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What is Womynism?
Womynism is the reclamation and celebration of the s*xuality & gender diversity among Black, Indigenous, and of Color womyn and femmes (BIWFOC).
Womynism is a s*xological worldview inspired by Alice Walker's "womanist" and Black feminist theory of understanding the social location of race AND gender as described by Patricia Hill Collins of Black womyn & femmes, identity politics as defined by The Combahee River Collective, the deconstruction of oppression as illustrated by Kimberle Crenshaw's Theory of Intersectionality, and informed by Audre Lorde's emotional insight. The "y" denotes the rejection of socially constructed ideas of gender and the politics of s*xual respectability.
The "y" denotes the rejection of the socially constructed ideology of s*xuality and gender and the politics of s*xual responsibility while embracing and celebrating the right to autonomy the Black, Indigenous, and of color womyn and femmes has over their own body. The “y” is symbolic of the necessity to honor how BIWFOC, transgender or cisgender, q***r or not, s*xual or as*xual, fully show up as their authentic selves. Womynism is s*x-positive, intersectional, in addition to, q***r, disable, trans*, and s*x workers inclusive and affirming worldview.
Womynism is:
I. Womynism- S*xological Worldview, Identity, Philosophy, Personhood
II. Womynism centers, affirms, and celebrates Black, Indigenous, and of Color womyn and femmes s*xual narrative in the pursuit of s*xual healing, s*xual wellness, and s*xual liberation, in the intersections of their s*xuality and gender diversity.
III. Womynism Sacred Circle is a community event facilitated by s*x therapists, s*x educators and other healers designed to support the s*xuality and genderq***r Black, Indigenous, and of color womyn and femmes in the pursuit of s*xual healing, s*xual wellness, and s*xual liberation.
The Circle centers the intersectional narrative of BIWFOC and the reclamation or reframing of their narrative through the unlearning of s*x-negative, oppressive and disempowering messages regarding s*xuality, s*xual pleasure, intimacy, attraction, personhood, power, gender expression and gender performance.
III. We are transformational destination dedicated to the supporting, guiding, nurturing Black, Indigenous, & Womyn of color who are femme, masculine of center, non-binary, demi, trans, cis, witchy, religious, spiritual, sensual, as*xual and whatever we claim as our lived experience as womyn.
We are committed to the journey of defining one's self through decolonization, s*xual healing, s*xual wellness, and s*xual liberation...
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"What does Black S*xual Liberation look like when our Brothers [and Sistas] are dying and we don't have the energy for ourselves?"
-Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clarke
"Without community, there is no liberation....but community does not mean shedding our differences or the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist."
-Audre Lorde
Womynism Sacred Circle offerings:
*Community events
*Healing Support & Strategies
*Critical thinking
*Support centering BIWOC
*Affirmation
*Love
"Defining self through decolonizing healing and acts of centering, affirming, and celebrating the s*xuality and gender diversity of Black womyn and womyn of color."
-Womynism
