fwb play 🕶️ shades: a BIPOC party hosted by Amon
Shades is fwb’s BIPOC play party, centering diverse experiences and cultures. Here, we redefine what play can look like for the global majority. We actively challenge stereotypes, micro-aggressions, and the status quo with open discussion in our consent talk. We’re here for our pleasure! We open and close the space with intention, collaborate with local, diverse community groups and have policy in place for an audience that usually isn’t prioritized. We kindly ask our allies to support us by sitting this one out.
This gathering is a celebration of pleasure, connection, and community for our BIPOC-identifying friends. It’s a night to exhale into your body, explore your desires, and meet others who share a lived experience of navigating the world in our skin. Here, we center our joy, our intimacy, our healing, and our play.
Expect a warm, curated environment designed to support safety, communication, and enthusiastic consent. Whether you’re feeling flirtatious, sensual, exploratory, or simply curious, you’ll find space to move at your own rhythm. Come solo, with a partner, or with friends — all relationship structures and orientations are welcome.
Amon Elise spends their life outspokenly queer, Black and curious. They are at the intersection of cuddle facilitator, certified somatic sexologist, and spoken word artist. Amon takes the time to advocate for shared intimacy and a normalization of all things erotic. They provide a moment of pause for you to connect with your inner body and appreciate your outer body exactly as it is. When not facilitating, you can catch them teaching Q/T nude yoga classes or hosting community events. Above all else, Amon holds space for people in need of touch and community.
HOW TO ATTEND
If this is your first fwb play event, please purchase a ticket, fill out an application, and complete a 15 minute interview with our host at least 72 hours prior to the event. Please read (and check your spam folder!) any follow up emails as they may contain important scheduling links or additional information. Unapproved guests will be turned away at the door.
EVENT SCHEDULE
8:00 Arrival, check-in
9:00 Doors lock + consent speech
Play can begin
1:30 Lights on
2:00 Everyone out
ABOUT FWB
fwb is a queer-femme founded community for curious friends to learn, explore, and play. We host a range of sex positive programming, including socials, workshops, and parties.
ARRIVAL
Doors lock at 9:00P for the comfort and safety of our community. Please arrive early to ensure you will be admitted. Late and unapproved guests will be turned away at the door.
No shoes allowed in the loft. We recommend bringing a pair of grip socks or slippers. If you require an accessibility exemption, please email [email protected].
We provide a coat check and space for you to store your belongings. Feel free to bring a coat, a change of clothes, and/or a toy bag.
If it's your first event, please arrive early. We’ll give you a tour of the space, review the ground rules, answer any questions, and introduce you to other friends.
ACCESSIBILITY
The building is ADA accessible.
There is an elevator. Note for people with wheelchairs, canes, other walking assistance devices: the tile of the lobby floor is uneven so be careful navigating, and the bathroom is not ADA compliant.
This is a low-scent event: no perfume, cologne, or essential oils.
If you have a latex allergy, please let us know ahead of time so we can ensure to remove any latex products and ask our participants to leave their latex products at home.
PHONE POLICY
We have a strict no phone policy for the privacy and presence of all our guests. Please ensure your phone is off or set to do not disturb. When you arrive, you must check in your phone(s) with one of our hosts. We discourage checking phones during social time, but if you must check your phone before doors lock, you may check it at the front desk and promptly return it to our staff.
Once doors have locked, there are no phones allowed. If you need to check your phone, you will be asked to leave the event.
FOOD & BEVY
We provide brunch food and bevy.
If you arrive visibly intoxicated, or become overly intoxicated throughout the event, you may be asked to leave for the safety of yourself and our community.
There's no food or bevy in the play area except water.
REFUND & CANCELLATION POLICY
We do not offer refunds. If you need to cancel or change your reservation, please let us know 48 hours prior to an event, and we will credit you for a future event.
If you are sick, were recently exposed to someone who has covid, or tested positive, and let us know ~4 hours prior to an event start, we will credit you for a future event.
We offer refunds if we cancel an event for any reason. We'll send out a cancellation email. Attendees who wish to receive a refund for their ticket purchase will need to respond within 7 days of the cancelled event. All other tickets will receive a credit for a future event.
Because we keep our events intentionally small and curate our guest list for a healthy balance of genders, sexualities, and interests, repeat no calls/no shows by friends with an active fwb membership may have their membership revoked.
CONTACT US
Email [email protected] if you’d like more information on private rentals, collaboration, sponsorship, or have any questions.