Events

Folx living with chronic pain routinely confront normative ideas about sexuality as our bodies cannot, struggle to - or simply don’t want to - adhere to politics of sexual desirability. Examples of this include physical aesthetics & physical ability, including sexual activities, positions, stamina, endurance, etc. It’s so valid and common to have a complex...

Sexualities and sexual identities do not develop outside of historical and current socio-political structures and currents. In this class, Caritia will take a long and hard look at the intersections of race and sexual & gender identity and how we are all influenced by colonialism, racism, and racialized ideas. This class will work with a...

The Karada House "ABOUT:"  conference series aims to bring transdisciplinary educators, artists, and thinkers with different approaches and backgrounds together to take a deep dive into specific, complex topics around identity, love, sexuality, the body, and embodiment, etc. In our work, we keep meeting a multitude of humans whose understanding of (their) sexual identity is...

Sexual identities are not fixed in any way. They change and transform and evolve constantly…. We might identify as top or bottom or switch or slut or asexual or stone or bi or pan or queer or lesbian or kinky or straight or gay or poly or femme or butch or non of the above...

In recent decades, neoliberalist ideas have strongly influenced many aspects of our lives. We are witnessing a "commodification of everything" (David Harvey), combined with individualistic notions of freedom and choice, which disguise different power structures and modes of exclusion. Often, sexualities are understood as something private, detached from such economic questions - but they are...

The landscape of different sexual identities is vast and more and more white spots on the maps are discovered, created, and surveyed. Although it became easier to travel between different areas on that globe, one operation remains unthinkable: Not to identify with a certain sexuality seems as rare and problematic as being nationless. In a...

Kink does not exist in a vacuum. In Deviations, hosted by Karada House, Apikoros and Barkas will discuss historical and contemporary texts that have shaped kink, sexuality, and our understandings of ourselves.  Each episode consists of a 120 minute-ish unscripted conversation that is unscripted. It is not expected that the audience will have read the...

What is rope bondage? How can I get started? Who might I wish to do this practice with? Over 5 modules the Karada House Team will take you on a grounding journey of the fundamentals of Japanese-inspired rope. As a team our aim is to offer a comprehensive base knowledge in rope bondage from a...

  Whether we need to decide on our relationships, our work, and projects, our activism, or about how we want to live our lives – we all have to make ethical decisions in our lives, big and small. Ethics are not rigid moralistic rules, but an ongoing process of questioning, understanding situations, and creating a...

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