An AORTAlive Workshop
Recording link sent out morning-of via email / Class starts at 2pm EST
**Recording available for 14 days after the class**

Trans femme pleasure is for the dolls and those who love them!

Back by popular demand! Transfemme pleasure is a workshop for trans women and those who love them. The workshop covers a basic overview of anatomy as the body changes through transition, dysphoria, safety, and gender-affirming sensual techniques. The workshop includes instruction, demonstrations, and a Q&A segment for those with any burning questions. This workshop was a big hit last season, and many of you asked for more—so we're delivering!

This class is open to all genders, sexualities, and experience levels. Come and play!

Open to all 18+

About your Presenter:

Dahlia Trieu is a transfemme sex worker, kink educator, and performer. In her past lives she has been an educator, combat soldier, and poet—all of which have been surprisingly useful in her practice as a dominatrix. She is based in Brooklyn with her two feline familiars. DahliaDamoiselle.com / Insta / Bluesky / X 

Violet Bordeaux is the trans girl next door who became a whore. In her work as a Dominatrix, she explores ritual and spirituality, sensuality and sacrifice, and all the ways one can use sharp and pointy objects to create ecstasy. VioletBordeaux.com / Insta / Bluesky / X 

About AORTA films:

AORTA films champions queer and trans indie p()rn to create a future of ethical fuckery. An internationally award-winning studio currently celebrating their tenth year, AORTA films has been making “lusty, opulent, ethical fuckery” since 2015. Centering queer performers across a wide range of bodies and identities, AORTA films offers inventive explicit programming including 90+ short & feature films, a queer clip library, a semi-annual film festival, a guest artist series, commercial work, workshops, and more. This year, to celebrate their 10th year AORTA films launched AORTAlive, a home for live digital adult programing featuring online events including workshops, artist talks, performances, panels, and more. In addition to their site membership, all members of AORTA films get $10 tickets to all AORTAlive events. Not a member yet? See for yourself at www.AORTAfilms.com.

Tickets:

• AORTA films Members get exculsive access to our lowest-price $10 tickets!
  (Not a member yet? Fix that here! Existing AORTA films Members, please find your ticket passcode in the member portal of AORTA's website.)
• $15 Regular Ticket
• $30 Redistriubtion Ticket
  • What's a Redistribution Ticket?
    Making "lusty opulent ethical fuckery" available to everyone is important to us! If you're able to buy a ticket at the redistribution rate, it helps us give comps & discounts to those who need them to be able to attend while keeping our small business sustainable! Consider purchasing a ticket at this rate if you: benefit from race, class, ability, or gender privilege, have access to generational wealth, are able to travel and/or spend money recreationally, have savings, retirement accounts, or investments, own your own home or can comfortably afford rent, work part time or are unemployed by choice.
    
    Can't afford a ticket, but want to attend? Send us an email at AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com! 

Additional Info:

• This event will be held live online
• Ticket Sales end at 11:59pm EST the night before the event
• Ticket buyers will receive a link to the event on the morning of the event.
• All attendees who purchase tickets will receive a link to stream the event recording 1-2 days after the event, which will be good for the next 14 days.
• This recording will not be available for purchase after the fact - if you'd like to access the video after the event, please buy a ticket now!
• Attendees are welcome to attend the event with their camera on or off; at the begining of the event we'll detail guidelines for audience participation
• If you have any questions, please email AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com

The presenters leading AORTA films’s events are curated for their skills and knowledge, however, the views and opinions of these educators does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AORTA FILMS, LLC. and this collaboration does not imply endorsement of any views expressed by the presenters.

An AORTAlive Workshop
Recording link sent out morning-of via email / Class starts at 3pm EST
**This workshop will not be recorded or available to stream after the event**

Concerned about your personal digital security and privacy? Come learn about these topics and more from a presenter who breaks security and privacy protections for a living!

The changing US political landscape along with our ever increasing integration with various types of computing has many concerned about their privacy and anonymity. This class details common sense steps you can take to increase your privacy, security and anonymity while doing such previously mundane things as: looking at / creating porn, crossing borders, booking medical appointments, attending political actions, simply existing in America!

Please note that unlike our other AORTAlive events, this event will not be recorded and will not be available to watch after the fact.

A percentage of sales for this event will be donated to The Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation.

