Dominus Wildcat Shadow is a BDSM practitioner, fetish performance artist, and sex educator based in Chicago. As a day walker they’re a social worker and educator operating at the intersections of health, technology, and the arts; night stalking as a slick rubber streetcat with supervillain fantasies. 

In 2011, They were first formally trained as a Dominatrix practicing Fem-Dom as a form of sex work. Stepping into the title of Dominus, they concentrated on power dynamics and Discipline, the “D” under the BDSM umbrella. The Dominus later shifted away from the underground service industry focused on client’s kinks, to finding community for more personal interests. Tapping into the budding undercurrent of “Big Cat Energy”, it developed a primal feline persona dedicated to a practice of personal pleasure, praise, healing and hell raising. 

Entering the pet play scene, Wildcat was established as a public presence to make friends and play with the roles of Trainer and Handler through the feline persona. It lives the lifestyle 24/7, most active in pansexual community dungeons, online sub-communities, nightlife & concerts, education spaces, staffing conventions, and entertainment media. 

Wildcat traces its hunger to explore power play/discipline back to experiences in their youth with music school, competitive marching/athletic training, fandoms of fantasy, Halloween, as well as punk culture and its fetishy aesthetics. Disappointed by the inadequate, harmful, and dysfunctional culture of relationships and sexuality, he studied alternatives personally and academically to evolve a greater queer and expansive imagination. That appreciation for the arts, education, and sexuality out loud existed heavily in the kink and alt sexuality worlds; he became enamored with the gatherings. 

While many find comfort and safety indulging in these practices privately, Wildcat was moved to attempt a creative visual and communal approach kink & fetish as a social world that promotes thrilling fantasy play and practice, healthier dynamics, community care + connections, and entertainment. In recent years Wildcat has been featured in print and digital publications (CNN, Recon, The Reader, Unmasked), hosted and performed at large scale productions, been a frequent guest in video and other media, staffed conventions, and is now a music festival producer with plans to tour Latin America. At home he is a proud Owner of pets, Haus Father, and poly partnered lover.