Reclaiming Narratives: Revolutionary Stories from The People`s Book of Human Sexuality
Come celebrate the beautiful stories and voices of the new book, the Peoples Book of Human Sexuality: Expanding The Sexology Archive, edited by Bianca I. Laureano
We'll have a life-giving discussion with Editor Bianca I. Laureano and Authors Karen B. K. Chan, Sara C. Flowers, Elliot Fukui, and Sean Saifa Wall.
We will be recording and you'll have access to watch for 90 days after the event. CE credit is available for asynchronous attendance.
From the book:
This collection aims to fill in the deep gaps of vital contributions that have been erased from the sexuality field, illuminatin...Read moreg the historical and current work, strategies, solutions, and thoughts from sexologists that have been excluded until now.
Historically, the US sexuality field has not included the experiences and wisdom of racialized sexologists, educators, therapists, or professionals. Instead, sexuality professionals have been trained using a color-free narrative that does an injustice by excluding their work as well as failing to offer a fuller examination of how they have expanded the field and held it accountable. The result of this wholesale erasure is that today many sexuality professionals understand these contributions as extra or tangential, and not part of the full vision and history of the field of sexology. Highlighting the voices and experiences of those who have been racialized and thus excluded, isolated, erased, and yet have still emerged as vital contributors to the North American sexuality field, this text offers a significant shift in the way we learn and understand sexuality, one that is expansive and committed to liberation, healing, equity, and justice. Divided into three sections addressing safety, movement, and oral narratives, the contributors offer insightful and provoking chapters that discuss reproductive justice, LGBTQ themes, racial and social justice, and gender, and disability justice, demonstrating how these sexologists have been leaders, past and present, in change and progression.
This futuristic textbook includes correction, engaged reading, and lesson plans which offers community workers and trainers an opportunity to use the text in their non-traditional learning environments. Creating a path forward that many believed was impossible, this accessible book is for all who work in and around sexuality. It welcomes inquiry and celebrates our humanity for the worlds we are building now and for the future. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Understand the harm a color-free, exclusionary narrative in the sexuality field.
- Make meaningful connections about the interwoven issues of reproductive justice, gender liberation, disability justice, LGBTQ issues, and sexuality professions.
- Discover an inclusive, intersectional approach to sexual liberation.
Friday, December 08, 2023
12:00 PM MST - 02:00 PM MST
About the speakers
Bianca I. Laureano, PhD, CSES, MA2
Karen B.K. Chan
Her YouTube video Jam is used as a teaching resource internationally, and her chapter on the importance of creative play was part of the AASECT 2014 Book of the Year. BK's work has also appeared in Toronto book award finalist, Any Other Way (Coach House, 2017), Sexology International, The tête-à-tête, and Action Canada's national education manual. BK's favorite ways to learn and teach our through stories, metaphors, and things that make people laugh.
Sara C. Flowers, PhD, MPH
She is an advocate for evidence-based sex education that is informed by emotional intelligence. Her experience is focused on ensuring that sex education curricula is adapted appropriately and followed in practice, dismantling sexual and reproductive health disparities, serving youth of color, and strengthening abortion access.
As vice president of education, Sara sets the vision, priorities, and strategy for sex education and training at Planned Parenthood. She is the Planned Parenthood spokesperson for sex education, providing context and framing for the many ways sex education supports and advances PPFA’s vision and mission.
Dr. Flowers was previously the director of youth initiatives for Love Heals Center for Youth and Families at GMHC. She was also an adjunct assistant professor for York College, CUNY while serving as a post-doctoral research fellow for the college’s Collaborative Research Group on Health Policy and Promotion and the UrbanHealth Lab.
She is a recognized speaker at regional and national conferences, with expertise in issues related to race and gender equity in health care. Sara has a PhD in public health from the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, and a BA in psychology and an MPH degree from George Washington University.
Elliott Fukui
Sean Saifa Wall
Born and raised in the Bronx, Saifa attended Williams College and has since lived and worked in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Atlanta. Currently, he is a Marie Skłowdoska-Curie fellow at the University of Huddersfield in England examining the erasure of intersex people from social policy in Ireland and England.
Saifa is committed to racial equity and a radical vision of bodily autonomy for people with intersex variations. He made history by confronting the surgeon on ABC News Nightline who performed his gonadectomy at the age of 13.
Saifa is also co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project whose #EndIntersexSurgery campaign pressured Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to become the first children’s hospital in the United States to denounce and further investigate genital surgeries on Intersex infants. The Google/Stink Films documentary Stonewall Forever documents the campaign. His other features include The Huffington Post, Scientific American, NBC, Afropunk: Solutions Sessions, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, The Washington Blade, The Guardian, and The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Healthcare, and his TEDx talk, “36 Revolutions of Change.”
Saifa is the former Board President of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth and a former advisor to the Astraea Intersex Fund for Human Rights. Above all else, Saifa is determined to end harmful and invasive genital surgery on intersex children and advocate for affirming healthcare for all people with intersex variations. In addition to his work and activism, he is a loving dad to his dog, Justice. He is currently working on a documentary about his father’s incarceration entitled, “Letters to an Unborn Son.”
Agenda
CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours
CE Approvals
The New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Board
To all participants: If you were dissatisfied with the workshop, please contact the Counseling and Therapy Practice Board immediately
American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
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