About this episode

Danielle Bezalel interviews Ericka Hart about her book and the intersections of pleasure, resistance, and sex education.

Welcome to Season 14! We're kicking it off with an incredible conversation with Ericka Hart, author of the new book Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire, and Liberate Yourself! DB talks to Ericka about colonization, pleasure, shame, joy, and working in sex ed. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Ericka Hart (pronouns: she/they) is a black queer femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker and award-winning sexuality educator with a Master's of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University. IN THIS EPISODE: Ericka's book: Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire, and Liberate Yourself (this is an affiliate link, which really helps out our show!), Ericka's course Sex Ed as Resistance , the article we discussed in The Buzz , how to find out whose land you're living on right now , and the Indigenous Women Rising Rain Fund . DB donated, and if you can, you should too! TAKE OUR SMUT QUIZ: Find your page-turning turn-on with our new SMUT QUIZ! In just 5 questions, you'll get right to the good stuff with curated pages, poems, and audios. No slow burn. No fluff. Just pleasure.; Take the quiz here: https://sexedwithdb.fillout.com/smutquiz ASK AN ANONYMOUS SEX ED QUESTION: Fill out our…

People in this episode

Host: Danielle Bezalel

Guest: Ericka Hart

Topics covered

• pleasure
• resistance
• colonization
• sex education
• shame
• joy

Keywords

• pleasure
• resistance
• sex education
• Ericka Hart
• Nasty Work
• colonization
• shame
• joy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Indigenous Women Rising Rain Fund

Books & works: Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire, and Liberate Yourself

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