Explore how colonization shapes sexuality, unpack the role of sexual healing in community, and discuss ways for liberation

Explore how colonization shapes our understanding of sexuality, unpack the role of sexual healing in community, and discuss ways to liberate our relationship with sex from oppressive systems while centering anti-racism, anti-capitalism, and intersectionality.

In this workshop, we will:

💋reflect on the pervasive ways colonization has impacted our understanding and experiences of sexuality

💋 unpack the role of sexual healing containers in community as we unlearn shame and center bodily autonomy

💋discuss the multifaceted ways we can liberate our relationship with sex from oppressive systems

This event will also include group discussion on the impact of identity and intersectionality on these topics, as well as how we can center the values of anti-racism, anti-capitalism and the dismantling of white supremacy through our relationship with ourselves, each other and society at large.

About Your Instructors

Nikita Fernandes ( she/her) is a certified sex therapist and psychotherapist located in New York City. She lives at the intersections of various identities such as being an immigrant, south asian, queer, neurodivergent and poly. Nikita navigates the sex positive scene as a sexual health educator as well as a fellow human being. Her work lies in empowering people with marginalised identities to cultivate mindful relationships with their sexuality. Nikita has worked with multiple kinky individuals and poly couples in New York City and has been featured in Cosmopolitan, GQ, and Huff post.

Gina Mostafa, MPH (she/they), is the founder and director of Queering Existentialism, an education and connection initiative based in NYC that provides workshops and intentional events focused on nurturing communal secure attachment through a transformative justice and healing-centered harm reduction lens. They worked in the seggual/repro justice field for a decade, spanning seggual health education, abortion doula work, legislative advocacy and working at the NYC DOHMH’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit. They are passionate about decolonizing sexual education in community.

FAQs

FAQ: what should I bring?

Note book to take notes!

FAQ: what should I wear?

Whatever you feel comfortable in

FAQ: any skill pre-requisites? (i.e., is this for beginners, advanced, everyone?) everyone

FAQ: can I attend solo, or do I need to come with a partner?

solo or with friends and/or partners!

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