Open to all 18+

About your Presenter:

Alex McGeorge has been involved with BDSM in the DC/MD/VA area for a truly boring amount of time. He currently is best known as co-organizer and event runner for The Crucible's Dungeon 101. Alex taught his first classes at Black Rose 2004, more recently Alex has taught on various BDSM topics since 2012 through Dungeon 101 and at events since 2004 for Black Rose, FetFest, CLAW Getaway, Dark Odyssey Winter Fire, Crucible Con, Camp Crucible, KinkFest and more. When not enjoying the suffering of others Alex works on the offensive side of computer security for a cloud computing provider and enjoys running around in nature.

About AORTA films:

AORTA films champions queer and trans indie p()rn to create a future of ethical fuckery. An internationally award-winning studio currently celebrating their tenth year, AORTA films has been making “lusty, opulent, ethical fuckery” since 2015. Centering queer performers across a wide range of bodies and identities, AORTA films offers inventive explicit programming including 100+ short & feature films, a queer clip library, a semi-annual film festival, a guest artist series, commercial work, workshops, and more. This year, to celebrate their 10th year AORTA films launched AORTAlive, a home for live digital adult programing featuring online events including workshops, artist talks, performances, panels, and more. In addition to their site membership, all members of AORTA films get $10 tickets to all AORTAlive events. Not a member yet? See for yourself at www.AORTAfilms.com.

Tickets:

• AORTA films Members get exculsive access to our lowest-price $10 tickets!
  (Not a member yet? Fix that here! Existing AORTA films Members, please find your ticket passcode in the member portal of AORTA's website.)
• $15 Regular Ticket
• $30 Redistriubtion Ticket
  • What's a Redistribution Ticket?
    Making "lusty opulent ethical fuckery" available to everyone is important to us! If you're able to buy a ticket at the redistribution rate, it helps us give comps & discounts to those who need them to be able to attend while keeping our small business sustainable! Consider purchasing a ticket at this rate if you: benefit from race, class, ability, or gender privilege, have access to generational wealth, are able to travel and/or spend money recreationally, have savings, retirement accounts, or investments, own your own home or can comfortably afford rent, work part time or are unemployed by choice.
    
    Can't afford a ticket, but want to attend? Send us an email at AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com! 

Additional Info:

• This event will be held live online
• Ticket Sales end at 11:59pm EST the night before the event
• Ticket buyers will receive a link to the event on the morning of the event.
• This recording will not be available for streaming after the event! If you want to view the workshop, you must attend the live session.
• Attendees are welcome to attend the event with their camera on or off; at the begining of the event we'll detail guidelines for audience participation
• If you have any questions, please email AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com

The presenters leading AORTA films’s events are curated for their skills and knowledge, however, the views and opinions of these educators does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AORTA FILMS, LLC. and this collaboration does not imply endorsement of any views expressed by the presenters.

An AORTAlive Workshop
Recording link sent out morning-of via email / Class starts at 1pm EST
**Recording available for 14 days after the class**

Bootstrap your content creation to new levels with essential skills for content creation and distribution. Whether you are curious about making adult content, or you're an established creator looking to optimize, all are welcome!

Learn the essential information you need to create compelling content, find your audience, and get paid — *without* burning out. This workshop covers the most important topics content creators need to understand today, including legal compliance in a rapidly evolving political landscape, getting inspired to create, and managing your time and money as a business (or side hustle).

Open to all 18+

About your Presenter:

Jaq Quicksilver (they/he) is a nonbinary and genderfluid content creator living in Amsterdam. Their body of commercial pornographic work chronicles their experimentation with gender and their ongoing physical transition. Jaq moved to the Netherlands in February 2024 to escape an increasingly anti-trans and anti-porn political and social landscape in the United States. They hope to remain in Europe for the foreseeable future.

About AORTA films:

AORTA films champions queer and trans indie p()rn to create a future of ethical fuckery. An internationally award-winning studio currently celebrating their tenth year, AORTA films has been making “lusty, opulent, ethical fuckery” since 2015. Centering queer performers across a wide range of bodies and identities, AORTA films offers inventive explicit programming including 90+ short & feature films, a queer clip library, a semi-annual film festival, a guest artist series, commercial work, workshops, and more. This year, to celebrate their 10th year AORTA films launched AORTAlive, a home for live digital adult programing featuring online events including workshops, artist talks, performances, panels, and more. In addition to their site membership, all members of AORTA films get $10 tickets to all AORTAlive events. Not a member yet? See for yourself at www.AORTAfilms.com.

