Keynote Speaker
 Master Z
Master Z of Dallas is a well-known Dominant, Presenter and Leader in the Leather and BDSM scene. He is the International Master 2004 and traveled all over the United States and Canada making presentations on the Master/slave and Leather lifestyle as well as being a noted Keynote Speaker. He is the owner of slave bill and slave kiki.
Master Z is Chairman and President of the Board of Directors for Butchmanns, Inc. and the Director as well as an Instructor for the Butchmanns Weekend Experience. He is also the Producer and HeadMaster for boys Training Camps and Co-Producer of Masters Retreat. In 2008, Master Z joined the Board of Directors of NCSF.
In 2010, Master Z was the recipient of the Leather SINS, Inc., President’s Award. He was the recipient of the “Masters Heart Award” in 2006 and the “Leatherman’s Heart Award” in 2004. He is one of the Head of Household for the Texas Leather Tribe; a Leather family he shares responsibility for with his wonderful Leather Brother, Master Roy of Houston.
Master Z is eternally grateful to his mentors, the late Master Dean Walradt and the late boy Patrick Chees, who taught him much of the Leather protocols and rituals that he cherishes today. Master Z is certain that his Leather Journey and BDSm experiences are directly related to his Spiritual Path. |
Guest Speaker, "Our Traditions Live!"
 Master J (Joansie)
JoAnn “Joansie” Kokindo, Master J, currently serves as President of Brother Help Thyself, a Baltimore/Washington, DC community based foundation that awards
grants to non-profit organizations that have applied for funds to implement specific programs that benefit the GLBTQ or HIVAIDS communities.
During MsC 2010, Master J received the “Sir Steve Community Service Award.” She also was awarded the 2007 Boyhood Award from the DC boys of Leather, Black Rose 2007 Community Elder Award and the 2009 Anthony Bachrach Award for Outstanding
Volunteer Service to the Gay and Lesbian Community. She is a frequent judge of Leather Contests and recently was “goldie locks” at the DC Bear Invasion.
By serving as Treasurer of the Board of Directors, MTTA, Inc., and staff for the Master/slave Conference, she affirms strong support of the Master/slave lifestyle, she is founding director of MAsT: DC Pan. She is a brother in the Highwaymen TNT and a
member of SigMa, Black Rose, MAsT: DC Pan, and an associate member of C.O.M.M.A.N.D. and the DC boys of Leather.
Master J is a Senior Master in Master Taíno’s Leather Family since 2011. |
Guest Speakers, Master/slave Flag Breakfast
 Laura Antoniou
Laura Antoniou is the author of the well-known Marketplace series of erotic novels.Her work has been translated into Spanish, German, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Many examples of her short fiction, articles, essays and rants can be found in the collection titled The Catalyst and Other Tales. In 2011, Laura won the prestigious John Preston Short Fiction Award from the National Leather Association, for her short story, “That’s Harsh,” which appears in the e-book edition of The Slave.
As a presenter, panelist, and keynote speaker, Laura has appeared at dozens of conferences over more than twenty years, both entertaining and delivering an occasional verbal indictment. She has also appeared at colleges and universities, including NYU, Rutgers, Columbia and the University of Washington. She received the NLA International Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. She is also the recipient of the 2011 “Worst Camper” award at Dark Odyssey: Fusion, and yes, she totally deserved both of these awards.
Laura began her writing career in the 1980′s, and edited the groundbreaking “Leatherwomen” anthologies, as well as several other collections of fiction and non-fiction. In addition, she is the co-author (with her wife, Karen) of a ritually correct Leather Passover Seder, Avadim Chayanu (Once We Were Slaves).
She is personally featured in Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors by Michael Rowe and The Burning Pen: Sex Writers on Sex Writing, by M.Christian. Laura was also a columnist for Girlfriends magazine from 1995-1997, the submissions editor for Badboy and Bi-Curious magazines from 1995-96, and a regular contributor to The SandMUtopia Guardian from 1993-2000.
The Marketplace series describes “an elite and secretive world organization,dedicated to the auctioning and overseeing of the world’s finest lifestyle slaves… a world so vivid in sequel after sequel, it takes on a reality of its own, one that’s visually hard to let go of once the reader has put down the book.” (Libido Magazine). Laura plans several more novels in the series and is currently working The Inheritor.
Laura lives in Queens, NY with her wife Karen, and happily serves as boy to Kim Attica. Friends have called her all sorts of names. Current favorites are “Renaissance Perv” by Midori, “Good Boy!” by Kim and of course, “best thing that ever happened to me” by Karen. |
