FEMME ARCHITECTONICS | BIOPOLITICAL CARTOGRAPHY
[6 CE CREDIT HOURS]
AASECT CATEGORY
CKAs: C, E, F, K, P
EDUCATOR: Nishita Rao, CSE
WEBINAR [Synchronous/Virtual]
Distance Learning – Recordings available on The Elsewheres
DESCRIPTION
This webinar illuminates and honors non-Eurocentric, ancestral frameworks of sexual sovereignty as practiced in matrilineal, matrilocal, and culturally sex-positive societies across Asia and Africa. By centering communities such as the Khasi, Garo, Nayar, Minangkabau, Tuareg, Wodaabe, Muria, and Kreung, this session seeks to dismantle colonial myths of BIPOC sexual repression and foreground culturally embedded, kinship-based traditions of intimacy, agency, and pleasure.
This webinar challenges the dominance of Eurocentric sex education models by tracing alternative sexual logics rooted in lineage, community, and sacred autonomy—not control, shame, or pathology. Participants will examine how these societies legitimize women’s and gender-diverse people’s sexual freedoms through communal structures, spiritual practices, and intergenerational knowledge transmission.
Ultimately, this space invites educators, therapists, researchers, and sexuality professionals to reimagine sex education curricula, therapeutic frameworks, and cultural engagement strategies by engaging with sexual worldviews that exist outside of Western binaries, hierarchies, and moral timelines.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- By the end of the session, attendees will be able to identify core features of matrilineal and matriarchal sexual systems across diverse BIPOC cultures.
- By the end of the session, attendees will be able to differentiate between patriarchal and matriarchal constructions of sexuality and gender roles.
- By the end of the session, attendees will be able to debunk common colonial myths around BIPOC sexual repression and “backwardness.”
- By the end of the session, attendees will be able to explore sex-positive practices within communities like the Muria, Kreung, and Wodaabe.
- By the end of the session, attendees will be able to apply non-Eurocentric models of sexual freedom in sex education and therapeutic practice.
- By the end of the session, attendees will be able to redesign aspects of sex education curricula using decolonial, BIPOC-centered frameworks.
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Access Key
Standard Access: Full course access with AASECT Continuing Education credits. Ideal for licensed clinicians and certified professionals fulfilling CE requirements (First-come, first-served).
Collective Access: Full course access with AASECT Continuing Education credits, offered at a lower price point to support decolonial participation across professional communities (First-come, first-served).
Community Access: Full course access without AASECT CE credits, designed for BIPOC, queer, kink+, and sex-positive community members engaging outside of a clinical or certification context.
Open Access: Registration open to all, including international students. No AASECT CE credits
EDUCATOR BIO
Nishita Rao (she/her) holds an MS in Neuroscience with a focus on Behavioral Neuroendocrinology and a BE in Biotechnology, specializing in Brain-Computer Interfaces & Phytochemistry. Her courses span across disciplines such as Sexual Sciences, Neuroscience, Anthropology, Molecular Biology, Behavioral Sciences, Political Science, Linguistics, Dance Ethnography, Ethnomusicology, and Paleoclimateology. She is also the First Indian AASECT Certified Sex Educator (CSE). She is also a Reiki Grandmaster.