Tickets:

• AORTA films Members get exculsive access to our lowest-price $10 tickets!
  (Not a member yet? Fix that here! Existing AORTA films Members, please find your ticket passcode in the member portal of AORTA's website.)
• $15 Regular Ticket
• $30 Redistriubtion Ticket
  • What's a Redistribution Ticket?
    Making "lusty opulent ethical fuckery" available to everyone is important to us! If you're able to buy a ticket at the redistribution rate, it helps us give comps & discounts to those who need them to be able to attend while keeping our small business sustainable! Consider purchasing a ticket at this rate if you: benefit from race, class, ability, or gender privilege, have access to generational wealth, are able to travel and/or spend money recreationally, have savings, retirement accounts, or investments, own your own home or can comfortably afford rent, work part time or are unemployed by choice.
    
    Can't afford a ticket, but want to attend? Send us an email at AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com! 

Additional Info:

• This event will be held live online
• Ticket Sales end at 11:59pm EST the night before the event
• Ticket buyers will receive a link to the event on the morning of the event.
• All attendees who purchase tickets will receive a link to stream the event recording 1-2 days after the event, which will be good for the next 14 days.
• This recording will not be available for purchase after the fact - if you'd like to access the video after the event, please buy a ticket now!
• Attendees are welcome to attend the event with their camera on or off; at the begining of the event we'll detail guidelines for audience participation
• If you have any questions, please email AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com

The presenters leading AORTA films’s events are curated for their skills and knowledge, however, the views and opinions of these educators does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AORTA FILMS, LLC. and this collaboration does not imply endorsement of any views expressed by the presenters.

An AORTAlive Workshop
Recording link sent out morning-of via email / Class starts at 2pm EST
**Recording available for 14 days after the class**

Learn about the erotics of bootblacking and leather as a fetish.

When leather is more than a symbol of identity or culture—when the fetish is the leather itself—acts of cleaning, polishing, and preservation become rituals of reverence and desire. 

Leather as Fetish, Bootblacking as Erotic explores why bootblacking has captivated generations of kinksters. Often dismissed as "just a service," bootblacking can be an intensely erotic exchange of care, power, and devotion. After a quick refresher on the fundamentals, we'll explore how intention, touch, and creativity can transform leather care into an unforgettable erotic scene. Whether you're drawn to the shine, the ritual, the service, or the power, you'll leave with practical skills, fresh inspiration, and new ways to make leather (and the people wearing it) the center of your erotic imagination. 

Includes demonstration, Q&A, and collaborative scene brainstorming.

Open to all 18+

About your Presenter:

Artist. Whipmaker. Fetish Instigator Extraordinaire. 

Shaan lives in the rich overlap of art, kink, and culture. Active in fetish communities since 2016, he serves the community-at-large as the organizer behind Virtual Bootblack Jam and bootblack coordinator for International Ms. Leather & Bootblack. He has spent years behind the scenes caring for leather and supporting spaces rooted in consent, creativity, and erotic expression.

Find him at @shaanlashun on Instagram.

About AORTA films:

AORTA films champions queer and trans indie p()rn to create a future of ethical fuckery. An internationally award-winning studio currently celebrating their tenth year, AORTA films has been making “lusty, opulent, ethical fuckery” since 2015. Centering queer performers across a wide range of bodies and identities, AORTA films offers inventive explicit programming including 90+ short & feature films, a queer clip library, a semi-annual film festival, a guest artist series, commercial work, workshops, and more. This year, to celebrate their 10th year AORTA films launched AORTAlive, a home for live digital adult programing featuring online events including workshops, artist talks, performances, panels, and more. In addition to their site membership, all members of AORTA films get $10 tickets to all AORTAlive events. Not a member yet? See for yourself at www.AORTAfilms.com.

