The Beyond Vanilla Keynote Speaker for 2008 is MsTwisted!

MsTwisted, began her leather journey over 15 years ago in the Dallas community.  She has served as co-chair for NLA-Dallas; was a founding member/co-owner of Inquisition-Dallas; original faculty member for both The boy’s Training Camps and The Master’s Retreat.  She is a lifetime member of NLA-Dallas and Bound by Desire, a women’s leather club based in Austin, Tx.  MsTwisted was named NLA-International Woman of the Year in 2000.  

Also a clinical social worker, she is proud to have co-produced with Mark Frazier and Hardy Haberman, the video “Out of the Darkness”.  This film, the first of its kind, was produced to help educate mental health and other care-giving professionals about the leather community.  MsT remains committed to helping the mental health profession understand leather sexuality as a healthy choice rather than as abnormal behavior.

As such, she has presented accurate information about leather folk in several professional conferences. She may be the ONLY SM practitioner to have ever been paid by the State of Texas for presenting an SM 101 Safety workshop!!

MsTwisted currently resides in Austin Tx with her two cats, one a femme-dom and the other a submissive boy!