Tuesday, May 21, 7–10PM
At FCCW:
1800 S Brand Blvd, Suite 111, Glendale, CA 91204
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Max Participants: 10
Open to all ages, young adults to seniors
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The second in a series of in-person programs exploring pro-sexualities, join Jerri Allyn and sex educators, Emmalinda MacLean and Dr. Alexandra ”Allie” Melendez, who can answer your questions about sex! We’ll explore body-positive interests arenas the group wants to discuss, followed by a Q&A where participants add anonymous, individual questions to a hat for the experts to answer.
Contact Jerri with any questions at (310) 963-8118.
About The Facilitators
Jerri Allyn is an activist artist and educator (she/he/shimmher). Allyn’s project, Sex: Celebrated, Contested yet Everywhere, includes photomontage portraits highlighting colleagues in pro-sex gigs. The 7×4’ portrait banners come alive when hung inside a host site, and hung outside on street lampposts at sitters’ events. Sex: Celebrated examines how sex ed, pro-sex activities, and labor rights for sex workers influence one another. The project resonates with issues addressed by The Waitresses performance collaborative, cofounded by Allyn, including career options, a living wage, safe work environments, and body pleasurable service.Internationally exhibited, Allyn has been grant funded and commissioned for 30 years.
Emmalinda MacLean (she/her) is the Co-Founder of More Than Sex Ed. In middle school, she was a participant in the Our Whole Lives sexuality education, a wholistic program developed by the Unitarian Church for K-Senior participants. As an adult, she is a highly respected sexual health educator. Emmalinda leads Our Whole Lives trainings around the country, coaching new sex educators on their inclusive, values-centered approach (Unitarians aspire to creativity, freedom and compassion with respect for diversity and interconnectedness). California born and raised, horror movie fan and plant nerd.
Dr. Alexandra ”Allie” Melendez (she/her), is a firm believer that happy and healthy adults start as well-informed children. She is a Los Angeles native who studied journalism in the mid-west, and traveled around the world before discovering a passion for education, developing a curriculum for K-12 students. Her doctoral dissertation titled, “from abc to std: what you didn’t learn in school,” provides an adult audience with the comprehensive sex education they didn’t receive as youth.