Tickets:

• AORTA films Members get exculsive access to our lowest-price $10 tickets!
  (Not a member yet? Fix that here! Existing AORTA films Members, please find your ticket passcode in the member portal of AORTA's website.)
• $15 Regular Ticket
• $30 Redistriubtion Ticket
  • What's a Redistribution Ticket?
    Making "lusty opulent ethical fuckery" available to everyone is important to us! If you're able to buy a ticket at the redistribution rate, it helps us give comps & discounts to those who need them to be able to attend while keeping our small business sustainable! Consider purchasing a ticket at this rate if you: benefit from race, class, ability, or gender privilege, have access to generational wealth, are able to travel and/or spend money recreationally, have savings, retirement accounts, or investments, own your own home or can comfortably afford rent, work part time or are unemployed by choice.
    
    Can't afford a ticket, but want to attend? Send us an email at AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com! 

Additional Info:

• This event will be held live online
• Ticket Sales end at 11:59pm EST the night before the event
• Ticket buyers will receive a link to the event on the morning of the event.
• All attendees who purchase tickets will receive a link to stream the event recording 1-2 days after the event, which will be good for the next 14 days.
• This recording will not be available for purchase after the fact - if you'd like to access the video after the event, please buy a ticket now!
• Attendees are welcome to attend the event with their camera on or off; at the begining of the event we'll detail guidelines for audience participation
• If you have any questions, please email AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com

The presenters leading AORTA films’s events are curated for their skills and knowledge, however, the views and opinions of these educators does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AORTA FILMS, LLC. and this collaboration does not imply endorsement of any views expressed by the presenters.

An AORTAlive Workshop
Recording link sent out morning-of via email / Class starts at 3pm EST
**Recording available for 14 days after the class**

Learn play piercing and medfet basics to create hot and safe needle scenes.

Curious about needles, but not sure where to start? Join Miss Lola Sunshine for a primer on play piercing basics. This class will teach easy, entry-level piercing techniques while covering skin prep, supply sources, and blood and sharps safety. You'll leave this workshop with enough needle play basics to do your own play piercing scene!

This class is open to all genders, sexualities, and experience levels. Come and play!

Open to all 18+

About your Presenter:

Miss Lola Sunshine is a queer high femme slut, sadist, and Leather Mommy. She hosts the Chicago Leather D¥ke Picnic and is one half of the Mean Mommy Kink Podcast. She teaches sex and kink education and has helped host and facilitate play parties and kinky gatherings for queer, trans, and POC kinksters for over 20 years.

About AORTA films:

AORTA films champions queer and trans indie p()rn to create a future of ethical fuckery. An internationally award-winning studio currently celebrating their tenth year, AORTA films has been making “lusty, opulent, ethical fuckery” since 2015. Centering queer performers across a wide range of bodies and identities, AORTA films offers inventive explicit programming including 90+ short & feature films, a queer clip library, a semi-annual film festival, a guest artist series, commercial work, workshops, and more. This year, to celebrate their 10th year AORTA films launched AORTAlive, a home for live digital adult programing featuring online events including workshops, artist talks, performances, panels, and more. In addition to their site membership, all members of AORTA films get $10 tickets to all AORTAlive events. Not a member yet? See for yourself at www.AORTAfilms.com.

Tickets:

• AORTA films Members get exculsive access to our lowest-price $10 tickets!
  (Not a member yet? Fix that here! Existing AORTA films Members, please find your ticket passcode in the member portal of AORTA's website.)
• $15 Regular Ticket
• $30 Redistriubtion Ticket
  • What's a Redistribution Ticket?
    Making "lusty opulent ethical fuckery" available to everyone is important to us! If you're able to buy a ticket at the redistribution rate, it helps us give comps & discounts to those who need them to be able to attend while keeping our small business sustainable! Consider purchasing a ticket at this rate if you: benefit from race, class, ability, or gender privilege, have access to generational wealth, are able to travel and/or spend money recreationally, have savings, retirement accounts, or investments, own your own home or can comfortably afford rent, work part time or are unemployed by choice.
    
    Can't afford a ticket, but want to attend? Send us an email at AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com! 

