Panel Discussion - Long Distance Service

Long Distance Service- Distance changes the game, but it doesn't end the connection. This panel explores how service oriented dynamics develop when partners are seprarated by miles, time zones, and real -life logistics. Panelists will share lived experences, tools and creative strategies for maintaining trust, structure intimacy and intentional service across distances. From digitital check-ins and negotiated rituals to navigating miscommunication and emotional drift, we'll dig into what actuall works (and what really doesn't). Expect honest conversation about balancing independence and devotion, keeping service meaningful without physical presence, and adapting traditions so they still hit just right even from afar.

Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Malika (she/her)

Malika is a whimsical and Proud Leather Women of Color; serving and growing. She is a facilitator, presenter & educator and has participated in SOC many times as a presenter and as a part of the staff. Malika currently serves as the Education Lead for The Leather Solidarity Collective.

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Master Leather Redux (She/Her)

Master Leather Redux, your friendly neighborhood leather lesbian, serves as Midwest Master 2026, along with her slave Raea (Midwest slave). She started in the community in 1989 and returned to the Leather lifestyle in 2016. She started teaching in 2020. Her community service includes teaching at ev...

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slave Raea (she/her)

slave Raea, a spirited Leathergirl, serves as Midwest slave 2026 alongside Master Leather Redux (Midwest Master 2026). She first joined the kink and leather community in 1999 and enjoys giving back to her community through education and volunteering. Currently, she serves as Co-Director for MAsT: Ch...

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Jay Taylor (He/Him)

Sir Jay/Buru the Bull is a Japanese/indigenous Sir with a switchy side. He was International Leather Sir 2018, and a former Michigan and Great Lakes Leather Sir. He is proudly collared to his Sir/partner Sir Britt and Big Bad Bull to his farm dog. Sir Jay has been in leather and fetish for 21 years....

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Abundant Mischief (she/her)

AbundantMischief is a queer polyamorous toppy switch, gleeful sadomasochist, and enthusiastic boot fetishist. She has been active in the North American kink community for over 18 years, and enjoys bringing crossover knowledge from her 2 decades of experience as a professional dancer, circus artist,...

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LeatherChaplain (It/They/Them)

LeatherChaplain (they/it) is a progressive urban monastic, chaplain, educator, and community servant rooted in pastoral ministry from Phillips Theological Seminary and shaped by more than twenty years in kink and polyamorous communities. Their work focuses on spiritual care for people often unders...

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MsDDom (She/Her)

MsDDom (She/Her) is active in the Atlanta community and lives in a M/s dynamic with her slave, CreamDream. She is an MTTA Master Academy alumna who holds membership in MAsT chapters, leads Black FemDoms-Atlanta, co-leads Black Atlanta Munch, is a founding member and Road Captain of Women in Leather...

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Nichole Thorne (She/her)

Nichole (she/her) is a masochistic, sometimes submissive, bottom with over a decade and a half of experience in the lifestyle. Her expertise includes d/s relationships, high protocol, age play, pet play and edge play to name a few. A curvy, disabled femme with a passion for education, she brings kno...