IGNACIO IN THE MEDIA
2020 Ignacio's Interview with Our Better Half, a Podcast for Sex over 50
"Our guest this week, Ignacio Rivera, is an individual truly committed to sexual healing." Listen to Ignacio's interview with Dr. Jane Fleishman and Dr. Rosara Torrisi, hosts of Our Better Half, a podcast about sex over 50. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST |
2020 These Three Activists Are Bringing Overdue Attention to Childhood Sexual Abuse
"Rivera also supports adult survivors through coaching and workshops grounded in consent and boundary setting. Ignacio was first introduced to these concepts through the BDSM community, where they learned about negotiating with a partner, including being clear about limitations, risks, and boundaries, and focusing on what makes someone feel safe." READ THE ARTICLE |
2020 #LoveWITHAccountability Virtual Book Talk
The webinar features love WITH accountability anthology editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons/@afrolez, and 5 of the 40-contributors: Ignacio Hutía Xeiti Rivera/ @heal2end, Pops'nAde/@popsnade (Peter J. Harris/ @blackmanofhappiness and Adenike A Harris/ @restorativenotions), Tonya Lovelace/@tlace31 and Lynn Roberts/@womanist61 • WATCH THE VIDEO |
2020 Secret Survivors 10th Anniversary of Screening Panel Discussion
Watch Ignacio's presentation at Secret Survivors 10th Anniversary Panel. This event included offerings from Ignacio Rivera (Founder, The Heal Project); Girls for Gender Equity); Quentin Walcott (Co-Executive Director, CONNECT NYC); Amita Swadhin (Co-Creator, Secret Survivors; Founder, Mirror Memoirs); Aishah Shahidah Simmons (Creator, Love With Accountability) and more. WATCH THE VIDEO |
2020 State of the LGBTQ Believer of Color Symposium '20 Online: Sex, Faith, Trauma, and Religion
This is the recording for the State of the LGBTQ Believer of Color Symposium 2020. It includes two workshops and a panel of LGBTQ leaders from the community. Ignacio Rivera - "Oh God: Pleasure and Faith." WATCH THE VIDEO |
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2020 "That Time When" Mapping Desire Across The Globe with Ignacio Rivera; Just Sex Podcast
"Veteran sex educator Ignacio Rivera shares highlights of many Desire Mapping workshops and talks about the power of community as a solo poly sex activist, survivor, and mother." Listen to Ignacio's interview with Dr. Jaime M Grant of the Just Sex Podcast." LISTEN TO THE PODCAST |
2019 LGBTQ+ activist speaks on sexual liberation, intersectionality; The Michigan Daily
"Rivera, a trans and queer activist of color, has more than 20 years of experience in activism, sexual healing and anti-violence work. The theme centered around sexual liberation as a facet of wellness. Rivera began their talk by describing the distinction between health and wellness." READ THE ARTICLE |
2019 Holistic Sexuality Information and Child Sexual Abuse Prevention, interview with Prostasia Foundation
"Award-winning speaker, writer, artist, and educator Ignacio Rivera chats with Meagan Ingerman about their intersectional and sex-positive approach to child sexual abuse prevention and healing." WATCH THE INTERVIEW LISTEN TO THE PODCAST |
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2018 30 Latinxs Who Made an Impact in Their Communities in 2018
"Ignacio G (Hutiá Xeiti) Rivera is a BLatinx Indígena activist. They’re the founders of Poly Patao Productions, which provides sex-positive workshops, parties, and plays for those who are queer, transgender, gender-queer, multi-gender, and gender non-conforming. They also started the Heal Project, which is focused on ending child sexual abuse." READ MORE |
2018 Interview with Ignacio Rivera: Preventing the Next Generation's #MeToo Stories
An online summit dedicated to educating parents about what they can do to prevent their child’s #MeToo story. SUBSCRIBE |
2017 Ignacio was featured in The Open Photo Project
Ignacio Rivera is a New Yorker currently living in Baltimore. They are a sex educator, writer, performance artist, activist around the wide hub gender and sexuality. READ MORE |