Additional Info:

• This event will be held live online
• Ticket Sales end at 11:59pm EST the night before the event
• Ticket buyers will receive a link to the event on the morning of the event.
• All attendees who purchase tickets will receive a link to stream the event recording 1-2 days after the event, which will be good for the next 14 days.
• This recording will not be available for purchase after the fact - if you'd like to access the video after the event, please buy a ticket now!
• Attendees are welcome to attend the event with their camera on or off; at the begining of the event we'll detail guidelines for audience participation
• If you have any questions, please email AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com

The presenters leading AORTA films’s events are curated for their skills and knowledge, however, the views and opinions of these educators does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AORTA FILMS, LLC. and this collaboration does not imply endorsement of any views expressed by the presenters.

An AORTAlive Workshop
Recording link sent out morning-of via email / Class starts at 3pm EST
**Recording available for 14 days after the class**

Hot for heavy metal? Learn the basics of chain bondage and chain play.

Join Chess and friends for a discussion of all things chain, including ideas for solo, partnered, and group chain play. We will explore what makes chain such a potent tool and symbol for sadomasochists.This workshop will teach you the fundamentals of creating aesthetic and functional chain bondage. Learn how to build a basic kit, strategies for tension control and symmetry, and how to improvise artfully.

This workshop includes a presentation, discussion, and live demo, with opportunity for Q&A.

This class is open to all genders, sexualities, and experience levels. Come and play!

Open to all 18+

About your Presenter:

Chess is a Pittsburgh-based agender Leatherdyke Daddy and clinical psychologist with a lust for the beautifully perverse. They are a sadomasochistic lifestyle Dominant and aesthetics-driven bondage top who loves to create art through objectification. Chess facilitates a monthly peer support group for Leatherdyke-identified therapists and is dedicated to Leather mentorship within their community.

About AORTA films:

AORTA films champions queer and trans indie p()rn to create a future of ethical fuckery. An internationally award-winning studio currently celebrating their tenth year, AORTA films has been making “lusty, opulent, ethical fuckery” since 2015. Centering queer performers across a wide range of bodies and identities, AORTA films offers inventive explicit programming including 90+ short & feature films, a queer clip library, a semi-annual film festival, a guest artist series, commercial work, workshops, and more. This year, to celebrate their 10th year AORTA films launched AORTAlive, a home for live digital adult programing featuring online events including workshops, artist talks, performances, panels, and more. In addition to their site membership, all members of AORTA films get $10 tickets to all AORTAlive events. Not a member yet? See for yourself at www.AORTAfilms.com.

Tickets:

• AORTA films Members get exculsive access to our lowest-price $10 tickets!
  (Not a member yet? Fix that here! Existing AORTA films Members, please find your ticket passcode in the member portal of AORTA's website.)
• $15 Regular Ticket
• $30 Redistriubtion Ticket
  • What's a Redistribution Ticket?
    Making "lusty opulent ethical fuckery" available to everyone is important to us! If you're able to buy a ticket at the redistribution rate, it helps us give comps & discounts to those who need them to be able to attend while keeping our small business sustainable! Consider purchasing a ticket at this rate if you: benefit from race, class, ability, or gender privilege, have access to generational wealth, are able to travel and/or spend money recreationally, have savings, retirement accounts, or investments, own your own home or can comfortably afford rent, work part time or are unemployed by choice.
    
    Can't afford a ticket, but want to attend? Send us an email at AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com! 

Additional Info:

• This event will be held live online
• Ticket Sales end at 11:59pm EST the night before the event
• Ticket buyers will receive a link to the event on the morning of the event.
• All attendees who purchase tickets will receive a link to stream the event recording 1-2 days after the event, which will be good for the next 14 days.
• This recording will not be available for purchase after the fact - if you'd like to access the video after the event, please buy a ticket now!
• Attendees are welcome to attend the event with their camera on or off; at the begining of the event we'll detail guidelines for audience participation
• If you have any questions, please email AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com

The presenters leading AORTA films’s events are curated for their skills and knowledge, however, the views and opinions of these educators does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AORTA FILMS, LLC. and this collaboration does not imply endorsement of any views expressed by the presenters.

An AORTAlive Workshop
Recording link sent out morning-of via email / Class starts at 3pm EST
**Recording available for 14 days after the class**

Empress Wu meets Kerosene Jones in an experimental performance/artist talk that dissects and enacts mythopornographic tableaus.

