Steering Committee

NARIX is led by a steering committee composed of volunteers who are passionate about our mission to build a more positive and values-based rope culture in North America.

Current Steering Committee Members

Godam

Godam (he/him) is originally based in Western NY. He identifies primarily as a rope top, though started out as a submissive. Godam has been in the BDSM scene since 2013, topping for rope since 2014. Starting with decorative bondage, Godam over the years has grown to enjoy just about all the things rope has to offer. He especially enjoys dynamic rope and tying outdoors.

Godam actively works toward growing rope communities through supporting and organizing events, fostering connection, and keeping information accessible. In his personal life he is committed to always learning, and finds great joy teaching and sharing what he has learned with others.

Godam is an excitable human who thrives when there is an adventure in store or a challenge to overcome. He is just about always open to learn, grow, travel, and collaborate. As a human he enjoys fusing different ideas and concepts together to see if something new can come out of it. He encourages making mistakes and getting messy while in the pursuit of understanding.

Havoc

Havoc (she/her) has been kinky for as long as she can remember. Starting in Northern Colorado, Havoc began attending public events in 2016 and regularly volunteered at the Community dungeon. In January of 2017 Havoc moved to Austin, and in that time, she has been actively involved with a multitude of community groups as well as co-leading both a small rope group and the Austin chapter of TNG.

Havoc identifies as a 'switchy-rope-everything.' In addition to rope, her kinks include fire, wax, impact, mental games and more. Her true passion, however, lies in education; focusing on negotiations, rope, and consent. Havoc hopes to help individuals with journeys of self-discovery. In the vanilla world Havoc has been a volunteer leader close to a decade for various organizations which has taught her skills she brings to all the organizations she is involved in. Above all, Havoc enjoys the inclusive nature of the Kink Community, and hopes to help other leaders build their own inclusive and ethical communities and community cultures. 

Ivy Limieux

Ivy Limieux (She/They) is a sWitchy Sadistic VoxFox. She has explored rope bondage since 2017. She is a queer Black Latine Femme who advocates and facilitates safer spaces for sexual expression in the QTBIPOC kink community. She is a ProDomme, the host of Kinky, Colorful Conscious, kink educator and co-hosts Oaklands bi-monthly POC play party, SOUL .

Ivy's Fascination with rope began with two photos. The first, a scanned photo from a photo book by Denki Akechi from the early days of the internet. The second, a photo of Midori, modeling a Victorian wedding corset for Dark Garden Corsetry. Her current joy of collecting waist training corsets aside, following Midori's history of works lead her to The Seductive Art Of Japanese Bondage which gave her hope that learning this art, didn't mean she had to go half a world away to find these communities.

Currently Ivy takes a playfully sadistic and childlike approach to rope bondage. Remembering the joys of tying her siblings and friends to the support poles of the stairs under her apartment as a child, she believes that some of the best elements of a good rope scene are a smile, a laugh, and the ability to not take yourself too seriously.

Nox

Nox (they/them) is a top-leaning plus-sized femme switch based in Chicago. Since discovering rope and kink in 2015, they have been an obsessive student focused on acquiring, deconstructing, and synthesizing knowledge from an abundance of sources.

In play, Nox explores both physical and emotional sadism, playing with shame, power, pain, and devotion, though mostly only with close partners and friends. For Nox, rope is a way of exploring intimacy and building healthy and validating relationships. And, it is also fucking hot.

Nox has been a presenter, organizer, venue host, and facilitator, since 2017. As a community leader, they believe in creating spaces where people can grow, enabling people to be happy in their rope experiences, valuing every person as equals regardless of their rope context, and helping people discover how great rope is.

Thumper

Thumper (he/they) was first exposed to rope at a fateful first date in September 2019. Soon after, they started their education at Tension Montreal, first in ropes and subsequently as a rigger in December 2019. Being a stage performer and former gymnast, they have always had an enthusiastic interest for live performance. 

Their first NARIX (MTL’22) was a turning point in their rope practice, providing the opportunity to meet people with diverse experiences and approaches to rope. At that event, they also met the first people who believed in what they and their partner Bondagious had to offer the community through their rope practice. From that moment on, the pair has been invited to teach and perform in various rope spaces across Canada and the United States.

Thumper also has close experience with direct democracy, having been involved in Quebec’s seven-month-long student strike of 2012 and serving on many boards of directors.

They wish to represent and serve the NARIX community to the best of their capacity and help create meaningful experiences like those they had at their first event.

Tornus

Tornus (he/him) is a Seattle-based kink educator, activist, community builder, and rationalist. His day job is teaching with Full Circle Kink, which is known for high-quality beginner bondage education as well as a series of deep dives on technical topics ranging from technical rigging to defamation law.

When he isn’t working on classes, Tornus’ passion is creating kink communities that are kind, vibrant, and just. His current endeavors in the kink world include a Seattle DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) initiative, a national defamation law project, and serving on the board of the North American Rope Information eXchange. In collaboration with Dr Smartypants, he occasionally works on helping individuals and organizations figure out appropriate COVID policies. Tornus was part of the team that put together the Kink Education Code of Conduct and is overdue for starting up the KECC 2.0 project.