Come and celebrate with us November 6-8, 2020! “Our vision begins with our desires.”
- Audre Lorde. What vision do you have for your intimate relationship future? What if you had a choice to structure, quantify, and love without
another’s manufactured design? With generous intention, this symposium celebrates the unique way that we love and relate. With enthusiasm, we express our relational inti
macy, emotional capacity, and sexual fluidity with tenacity and fervor. The consequence of inhibition and oppression is to be held captive by socially constructed
parameters. Our symposium aims to educate, expose, and
disseminate the knowledge and expertise of the authors of
Designer Relationships, national speakers, community
organizers, mental health practitioners, and creative
spirited individuals who have lived and advocated for
surpassing those parameters. Your celebratory experiences occur on
July 22-23, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. Our Saturday Night
Keynote Speaker is innovator and educator
Tristan Taormino
Our Friday Night Opening Speaker is very talented speaker and galvanizing force Joe Kort PhD, LMSW
and our Saturday Afternoon Jazz Brunch Speaker is the
brilliant and very powerful force within black sexologist
and sex therapy community, James Wadley PhD, LPC-S. Our symposium’s name “Designer Relationships” is inspired by the book of the same name, Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy
Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships,
which was written by multi-award winning
authors, Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson. The author’s approved our symposium using the name and both of the authors agreed to attend our symposium as
our Banquet Q&A panelists! Our Friday Night Entertainment is
Dem Damn Dames Burlesque Troupe with our
Featured Performer Tifa Tittlywinks
featured sensual, fluid, and gender bending performers:
Onyx Fury & Chess Shires.