Special Panel for the 2023 Annual Meeting.

Description:

This kitchen-table style panel is an intergenerational conversation about how to promote bodily autonomy and protect the full sexual rights of all human beings, including vital access to sexual, reproductive, and gender affirming health care. Renegades and rebels from Gen Z to the Silent Gen will share their experiences partnering with non-traditional or unexpected organizations to circumvent state and federal surveillance, developing allied activist networks, and getting creative in their approaches to abolition throughout time. From HIV/AIDS crisis counselors from the 70s, to sex surrogates and somatic/body-based healers and BDSM practitioners from the 90s, to sexuality educators and health care providers working within murky legal waters today, these panelists will facilitate a discussion on how we can continue to protect one another, and ensure our community has access to the sexual and reproductive health care it needs.

Panelists:

• Omisade Burney-Scott, The Black Girls' Guide to Surviving Menopause

• Andrés Cordero, Jr., Independent Sex Educator and and Embodied Life Coach

• Bria Brown-King, InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth

• Natalie Malone, University of Kentucky

Moderated by:

• Ethan Coston, Virginia Commonwealth University