Mollena
This "Delicate, Trembling Flower of Submission" © is a NYC born and raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator and Executive Pervert. She is extremely honored, humbled and proud to have served as International Ms Leather 2010. She is also thrilled to have been named Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009 after that contest's decade long slumber.
She is deeply honored to have been nominated for the 21st Annual Pantheon of Leather's Woman of the Year & Northern California Regional Awards.
Exploring kink since 1993 and active in BDSM and the Leather Community since 1996, she speaks at Leather, BDSM and Kink events across the US, Europe and Canada on many Leather and BDSM focused topics. She also brings the knowledge on Kink, BDSM and Leather to such august institutions of higher learning as SF State and Cal State, Harvard, Mills College, Yale, Stamford, and Brown for IvyQ.
Mollena's been sober since 3-14-2007 and in December that same year, she founded "Safeword," a 12-step based recovery group for all kinksters seeking recovery from addiction.
International Ms Leather 2010 was truly an international title year with visits to the Pride Festival in Stockholm, Sweden, where she made history as the first Leatherwoman ever invited to march with the venerable Scandinavian Leathermen's Association! She's also done her thing in Dublin, Ireland, Berlin, Germany, the UK: toured Amsterdam, Netherlands for Leather Pride, as well as teaching and performing in Vancouver, Canada.
A founding member of Crowded Fire Theater Company, Mo blogs on http://mollena.com and is the author of the "Toybag Guide: Taboo Play." Her essays appear in 2 anthologies curated by Rachel Kramer Bussel: "BDSM and Race Play" appears in "Best Sex Writing 2010," and "Kiss my Boots" is featured in "The Lust Chronicles." Her challenging essay on "race play" is featured in"Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink" edited by Lee Harrington. Not one but two essays commissioned by Tristan Taormino will be appearing in the upcoming book, "The Ultimate Guide to Kinky Sex" Mollena is pleased and delighted to be a featured educator with The Kink Academy, where you can see clips of her speaking on various and sundry topics!
She is also a columnist for Sexls Magazine, where she lets loose twice a month on just about anything. Stay tuned for her podcasts on Erotic Awakening, too! She's a founding member of San Francisco's Crowded Fire Theater Company and her blog, The Perverted Negress is at mollena.com
Her background includes a lifetime of training and involvement in the performing arts, which include spoken word, classical theater, dance, performance art, and all manner of stagecraft. Her first solo show, 69Stories: One Pervert's Tale has been re-revived and is ready to tour and was a hit in Vancouver in November 2010.