Join Lucie Fielding (therapist, sex educator, and author of the book Trans Sex), in a playful and engaging workshop on gender-affirming eroticism and trans pleasure. Whether you are trans, or play with folks who are, this workshop is for you! Learn how to find "gender-pleasure" in your body and in your play; how to approach your body and those of your partners with a beginner’s mind and a thirst for exploration; and tools to help you experience your body as the polymorphously perverse playground of wonder it can be! 

Venez apprendre et vous amuser avec Lucie Fielding (thérapeute, éducatrice sexuelle et auteure du livre Trans Sex), lors d'un atelier ludique et stimulant sur l'érotisme affirmatif et le sexe trans. Que vous soyez trans ou que vous jouiez avec des personnes trans, cet atelier est fait pour vous ! Apprenez à trouver le « gender-pleasure » dans votre corps et dans vos jeux ; à aborder votre corps et celui de vos partenaires avec un esprit de débutant et une soif d'exploration ; et des outils pour vous aider à ressentir votre corps comme le « polymorphously perverse playground of wonder » qu'il peut être ! Les sujets abordés comprendront : « gender-pleasurable play »; le langage, la communication et la négociation ; techniques trans-spécifiques; les démonstrations de jouets ; la décentration des organes génitaux ; le kink/BDSM ; les rencontres et la drague ; et bien plus encore, le tout avec beaucoup de temps pour les questions-réponses ! Cet atelier est ouvert à tous, quel que soit votre niveau d'expérience. Découvrez comment, pour réutiliser une phrase évocatrice – et délicieusement provocatrice ! – de Xan West (2015), le genre peut être un « elaborate sex toy ».

Rejoignez l'éducatrice en sexe et en kink Lucie Fielding pour une exploration amusante, adaptée aux risques et interactive du  « impact play »! Les jeux d'impact, dans le kink, désignent un ensemble de pratiques kink impliquant une personne en frappant une autre avec les mains (comme la fessée) ou un objet (comme un martinet ou une batte de baseball) pour le plaisir. Cet atelier abordera les risques, la négociation, les types d'impact, certaines techniques de « impact play », les « pervertibles » et l’ « aftercare ».

Les personnes queer et transgenres de tous niveaux sont les bienvenues. Outre une démonstration en direct, un temps sera réservé à la fin du cours pour que les participants puissent s'entraîner s'ils le souhaitent.

Muffing is a sexual activity that involves penetrating the inguinal canals of folks with external gonads (basically, fingerbanging the "pockets" above/behind the gonads). The term "muffing" was coined by Mira Bellwether in her zine Fucking Trans Women, and since then articles have described this activity. But this is the first community workshop of its kind. Join Lucie for this 2-hour exploration of muffing, complete with a demo scene. For folks with external gonads and those who have sex with them, muffing can be a way of queering up sex, circumventing culturally prescribed understandings of the erotic, and opening a universe of pleasure.

For the very first time in Italy, Lucie will be presenting the second edition of Trans Sex — officially out this October — in conversation with Costanza Gori, sex counselor and co-founder of ReVulva.

At a time of growing attacks on trans rights, this book and this gathering remind us that talking about eroticism isn’t a luxury — it’s a political act, a tool of resistance, and a way to collectively reimagine our communities.

📍Gada Playhouse, Via dei Macci 11, Florence
⏰ Saturday, September 6, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
🗣️ The talk will be held in English

All of us grow up with toxic narratives of how our bodies are “supposed to” function and how we “should” experience pleasure, but for trans and non-binary folx these narratives pose particular problems, as they prematurely foreclose the stunning erotic possibility of trans sexualities and designate potential pathways of exploration un-safe or off-limits. And when conversations are foreclosed, we unwittingly replicate oppressive structures and become tools of social control. Unfortunately, few therapists are trained to help trans and non-binary folx navigate pleasure-positive sexuality, and the therapeutic relationship is frequently marked by imaginative failures concerning our erotic lives. This workshop proposes a model of sitting with trans and non-binary clients and hosting “intimate justice”-centered explorations of sexualities and erotic embodiment.

On “Erotic Literacy”

Some sexual experiences are very hard to recreate from a distance because, you know... touching and breathing. While kink and BDSM certainly have a great deal of touch and breathing, they are also both fairly expansive in the variety of things that can be done, and energies around activities that can be created. When we talk about the power dynamics that are often part of this type of play, the psychological shift can continue to lend itself very well to playing from a distance.

As many of you know we have monthly meetings for THACVA healthcare providers. Our next meeting is on Monday, March 1, 6pm-7:15pm and we are opening this meeting to all THACVA members. We are very excited to host a discussion with LucieFielding, author of the book "Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments." Free event open to members of the Transgender Health Alliance of Central Virginia.