Tuesday, September 11 Location: 800 Florida Ave NE, Washington, DC, USA In Collaboration with IGNITE, DAWN, and Gallaudet University) 7-9pm Kink: Power, Healing and Release Welcome to the many sides of kink. It isn’t just a secret thing you do in dungeons but a multifaceted tool or lifestyle for those who want it. How does kink fit into human sexuality? How can one understand, use and manage this sexual tool on any end of the sexuality spectrum? What is safe and how do you get what you want? Join us on this kink-positive journey to answer those and many other questions. Contact: Erin Esposito erinaesposito[at]gmail[dot]com *ASL interpretation provided. Friday,October 12 Location: The Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs 2000 14th St NW – second floor, WDC 20009 Reeves Center 6pm-8pm OUTcast: On being queer and a CSA Survivor Just Beginnings Collaborative fellows Ignacio G. Hutiá Xeiti Rivera (The HEAL Project), Aishah Shahidah Simmons (#LoveWITHAccountability), and Ahmad Greene-Hayes (Children of Combahee) are joined together in collaboration with the DC Rape Crisis Center and the DC Mayor's Office on LGBTQ Affairs to host a lively panel on interrogating the intersections of queer identity and child sexual abuse survivorship. ASL Interpreters upon request RSVP HERE |