2017 Polyamory Weekly: Consensual Sex Education with Ignacio Rivera
This week, we're all about activism and consent! Activist, educator, and performer Ignacio G Rivera shares their latest projects, including HEAL, Pure Love, and consensual sex education. READ MORE |
2017 Ignacio is featured in Follow Friday: Genderqueer and Non-Binary Voices
In the recent US Trans Survey, More than one-third (35%) of respondents indicated that their gender identity was best described as nonbinary or genderqueer (US Trans Survey). Here are just a few of the amazing gender queer & non-binary individuals who are bringing visibility to the movement. READ MORE |
2016 Ignacio was featured as a Queer Icon by photographer Gabriel Garcia Ramon
I live in this place called the middle. A place not yet defined, not yet understood, nor accepted. I am everything but never nothing, cause nothing doesn't derive from anything, and I do!! Navigated their Rules & gender regulations. Not allowed to look like..... I come from pink sheets, flowered dresses, ponytails, babydolls, stuffed brash & make up, gender fluid-gender/ gender-fuck. READ MORE |
2016 5 Trans Writers Who Are Redefining Masculinity
"I question what masculinity means daily. I've personally never identified as feminine or masculine. These are identities that people assume. My gender flows. I interrupt the gender binary through my writing, performance, short films, speaking, and education. Currently and more often than not, I'm a gay male passing but actually genderqueer person." READ MORE |
2016 Ignacio's interview with Colorlines: HEAL Project Tackles Child Sexual Abuse Using Survivors' Videos, Theater and Social Media
Survivor Ignacio Rivera's HEAL Project aims to end child sexual abuse 'by making visible the hidden tools used to guilt, shame, coerce and inflict violence onto children.' READ MORE |
2016 Ignacio on Huffington Post Trans 100 list
We Happy Trans, a website that celebrates the positive experiences of transgender people, and This is H.O.W., a Phoenix-based trans advocacy organization, have teamed up for the first-ever “Trans 100” list. READ MORE |
2016 Ignacio's interview with Darkness to Light: PERSONAL HEALING AS A PUBLIC PROJECT: IGNACIO RIVERA’S STORY
As child sexual abuse survivors begin to stand up and speak out about their own experiences, they are filling the world with their perspectives. One of those survivors, Ignacio Rivera, hopes to not only share a personal experience with abuse, but amplify the voices of others. READ MORE |
2016 Ignacio's interview with The 4-Play Sex and Comedy Show
Prescott Gaylord and Jacq Jones interview guest expert Ignacio G. Rivera, a Two-Spirit, Black-Boricua Taíno, queer performance artist, activist, filmmaker, lecturer and sex educator. LISTEN NOW |
2016 Ignacio's interview with FORGE
There are so many things that need to be highlighted as part of Black Trans History. In the past few years we have seen a rise in Black Trans magic and unfortunately the devastation of hatred of Black and Black Trans people in this country. Black Trans history is abundant with wonderful and tragic tales. READ MORE |
2016 Ignacio Rivera on Survival, Healing, and Ending Child Sex Abuse in Sex Out Loud by Tristan Taormino
Tristan Taormino interviews Ignacio on SexOutLoud. LISTEN NOW |
2016 Accountability to Ourselves and Our Children published by the Feminist Wire
Love is overwhelming. I’m not referring to the act or ability to, but the very idea of it. It holds many meanings—interpretations. Love is subjective but love should be good—right? In that good love, how does accountability show up? What does love with accountability look like? READ MORE |
2015 Reid Mihalko interviews Ignacio about Sex Geek Summer Camp
Amazing sex educator and sexuality/trans/kink/POC activist/educator, Ignacio Rivera aka Papi Coxxx, is joining us at Sex Geek Summer Camp this year to give a talk about racism/inclusion/intersectionality and host a trans round table. Join us! WATCH NOW |
