We all live in bodies that don't come with instruction manuals. We want to help you understand your body better, so you can make your choices to live your best life with more joy and less shame. We are bringing together an incredible group of people to share learnings and kick off conversations about our bodies and our choices.
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Founder & co producer of What the Funk?! An All BIPOC Burlesque Festival
Planned Parenthood Trainer, Burlesque Performer, Activist, Witch
Foundress / Sexologist, ANTE UP! Professional Development
Physician, MetroHealth PRIDE Network
Psychotherapist, Authentic Pride Therapy, LLC
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Meet the presenters and get the fast version of what each session will dive into. Since you will have to choose between sessions, this is a great way to pick up highlights
During this time, please move around and try out as many activities as you like.
Having "The Talk" with your kids can be daunting, but it can also be affirming, connecting, and informative for everyone. It also shouldn't be just one talk. Mary will walk you through how to build consent and sexual awareness into your conversations with your kids in ways that are age-appropriate, validating, and will help your kids understand their bodies and make choices throughout their lives.
Despite the current political climate in our country, folks do deserve the right to control their own bodies. This means choosing who we form relationships with, how we express our gender and sexuality, whether to use birth control and what kind we use, as well as whether to continue or terminate a pregnancy.
Believing in the theory of these rights can be easier than exercising them for ourselves. When faced with a decision that is complicated by political, cultural or personal beliefs, the blessing of making your own choices can also feel like a burden.
In this session, we’ll talk about this dichotomy of choice. We’ll hear the stories of community members who agreed to share about their decision-making process, and we’ll introduce some decision-making tools that participants can use themselves or provide to others when faced with any kind of sexual health decision.
The relationships your have with your medical team should feel like partnerships where you are working together to get the care you need. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way, especially if you are fat, AFAB, and/or BIPOC. This will be an interactive workshop to help you build the skills you need to advocate for yourself and get the healthcare you deserve.
Anyone with a uterus does not have to bleed each month. This will decrease cancer, decrease landfill, and increase women's participation in school and work.
Understand your body's cycles to work with your body instead of against it.
Wanting to have decent sex shouldn't be so hard? BUT it can be, especially during a global pandemic and the everyday stress that our lives put us through.
Understanding your body, your emotional needs, and your physiological responses can help you identify what you need to spark desire and talk about sex without guilt or shame. Filtered through a Black and Fat liberationist lens come prepared with an open mind, ready to laugh, ask questions, and feel seen.
Protecting your data while tracking your cycle, so you can have a more empowered menstrual cycle.
CMO & Co-Founder, My Comma
Aljolynn Sperber is the Chief Belonging Officer of My Comma and believes women and menstruators should unapologetically take up space. As an award-winning marketer, her career is akin to a highlight reel. Prior to co-founding My Comma, she was the managing director at a Los Angeles marketing agency, where she spearheaded the success of myriad projects, including national brand launches and community engagement campaigns.
As the Co-Founder of My Comma she works tirelessly to help people who identify as women or menstruators to feel empowered, loved, and included in the agency of their own bodies through a women's health subscription box. My Comma focuses on delivering self-care and comfort for periods, pregnancy, post-partum, peri-menopause, and menopause. On top of this, she's a kickass single mom - there is quite literally nothing she cannot handle.
Foundress / Sexologist, ANTE UP! Professional Development
Bianca I Laureano is an award-winning educator, facilitator, curriculum writer, and sexologist. She is a co-foundress of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WOCSHN). Bianca is the foundress of ANTE UP! a virtual freedom school for sexuality professionals offering professional development and certification. Bianca earned her BA in Individual Studies with a focus on Latina Sexualities in 2000 from the University of Maryland, College Park (UM). She earned a Masters of Arts from NYU in Human Sexuality Education in 2002 and a second Masters of Arts from the University of Maryland in Women’s Studies with a focus on sexualities, race, and racialization in 2006. While at UM she was a CrISP Scholar at the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity and helped create the Intersectional Research Database. She has written several curricula that focus on communities of color: What’s the REAL DEAL about Love and Solidarity? (2015), Communication MixTape: Speak On It Vol 1. (2017), and wrote the sexual and reproductive justice discussion guide for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene published in 2018. Bianca led the curriculum development for the award-winning Netflix film Crip Camp and the PBS documentary I Didn’t See You There which are rooted in disability justice principles. She has been on the board of CLAGS the LGBTQ Center at CUNY, The Black Girl Project, and SisterSong the Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. She is an AASECT certified sexuality educator and supervisor. Bianca was awarded an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies in May 2020 for her work in expanding the sexuality field. She is the editor of The People’s Book of Human Sexuality: Expanding the Sexology Archive available July 2023. Find out more about Bianca at her website BiancaLaureano.com and about ANTE UP! at www.AnteUpPD.com
Owner, Chub Rub Clothing
Candace Frank is a queer fat artist, designer, entrepreneur, and activist living in the Seattle area. She is the Founder of Chub Rub, a clothing and lifestyle brand created to outfit fat liberationists. She was also one of the creators of Bawdy Love, a fat lingerie in swimwear brand that closed in 2022 after many successful years of business and activism. In addition to entrepreneurship, Candace holds an MFA in theatrical costume design from the University of Washington, and designs costumes nationally for theatre and opera productions. Most recently she designed Susannah for Wolf Trap Opera in Washington, D.C. In March, 2020 Candace founded Crafters Against Covid-19 (Crafters United) which organized and supplied over 700 volunteers to create 125,000+ homemade cloth masks for medical professionals, the unhomed, and others in need.
