FemSexComm forms a collective learning community and builds solidarity among diversity. Please read more to see how you can participate this Spring!!
FemSexComm
The Female Sexuality Workshop for the Community: Season 2 is happening this spring in San Francisco and Oakland!
FemSexComm provides a safe space for exploration, encourages honest dialogue, facilitates collective learning, and builds solidarity within a community.
Coming off of its successful launch in San Francisco last fall, the community-based FemSexComm workshop will continue to offer two sections this spring at 518 Valencia in the Mission District. We’re also opening up a third section at Tech Liminal in downtown Oakland. The workshops run the weeks of February 6th through May 15th 2012 and meet once each week from 6-9pm on either Monday or Tuesday evening, depending on location.
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If you are interested in this transformative, 15-week workshop we’d love to tell you more!
(not mandatory but strongly encouraged. Info sessions are the best way to learn about the workshop and apply
San Francisco Info Sessions
Monday, Jan 23rd and Tuesday, Jan 24th, 6:30-8:30PM
518 Valencia: The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics
Oakland Info Session
Monday, Jan 23, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
268 14th St Oakland, California 94612
*FemSexComm charges a donation-based workshop fee which helps pay for materials for the 15-week workshop.
We want to be clear that absolutely no one will be turned away for lack of funds.*
FemSexComm
Learn more at:
http://femsexcommsf.wordpress.com/
email us: femsexcomm@gmail.com
Past participants say…
“One thing that was affected was my relationship with my disability. My invisible disability was always a part of my life that was really sheltered from my close friends and often my family. It wasn’t something I ever wanted to discuss or talk about. Early on in FemSexComm I decided that I wanted my time there to be as truthful and open as possible, so I made the decision to reveal information that I consider very confidential to a group of, at that point, strangers. This was a huge step for me and came out of the desire to have an authentic and honest experience with the people in the workshop. In the workshop, I had an accepting community that wasn’t constantly fixating on my invisible disability. They both respected it and allowed me the space to process and also made me feel really loved. It really moved me forward in my process of owning and being fully present with my disability.”
“Because of FemSexComm, I learned to become more assertive about showing my true self in many different types of spaces (not just with friends). I have gained very valuable communication skills and a much greater knowledge or myself, my desires and my ability to express them. These changes have allowed me to become closer to people who I didn’t know well before, and have emboldened me to be brave and honest in my current romantic relationship. I feel much closer to my partner and others in my life because of this workshop.”
“I carry what I have learned from this workshop with me always. It has allowed me to become a better ally, an improved communicator and a more compassionate human being.”
“Being new to the Bay Area, FemSexComm connected me with the people who have now become some of my closest friends here. The community aspect of the workshop has been amazingly powerful for me as it is helping to create serious social change. FemSexComm has rooted abstract and systemic concepts into my personal, lived experience. On a systemic level, it has taught me about how dialogue can be used as a powerful tool in social justice work. On a more personal level, it has drastically transformed how I relate to and respect my body in concrete ways: I am now opting for non- hormonal birth control and using a menstrual cup because I believe these options are healthier for my body.”
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