Empress Wu and Kerosene Jones present Insemination Jubilee: Gooning and Cocooning (2026), the inevitable sequel (or arguably prequel) to Jones’s Mummycule 4 Bob (2026), performed exclusively for Aorta Live. Expect fag4dyke cross-pollination and gestational whimsy on every register: creative, somatic, psychological. Staged in Empress Wu's dungeon and cocooned by the magic of friendship, this performance-cum-scene-cum-artist-talk-cum-studio-tour digs into where these two artists' personal and professional practices coalesce. Is art about sex? Is sex about power? Is power about life? If life imitates art but is stranger than fiction, at the end of a long day, who's really inseminating whom?

Open to all 18+

About your Presenter:

Kerosene Jones is a writer, curator, and interdisciplinary artist whose work engages with marginalized queer subcultures and radical performance legacies, as well as the history, practice, and ethics of extended vocal technique. Utilizing unorthodox compositional techniques and experimental research procedures, Jones endeavors to provide sonic, ceremonial, and intertextual sanctuary for horny ghosts with unfinished business. His work has been supported by Art Omi, BBC Radio 4, Black Mountain College Museum, MoMA PS1, NYSCA, The Poetry Project, Visual AIDS, and Wave Farm. His arts & culture writing has appeared in BOMB, Filmmaker Magazine, Interview, Document Journal, X-TRA, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Kitchen Magazine. Jones is the Arts Editor of WUSSY Magazine and the Programs Manager at CPR - Center for Performance Research. He is a graduate of the Performance and Interactive Media Arts MFA Program at Brooklyn College.

Empress Wu (all pronouns) is a dominatrix and cultural activist practicing in NYC and beyond. Their work explores the performance of intimacy, through digital landscapes, queer SM, sexual labor, ancestral ritual, conflict, and more. Her work in all its forms have been seen at MoMA PS1, Performa Biennial, Brown University, and probably a dungeon near you. She lives digitally at empresswu.net

About AORTA films:

AORTA films champions queer and trans indie p()rn to create a future of ethical fuckery. An internationally award-winning studio currently celebrating their tenth year, AORTA films has been making “lusty, opulent, ethical fuckery” since 2015. Centering queer performers across a wide range of bodies and identities, AORTA films offers inventive explicit programming including 90+ short & feature films, a queer clip library, a semi-annual film festival, a guest artist series, commercial work, workshops, and more. This year, to celebrate their 10th year AORTA films launched AORTAlive, a home for live digital adult programing featuring online events including workshops, artist talks, performances, panels, and more. In addition to their site membership, all members of AORTA films get $10 tickets to all AORTAlive events. Not a member yet? See for yourself at www.AORTAfilms.com.

Tickets:

• AORTA films Members get exculsive access to our lowest-price $10 tickets!
  (Not a member yet? Fix that here! Existing AORTA films Members, please find your ticket passcode in the member portal of AORTA's website.)
• $15 Regular Ticket
• $30 Redistriubtion Ticket
  • What's a Redistribution Ticket?
    Making "lusty opulent ethical fuckery" available to everyone is important to us! If you're able to buy a ticket at the redistribution rate, it helps us give comps & discounts to those who need them to be able to attend while keeping our small business sustainable! Consider purchasing a ticket at this rate if you: benefit from race, class, ability, or gender privilege, have access to generational wealth, are able to travel and/or spend money recreationally, have savings, retirement accounts, or investments, own your own home or can comfortably afford rent, work part time or are unemployed by choice.
    
    Can't afford a ticket, but want to attend? Send us an email at AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com! 

Additional Info:

• This event will be held live online
• Ticket Sales end at 11:59pm EST the night before the event
• Ticket buyers will receive a link to the event on the morning of the event.
• All attendees who purchase tickets will receive a link to stream the event recording 1-2 days after the event, which will be good for the next 14 days.
• This recording will not be available for purchase after the fact - if you'd like to access the video after the event, please buy a ticket now!
• Attendees are welcome to attend the event with their camera on or off; at the begining of the event we'll detail guidelines for audience participation
• If you have any questions, please email AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com

The presenters leading AORTA films’s events are curated for their skills and knowledge, however, the views and opinions of these educators does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AORTA FILMS, LLC. and this collaboration does not imply endorsement of any views expressed by the presenters.

An AORTAlive Workshop
Recording link sent out morning-of via email / Class starts at 3pm EST
**Recording available for 14 days after the class**

For some of us, 30-100% of dominance is bratting from the top. This class will show you how it's done.

