Ameris is an artist and community organizer who has made it her life’s mission to bring creativity, innovation, and connection to intersectional communities across the country.  She started her journey in Brooklyn, New York, where she witnessed a dire need for community spaces and connections.  With this in mind, she founded the Safer Spaces organization, dedicated to creating safe and inclusive spaces for marginalized and intersectional communities.  When New York’s glimmer had faded, she brought her vision to the Denver Metro Area, where she hopes to continue this work.   

 

Ameris believes in the freedom to live authentically through liberation of thought, desire, and identity, and she strives to help others achieve that goal.  It is with this mission in mind that she helped to found The Narnia Collective, where she looks to the future, to continue to learn, grow, and bring communities together.

Hailing from Washington state, Maude is a bright-eyed breath of fresh air to Colorado’s kink scene. Starting at Second Circle Studios hosting queer/pansexual parties led to her taking the helm at their bdsm nights and she quickly observed a need for community bonds.  Often, partygoers would confide in her, expressing their comfort in her presence and requesting her to organize more events. 

       

The closing of a club close to her heart left her reeling for the community she was helping to build, she couldn’t shake the feeling that perhaps something was missing, and she was determined to improve how things were being done. 

       

A question was posed: What could be done with her own space? Not only BDSM events and dance parties, but discussion groups and art soirées, kinky cooking classes and so much more! But perhaps her greatest desire: she could help create a safe place for all members of the queer community to come on days good and bad, to celebrate a sense of belonging family.