Self-Empowerment through Pleasure: Knowing and Asking for What You Want with Alex Aiello
Join us as we welcome Alex Aiello (she/her) for Self-Empowerment through Pleasure: Knowing and Asking for What You Want on Thursday, April 21st at 7pm EST over Zoom!
This workshop will be recorded and will be made available to everyone who registers for 7 days following the workshop.
What does it look like to live a pleasure-centered life? In this workshop, we will explore pleasure as a concept and a life-style. We will discuss the ways we experience pleasure, what brings us pleasure, and how to advocate for your own pleasure during sexual encounters. Participants will walk away with tangible skills and action items to live a sexually empowered, pleasure filled life.
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
broaden their understanding of pleasure
explore how they can center pleasure in their lives as an act of resistance and self-empowerment
gain tangible skills and action items for how to figure out what they like sexually and how to advocate for it during sexual encounters.
About Alex Aiello
Alex was born and raised in New York City, where she attended public schools. She graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her thesis titled, “The Negotiation of Consent and Pleasure: A Study of Sexual Relationships Between College Students” received honors in sociology, won the Sally G. McMillen Prize in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Davidson College, and the 39th Annual SouthEastern Undergraduate Research Symposium First Place Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
Alex has a wealth of experience providing anti-sexual violence services to her community as president of Students Against Sexual Violence at Davidson College and volunteer work as a staffer for the Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network’s National Sexual Assault Hotline. She is passionate about ending sexual violence and dating abuse through community intervention and education.
Alex currently works at Day One NY, a teen dating violence prevention organization, as the Community Educator. Through her position, she delivers workshops about healthy relationships and teen dating abuse in high schools and middle schools across New York City. In her spare time, Alex enjoys reading, doing yoga, and bullet journaling.
To Register:
Tickets are available on a sliding scale ($3-$50) to ensure folx of varying economic backgrounds are able to access the sex education they deserve. We ask those who have the financial means to help "spread the wealth" by contributing to the community pool so that we can offer a limited number of sponsored free tickets to those who need it.
We kindly ask that those who have the financial means to purchase a ticket do so, and save our sponsored free tickets to those who do not.
To access this workshop for free, please enter the code SHIP-FREE when registering.
After you register, we will send you an email with the event login information (be sure to check your spam folder!). If you haven't already, make sure you download Zoom before we all log on: https://zoom.us/
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If you have any questions, or experience any issues registering, please reach out to learn@weknowship.org