Black queer non-binary femme activist and award-winning sexuality educator, Ericka Hart joins us for the release of her book, "Nasty Work".About this Event
"Free your mind / And the rest will follow..." - En Vogue
We are so excited to welcome Black queer femme activist, writer and award-winning sexuality educator, Ericka Hart for the release of her new book, Nasty Work.
Get ready for a powerful discussion around sex, sexuality and gender and how we can liberate our world, just as well as our bodies and minds, from harmful rhetoric, systems and traditions to experience a new kind of pleasure.
Q&A will follow the discussion.
All copies of Nasty Work will be signed.
You're also in for a real treat. Your ticket will also grant you access to PAFA's incredible museum and you can experience their captivating Bodies & Souls exhibit.
You will regret missing out!
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About the author:
Ericka Hart, M.Ed. (she/they) has been teaching comprehensive, trauma informed, consent and pleasure-based sex-ed at the elementary, high school, undergraduate and graduate level for the past 15 years and is now the founder of her own sexuality education training program, Sex Ed as Resistance. She is the co-host of the critically acclaimed podcast, Hoodrat to Headwrap with her partner Ebony and mom to East Francis Coltrane (and cockapoo Baguette).
About the book:
An award-winning sexuality educator takes down society’s deeply entrenched colonial views on sex and gender throughout history in this accessible, candid, and revolutionary exploration of how we can—and should—reclaim our minds and bodies for a more pleasurable existence for all.
When you think about sex ed, your mind likely goes back to those uncomfortable school desks and the stifled laughs of your teenage years. But what we’ve been socialized to believe about sexuality actually hinders our own pleasure well into adulthood. Whether we know it or not, even the most progressive among us are often using 400-year-old inherited thoughts and belief systems in the twenty-first century. Why are we still carrying forth these ancient values that have never served the vast majority?
As a Black, queer, non-binary, disabled femme, Ericka Hart believes that sex ed done right can actually be a tool for liberation. In Nasty Work, she breaks down the ways that social implications keep us from experiencing pleasure, particularly for marginalized communities across race, gender, sexuality, and ability, and how we can dismantle these oppressive myths. From examining what guides our attraction to others to the history of consent, Ericka Hart takes the blinders off and reveals a more empowering view of sex and sexuality.
Nasty Work blends eye-opening research with powerful, poignant personal narrative that disrupts everything you thought you knew about sex and society, offering a liberatory framework that makes pleasure accessible for all.
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Doors open at 6:30pm.
Street/garage parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance available.
All ticket sales are final and non-refundable.
Bags larger than a handbag will not be permitted
Event Venue
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118-128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, United States
USD 12.50 to USD 35.97
