Team Lead Volunteer Positions

A 16-year veteran of What It Is That We Do, Lauren is a poly, queer, femme, switch who is in service to the Goddess. She practices sex magick, communion with Spirit, and bases relationships on synchronistic intimate connections. She is seeker, mystic, and healer. With a fetish for blood play, body modification, and the sharp-and-pointies, it’s no wonder why she was called to ritual piercing. She has been piercing for play for over a decade, ritually for six years, having been trained by Elwood, and is currently in mentorship to learn ritual hook suspensions. Lauren has co-produced ritual piercing events in Colorado and Arizona and works regularly with Fakir and Cleo at Flesh+Spirit events in California. In January she will attend Fakir’s Basic Piercing Intensive and hopes to work part-time as a professional body piercer.

Lauren is fully expressing her Scholar archetype as a full-time pre-nursing student working towards a Bachelor’s in Nursing. She pays the bills as a Neuromuscular Therapist and Reiki Master/Teacher. Now living in Berkeley, California, she is settling into her new home. Lauren holds the titles of International Ms Leather 2007 and Southwest Ms Leather 2006 and was the recipient of the Pantheon of Leather Rocky Mountain Regional Award in 2009.

Master Dennis has been a member of APEX since 1997, a member of MAsT Arizona, and the Arizona Men of Leather. He is the first fully professed Father for the Grand Canyon Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as “Father Craven Morehead”. He was the Dungeon Master and trainer for APEX from 1998-2002 and board member from 1999-2000 (during 2000 was the last Co-President for APEX). Master Dennis handles logistics for Butchmanns Experience and was the founder of 'Dom Roundtable' at APEX in 1998-2009. He was also the founder/facilitator for the Advanced Roundtable, founder/Head Master for the APEX Prep (a monthly intensive 8-hour workshop on skill sets.)

Master Dennis was a columnist on The O-Zine, Crystal Bridge, Dom-Sub Lifestyle and a contributing writer to Leather and Roses under the pseudo name of Dragon~Lord, and Lee Harrington’s Anthology “Spirit of Desire”. He is a national speaker/presenter of lifestyle topics from the basics to the extremes; at APEX, TNG Phoenix, SHIBARI Las Vegas, Desert Dominion in Tucson, Rio Grande Leather, GLLA, Club X, Leather Spirit, Lair and Threshold. He has presented at the AZ Fetish Ball Phoenix, and Tucson Fetish Ball and SDL in San Diego. He is a requested guest lecturer helping to demystify the BDSM lifestyle at various colleges for their Sociology and Psychology classes over the past 10 years. Master Dennis was Head judge for the SWLC M/S contest in 2009 and a judge for GLLA M/S contest, the Mr. Padlock and the Mr. Phoenix Leather contest. He is the proud Master to his slave/wife Mistress Bonnie and Slave Amanda.

Master Bear began his journey in 1971 as a collared slave of 8 years to an amazing Mistress who showed him the intricate tapestry that is our Lifestyle. Upon her passing, he chose the Dominant path in honor and respect of her life and love for him.

Master Bear has been placed on the paths of Compassionate Sadist, Master, Daddy, teacher, mentor, advocate and service provider during his Lifestyle of 40 years. He is blessed to continue in many of those roles today. He is passionately emphatic about the Lifestyle and its immense diversity of citizens. Each one provides him with a new and unique opportunity to learn about others and himself, and walk another step on the path ahead.

Please stop by the Hospitality Suite and meet Master Bear and all those that truly make SWLC a life changing reality!
 

slavegirl dana is owned and collared by Peter. She has been gratefully in service to him since October 2008 and worn his collar since January 22, 2011. Slavehood is her spiritual path and brings joy to her heart. She has been an active member of the Phoenix Leather/BDSM Community since her introduction at Southwest Leather Conference 2004. She is a member of Arizona Power Exchange (APEX), Arizona Girls of Leather and Phoenix MAsT. In previous years she served as a Team Lead and volunteer for SWLC. She is excited to return with Peter as Team Leads for Vendors and the Silent Auction to the 10th Anniversary of Southwest Leather Conference in 2012.

Lady Spirit began her spiritual journey of leather in 1996 inside the dungeon walls of the Wet Spot in Seattle. After moving to Arizona in 1999, she became immersed in service and discipline to the local Phoenix community. A member and supporter of APEX, MAsT,NCSF,NLA, and Women in Leather International, she believes in the dynamic of the M/s relationship and that sacred service is the key to success in all orientations, genders and roled identifications. She is a mentor, healer, mother, daughter, educator, leatherworker, musician and humble spiritual student of leather. Blessed this year to be the Team Lead for Our Place, she is dedicated to providing a sacred space within Southwest Leather Conference.

Daddy Kenneth Anthony resides in Phoenix with his slaveboy marcus, where he is a resident stage manager for the Nearly Naked Theatre Company. He has stage managed for several local community and semi-professional theatre companies over the past eight years and has also been one of the ball coordinators for the Imperial Court of Arizona's Coronation for the past three years. He is a co-founder of the Arizona Pups and Handlers, co-producer of the Mr. Phoenix Leather Contest and Vice-Director of the Phoenix Chapter of Masters And slaves Together. He is also a past board member from other local leather organizations.
 

Master Bob Blount, Northwest Master 2006, calls the Portland and Willamette Valley kink communities home and is an active member of Butchmanns Experience Faculty, Portland Leather Alliance, MasT: PNW, Portland Dom’s Group, Dungeon Monitors Association, and the South Valley BDSM Group. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of MAsT International and is the Butchmanns Board of Directors liaison to MAsT International. In his professional life he runs his own personal motivation business, Solution Mentoring and is a certified life coach specializing in relationship and personal growth issues.

In and out of the leather community he is passionate about helping others to live more joyful and fully authentic lives, and has established and organized fun and supportive environments for his community, moderated and facilitated discussion groups, mediated conflicts, participated on panels, and presented interactive workshops on various topics ranging from M/s dynamics to S/M technique and “Conversations on Spirituality and Sexuality” for both the kink and vanilla communities. While he understands that being out is a luxury not everyone can afford he feels fortunate to be able to choose this path for himself and his slave because he feels modeling wholeness by telling the truth about who and what we are, despite the perceived risks, is an act of authentic leadership to which he aspires. It is his hope to honor both our unique differences and our shared common experience, building bridges of understanding both within the local leather communities and his larger circles of influence

slave Trudy served as the Education Lead and VIP Liaison for Southwest Leather Conference for the last two years and has experienced many ah ha moments while attending Butchmanns Experience. She has a deep love for all that is Butchmanns. It is her distinct honor to be invited to serve as part of the Butchmanns Academy faculty and to serve SWLC as a judge for the upcoming 2010 Master/slave Contest.

She is deeply involved in the leather community and counts herself lucky have the most amazing friends. She spends most of her time on a deeply spiritual journey of self discovery.

She is the founder & co-director of El Camino Real Chapter of MAsT International. She served on the Board for smOdyssey and was one of the Event Coordinators for the NorthWest Master slave Contest 2007. She is also graduated from Journeyman's III Academy, California 2006.

None of the above would be worth a darn if it weren't for the friends that she has made along the way. She feels very fortunate to be able to spend many hours with her leather family & friends sharing vacations, holidays, kink events and family meals while discussing their spiritual paths, their leather experiences and where they can put their service hearts to work. They have shared their deepest feelings, cried many tears (both good and bad) and laughed until their sides hurt. She hopes to share many more hours in the company of those she loves deeply.