Title of Event: Queerplatonic: Constructing Intentional Kinship
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Join us to explore how people build meaningful, committed relationships outside of romantic and sexual scripts. Grounded in asexual and aromantic community language, this session introduces queerplatonic relationships, platonic life partners, and related terms as tools for naming significant, life-shaping bonds without centering romance.
Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: The Power of Kink: Why People Like It
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Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Bias, Myths & Meaning Making
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This workshop serves as an essential reorientation for clinicians, educators, and care providers working with individuals who practice or identify with kink. Kink refers to consensual sexual interests, fantasies, behaviors, or relational dynamics that fall outside culturally normative sexual practices, yet do not inherently involve distress, impairment, or non-consent.
Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Through the DSM: Depathologizing Kink
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Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: A 5-Session Microcredential Course
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Talking the Talk: Guiding Parents in Age-Appropriate Conversations About Sexuality with Youth
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Title of Event: Osunic Pregnancy and Birth: Decolonial Pathways to Reproductive Wisdom
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This workshop explores pregnancy and birthing through the lens of Osunality—a decolonial, African-centered framework rooted in the sacred teachings of Oshun and the wisdom traditions of Ifá and Yoruba spirituality. Facilitated by Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clarke, participants will engage with embodied practices, ancestral knowledge, and cultural concepts that honor the spiritual, sensual, and relational aspects of pregnancy and birth as sacred rites of passage.
Title of Event: Aesthetic Attraction: How Ace and Aro Folx Shatter the Mold
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This workshop explores Aesthetic Attraction, Aesthetic Intimacy, and embodied Aesthetic Pleasure, moving beyond a narrow focus on visual beauty or sexualization. We will examine how aesthetics can include appearance, style, movement, voice, scent, texture, and atmosphere, and how these elements function as meaningful experiences without requiring sexual or romantic intent.
Title of Event: Understanding ENM: Mononormativity in Therapy & Sex Ed
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Just in time for Valentine's Day! In this workshop, we will explore the presence of mononormativity (assumption of and defaulting to monogamous values) within the therapeutic and sexuality education spaces. Participants will be invited to explore the impact of mononormativity on non-monogamous clients and students and how to best support more inclusive lenses and practices.
Date of Event: 2/12/26
Time of Event: 6:30-8:00 PM EST
Location: Online Synchronous
Title of Event: The Phallic Tongue of the Chingona
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This two-part webinar explores the tongue as a site of language, memory, desire, and survival. Across two live sessions, participants are invited to examine how the tongue holds history and power, from colonial violence and translation to pleasure, voice, and erotic expression.
Drawing from Chicana/x, Xicana, and Latina/x feminist frameworks and contemporary understandings of fascia and anatomy, this course reframes the tongue beyond silence or shame.