The LGBTQA+ Coming Out Celebration of Epic Proportions to benefit Consent Academy! This FUNdraising event of spoken word, on National Coming Out Day, is all about Consenting to Be Yourself in the world.

Doors open at 7:30, Curtain at 8:00pm
Tickets $25 (General Admission)
$50 (VIP)
$100 (Sponsor VIP)
at https://www.strangertickets.com/events/100203900/q-consent-to-be-yourself
(Day-of General Admission at the door: $35.00)

❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Bawdy Storytelling
❤ Sister of Perpetual Indulgence Jerry Knight
❤ Juggler & Consent practitioner Jon Shaiman
❤ The Consent Primer author Rachel Drake
❤ Transwoman & musician Evalynne McLaughlin
❤ YOU! Get Onstage to tell your own Coming Out story for #NationalComingOutDay

Join Consent Academy and Dixie De La Tour for a night of storytelling, honoring you… or someone you love… and the journey of Coming Out. If you are, or have ever, Questioned your Queerness you will be inspired by our storytellers and have an opportunity to share your own coming out story!

This unique live event features a curated, eclectic mix of some of Seattle’s favorite activists & performers, sharing their true coming-out-stories in ten minutes or less. After intermission, you will have a chance to take the stage to share your story, or come out for the first time, in an affirmative, sex-positive atmosphere that only Dixie can create!

There will be a Cash Bar available and a Raffle for great prizes! All proceeds benefit the outreach work of the Consent Academy to promote education and consent culture.

This event, benefitting the Consent Academy, is one you won’t want to miss!

Curated performers include:

❤ Your Hostess for this Evening of True Stories:
Sexual Folklorist/Creator, Curator & Host of Bawdy Storytelling, has traveled all over the country, coaching hundreds of experienced and first-time storytellers. She is renowned for creating one-of-a-kind experiences for storytelling audiences everywhere, and now we are bringing her to you! Her coaching superpowers tease out surprisingly powerful stories of sex, kink, orientation or gender. Dixie coaches the audience, too – creating an emotionally supportive, un-intimidating, and sex-positive atmosphere that’s unique, engaging and fun. And her Award Winning sex-positive podcast brings powerfully empowered stories of sex, kink or gender to people, wherever they are
Learn more at www.BawdyStorytelling.com�
Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast
On Twitter: @Bawdy
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/
On Facebook at www.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
& Watch Bawdy on YouTube at http://bit.ly/BawdyTV

❤ Jerry Knight lived his 1st 30 years in New York, coming of age through the AIDS epidemic in the 80’s/90’s. Lived in Seattle since 97, has been active within different aspects of the LGBTQ s community since. He has been working in the HIV field for over a decade. He is alumni of the Seattle Quake Rugby team (WA state’s only gay inclusive rugby team) and a current member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Upcoming events for both: The Sisters are having their Halloween party/costume contest on Halloween at RPlace, doors at 8:00, contest at 11:00. Quake rugby does an annual drag show fundraiser, transforming ruggers into queens for an eve. Neighbors 11/9, doors at 6:00, show at 7:00, $10 suggested donation.

❤ Jon Shaiman is an avid consent practitioner, enthusiast and a 3 ball juggler on the side. His performances are 1/4 juggling, 1/4 education, 1/4 motivational speech, 1/4 entertainment and 100% amusing. Jon performs under the name Goblin Juggler or sometimes simply Juggler. He can be found in the real world at varying electronic music events and online on Youtube and Twitch.

❤ Rachel Drake has a passion for helping people make breakthroughs and uncover their power. She is a Success Coach, Accountability & Consent Consultant, educator, and author. Rachel also serves as the Deputy Director of the Consent Academy, a Seattle-based 501-c3 non-profit, which she helped found in 2016. She has held numerous leadership positions over the years, in addition to educating and coaching adults since 1998. In the mid 2000’s she honed in on her passion for healthy consent, sex and non-traditional relationship dynamics. Since then she has helped thousands of people transform their lives, find success and personal freedom. She is currently working on her degree in Community Health Outreach and Education and expanding the Consent for Leadership workshop series to include Transformative Accountability for Leadership. She is excited for the highly anticipated, recently released The Consent Primer, Foundations for Everyday Life, the first “how-to” guide about consent which she co-authored. You can learn more about her at: https://racheldraketransformations.com

❤ Evalynne McLaughlin is a transwoman, musician, artist and innovator born and raised in the Seattle area. Her interests are in the esoteric and what treasure hides away from the beaten path. She spent her whole life crafting her own unique style of music while undergoing a complete identity change to align herself with the intrinsic force that has always guided her feet. Her music and art reflects the deeper aspects of reality, consciousness and human nature while simultaneously attempting to make it something easily consumable for those who haven’t explored the true depths within the concepts. Recently she fell in love with rapping and has tied it in to her desire to break genre norms. Her current project is called “Cycle of Hands” which has been playing shows all around Seattle and has been collaborating with artists all around the world.

– and YOU, telling your own Coming Out story!

Note: There will be a photographer at the event. By purchasing a ticket, you consent to your photo being taken and release the use of your image for promotional purposes by the Consent Academy.