What is gender pleasure? It’s the pleasure one can feel in an embodied sense of gender, whether that’s feeling affirmed in one’s gender in social, sexual, or intimate contexts—or just feeling yummy in one’s body at a given moment.

In this class you’ll learn how to find gender-pleasure in your body; how to approach your body and those of your partners as, to quote Mira Bellwether, a “sexy mad scientist”; as well as tools to help you experience your body as the polymorphously perverse playground of wonder it can be! Topics include: language, communication & negotiation, techniques for nurturing erotic embodiment and gender-pleasure, and more, with plenty of time for Q&A! 

This workshop is open to folx of all experience levels. Join the fun and experience how, to repurpose a provocative phrase by Xan West (2015), gender can be an “elaborate sex toy.” While this class centers trans experiences, it is also for cis folks interested in queering up erotic embodiment and play.

Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC (she/they) is a queer, trans misogyny-affected (TMA) femme, and a therapist practicing in Virginia and Washington (on Monacan and unceded Duwamish land, respectively). In addition to being a therapist, Lucie is a sex educator, an adjunct professor in the sex therapy certificate program at Antioch University, and the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (2021), which was named a 2022 Lambda Literary Award finalist (in the Transgender-Nonfiction category) and the winner of the 2022 AASECT Book Award (Book for Sexuality Professionals).

This class will be held LIVE online via Zoom — Zoom links are sent out 3 days prior and then again 1 hour prior to class. If you sign up within 3 days, please be patient in waiting for the final reminder email, which will be sent out 1 hour prior to the class.

The class will be recorded and available for a limited time shortly following the class. Registration deadline: 1 hour prior to class Pacific time. No day-of cancellations.

We're offering a limited number of free class spots to folks with financial need; please fill out this form if you are interested. Recipients will be chosen based on need and will be contacted at least 3 days prior to class to confirm. 

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