In this conversation, Aisha explores following embodied pleasure as the rhythm that agitates for wider social change with YaliniDream and Adaku Utah, two brown queer justice-focused, body-centered transformers of community. 

TOPICS 

• Defining desire from the body - its connotations, dualities and realms of existence
• How we become separated from embodied desire and the returning to body intimacy
• Desire in a queer body, brown body, first generation body
• Discerning desire from compulsion
• Moratorium on the damage narrative: Complexity of desire at a community level - balancing accountability for harm with safety, resilience and the abundance of belonging
• Unwinding generations of colonial harm from the body to discover pleasure
• Practices of cultivating pleasure, play and desire

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Aisha Edwards                       https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness

Kaila June

https://www.kailajune.com/

Chris Morita Clancy                https://www.embodiedbiotensegrity.ca

Adaku Utah                                                  http://www.adakuutah.com                                                                           IG: @solarbliss

YaliniDream                                                http://www.yalinidream.com                                                                        
IG: @yalinidream

Rae Johnson

https://raejohnsonsomatic.com/

UN Climate Report

https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports

Eve Tuck

http://www.evetuck.com/

Tamil Sovereignty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_nationalism

Allison Schieler - Contortionist

http://www.allisonschieler.com/

Kinesiology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesiology

adrienne maree brown - Pleasure Activism https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html