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Who Gets to Say No? The Intersection Between Consent and Privilege

Relationships
📅 Friday, September 18 🕑 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM 📍 Tent 2

About this Class

More than a decade as a consent educator has demonstrated to me the intersection between consent and privilege. In this class we will explore this intersection and how privilege impacts the dynamics in our own play and communities. More importantly, we’ll discuss what these truths mean for the larger consent conversation. Prepare to have perspectives examined and to engage in a discussion that needs to be more common in our community. There will be some Q&A. Prepare to potentially have some misconceptions challenged.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Class Presenters

InvictuZ

InvictuZ

Lead Presenter

InvictuZ (aka Zach Budd,LCSW), whose pronouns are; He/Him/Angry Black Man, is the Co-Founder and Head of Household for the Court of InvictuZ. He has been kinky his whole life and polyamorous for about 20 years. He has also been a dedicated consent and sexuality educator since 2014. InvictuZ works as a mental health professional and his practice focuses on individuals, couples, and groups who identify as sexual minorities (LGBTQ+, polyamorous, kinky, etc.).
InvictuZ has the heart of an educator, and his consent education and advocacy led him to the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (ncsfreedom.org) for which he has volunteered since 2017. He serves on the Consent Counts Committee and was appointed to the Board of Directors of NCSF in 2025 where he now serves as Vice Chair.
InvictuZ is a passionate and fierce advocate for the BIPOC, Leather, Kink, Polyamory and LGBTQ+ communities and can often be found representing NCSF at tables, presenting, and advocating for consent in all human interactions. As well as supporting and participating in education and activities sponsored by the Leather Solidarity Collective. He is a member of the National Leather Association, Houston Chapter, and is often found supporting that organization’s charitable works which benefit the LGBTQ+ community in and around Houston.
Additionally, his activism has resulted in him serving on polyamory and kink discussion panels, conducting workshops, participating in panels, and recording podcast episodes on the subjects of polyamory, consent, introversion, privilege, self-care, mental health, and kink.
InvictuZ lives, works, laughs, and loves in Houston, Texas where he enjoys listening to and playing music, advocating for his own and others’ self-care, all things Star Trek, reading, hockey, cooking, cigars, and bourbon. He can be contacted via his FetLife page; InvictuZ.


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