Frankly, Sex Talks: Radical Reconfiguring of Self and Other

• In Event: Black Femme Ecologies--A Tidal Wave of Black Mutual Assistance

Description for Program

Human sexuality and wellness as part of the natural world is diverse, varied and every day. Humans are part of Nature. Planet Earth. Water everywhere and just about everything here yearns for fluidity, connection. To secure a future, life forms like humans have sex and reproduce. Humans are diverse and full of water, yearn connection, pleasure–inhabit a joy filled future.  Historically Black families and social settings like schools and faith communities have refused to equip our youth with sex education that embraces diversity, consent, pleasure and honors the natural world. A young person who learns how their body works can be like a stream that contributes to rivers of young people confident, aware, able to love their whole selves and others. These rivers of bodily aware, young people of African descent secure in their sexual identity, can feed the oceans of people everywhere; acquiring confidence, belonging— awareness of themselves as sexual beings. Comprehensive, holistic, culturally relevant sex education is a birthright. This paper will address dismantling the stigma surrounding this critical aspect of health and education. 

Author

• Senabou Ayana Penda Dalili, BB-Penda, Inc.