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Touch Portal • Women + Queer Femes and Thems (Flinta) • Melbourne, Naarm

$750.00

Back by popular demand after sucessful running for the past 3 years this an intimacy experience including a live ritual performance, touch; consent and boundries workshop, human fruit platters and sensual massage. A playground for platonic touch practice.

Date: TBA

Time: 10am -5pm

Location: Tender Place, Brunswick

Capacity: 8 spots ONLY

No cismen at this specific event.

TOUCH PORTAL

A 2-day embodied experience in touch, receiving, intimacy and connection.

Touch Portal is an immersive weekend for people who want to get out of their heads and experience connection through the body.

Together, we'll explore intentional, consensual and non-goal-oriented touch as a pathway into something much bigger: your capacity to feel, communicate what you want, receive, experience pleasure and stay connected to yourself while being close to another person.

Touch is the practice. Connection is the point.

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THIS?

Because how you relate through touch often mirrors how you relate everywhere else.

Maybe you're brilliant at giving but uncomfortable receiving.

Maybe you automatically focus on whether the other person is having a good time rather than noticing your own experience.

Maybe you crave intimacy but struggle to ask for what you want.

Maybe saying no feels harder than simply going along with something.

Maybe affection always seems to come with an expectation that it needs to lead somewhere.

Or maybe you've become so accustomed to living in your head that you're not entirely sure what your body wants anymore.

These patterns don't stay inside a touch workshop.

They show up in relationships, sex, friendships, communication, boundaries and your ability to experience pleasure.

Touch Portal gives you somewhere to slow these moments right down and practise something different.

The intention is to leave with a greater capacity to feel yourself, trust your signals, communicate what you need, receive without guilt and experience closeness without abandoning yourself.

WHAT WE'LL EXPLORE

Across the two days, we'll move gradually from connection with yourself into connection with others through experiences such as:

  • Guided body awareness and somatic practices

  • Self-touch and sensory exploration

  • Needs and desire exercises

  • Practising clear yeses, nos and changes of mind

  • Asking for the kind of touch you actually want

  • Giving and receiving without automatic reciprocation

  • Non-goal-oriented partnered touch

  • Exploring different qualities, pressures and rhythms of touch

  • Practising receiving attention without performing

  • Communication and consent exercises

  • Playful connection experiments

  • Guided reflection and integration

Everything is invitational. There is no expectation to touch or be touched, remove clothing or participate in any particular exercise. Choice itself is part of the practice.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Touch Portal might be for you if you:

Give much more easily than you receive.

Struggle to know what you want when somebody asks.

Want stronger boundaries without becoming closed off.

Feel disconnected from your body or pleasure.

Crave more touch, affection or intimacy.

Want to become more comfortable asking for what feels good.

Notice yourself performing during intimacy rather than actually experiencing it.

Want to explore touch without the pressure for it to become sexual.

Want to feel more comfortable being seen, cared for and attended to.

Or simply want more connection, presence, pleasure and aliveness in your life.

You don't need to arrive confident, embodied or comfortable with touch.

That's why we're practising.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This isn't two days of being thrown immediately into intense intimacy.

We build gradually.

We begin with you — sensation, body awareness, boundaries, needs, desire and choice — before moving into interpersonal practices.

You'll have opportunities to work with different people, pause, observe, opt out, modify practices and decide what feels appropriate for you.

Expect conversation.

Movement.

Touch.

Laughter.

Curiosity.

Probably some awkwardness.

Moments of vulnerability.

Moments of pleasure.

And lots of opportunities to notice yourself in real time.

Because underneath all of the exercises is a much bigger question:

Can I stay connected to myself while I'm in connection with somebody else?

Can I ask?

Can I receive?

Can I say no?

Can I change my mind?

Can I experience pleasure without performing for it?

Can I let somebody give to me?

Touch Portal gives us a place to practise.

And those are skills you get to take far beyond the room.

FEEL. RECEIVE. CONNECT.

Back by popular demand after sucessful running for the past 3 years this an intimacy experience including a live ritual performance, touch; consent and boundries workshop, human fruit platters and sensual massage. A playground for platonic touch practice.

Date: TBA

Time: 10am -5pm

Location: Tender Place, Brunswick

Capacity: 8 spots ONLY

No cismen at this specific event.