Planned Parenthood Trainer, Burlesque Performer, Activist, Witch
Founder of RageCott and the Quarter Moon Community Gathering
Chiffon Headstrong (she/they) is gentle as a kitten but wicked as a witch. Slithering around the stages of Seattle, she seeks to gouge out the eye of the male gaze. Ever the goddess-guided do-gooder, in addition to performing burlesque Chiffon has worked at Planned Parenthood for 18 years aiding and abetting bodily autonomy. They currently work as a trainer, helping to develop and deliver a training program for Gender Affirming Healthcare as well as a robust ultrasound training program.
Chiffon is all about meeting folks where they are at and delivering resources that are accessible.That trait combined with the practice of witchcraft led them to launch two Facebook groups in 2022: RageCott and the Quarter Moon Community Gathering (QMCG). RageCott’s purpose is to provide guidance and resources to help folks remain active and engaged in an overwhelming political climate. QMCG is focused on creating a space where folks can share their knowledge and skills in order to make everyone more self-sustaining. In doing so we move away from individualistic tendencies and towards communal thinking.
Find Chiffon Headstrong on Facebook and Instagram, or email them at chiffon.headstrong@proton.me to get involved with community efforts.
Psychotherapist, Authentic Pride Therapy, LLC
Emerson Douglas (he/him), owner of Authentic Pride Therapy, LLC in Columbus, OH, is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist whose mission is to help LGBTQ+ individuals find pride in the radical act of embracing their authentic selves. He is an openly queer, fat, transmasculine, neurodivergent person who believes in the power of creating a space of solidarity in the therapy room to celebrate clients' resilience and help them navigate the ways their self-determination is limited or thwarted by the influences of systems of oppression and privilege.
Triathlon Coach & Founder, Luna Endurance
Kimberly received her B.S. in Exercise Science and Nutrition at Eastern Washington University. She started her career in 2014 at Pro Sports Club in Bellevue, where she coached the triathlon team and took over as Head Coach from 2017-2020. She has been in the health and fitness field for ten years pushing boundaries and supporting people with periods. As a triathlete Kimberly has completed mutliple full Irommans and half Ironmans as well as Olympic and sprint distances. A passionate advocate of self-empowerment and personal accomplishment, Kimberly is a coach for the everyday person.
Kimberly's primary focus is teaching people with periods the importance of their physiology and how to use their hormones to their advantage. Inspired by Dr. Stacy Sims, the author of Roar, Kimberly has taken up the torch of leading people in the revolution, strategically managing their menstrual cycles for optimal performance results.
Kimberly creates unique training plans customized per client to meet specific nutritional, body, and recovery needs. Armed with an arsenal of knowledge, Kimberly walks her clients through their cycle phases, provides training based upon hormone shifts, and inspires people to meet their goals.
Physician, MetroHealth PRIDE Network
Laura Janine Mintz, MD, PhD (she/they) is a disabled queer Arab Jewish femme and an internal medicine-pediatrics physician dedicated to building a world where medical care doesn't harm everyone involved. Their focus is on sexual and gender minority communities living at multiple axes of marginalization. She cofounded YWEP, an organization for and by BIPOC youth in the sex trade and street economies in Chicago (2001-2014), and continues that work via the Just Practice Training Collaborative and Interrupting Criminalization's Cops Out of Care campaign. Their practice is centered in Liberatory Harm Reduction, practically this means: ending criminalization in medical care and everywhere else, supporting multiply marginalized people to live full lives on their own terms, management and understanding of complex chronic pain syndromes, HIV in primary care, medication assisted treatment for drug users, weight neutral healthcare, care for trans, gender expansive, and other queer people, and the intersections of gender diversity + sexual diversity + neurodiversity. She offers consulting services on these topics via both/and llc in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mary Hubert (MSW, MPH, LSWAIC) they/them received their Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. Through their previous position as a Training Manager for sexual health education at Cardea Services, Mary has significant experience creating space for everyone to discuss sex and consent in an accurate, comprehensive, and affirming way. Mary also has a background in working with gender-expansive teenagers on understanding state and national policies, finding gender-affirming care, discussing mental health pertaining to gender, and providing support to caregivers who are struggling with transphobia. Currently, Mary is a therapist specializing in issues pertaining to gender affirmation with adolescents and families, as well as sexual health and relationship therapy. You can check out their website at www.maryhubertmentalhealth.com.
