Flogging Molly
fun & freaky intimacies with ancestral plant kin
a Beltaine season ancestral offering
Join us for a Beltaine season exploration into plants utilized for whipping, thrashing and flogging in Ireland, Scotland & Wales – and consider how these seasonal ancestral practices might be brought into the bedroom.
Ancestral plants & practices can be woven into all facets of our lives – and our erotic intimacies are no exception. Cultural reconnection doesn’t always have to be so damn serious! We will get to know a few different plants worked with for whipping throughout the year, placing them in their seasonal and cultural context before considering how we might work with this practice through an erotic lens. We will also touch on relationship building with plant kin, other plants for related play, as well as aftercare & safety considerations. Participants will be invited to share their own experiences!
Join us for a juicy, fun exploration of ancestral plant kin and community connection as we connect with our lineages in our explorations of erotic sensation play.
THE SPACE
This will be a gentle and lovingly held container. This offering is part info share, part community dialogue. Group conversation will be encouraged, and participants will be invited to contribute to the group container.
Folks are welcome to be on or off screen, participate or not as they feel called, and are free to utilize the unmute or chat functions to contribute. Come as you are.
As with all of my work, this is a queer centered space. This session is 18+. It will include frank discussions of erotic and sexual acts.
Note: This is not an intro to kink class. Its intended for folks who already have a kink practice and are interested in weaving in ancestral plants.
This class is meant to support folks in North America/diasporic communities in reconnecting to their cultural backgrounds; however all ancestral backgrounds welcome.
Join us in community to weave cultural plant kin of the Celtic Isles into our erotic intimacies
LOGISTICS
This info share & community dialogue will take place on May 31, 2026, 6-7:30pm ET // 3-4:30pm PT.
This is an online Zoom gathering. There will be live closed captioning available. The recorded replay of the infoshare portion will be sent out to all who register. The community conversation will not be recorded for privacy.
The price for this session is $33 USD.
Who is facilitating this offering?
For folks new to me & my work –
my name is rowan (they/them) and I’m a qt herbalist, writer, researcher, big nerd and devotee to plant kin. I deeply believe in justice, radical community care, and embodying our values even under pressure. in my personal life, i’m also a kinkster and a leatherdyke.
The threads of my work include politicized ancestral reconnection for settlers on Turtle Island/N America, queer healing, ritual and devotion with the holy, navigating chronic illness, long-c & DJ, cultural traditions and ethnobotany, and more. I’m a white-bodied 3rd gen US person who comes from Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish & Sicilian lineages. I base my work off of my lived personal experiences, relationships with the holy wild, and deep research. I love researching and learning, and then sharing what I’ve learned with community.
thanks for being in community with me, for your support of my ongoing work, and for being a part of this broader weaving.
together
we will greet the Spring
and reconnect
to our erotic aliveness
STAYING CONNECTED
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