TOUCH PORTAL

A 2-day embodied experience in touch, receiving, intimacy and connection.

Touch Portal is an immersive weekend for people who want to get out of their heads and experience connection through the body.

Together, we'll explore intentional, consensual and non-goal-oriented touch as a pathway into something much bigger: your capacity to feel, communicate what you want, receive, experience pleasure and stay connected to yourself while being close to another person.

Touch is the practice. Connection is the point.

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THIS?

Because how you relate through touch often mirrors how you relate everywhere else.

Maybe you're brilliant at giving but uncomfortable receiving.

Maybe you automatically focus on whether the other person is having a good time rather than noticing your own experience.

Maybe you crave intimacy but struggle to ask for what you want.

Maybe saying no feels harder than simply going along with something.

Maybe affection always seems to come with an expectation that it needs to lead somewhere.

Or maybe you've become so accustomed to living in your head that you're not entirely sure what your body wants anymore.

These patterns don't stay inside a touch workshop.

They show up in relationships, sex, friendships, communication, boundaries and your ability to experience pleasure.

Touch Portal gives you somewhere to slow these moments right down and practise something different.

The intention is to leave with a greater capacity to feel yourself, trust your signals, communicate what you need, receive without guilt and experience closeness without abandoning yourself.

WHAT WE'LL EXPLORE

Across the two days, we'll move gradually from connection with yourself into connection with others through experiences such as:

  • Guided body awareness and somatic practices

  • Self-touch and sensory exploration

  • Needs and desire exercises

  • Practising clear yeses, nos and changes of mind

  • Asking for the kind of touch you actually want

  • Giving and receiving without automatic reciprocation

  • Non-goal-oriented partnered touch

  • Exploring different qualities, pressures and rhythms of touch

  • Practising receiving attention without performing

  • Communication and consent exercises

  • Playful connection experiments

  • Guided reflection and integration

Everything is invitational. There is no expectation to touch or be touched, remove clothing or participate in any particular exercise. Choice itself is part of the practice.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Touch Portal might be for you if you:

Give much more easily than you receive.

Struggle to know what you want when somebody asks.

Want stronger boundaries without becoming closed off.

Feel disconnected from your body or pleasure.

Crave more touch, affection or intimacy.

Want to become more comfortable asking for what feels good.

Notice yourself performing during intimacy rather than actually experiencing it.

Want to explore touch without the pressure for it to become sexual.

Want to feel more comfortable being seen, cared for and attended to.

Or simply want more connection, presence, pleasure and aliveness in your life.

You don't need to arrive confident, embodied or comfortable with touch.

That's why we're practising.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This isn't two days of being thrown immediately into intense intimacy.

We build gradually.

We begin with you — sensation, body awareness, boundaries, needs, desire and choice — before moving into interpersonal practices.

You'll have opportunities to work with different people, pause, observe, opt out, modify practices and decide what feels appropriate for you.

Expect conversation.

Movement.

Touch.

Laughter.

Curiosity.

Probably some awkwardness.

Moments of vulnerability.

Moments of pleasure.

And lots of opportunities to notice yourself in real time.

Because underneath all of the exercises is a much bigger question:

Can I stay connected to myself while I'm in connection with somebody else?

Can I ask?

Can I receive?

Can I say no?

Can I change my mind?

Can I experience pleasure without performing for it?

Can I let somebody give to me?

Touch Portal gives us a place to practise.

And those are skills you get to take far beyond the room.

FEEL. RECEIVE. CONNECT.

  • This is a guided experience into a deeper sense of pleasure for self and other, its not s-x party but an invitation to melt into sapphic community intimacy.

    The Tender Core Touch Portal is a pop up queer soft-core pleasure play party focusing on platonic touch and sensual touch. This means we are encouraging you to explore feeling out what touch /sensations you enjoy yourself as well with others through the playful, less intimidating lens of friendly touch. This can be the basis for something more if it feels right for both babes.

    A mix between workshop and event this is a transformational intimacy experience.

