Community Building
Reid Mihalko works across many communities creating and deepening conversations around sex, relationships, intimacy. Reid also assists educational and sex-positive communities in recognizing their unmet social needs by designing and implementing better and upgraded communication tools and practices within their social networks.
A community design geek as well as a sex and relationship geek, Reid recognizes the importance and benefit of belonging to a strong community where you are seen and supported. He helps individuals figure out how to get their social needs met, especially when they are in between romantic relationships. Reid also teaches and role models how we can source our communities to meet our needs instead of relying solely on our significant others. For those individuals lacking community to begin with, Reid is proud to, when he can, recommend appropriate communities as well as mentor future community leaders on how to create sustainable communities of their own.
A partial list of communities Reid is proud to be/have been working with:
- • Sex Educator and Sex-Positive Communities
- • The Tantra Teacher Community (those who teach and promote Tantra to the public)
- • Polyamory Educator and Activist Communities
- • Teachers of BDSM and Kink Community Leaders
- • Cuddle Party Facilitators
- • The Polyamory, Tantra, and BDSM Communities of various cities:
- • New York, NY
- • Chicago, IL
- • Washington D.C.
- • San Diego, CA
- • San Fransisco, CA and the Bay Area
- • Seattle, WA
- • Sedona, AZ
Camp Beaverton for Wayward Girls (Burning Man’s Queer Women’s Theme Camp)
In 2007, Reid Mihalko established the first, large scale queer women’s, lesbian and trans-inclusive theme camp at the Burning Man Arts and Music Festival. A community project designed to meet the needs of women who love women who attend Burning Man, Camp Beaverton for Wayward Girls offered women-only and trans-inclusive educational programming, social events with an LGBT slant, and a women-only, sex-positive community space at the festival.
Camp Beaverton also created an on-line community boards and the soon to be up and running Camp Beaverton Website to further discussion on queer women’s and trans-identity issues and the orchestration of their theme camp at Burning Man.
