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ThePrinciplesOfKinkForAll

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The Principles of KinkForAll

 

What makes a KinkForAll event? On this page you'll find the essential principles that events and unorganizers must adhere to when they OrganizeALocalKinkForAll. These principles work in synergy with TheRulesOfKinkForAll to give a full picture of the ideal environment of events in all stages of development and execution.

 

Events

 

  • KinkForAll events strive to be accessible to all participants.
  • KinkForAll events are always free to attend.
  • KinkForAll events are open to participants and discussions relating to all sexualities as well as the intersections of sexuality and every other part of life.
  • KinkForAll events are online as well as in-person events that strive to create a repository of media and knowledge that can continue to be useful after events are finished. As such, recording is a given, and participants have responsibility to make their media and ideas available online when possible.
  • KinkForAll events are educational spaces that make a best effort to meet the safety needs of their community.  They strive to create a public atmosphere in their location, public or private. As such, play is not encouraged.
  • KinkForAll events follow the BarCamp method:

 

Organization

 

  • KinkForAll is a "do-ocracy." Organization and participation are spontaneous, autonomous structures in which everyone is encouraged to act in accordance with these principles.
  • KinkForAll functions through the synchronization of the self interest of many parties. As such, the organization of KinkForAll must remain transparent to all, though individual organizers maintain their right to keep personal motivations private.[1]

 

Remember that while these principles are necessary elements of KinkForAll events, it's remarkably simple to transfer this model to other topics and communities. We encourage you to use the model to create your own derivatives; but please, if you choose to alter these essential principles, refrain from calling your event a KinkForAll to avoid confusion.

Footnotes

  1. This ideal was best explained by Simon Phipps, who's quoted as saying: "What characterizes open source is, open source is the syncronization of the self interest of many parties. And to create an environment where people are willing to synchronize their self interest and collaborate over code, there has to be transparency. On the other hand, in open source, you know, Randal, I don't care what your motivations are for being involved in Perl. They're of no relevance to my life because our relationship around Perl depends on code and the code and the community are transparent, but your motivations for participating in it are opaque. It's up to me. They're private to me. [They're also irrelevant because of transparency, the code speaks for itself.] So I'm able to maintain my privacy around my motivations and degree of my involvement and how I'm funding it. I maintain responsibility for that part that is private as well. On the other hand, I'm able to work in an environment of transparency where all the code is known, all its origins are known, all its defects are potentially known, and that combination of transparency with privacy is, in my opinion, what characterizes open source. Trying to define open source in terms of licenses in kinda outmoded in my view. Open source is about transparency at the community level but also about privacy in terms of my motivations." ▲

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