Heath Pennington

Heath Pennington is a rope educator.

Era: 2010s

ROPE EDUCATOR · RESEARCHER · WRITER

Rope educator, researcher and writer whose earlier public rope identity was ItsPlay. Heath Pennington's self-controlled archive documents kink-community work and teaching across Hong Kong and Asia, including a Connective Rope workshop in Manila on March 4, 2017, followed by later Connective Rope education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The official publications list includes peer-reviewed work on kinbaku as ritual performance and rope bondage as affective embodiment. A 2018 Shibari.PH account also names ItsPlay as Kristina Marlen's publicist and promoter during her Hong Kong teaching period.

Collaborators: Kristina Marlen.