Course Description Intersectionality has become a buzzword used often and often misused. This course examines and engages with primary resources of Intersectionality as a theory, framework, and practice. We will discuss how this practice and theory has expanded, critiques, and ways we have used Intersectionality incorrectly along with strategies for expanding our use of each […]
Course Description As the internet expands and becomes a place of exchanging and producing knowledge, US sexuality professionals are steadily impacted by laws and practices, yet rarely are such connections made until far too late. Communities are created online and finding ways to create collective accountability and safety protocols offer new experiences and challenges. As […]
Course Description Previously titled: F^#*ed Up! Here’s What I Learned and How I Apologized This is a workshop about failure and the ways we’ve failed, lessons we’ve learned, and ways we’ve evolved to ensure we don’t have to learn the same lesson twice, or thrice! So often the conversations about professional development or community collaborations […]
Course Description This is part one of a two part series. Part one is two sessions and part two is two sessions. Each session is 4 CEs. This course was co-created and sometimes co-taught with either Sins Invalid or Cory Silverberg. Disability Justice (DJ) is a phrase and framework essential for all of us! The […]
Bianca Laureano, PhD, MA, CSES and Jadelynn St Dre, MA, LMFT, CST are a dream team and the co-presenters for this intensive, three-day training for practicing and emerging sexuality professionals. The ANTE UP! SAR is vital because we will be guided by the goals of liberation with a focus on racial, reproductive, disability, and media […]
Course Description NOTE This class is now 5 hours and offers 5 CEs The Overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 creates even more challenges and criminalization for many pregnant people to find quality care to terminate a pregnancy and those who support them. What we think we know about abortion is not exactly […]
Course Description Reproductive Justice (RJ) is a framework and practice that guides us to do the work rooted in body autonomy and self-determination. When reflecting upon how we have come to witness the RJ movement expand, there is a deep connection to a global health equity approach for young women and girls. This course offers […]
Course Description This is part two of a two part series. Part one is two sessions and part two is two sessions. Each session is 4 CEs. This course is co-taught with Sins Invalid and / or Cory Silverberg. It is advised to take part one prior to part two as part two begins where […]
COURSE DESCRIPTION Accountability processes have become a new buzzword and alternative to the prison industrial complex. As we imagine the world we each want to be a part of creating, what are the documented paths our ancestors have left for us? How my we divest in disposability? Where do we find tools to build these […]
Bianca Laureano, PhD, MA, CSES and Cory Silverberg, MA, are a dream team and the co-presenters for this intensive, two-day training for practicing and emerging sexuality professionals. The Advanced ANTE UP! SAR: Youth Sexuality is vital because we will be guided by the goals of liberation with a focus on positive youth development, racial, reproductive, […]
Bianca Laureano, PhD, MA, CSE, CSES, and Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE, present this intensive, two-day training for practicing and emerging professionals especially those working with those in recovery. Professional trainings about sex and substance use are rare, and those that exist often center clinical or legal perspectives that do not realistically reflect our clients’ varied relationships […]
Course Description Wondering where are the Global Majority and Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) are in the history of the US sexuality field? So are we! This course fills in the numerous gaps in the contributions, research, labor, and lives of the Global Majority and BIPOC to the US. Honoring the contributions of some […]