@karada-house.de
We are a queer, intersectional space in Berlin 🍑 We organise events about shibari, art, kink & sex education. Our Programme offers online & in-house classes. Join us! 👇🏽 https://karada-house.de Newsletter 📧 https://stats.sender.net/forms/bklrrd/view
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Knots, bodies, and belonging.
Here are our big events for 2026.
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A full-length journey into stillness, surrender, and sound. Watch as @ceciferox.bsky.social and Maeve weave trust and tension in this intimate Shibari session, wrapped in the live sounds of Nyré Tiessen. 🔥
The beautiful @fagoz.bsky.social covered first in full leather including a straitjacket, with a decent amount of Chaos Rope on top… and that was just the beginning of our epic #ropepunk session at @karada-house.de but we had to go out into the garden first to take some pics…
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3/4 Full leather #ropepunk realness with @fagoz.bsky.social yesterday at our private, boots-stay-on Queer Punk Rope Jam at @karada-house.de - the perfect position for me to lick those gorgeous boots!
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#gear365 #bootboy #gayleathermen #queerpunk
4/4 Full leather #ropepunk realness with @fagoz.bsky.social yesterday at our private, boots-stay-on Queer Punk Rope Jam at @karada-house.de - the perfect position for me to lick those gorgeous boots!
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#gear365 #bootboy #gayleathermen #queerpunk
A person with shaved head and medium-dark skin wearing a maroon shirt and glasses is has wrapped a white muslin scarf around the upper arms of a person with light skin and wavy dark-brown hair. Their cheeks are touching, eyes are closed and they seem calm and caring. Below the image, white text on slate-grey background reads: Guilt can be constructive, as it often leads to actions like apologising or making amends. Shame can be debilitating, leading to feelings of unworthiness and a loss of self-esteem. Both can be truly stifling for is in many ways — in kink contexts, this often impacts our ability to relate in different and playful ways.
A person with light skin and wavy dark-brown hair wearing a black sleeveless shirt is on their hands and knees in front of a person with shaved head and medium-dark skin wearing a maroon shirt and glasses. Both are laughing like something unexpected just happened. Below the image, white text on slate-grey background reads: Kink can offer intentional containers with clear boundaries as a support for releasing these energies. Playfully engaging in these complex dynamics can help us find release. But how do we do that?
A person with light skin and wavy dark-brown hair wearing a black sleeveless shirt is being held by a person with shaved head and medium-dark skin wearing a maroon shirt and glasses who is pushing their index finger into the hollow at the base of their neck. They’re both smiling slightly. Below the image, white text on slate-grey background reads: Join us on June 13 for an online workshop that will provide you with some space to experiment with what might help you get a little more unstuck from these two tricky emotions. Playing with (and Despite) Guilt and Shame. June 13, 2025. Online. 7-9pm, Berlin time. Recording available to ticket holders.
How do shame and guilt manifest for you in your everyday life?
What strategies can you embrace to address the heavy and serious topic of trauma?
This Friday June 13th join Caritia in a 3-hour workshop and discussion on shame & guilt.
karada-house.de/events/playi...
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A person with light skin and dark-brown hair is lying on their side. Their eyes are closed. They are wearing a black sleeveless shirt, and have silver and copper hoop earrings. The hands of a person with medium-dark brown skin are gripping and pinching their upper arm. Below the image, white text on slate-grey background reads: Guilt & Shame.
A person with light skin and wavy dark-brown hair wearing a black sleeveless shirt is being held by a person with shaved head and medium-dark skin wearing a maroon shirt and glasses. Both are staring at the camera. Below the image, white text on slate-grey background reads: Guilt and shame are often referred to interchangeably, but they are actually quite different from each other and can affect people.
A person with light skin and wavy dark-brown hair is being held on their neck and chin by a person with shaved head and medium-dark skin wearing a maroon shirt and glasses. Their heads are touching. It looks soft and gentle. Below the image, white text on slate-grey background reads: Guilt is a feeling of remorse or regret for a specific action or behaviour. It's focused on what you did, not who you are. Example,"I feel bad about getting ink on her coat."
A person with shaved head and medium-dark skin wearing a maroon shirt and glasses is holding a white muslin scarf and about to wrap it around the face of a person with light skin and wavy dark-brown hair. Their eyes are closed and they seem calm and ready. Below the image, white text on slate-grey background reads: Shame is a deeper, more personal feeling that targets the self. It is the belief that you are a bad person because of your actions. Example: "I'm such an idiot for getting ink on her coat."
