Mistress Matisse was born on November 21, 1971. She is an American professional dominatrix in Seattle, and she has written for a long time for the Seattle alternative paper The Stranger, as a blogger and a columnist. Her biweekly column, The Control Tower, is for adults who have already agreed to the conversation. It covers polyamory, how kink actually gets done, the business side of professional domination, and the wider culture of BDSM communities. She writes as a working dominatrix, in a city paper, and she has been one of the public faces of Seattle leather and SM who stayed visible.
She has been filing for The Stranger since at least November 2001. In the column, kink is adult logistics: clients, limits, the calendar of an open relationship, and scene politics. Costume fantasy is not the subject. She has also kept a personal journal-style blog and a professional site for her Seattle practice. On audio, she has been on Radio Blowfish episodes 37 and 57, and on Polyamory Weekly episodes 105 and 106. Her writing is also referenced in Polyamory Weekly episode 81. Column, blog, work site, and interviews are the usual stack for a pro domme now: public explanation, a private brand, and talk inside the community.
In March 2017, Matisse and Chelsea Cebara put out a cannabis-based personal lubricant called Velvet Swing. The law limited sales to Washington State and California. The product sits on the same practical line as the column: goods and body care for consenting adults, not abstract theory. On the West Coast she is a dominatrix who was still taking sessions and, at the same time, writing steadily for a mainstream alternative weekly, telling general adult readers about power exchange, polyamory, and the labor of pro-domme work, still speaking as someone inside the scene.
