This upcoming week I'm doing a workshop through @kinkhealth (TASHRA) called "Power, Privilege, and Play: A Primer on Healing Through Anti-Racist, Kink-Affirming Care." This 4-hour seminar is split between two days (July 24-25) and is an exploration of how systemic and institutionalized inequity shows up in clinical framework and practice and provides an alternative narrative where kink is held as not only a healthy manifestation of sexuality but as an avenue for healing.
More about the workshop:
The mental health industry is implicitly biased to a white, cis, hetero (non-kinky) normative. Difference becomes otherness, otherness becomes deviance, and deviance becomes pathologized in this system. This results in our most marginalized communities receiving care that reflects the same discriminatory and minoritized experiences they are having in the world at large. When these experiences are reflected rather than corrected, we miss opportunities for healing, at best, and risk re-traumatization, at worst. On the flip side of this danger, is the healing potential of intersectional affirming care.
Power, Privilege, and Play: A Primer on Healing Through Anti-Racist, Kink-Affirming Care offers clinicians an overview of how systemic and institutionalized inequity shows up in clinical framework and practice, invites them into an exploration of how they are doing and how they can do better, and provides an alternative narrative where kink is held as not only a healthy manifestation of sexuality but as an avenue for healing.
