Events

Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society Full Day Workshop Organizer and Co-Facilitator
Oct
27

Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society Full Day Workshop Organizer and Co-Facilitator

This full day workshop focuses on socio-political conflicts as they arise in our groups, as well as working with identities and diversity in groups.

NWSA 2024 Conference Panel Presentation: 

Kinship and Body Transformations: Lived Realities of Intersectionality

Presenters use thick, descriptive, emotive narratives to fold the audience into their ponderings, vulnerabilities, and beliefs as they describe their becoming sexuality scholars within the lived realities that are always-already informed by cultural and institutional expectations. Presenters lead us through a journey of self-exploration and -determination within the weaves of hypermasculinity and compulsory heterosexuality. The presenters trace how these prescriptive spaces situated them in positions of privilege and marginalization and informed their conceptions of sexuality, gendered performances, partnerships, familial relationships, and their erotic, sexual, desirable selves. In their resistance to these cultural folds, they explore, reclaim, and reimagine their sexual identities at the intersection of culture, neurodiversity, sexism, body shape, and religiosity. This panel critically examines how embodied intersectional engagement in academia can be envisioned through student reflexive and creative autotheory (Fournier, 2021) as they produce “writing animated by the everyday” (Ahmed, 2017, p. 10) of their sexual identities.

Presenters: Colleen Schoenfeld, Natashia Fuksman, April Webber, Draven Alexander, DDS Dobson-Smith

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Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting
Jan
27

Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting

Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting.

Natashia will be speaking on the following panel: “A Land and Discipline after Dobbs: Reproductive Justice as Radically Inclusive Lens.” Natashia will share how to use a Critical Sexuality Studies Framework to understand the Midwives for Maximizing Optimal Maternity Services Act of 2021 or the Midwives for MOMS Act of 2021 held before Congress.

https://socwomen.org/meetings/winter-meeting-2024/ 

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Freedom From, Freedom To: Critical Sexuality Studies Praxis
Apr
2

Freedom From, Freedom To: Critical Sexuality Studies Praxis

Freedom From, Freedom To: Critical Sexuality Praxis with Emerging Doctoral Students explores the process of working together intentionally as interdisciplinary scholars to practice and hone our skills in critical sexuality studies frameworks, thinking processes and ways in which we relate with one another in the here and now. Co-presented with Jermisha Frazier, M.Ed, Malesha Griffin, MA and Emily Owens-Edington, MA

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Perinatal Lessons: Exploring the Invitations for a Feminist Approach to Sexuality
Jun
18

Perinatal Lessons: Exploring the Invitations for a Feminist Approach to Sexuality

A common social myth about the postpartum time period is that the sexual pleasure of the parents drastically ends or at the very least decreases greatly. This workshop will explore the invitations to one’s sexuality during the perinatal time period. Concepts related to reproductive health and sexual pleasure will be considered from a feminist vantage point; the psychology of the perinatal time period for parents will be explored as it pertains to gendered roles, sexual function and the often unspoken new vulnerabilities and norms of this life stage. Ultimately, we will celebrate the pleasures and new kinds of intimacy the perinatal time period offers parents and move away from the drab myth that sexuality shuts down with the birth of a baby.

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