We know it ain't all about trauma. Kinksters are fully capable of experiencing and transforming sensation. TICK acknowledges that inside this culture, trauma/harm are likely, and that the language & impact of trauma is common in our communities.
What is TICK?
Not a step-by-step guide, but a set of tools and reflections
Draws from lived experience in these streets + social justice approaches
Holds the complexity of consent—both binaries and nuance
Names stigma, healing, and the politics of trauma-informed approaches
Invites us to decolonize how we see pleasure and trauma
Offers a more intentional lens for navigating consent in BDSM/kink
Sliding Scale Pricing is available for Ebook & TICK 101 Course. Select VIEW PRODUCT for discount codes.
Are you someone who hold contradictions - wanting play to feel safe while also enjoying the thrill of risk?
Have you ever felt why “just safe, sane, and consensual” isn’t always enough?
Have you ever wondered how your identity, trauma, or past experiences shape your approach to consent?
Have you caused harm or been impacted by harm and want to understand the pattern?
Trauma-Informed Consensual Kink (TICK) builds on traditional BDSM frameworks like Safe, Sane, and Consensual (SSC) Risk-Aware Consensual Kink (RACK), and 4C's by adding a deeper awareness of how trauma can shape experience. The goal is to create more intentional and responsive dynamics by understanding how people feel, communicate, and navigate safety.
TICK acknowledges the embrace, realities, challenges, and complexities of consent of BDSM/KINK —whether trauma is disclosed or not.
"I’m TICK’d OFF
I’ve sat with this book after years of “dibbling and dabbling” with the concept TRAUMA INFORMED work. This book is (IN MY FUCKING OPINION) Shadow Work for kink. Coach Felyne explains the raw realities of BDSM, trauma, healing, street protocols and safety in a brutally loving reflective way. This isn’t for the community to learn how to prevent harm or deal with harm doers. It isn’t for those harmed in play or dungeon politics. This is for us to understand that REAL SHIT HAPPENS and we have to deal with those harsh realities. WE CAME HERE BECAUSE REAL SHIT HAPPENS."
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ABOUT THE CREATOR
Candace “Coach Felyne” Liger (she/they) is a proud Mississippi native, nationally recognized social justice educator, trauma-informed practitioner, kink advocate, and strategist working at the intersections of trauma, pleasure, and power. With over 20 years of experience in kink and BDSM communities, she brings a rare blend of embodiment, political insight, and lived experience to their work in erotic work, healing justice, and liberation.
In their 2021 TEDx talk, “What BDSM Can Teach Us About Affirmative Consent,” she examined the complexity of consent beyond legal definitions—offering a nuanced perspective rooted in kink practice, embodiment, and communication
Candace currently works a Director in trauma informed movement spaces to build toward a liberatory future—one where bodies, movement, and healing are co-conspirators and present in the stories we hold.
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