Join us for a special Black Future Month celebration of our ancestral Black sexual liberation as we share our minds while acknowledging our spirit media guides Adina Howard ( there would be NO Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Nicki Minaj, Cardi, Trina, Khia or Meg The Stallion without her! ) Audre Lord, adrienne marie brown, Ursula Rucker and more.
Celebrating Adina Howard's Do You Wanna Ride's 25 year anniversary 🎂
CIS Het/ Masc identifying folk, especially men are invited and highly encouraged to attend. White/White passing accomplices are warmly welcome.
SWI has a through line of intent to bridge the ways Blackness travels through digital spaces as cultural products through our mission to Reclaim Media As A Form Of Reparations.
This conversation will explore the vastness that is lovin’ in a world where visuals, media have dictated/depressed/influences/spearheaded global sexual liberation/Black/POC love/self love. We will reference our ancestral media guides as a way to reclaim collectively and therapeutically.
Our end goal is to figure out a throughline of consensual communication, respectability, common sense standards. We all have to navigate technology that communicates the broad diaspora of space traveling within applications that connect + disconnect us - us gathering as a collective realigns the disconnection creating a vortex for solidarity.
This will be opened by the experiences of our conversationalists with an open exchange of thought, interaction and tools to ensure we get on the same page so we channel in the lovin’ we deserve URL and IRL
Location : Murmurs Gallery and Cafe
Donation ticketing from $15, $20, $25 - $100.
Our dream is for all our programming to be free of charge for everyone, every time.
But it takes money to create safe spaces. Your funds support out grassroots inititave to help keep SWI's public healing practice programming going.
Admission is sliding scale donation from $15 - $100.
All proceeds pay our support staff, baseline and are reinvested in future programming inititaives. It takes money to create quality safe spaces.
Doors open at 6:00 PM
Conversation starts promptly at 6:30 /6:45 PM
Sensual Chocolate soundscape by DJ pas.Telshade
Meditation by Aunty Sigh (she/they pronouns) is an LA native who grew up in a pre gentrified South Central. They have a B.A. in English from UC Berkeley, surviving the post-election chaos learning a major lesson: to exist in a drowning sea, it's important to maintain duality. For Sigh, the duality of life reveals how love can exist with pain - confronting the microaggressions of a dream school, or the supremacy in her hometown, ultimately helps her create change for the better. As a duality worker Sigh encourages love and light through shadow work, digging to the root of pains outside of fake positivity. As a storyteller, mental health/spiritual wellness activist, every poem, film, guided meditation, healing workshop, and performance is a love offering to her identity and community. Aunty Sigh’s latest love offering Ten rules for Queer Womxn dating straight-ish girls, is a chapbook showcasing the colorful array of emotions experienced by womxn loving womxn; who don’t always love them back. This is an echo for the souls who have experienced the layers of love and rejection. The Aunty Sigh tool kit is built from the places she’s lived and people she's loved.
Kinky raffle prizes!
Event ends at 9:00 PM