiritual path or belief system. To borrow the language of polyamory, Christianity is my “primary,” but I have been blessed with the opportunity to experience the divine through a number of lenses, in particular numerous Pagan traditions.