Klawdya Rothschild is an independent curator, artist, Alt Sex and Spirituality educator, Kink Rights Advocate, and Occultist. Klawdya’s academic background is in Social and Evolutionary Psychology, Fiber Arts, and Curating. In 2008 she was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom(NCSF) and she has participated in the BDSM/Fetish and Occulture Communities for over a decade. She has worked as a Dominatrix, model, performer, Rope Bondage Rigger, Spiritual Healer, Temple Whore and always a mixed-media artist. As artistic director of the Property Project, she created the Synchronetic Tarot, documenting sex, magick and fetish in ecstatic rituals. Her occult interests include Voudon, Gnosticism, Goetic Evokation, service to/as the Whore Babylon, Hermetic and Ritual Magick, and has an active research interest in mystical syncretism. In the BDSM and Fetish Community she is best known for Japanese-influenced Rope Bondage, especially her Self Bondage Manifesto, and for CDTV Transformation. She is the founder of the Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival, and a recipient of the Annie Sprinkle Aphrodite Award.