Policies such as: 

• Restrictions on who can marry whom
• Revoked reproductive rights
• Criminalization of Transgender people
• Attacks against LGBTQ rights
• Supreme Court sanctioning of racial profiling against Black and Brown people
• Unemployment among Black women due to the dismantling of Civil Rights
• Ongoing and deepening criminalization of sexual expression
• Restricted sex education in schools
• Erasure of information from websites

History shows that the most violent societies are often the most sexually repressed and uninformed and vice versa. As we witness escalating violence and extremism, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain our connection to our basic humanity. Societies with totalitarian tendencies foster deep mistrust among citizens, leading to situations where neighbors report on one another, and families turn against each other.

This system thrives on division and misinformation, overwhelming individuals until they relinquish their power to a centralized political authority, thinking, "It's too complicated for me; I'll leave it to the experts," with the “experts” themselves largely uneducated and uninformed.

One of the ways we can resist oppression is through embodied Pleasure and Connection. Accurate and informed sex education cultivates pathways of pleasure and connection as a form of resistance, enabling us to connect with ourselves and, subsequently, with others.