Breath to Soil​ - Theory to Practice — Decolonizing is Not a Metaphor

Breath to Soil​ - Theory to Practice — Decolonizing is Not a Metaphor

 ​S​.L.A.M.'s two-day virtual gathering on sexuality, sovereignty, and liberation​.

A two-day gathering bridging theory and practice for sexual liberation, sovereignty, and care.

S.L.A.M. was founded in 2020 to center and uplift the voices of Sex Educators of Color as we advance the work of sexual liberation. In today’s political climate—under the rise of authoritarian control, attacks on reproductive freedom, book bans, censorship in schools, and increased policing of queer and trans bodies—sexuality education, social work, and healthcare cannot afford to separate themselves from the work of decolonization.

This excavation is essential IF our work is to be liberation-centered. Colonization has always policed bodies, silenced knowledge, controlled reproduction, and dictated whose pleasure, intimacy, and lives are valued. To teach about sexuality without naming and setting the intention to dismantle these structures is to leave them intact. There is no divide between epistemic and material decolonization — they are one land. And you, the educator, the practitioner, are the bridge.

Over two days, we’ll explore:

-How colonial power polices identity​, pleasure, & expression 

-How education, family, and ​c​ommunity have been ​m​olded by empire 

-How decolonizing the body means reclaiming intimacy, gender, and consent 

-How land back, climate justice, and birthwork are acts of sexual and collective ​l​iberation

Colonial ​h​arm ​d​oesn't end with land theft — it lives in how we learn, love, and ​c​onnect- with earth, with ourselves and with one another. From the policing of pleasure and gender to the medicalization of birth and death, colonialism defines what ​(and who) is “normal,” “valid,” and “worthy.”

Breath to Soil insists that decolonization demands both epistemic and material work. Through panels, keynotes, documentary screenings & breakout groups, S.L.A.M. seeks to ground sexuality education and reproductive justice in both theory and practice: the breath of critical frameworks, histories, and imagination, with the soil of embodied change—land, bodies, policy, and community action. This gathering will challenge participants to confront how colonial systems shape education, intimacy, birthing, and community. We invite you to reimagine and practice what it means to teach, love, and build not just in defiance of colonial systems, but toward liberation.

This is a call to act, to risk, to transform. Will you answer?

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