Smashing Stigma: Mental Health, Neurodiversity, & Kink

This class will be recorded - the recording will be available at DevynStone.com shortly after the class ends. Please do not buy a ticket if you ONLY want the recording. There will be time after the class and recording to ask questions. The audience will not be recorded.

Is the ticket cost a barrier to your attendance? Don't forget that Patreon Subscribers get in to all my events as part of their membership! Patreon Access: https://www.patreon.com/DevynStone/posts/october-2026-165498704 Send me a message, and we can chat about other arrangements!

Smashing Stigma: Mental Health, Neurodiversity, & Kink

Stigma still shadows mental health and neurodivergence—even in communities that champion consent and inclusion. Devyn Stone, DEI consultant, producer of the THRIVE conference, and author of The Affirming Handbook, examines how frameworks like SSC, RACK, and the DSM have shaped perceptions of “safety” and “sanity” in kink. This lecture offers practical strategies to challenge bias, expand accessibility, and build more affirming, justice-centered spaces for all minds.

Content Notice: discussion includes mental health, neurodivergence, stigma, and systemic bias.

Presenter Bio

Devyn Stone, ECIP-E (he/him) is a queer, neurodivergent, and disabled author and Equity-Centered Inclusive Practices Educator whose work focuses on trauma-informed, neuroinclusive, and decolonizing approaches to sexuality, leadership, and authority transfer. A Leatherman and longtime community organizer, he has taught and mentored in kink and relationship dynamics since 2014.

Devyn is the author of The Affirming Handbook, Why I Don’t Own Them…Yet…, and the Quick Reference Rainbow series. He founded Pragmatically Kinking and serves as the Executive Producer of THRIVE, a virtual conference centering neurodivergence, mental health, and BDSM.

Learn more at DevynStone.com