On this World Sexual Health Day, we are excited to announce an open call for graphic artists, digital illustrators, and mixed-media creatives to join us for the first-ever Sexploration Artist Residency Program!
The Sexual Health Exploration Project
@sexploreproject.bsky.social
A community-led collective conducting research, producing public-facing education, and supporting ongoing advocacy work on issues related to sexual and reproductive health, 2SLGBTQIA+ equity, and disability justice. https://campsite.bio/sexploreproject
@lchad.bsky.social once again hits it out of the park* with an amazing graphic recording, summarizing thoughts, experiences, and key takeaways from our April virtual symposium session, “Problematizing Diagnoses, Diseases, Disorders, & Decision-Making.” tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
Today’s symposium reflections call you in to an experimental writing workshop centered around Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper." Take a 15 minute break from work with us, and, share what emerges: www.sexplorationproject.com/symposium-reflections/yellow-wallpaper
You’ve seen the heat maps. You know it’s not great lately for 2SLGBTQIA+ people in the U.S. (well, it’s never really been great has it). But, do you want to learn more? And, are you curious about how “today” is related to the broader history and trajectory of rights in the U.S? We’ve got you.
It’s International Self-Care Day! While self-care alone will not save us, sometimes self-care is as “easy” as learning as much as you can. Unfortunately, reliable, safe, and accurate health information is harder and harder to come by. 1/4
Cara-Julie Kather reflects on one of our most highly attended panels. "Data is not fiction, but nor is it some sort of hard fact that is bestowed onto us straight out of the platonic heavens… data is created through research and research is a process of making." Up now: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
Wow! Up now on our website @lchad.bsky.social created these *amazing* graphic recording notes from our panel “Critical Approaches to Reproductive Health & Justice). Check them out: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
Davina Frick reflects on her workshop, “Using Values to Expand What is Allowed to Be Healthy.” Now up on our website! www.sexplorationproject.com/health-virtu...
Now up on our website: our team's reflections on the long road to our first ever multi-day virtual symposium. New contributions and reflections on all of our sessions, in written and visual forms, will magically appear throughout the next 7 weeks… stay tuned for more! tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
Happy IT’S ALWAYS Pride Month! As we wrap up our yearly celebration of all things queer, we invite you to explore our newly released quarterly report on Queer Futures: Beyond Celebration, Toward Liberation. Viewable on our website: www.sexplorationproject.com/quarterly-sp...
⏰⏰ We’ll see you there! ⏰⏰ ************** #AcademicSky #PhDSky #HigherEd #EDUSky #SexualHealth 🍏🧠 🛟 🩺 🧪😷 🌈🎓 🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🩺📊 #MedSky #FeministSky #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQPoliSky #LGBTQSTEM #ReproductiveJustice #Reprosky #STS #PhilSci #HistSci #Metascience #Bioethics
Now, you didn’t think we were done just yet, did you? 😏😏😏 Our Conference Guide is officially up on our website! Explore the full abstracts for all papers and workshops across all three days of the Symposium at tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium And, don’t forget to register before Friday to join us!
🌟🌟Our final Symposium Workshop!🌟🌟 Beyond Research Papers: Co-Creating Public Knowledge About Bodies, Autonomy, and Healing facilitated by Yael Rosenstock Gonzalez, Lizzy Colon, and Bidania Criscuolo of La Cura-duría: Intergenerational Latine Healing Museum Register: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
⚕️💉Day 3, Day 3, Day 3! 💉⚕️ Navigating Discourses on Stigma and Harm Facilitated by Steph Cull, VCU PhD Candidate. Featuring: Ryan DeCarsky, University of Washington; Marquisele Mercedes, University of California - San Francisco; and Jason Contino, UCLA. Register now: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
We’re down to the final week of announcements and less than two weeks from the symposium! Who’s excited?? 🙋🏽🙋🏿♂️🙋🏻♀️ Are you intrigued by medical and psychiatric diagnoses? The etiologies and genealogies of diseases? The trouble with health-related decision-making? Join us! tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
✍🏾💛 Day 2 Workshop Announcement! This one’s for all you medical/health and experimental humanities folks. 💛✍🏾 "Madness as a Way of Seeing: An Experimental Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper" 🍏🧠 🛟 🩺 🧪😷 🌈🎓 🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🩺📊 🖋️📚 #FeministSky #LGBTQIA+ #PhilSci #HistSci #LiteratureSky
Aaaaaaand, we’re back! Day 2 begins with a panel that explores the complicated and complex nature of “data." Featuring Jorge Manuel Chia, Gabriel Ancil Rangazas, @alexisrmiranda.bsky.social, Heather Welty, Melanie Jeske, and @avmenon.bsky.social. Register now: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
📻📰🌐We interrupt your symposium news broadcast with this special announcement from our sponsors: The March 2026 Quarterly Special Report on Bodily Autonomy is now available! www.sexplorationproject.com/quarterly-sp... **Screen reader compatible version linked in the ALT.
