PRIMAL HEART is a community program offered by two passionate members of the San Francisco kink and queer communities who love to perform, educate, empower, and inspire. As a dynamic nonbinary polyamorous duo, they share a constant dedication to consent culture and disability awareness, carrying that into all of their classes and performances. They strive to enable ALL bodies and ALL identities to achieve their goals and desires.
Together, Fox Ironwood and Davey Faye bring decades of experience to offer invigorating educational opportunities, stimulating art, and "a very rare and wonderful kind of charm" to the stage, the classroom, or wherever the work calls. They love to travel the country (and the world!) to share their unique programs and perspectives, and eagerly seek out collaborative opportunities with other presenters and performers.
Since March 2020 they have shifted into offering a range of events both educational and entertaining online using Zoom. They continue to innovate in collaboration with other packmates and educators to manifest a multilayered community experience authentically created within remote limitations. When not running online events, they are building on plans for the future when we can gather in person again, writing, creating other content, and trying to live the primal dream.
Photo by Michael Sundin
Fox Ironwood
Fox Ironwood has 32 years in martial arts, sport fighting, and self-defense. Served as Executive Director of Progressive Martial Arts of San Francisco, the school of social justice and self-defense from November 1999 to 2014. Their background includes a very long list of instructors, lineages, and a variety of specialty certifications. Spent 5 years as Director of Youth Services at Community United Against Violence facilitating mediation and de-escalation. Fox recently completed their degree in Health Sciences with focus on Policy, specializing in anti-violence and social justice in the healthcare system.
Email: FoxIronwood.SF@gmail.com
Photo by Michael J. Jordan
Photo by Fox Ironwood
Davey Faye
Davey is an ever-evolving nonbinary beastie who is passionate about primalism, sacred intent, mental health advocacy, disability awareness, bottom/switch empowerment, storytelling, and healing through conscious kink practices. They are an enthusiastic rope artist, sensual savant, delightful dragon, and queer-tastic community creature with an infamous dedication to the pokey and potent practice of porcupine quills. Alongside their life partner Fox, Davey runs multiple recurring educational programs and can be found frequently performing at events such as Twisted Windows, BENT, The Upper Floor, and Om-Nom-Nom Non-binary Burlesque. Davey is the original presenter and creator of "Pack Night" as a recurring cycle of community-focused intentionally themed primal play events. They have nourished the Pack's growth through multiple venues, and thanks to the collaborative development efforts with Fox, now teach a range of accessible classes focused on developing primal resilience through movement, ritual, self exploration, and community, as well as their own public and private offerings in bottoming education, conscious sacred ordeals, dissociation in kink, and primal ritualism.