So I know I'm far from the only East coast femme who won't be making the journey out to Oakland for The Femme Conference, and I'd imagine I'm not the only leather femme who won't be participating.  Sooooooooooo if you're looking for a conference to be part of at the same time but on the east coast and not just femme stuff then you should check out Floating World!

I'm going to be presenting at The Floating World and will be teaching my Leather Storytelling workshop, I'll be on a Femme Bottoming panel, and I will be part of an evening  reading. Everything that I'm doing will be on Saturday but there are three full days of programing that promise to be fantastic!

If you haven't heard of the event, here's the quick snapshot:

The Floating World 2010
The New Jersey Convention & Exposition Center
Edison, NJ
August 20th-22nd 2010
The Floating World is one of the biggest alt-sex educational and play events of the year: three full days of great presenters, special events, a huge playspace and an incredibly diverse community of attendees. Highlights this year include:

More than 150 classes, workshops, parties meet & greets and special events
The entire convention center to ourselves, limited to 1200 attendees
The largest indoor playspace on the East Coast, with new custom-made furniture
Keynotes, dinner entertainment, author's readings, a pool party, and a pony show
A great fetish market with a wide variety of vendors
A simply stellar lineup of classes, with some of the best educators in the world
Here are just a few of the fine people also presenting: Andrea Zanin (aka SexGeek), Angel and Sebastien, Anita Wagner, Barbara Carrellas, Brian Pyrosadist, Catherine Gross, Cecilia Tan, Cleo Dubois, DeLano, Dov, Eve Minax, Fakir Musafar, Femcar, Glenda Rider, Ignacio Rivera, Jim Deuder, Laura Antoniou, Lee Harrington, Lolita Wolf, Mollena Williams, MojoDaddy, Master Obsidian and slave namaste, Nayland, Patrick Califia, Raven Kaldera, Suzanne SxySadist, Wintersong Tashlin and many more!

Take a look at our full presenter roster on our website: http://thefloatingworld.org/presenters-education/

Or check out the partial class list: http://floatingworld.dreamhosters.com/web/classes/TFW2010-class-list-descriptions.pdf
Here's a taste of some classes tentatively scheduled for Friday:

If You’re Good You’ll get a Lolly: Playing Pediatrician in Medical/Age Play Scenarios - Eve Minax
Kiss Of Fire: the ABC's of Branding - Fakir Musafar
The Way of It: Designing and Maintaining Your Personal Protocol - Laura Antoniou
FTM CBT: Genital Torment For Queer Bodies - Lee Harrington and Wintersong Tashlin
A Narrow Thorny Road: Master/Slave Relationships as a Spiritual Path - Raven Kaldera and boy joshua
Making Peace with Jealousy in Polyamorous Relationships - Anita Wagner
You Gotta Lick It: Cunnilingus for the Enthusiastic and the Hesitant - Andrea Zanin
Psychobiology of SM - Dr. Richard Sprott
If you'd like to come out, support the event, see me teach and get exposure to this stellar list of presenters and mix of communities, now's the time to buy tickets - it's $145 for participating group members and $165 for others until June 1st! Register on the website: www.thefloatingworld.org

See you in August!

Latest posts by Sassafras

• Farewell - May 1st, 2011
• Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme - April 16th, 2011
• Little Red Writing Dress - March 27th, 2011
• Unexpected Butch/Femme Poetry - March 22nd, 2011
• Tell-tale Signs a Queer Femme is Queer - March 4th, 2011