📻📰🌐We interrupt your symposium news broadcast with this special announcement from our sponsors: The March 2026 Quarterly Special Report on Bodily Autonomy is now available! www.sexplorationproject.com/quarterly-sp... **Screen reader compatible version linked in the ALT.
Our second panel and third/final event of Symposium Day 1 features work on Reproductive Justice and Bodily Autonomy! See the full schedule in our original post and register to attend here: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium ************ #SexualHealth 🍏🧠 🛟 🩺 🧪😷 🌈🎓 🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🩺📊 #FeministSky #LGBTQIA+ #Reprosky
🔥❗ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST SYMPOSIUM PANEL❗🔥 ***stay tuned for panel announcements all week/month long*** Register now to save your seat: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
✨💖 Excited to share the first workshop of the Authority & Health-Science-Knowledge Symposium! 💖✨ Facilitated by KD Frick, Professor at The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. Register today: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
🔥❗ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST SYMPOSIUM PANEL❗🔥 ***stay tuned for panel announcements all week/month long*** Register now to save your seat: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
Registration is now live! Reserve your FREE spot today! www.eventbrite.com/e/authority-... Session info ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Authority & Health-Science-Knowledge Virtual Symposium
Sharing our diverse, divergent, and/or historically minoritized knowledge(s), and demanding that health science do better for all of us.
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Tonight is the priority deadline! We welcome submissions that are research-oriented (basic, applied, clinical, translational, humanistic, theoretical, etc.), real-world/community-oriented, and/or based in lived experience. No limits to disciplinary or topical focus area! tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
TWO WEEKS! TWO WEEKS! TWO WEEKS!
I guess it’s as a good a day as any (I mean, they all give us such bounties, right?) to announce our co-sponsored Health, Science, and Knowledge Virtual Symposium, April 17-19, centering diverse, divergent, displaced, and targeted points of view! More info and submit: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
——————> Out now! <—————— ✨ Our first ever Quarterly Report ✨ Community Engaged Research Read it here: www.sexplorationproject.com/quarterly-sp...
With all that’s going on in our lives and world, a quality reminder from our Director, Dr. Ethan Coston. Joy is essential! Pride is powerful! You deserve a life worth living. Let us all work towards that future, together.
I mean, just *look* at this cover image. This is the energy I am bringing with me into 2026. Joy as resistance! Joy as rebellion! If all they want is for us to suffer and die, then you better shove your pride right back in their faces!
I guess it’s as a good a day as any (I mean, they all give us such bounties, right?) to announce our co-sponsored Health, Science, and Knowledge Virtual Symposium, April 17-19, centering diverse, divergent, displaced, and targeted points of view! More info and submit: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium
Beyond thrilled to announce Lori Younissess, Program Coordinator for The Pleasure Project as our final speaker! The Pleasure Project is global education and advocacy organization working to eroticize safer sex by building bridges between the public health world and the pleasure and sex industry.
📢📢NEW DATE CONFIRMED!📢📢 Join youth leaders from across the U.S. who will explore how this current sociopolitical moment is impacting sexual health and bodily autonomy and shaping 2SLGBTQIA+ young people’s lives. We’ll be announcing new speakers each week! tinyurl.com/SexploreTownHall25