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Decolonizing Kink: Colonial Pathologies and Clinical Practice

July 7, 2023 6:00-8:00 PMPay what you can Register

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In Decolonizing Kink, Adria Kurchina-Tyson will discuss the structural, colonial nature of compulsory vanilla relationships/sexuality and demonstrate the “coloniality” of kink-phobia, reviewing the fundamental differences between Indigenous frameworks of desire/relation and those of the settler state. Kurchina-Tyson invites us to work together in this workshop to challenge racial-sexual pathologies in clinical knowledge, resist prescriptive frameworks of consent and desire, and get kinky about healing!

Based on the content of this presentation, attendees will be able to:

Name and explain the structural, colonial nature of compulsory vanilla relations/sexuality
Identify the coloniality of sexual norms around desire, kink, BDSM
Challenge (internal/one’s own and external/social) colonial interpretations of kinky desires
Facilitate (safer, anti-colonial) meaning-making around non-normative relational dynamics

About the Presenter

Adria Kurchina-Tyson, PhD candidate

Adria Kurchina-Tyson is a queer, Anishinaabe scholar of Indigenous, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, PhD candidate at Queen’s University in Canada, and a member of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. Their PhD research examines elements of kink in Indigenous epistemologies, governance and kinship.

About KPACT

Established in 2014, Kink and Poly Aware Chicago Therapists (KPACT) is an online discussion group open to psychotherapists, healthcare professionals and graduates students of these disciplines who value gender, sexual and erotic diversity and seek to connect with like-minded colleagues in the greater Chicago metropolitan area for the purpose of learning and better serving our clients.

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To ensure that these educational opportunities are as accessible as possible, we have created a sliding scale which, we hope, will allow everyone to contribute in a meaningful way.

STANDARD

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