Playing with (and Despite) Guilt and Shame.
This Friday June 13th join Caritia in a 3-hour workshop & discussion about identifying the differences between shame vs guilt.
karada-house.de/events/playi...
Can’t make it on Fri? Watch it any time in 14 days after.
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Caritia, a Black person with shaved head has a screwed up face and wide open mouth. It looks like pain or anger or shock. White text over the image reads: Radical Anger.
✊🏿 Really Fucking Pissed Off
Join Caritia for a session that will make space for you to explore your anger and your needs with intention. #blacksky
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👉🏼 @caritia.bsky.social
🛜 Online (CEST / Berlin time)
🗓⏰ Mon July 7th, 19:00–21:30
The very fine Sophia Rose, a woman with light skin, dark shoulder-length hair and a lot of tattoos is looking right at us with one leg up stepping down on a fortunate lad who's naked and tied up.
💕 Strictly By & For Sex Workers:
This offering is specifically for us to share tips, tricks, and handy hints when engaging in rope within a session with a client. #sexwork
🔗 karada-house.de/events/rfsw/
📅 Thu July 3rd 18:00–21:00
🏡🌳 Our House
👉🏼 @sophiaroseropes.bsky.social & @caritia.bsky.social
✊🏿 for our kinky BIPOC people:
BIPOC Utopias — Kink & Intimacy is an online separatist space to discuss and lab about kink, intimacy, and virtual play space for Black, Brown and Indigenous folks #BlackSky
➡️ karada-house.de/events/bipoc...
🛜 Online (CEST / Berlin time) Sun. May 4th, 19:00–20:30
Dasniya Sommer, a brown Thai-German woman with long black hair is hanging suspended from ropes, cushions, and blankets. She’s bare-legged, in a seated position, wearing an off-white long-sleeved top, holding an acoustic guitar, and looking down. The background is black with a row of stage lights in yellow, green, pink, red, and white lighting her. Text on the image reads: Rope Study With Dasniya: suspension for Intimacy Play. April 29, Berlin.
Tomorrow evening, Tuesday April 29th, at 🏡🌳 Our House:
The sublime Dasniya Sommer’s @dasniyasommer.de monthly exploration of technique, aesthetics, and embodied experience in rope.
This month: an open-legged hip harness for intimate rope play 🧞♀️🧜🏼♀️
➡️ karada-house.de/events/dasni...
From our Queer Intimacies Conference 2025 in March, Avgi Saketopoulou, Andrea Rimon, Georg Barkas, and Caritia came together to discuss traumatophilia.
Their whole session is free to watch: vimeo.com/1072151919
Off-white text on plum background reads: Karada House is trans.
Love, care, compassion, is also resistance.
Stay strong.
Thank yous to our Karada House people @renedesans.bsky.social for visuals and @supernaut.info for text.
Karada House is trans. There’s barely a cis person among us. Here’s our not-so-short response to the cooked fuckery out of the UK this week: On Wednesday April 16th, the UK Supreme Court decided that trans women are not women. This ruling is part of an unbroken multi-decade attack going back to 1970s second-wave feminism, specifically against trans women and girls. It also rules against trans men and boys, and against non-binary people, as well defining who is a lesbian. It is part of a heteronormative agenda which includes anti-sex work, anti-porn, anti-BDSM, and is entirely born of a European white supremacist, Christian nationalist, settler colonial, racist, carceral, genocidal, capitalist ideology.
This legislative attack — like the 850+ anti-trans bills filed in the USA this year alone — is couched in the pseudoscience of biologic essentialism, and in the words of TERF Janice Raymond, states “…that the problem of transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence.” What we’re not interested in right now — or frankly ever — is validation or appeals to authority. Empty slogans like ‘trans women are women’ or ‘trans rights are human rights’ do not help us.
We need to be safe in the streets. And in the sheets. We need to take a piss in public bathrooms without fear of being assaulted, arrested, and deported. We need uncontested access to material support like hormones, blood tests, top and bottom surgeries, and other medical procedures; rape crisis centres; employment protection; not being put men’s prisons; not having to have (unaffordable, unprocurable) surgery in order to change our ‘gender’ markers on official documents; not having to choose between homelessness or violence at home and school. We need access to puberty blockers and we need hormones at the same age as the cis kids. We need to not waste and lose our lives on this bullshit.