2015 Ignacio featured as one of the 7 Trans & Non-Binary Artists Doing the Work in Queer as Verb
Ignacio’s body of work “has focused on gender and sexuality; specifically on queer, trans, kink and sexual liberation issues within a race/class dynamic.” Their work enacts these intersections in a number of spaces: publication, professional development and lectureship, in film and on the stage. READ MORE |
2015 Ignacio's interview with Emergence: THEY, INTERVIEW WITH IGNACIO G RIVERA
Ignacio’s experience of going by the pronoun “they” began almost a decade ago. They realized they were gender fluid, and wanted a pronoun to reflect that. Initially Ignacio asked people to use “he” and “she” pronouns interchangeably to refer to them, but that approach wasn't working. READ MORE |
2015 Ignacio write for Transgender Today of NY Times
My gender presentation has been disturbing to some and intriguing to others. Forty-three years ago I was designated female at birth. I was raised as a niña, lived as a young lady and a strong mujer for thirty-some odd years. From the ages of fifteen and on, my life as a femme-heterosexual, femme-lesbian, dyke, androgynous queer, trans masculine, trans/gender queer being, has been a wonderful journey with no transitional end. READ MORE |
2015 Ignacio Rivera: Celebrating Sexuality with a Queer Focus in Philadelphia Gay New
...One of the keynote speakers will be Ignacio Rivera, noted “two-spirit, Black-Boricua Taíno” queer performance artist, activist, filmmaker, lecturer and sex educator. READ MORE |
2015 Rivera directs attention to issues of transgender sexuality by CONNOR MCILWAIN
“Negotiating consent is a phrase often left out of our conversations about sex,” says Ignacio Rivera in a description of a workshop they will host on campus next week. “When we think of love, romance, relationships, sex and fucking, other thoughts and frameworks come to mind.” READ MORE |
2014 Ignacio shares a story with Rosario Robertson Media
Self-identified "Two-Spirit, Black-Boricua Taíno, queer performance artist, activist, filmmaker, lecturer and sex educator," Ignacio G Rivera, shares their story about an encounter with a curious child. WATCH NOW |
2014 Ignacio interview for The 41 List, Honor 41 TV
Ignacio has over 20 years experience on multiple fronts including economic justice, anti-racist and anti-imperialist work, as well feminist and LGBTQ movements. Inspired by the lived experience of homelessness, poverty, and discrimination. WATCH NOW |
2012 Zethu Matebeni talks to Jabu C Pereira and Ignacio Rivera - Queer(ing) porn - A conversation
Though based in the United States, Ignacio Rivera commands a following at least here in South Africa, in North America and in other parts of the world. VIEW ARTICLE |
2012 Ignacio's interview in Sex Work and Queer Politics in Three Acts by Svati P. Shah
Ignacio is a queer trans-entity, black Boricua, lecturer, activist, and community organizer. Ignacio is also a poet and performance artist, mother, sex worker, and sex educator. In this interview, Ignacio reflects on their experience of queer and trans movements since the 1990s, taking up many of the themes that Amber raises, including that of sexual liberation. READ MORE |
2012 Ignacio Rivera on Gender Fluid Identity, Polyamory, Kink, Race, Class, and Cheryl Dunye’s film Mommy is Coming
Tristan Taormino interviews Ignacio on SexOutLoud. LISTEN NOW |
2011 'Oppression is oppression': Kalamazoo Pride speaker Ignacio Rivera says 'we can work together' on GLBT issues by Mark Wedel
Rivera is an activist, performance artist, filmmaker and a founder of Queers for Economic Justice. Rivera recently performed at Fire in Kalamazoo and will give the keynote address at Kalamazoo Pride on Saturday. READ MORE |
2009 Sipping on ink interviews Ignacio
Meet Ignacio Rivera a Queer, gender fluid, Trans- Entity, Black Boricua performance artist, currently performing “Dancer” and Lagrimas de Cocodrilo/Crocodile Tears internationally. LISTEN NOW |