I’m happy to say that I had an amazing weekend at Momentum, thanks to our fabulous organizers Tess & Diva, a truly excellent group of presenters, and a great crowd of attendees overall. It felt so good to be in a sex-positive, mostly safe space for a weekend, and I feel about a hundred times [...]
Posts Tagged ‘activism’
Momentum Con Recap
Posted: April 5, 2011 in educationTags: activism, events, momentum, momentum con, sex & relationships
Let’s Talk About Sex
Posted: April 2, 2011 in educationTags: activism, momentum con, sex & relationships, sex bloggers
So far, Momentum has been very encouraging. The keynote panel really energized me to get out there as a sex educator and not be afraid of being young or the new kid on the block on this community. I also was pleased to hear some discussion of queerness and gender. Talk about anonymity was very [...]
Children and Adult Sexuality in an Activist Context
Posted: March 26, 2011 in societyTags: activism, child sexuality, morality, sex positive activism, sex positivity, sexualization of children
When sex positivity comes up, I think one argument that is often made by those who don’t want a culture where sex is positive, natural, okay, and moral is the “what about the children?” argument. I’ve been thinking about that argument for the past few days and trying to understand its purpose. I came up [...]
Coming Out Kinky
Posted: March 24, 2011 in societyTags: activism, fearless press, kink, queer, sex & relationships, sex education
Recently on Fearless Press, Viola wrote a post called Pissing on the Oyster about the idea that kinky people should come out as kinky to increase acceptance of kinky sexualities. Viola does a great job in that post of covering the legal and lifestyle ramifications of coming out as kinky, and I wanted to add [...]