Teaching & Workshops

Sexual health is more than biology—it’s shaped by power, history, and access. This offering traces how colonial legacies continue to shape who receives care, who is deemed “at risk,” and whose stories are remembered. From the early histories of gonorrhea and HIV/AIDS to recent events like the monkeypox outbreak and COVID-19 vaccine apartheid, it reveals how racial capitalism and imperial borders govern intimate life.

This is a space to confront the myth of neutral medicine and reclaim sexual health as a site of liberation. It centers community knowledge, historical memory, and global solidarity, challenging the dominance of white, cis-heteronormative, patriarchal standards in care.

Decolonizing Sexual Health can be tailored to diverse settings—whether academic, activist, or artistic—and offers participants critical tools to reimagine health beyond borders and binaries.

Previous offerings:
Gladt Berlin
BPOC Festival Kassel
Casa Qua Berlin

This offering draws from the lived experiences of those shaped by queerness, transness, displacement, racialization, neurodivergence, and disability. These are not just sites of struggle—they are sources of insight, care, and radical possibility. The margins hold magic, memory, and refusal—ways of knowing that resist dominant systems and imagine otherwise.

At its core, this is a space that challenges how mental health institutions and discourses have been shaped by white, capitalist, and heteropatriarchal logics. It affirms that healing does not mean assimilation or adjustment, but the power to define well-being on one’s own terms, in community and in resistance.

Magic at the Margins can be tailored to different contexts—whether academic, activist, or artistic—offering a flexible space for critical reflection, shared learning, and embodied knowledge.

Previous versions:
Disruption Network Lab, Acud Macht Neu, November 2022