Denying us all these things and more are legislative decisions drawn from that moral position which says we must not exist. Just like how making sex work legal is the state once again non-consensually inserting itself in our working lives and bodies, we don’t need legislation, we need decriminalisation. We need sovereignty for ourselves. And we need cis people, straight, bi, queer, however you live your truth, to step the fuck up even harder than you already have and are. We need you to put yourselves up front and take the hits for us. Love, care, compassion, is also resistance. Stay strong.
Karada House is trans. There’s barely a cis person among us.
Here’s our not-so-short response to the cooked fuckery out of the UK last and this week.
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Looking down on an intense embrace and eye contact. One person is lying in the lap of another, looking up longingly into the eyes of the other. Their hands and arms are wrapped around each other. There’s just a glimpse of a black leather collar around their neck. This is very hot and beautiful.
Sun's Up Fun's Up 🌞😻
In the words of @rudyfraser.com: Revolution Now 🏴☠️
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A sextet of very tasty queers sitting along a freshly-built wooden balcony, resting their elbows on the railing and hanging their legs over the side. An explosion of colour behind them. Job well done, eh.
Build Shit with Us 🔨🪛🪜🌳🏡
🔨 Are you handy with a hammer?
💅🏼 Great with a paintbrush?
📦 Extra special at organising and decluttering?
We need you! 🥹
👷🏻♀️ Karada House – Building Weekend
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🗓⏰ Sat. & Sun. April 26th & 27th, 10:00–22:00
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1/3 Stunning pictures of the awesome side suspension we did with @fagoz.bsky.social at the @karadahouse.bsky.social photoshoot - @renedesans.bsky.social really captured all the beauty and intimacy of a good #ropepunk session!
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2/3 Stunning pictures of the awesome side suspension we did with @fagoz.bsky.social at the @karadahouse.bsky.social photoshoot - @renedesans.bsky.social really captured all the beauty and intimacy of a good #ropepunk session!
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3/3 Stunning pictures of the awesome side suspension we did with @fagoz.bsky.social at the @karadahouse.bsky.social photoshoot - @renedesans.bsky.social really captured all the beauty and intimacy of a good #ropepunk session!
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Shh puppy, you're safe with me~
with @svartiglamr.bsky.social at @karadahouse.bsky.social
📷: @renedesans.bsky.social
Someone with light skin and heaps of black tattoos down their arms, back, and legs is hanging suspended face-down with their arms tied behind their back. One leg is tied heel to butt with rope around their toes pulling their whole leg up. We can only see them from shoulders down. Someone also with light skin is just out of camera and we can see their hairy arms and belly and a red rope in their hands. It’s hot and intense and kinda relaxing too.
Even the Trees are Horny 🌳🌱💦
It's Karada House April newsletter time! Once again, we have heaps of everything good for youse 🌞💃🏻💯💕
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🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Strictly for trans queer LGBTQIA+ 🌈 rainbow community in Berlin: we're hosting Radical Care Club, an open, peer-support meeting.
📅 Wed, April 23rd, 1900–2100 (7–10pm)
🏡🌳 at our place KARA in Moabit
💶 5€–10€, cheaper if you're doing it hard
karada-house.de/events/rcc04...
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Quick early announcement: ESC- European Self-Tie Conference is happening July 11–13 at our beautiful house in Berlin 🏡🌳
2.5 days of in–person self–tying! @dasniyasommer.de @bunnydough.bsky.social @ceciferox.bsky.social will be there!
Programme arrives April 😍💯
karada-house.de/events/esc-2...
And to our trans, queer, kinky Muslim families and communities, for every day and night of this month: Ramadan mubarak ☪️🌙
Axel, a Black Muslimah is suspended face-down from a bamboo pole, expertly tied by Salem X, hands are crossed over behind her back and knees bent. Axel has a shaved head, small hoop earrings, and tattoos down her thighs and calves. Her chin held in the hand of Salem X, who is kneeling beneath her on the floor, and has long curly black hair, drop earrings, and tattoos down his arms. They are both wearing cobalt blue dresses. The stage lighting is throwing orange, blue, and green coloured shadows. The scene is intense and tender.
Equinox ☀️ Spring 🌱 Ramadan 🌙 Spring is here, so are we 🐇🌞
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Excerpt from the performance by Gelato and Renée at the (R)open Stage at @karadahouse.bsky.social
It was such an amazing Performance! <3