For some of us, 30-100% of domming is bratting from the top. Just because you're a brat doesn't automatically make you a bottom or a submissive, and being the bigger brat can be so much fun. It's anopportunity for so many different kinds of play: the cruelest scenarios imaginable, lighthearted sensory romps, and escalating annoyances designed to fate a bratty bottom and give them the attention they crave. Ever wanted to channel your inner Bugs Bunny and be the cartoon antagonist of your lover's worst nightmares and wildest dreams? 

This workshop will go over the critical areas of negotiation and scene/relationship dynamics for life and play where there's more than one brat in the equation, or for when the brat is the dominant. Demos showing brat4brat dynamics and play, with a focus on bratting from the top, will serve as points of inspiration, reference, and...instigation.... This one is for every brat who plays with other brats, brat-tops, brat-dommes, brat-subs, and any kind of brat vs. brat or group brat situation.

Open to all 18+

About your Presenter:

Badly Licked Bear is a 3rd-gender, Indigiqueer transfemme who is—or has been—an arts administrator, community leader, writer, curator, student, artist, mutual aid worker, sex worker, and educator. This storyteller’s desire is to spin dreams into reality as a sexuality and kink educator, professional mean girl, polymorphously perverse power switch, and clown-foolery enthusiast. She is a leatherdyke. 

Currently, she is the Board President and an educator for Pelvic Sanctuary, Witch Queen of the Los Angeles-based, Queer wrestling group, Wrestler4Wrestler, and one of the three BIPOC, femme co-producers of Los Angeles' Leather Queer Weekend. She also serves on the steering committees of the Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Art & Culture Coalition and the CIRCA Queer Histories Festival. 

Badly is a Co-Founder of the Council of Indigenous Leather, was the recipient of the 2024 Unabashed Forefister Award, and most recently served as Mx. Strap Sucker Los Angeles 2025.

About AORTA films:

AORTA films champions queer and trans indie p()rn to create a future of ethical fuckery. An internationally award-winning studio currently celebrating their tenth year, AORTA films has been making “lusty, opulent, ethical fuckery” since 2015. Centering queer performers across a wide range of bodies and identities, AORTA films offers inventive explicit programming including 90+ short & feature films, a queer clip library, a semi-annual film festival, a guest artist series, commercial work, workshops, and more. This year, to celebrate their 10th year AORTA films launched AORTAlive, a home for live digital adult programing featuring online events including workshops, artist talks, performances, panels, and more. In addition to their site membership, all members of AORTA films get $10 tickets to all AORTAlive events. Not a member yet? See for yourself at www.AORTAfilms.com.

Tickets:

• AORTA films Members get exculsive access to our lowest-price $10 tickets!
  (Not a member yet? Fix that here! Existing AORTA films Members, please find your ticket passcode in the member portal of AORTA's website.)
• $15 Regular Ticket
• $30 Redistriubtion Ticket
  • What's a Redistribution Ticket?
    Making "lusty opulent ethical fuckery" available to everyone is important to us! If you're able to buy a ticket at the redistribution rate, it helps us give comps & discounts to those who need them to be able to attend while keeping our small business sustainable! Consider purchasing a ticket at this rate if you: benefit from race, class, ability, or gender privilege, have access to generational wealth, are able to travel and/or spend money recreationally, have savings, retirement accounts, or investments, own your own home or can comfortably afford rent, work part time or are unemployed by choice.
    
    Can't afford a ticket, but want to attend? Send us an email at AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com! 

Additional Info:

• This event will be held live online
• Ticket Sales end at 11:59pm EST the night before the event
• Ticket buyers will receive a link to the event on the morning of the event.
• All attendees who purchase tickets will receive a link to stream the event recording 1-2 days after the event, which will be good for the next 14 days.
• This recording will not be available for purchase after the fact - if you'd like to access the video after the event, please buy a ticket now!
• Attendees are welcome to attend the event with their camera on or off; at the begining of the event we'll detail guidelines for audience participation
• If you have any questions, please email AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com

The presenters leading AORTA films’s events are curated for their skills and knowledge, however, the views and opinions of these educators does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AORTA FILMS, LLC. and this collaboration does not imply endorsement of any views expressed by the presenters.