Founder & co producer of What the Funk?! An All BIPOC Burlesque Festival
Mx. Pucks A'Plenty is the Director of Junk in da Trunk, the Michelle Obama of Burlesque, and Seattle's Own Mxtress of Thiccness! Pucks is the founder and co-producer behind What the Funk?! An All BIPOC Burlesque Festival. The Femme Daddy that your mother should have warned you about, Pucks is not only a performer and a producer, but stage manager and themcee.
When they aren't burlesquin', Pucks is a sex educator, an active sex worker activist, and is one of the National Coordinators for #OldProProject. You can catch them on Instagram under @_sexuali.tea_ as co-host to an intersectional sex education podcast with a mission to 'queer up' sex ed or check out their pleasure lifestyle IG @thehedonistrealist.
They have taught at Leather Reign, Virtual Intimacy Retreat 3, The Gathering NW, the BDSM Writers' Con, and Thrive Conference. They have also been a guest speaker at Brown University, Planned Parenthood of New York, the University of Washington, and Antioch University.
Pucks is a Black, Queer, Nonbinary femme raising a kiddo in the suburbs.
Founder & co producer of What the Funk?! An All BIPOC Burlesque Festival
Mx. Pucks A'Plenty is the Director of Junk in da Trunk, the Michelle Obama of Burlesque, and Seattle's Own Mxtress of Thiccness! They are the #16 Most Influential Burlesque Industry Figure of 2022, as voted for by thousands of burlesque fans and peers worldwide by 21st Century Burlesque Magazine and was recently named 2022 Performer of the Year by Seattle Gay News. This roguish radical is always ready to ride whether it be behind the scenes or on stage. Spreading their black queer magic wherever they go, Pucks is always in control. Pucks is also the founder and co-producer behind What the Funk?! An All POC Burlesque Festival and is the Artistic Director behind Fatlesque Fest NW. They are the current Board Chair of Seattle Burlesque and Cabaret Co-op. Recently featured in Revry TV's Submission Possible, Seattle Pride Magazine, The Seattle Times, South Seattle Emerald, KUOW, and Seattle Gay News. When they aren’t burlesquin’, Pucks is a sex educator, disability justice activist, an active sex worker activist, and is one of the National Coordinators for #OldProProject. They have taught at Leather Reign, Virtual Intimacy Retreat 3, The Gathering NW, the BDSM Writers' Con, and Thrive Conference. They have also been a guest speaker at Brown University, Planned Parenthood of New York, the University of Washington, and Antioch University.
CEO & Co-Founder, My Comma
Rachael Kim is an innovator, community builder, entrepreneur and equal opportunity champion. She founded My Comma (previously Project Untaboo) with the goal of shifting the existing paradigm in the period care industry through transparency, eco-awareness and research. We are building a trustworthy, personalized, customer-centric platform that supports inclusivity, eco, and accessibility change. We amplify women/BIPOC-led brands that meet our standard to power menstruators' new routines.
Outside of the office, you can find me exploring and listening to anything or anyone that rings truth to my soul and enjoying my whisky, neat.
Founder and CEO, Versatackle
Robin Eastman and Julian Dockhorn founded Versatackle together at the start of 2020, just before a global pandemic changed the way we think about online events permanently.
Robin is fundamentally a generalist who's focused on people. She wants to learn how we can use technology to build human connections and create the world we want to live in. Professionally, she has been an HR leader at Amazon, a case manager for adults with developmental disabilities, and a massage therapist. Personally, she likes creating art, playing games, and being enthusiastically mediocre at team sports.
CEO & Co-Founder, PandiaHealth.com
Pandia Health is the ONLY #DoctorFounded/Led, #WomenFounded/Led birth control delivery company.
MIT, UCSF Medical School, and UC Berkeley's MPH grad. 20+ years in medicine, Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford Medical School, her passion is Women's Reproductive Health and she co-founded 3 non-profit projects to improve the lives of women: The Silver Ribbon Campaign to Trust Women, SheHeroes.org, FFFL.co.
She co-founded Pandia Health because she believes no one should suffer from "pill anxiety" - the fear of running out of birth control and the stress of having to obtain birth control each month.
Her latest health campaign is to educate the public about #periodsOptional. See her TEDx talk at the bottom of this page.
Anyone with a uterus does not have to bleed each month. This will decrease cancer, decrease landfill, and increase women's participation in school and work.
Mother of 2 young women and married to a feminist.
