MATRI-LINES OF SEXUAL SOVEREIGNTIES: An Exploration into Matri-archal/linial/local societies

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

1. By the end of the session, attendees will be able to differentiate between matrilineal, matrilocal and matriarchal family systems.
2. By the end of the session, attendees will be able to debunk common colonial myths around sexual repression and “backwardness.”
3. By the end of the session, attendees will be able to understand non-Eurocentric and non-American-centric sex-positive models.

EDUCATOR BIO