    • Live Ritual (demo)

    • Consent Activities

    • Free Play across 2 x rooms

    • Free flowing tea

  • Sx parties can be over stimulating, dis-regulating and challenging to navigate as sx is weird for most folks. Upon scanning the scene I have found that there are lots of spaces for more high intensity, BDSM vibes but less for those who are into the more soft-core, cuddle defining, painless pleasure. Those spaces are great and we dont yuck other peoples yums, we just want to carve out a space for the tender, the soft, the nurturing. So here we are, rising to the calling and attempting to deliver.

    • To learn about self -pleasure

    • To recreate a healthy relationship to self and other

    • To meet new queer babes

    • To work towards more bodily liberation

  • FLINTA is an acronym used in German-speaking queer and feminist communities.
    It stands for:

    • Frauen – women

    • Lesben – lesbians

    • Inter – intersex people

    • Nicht-binäre – non-binary people

    • Trans – trans people

    • Agender – agender people

    It’s basically a political term that names and centers people who experience gender-based oppression in patriarchal societies, while explicitly excluding cis men.

    The term came out of activism and safer space organising — especially in queer/feminist, anti-capitalist, and intersectional contexts — to create clarity about who an event or group is for. Using FLINTA-only signals that the space is designed for people targeted by sexism and patriarchal violence, with the intention of building solidarity, safety, and autonomy.

    In Service to Sapphic Queers as well as queer curious women, solo and couples.

      • Queer femes (whatever femme means to you)

      • Babes with Queer Politics not necessarily their sexuality

      • Women/ Trans Women/Lesbians / Bi Babes / Tombois / Dykes / Butches

      • Trans mascs & Trans Femes.

      • Non binary babes.

      • This is for AFAB babes as well as trans women.

      • There are some AMAB Non binary souls who do end up joining us via special needs! I know more of you want to come but your time will come!

      • This is for all ages, come join us those mature aged hunnies. This is for you too!

    General Sapphic Queer Identifiers (No cismen at this specific experience)

  • Tender Core is a kink, a modality created by Quinn Kush. It has been birthed out of a desire to be intimately devoted to self and other in a Tender way. Generated as a softer landing into the sx scene, some of you already know you are tender core and others may require the support and permission to be. Either way we invite you into an evening of what sapphic dreams are made of.

    Expect to be guided and the course of the evening shared with you

    Expect transparency

    Expect to commit with the group to oozing compassion and curating a judgement free zone

    Expect to keep your clothes on or take them off. The portal is about meeting yourself where you are at.

    Expect a phone free experience

    This is a NPP-No Penetration party

    NO alcohol served, smoking 420 allowed.

  • 7-7:30 ALL ARRIVE (Non-Negotiable)

    7:45pm Opening Ceremony & Quinn Kush Queerotica Performance

    8pm - Tender Core Down-low, Evening rules & Touch negotiation

    9:30pm -12am - Down Regulating music, Free play, Massage Space, Human Fruit Platter, Roving pleasure experiences, + Pleasure Altar for you to explore.

    • An open mind

    • A water bottle / Non-Alcoholic drinks (komucha/soft drinks)

    • A journal

    • Optional Clothing for the evening

  • Dress as your most comfortable sexy self, If you feel sexy, you will look sexy. Dress for cuddling, comfort and bedroom lux. Dress for pleasure artistry, dress to get a hot portrait taken, dress to potentially undress and or prepare to create art with your body. you do not need to wear ‘sx typical gear’ although if that's your vibe then its a yes from us- remember this is a reclamation of what sx and intimacy means for you!

  • Tender Place - 535 Sydney Rd, Bruswick

    Tender Place is at 535 Sydney Road, Brunswick however, entry is through the back, up the bluestone laneway, next to 38 Ovens St. There will be this sign above the door. See Maps below. The entrance to the door requires 4 steps however if you need ramp access it is available from the Sydney Road entrance.

  • If you feel sick please stay home.

    Please test before you come to this experience.

    We will have clean air purifiers, sanitation stations and be promoting cleanliness at this event.

  • First Nations babes - use discount code FIRSTNATIONS for a free ticket

    POC community - use discount code POC50 for a discounted ticket

  • Tender Core Telegram

    Talk to community get live updates and more from Quinn Kush.

    These groups are for saphs only.

    Melbourne https://t.me/+bIhDw3LXex0xMzFl

    (OPEN THIS LINK ON YOUR PHONE, MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD TELEGRAM FIRST)