Using accessible spaces, we facilitate online and in person events that inspire, empower and connect folx of all/no genders. Our events include speakers and storytellers, networking and support. After each gathering, we donate partial proceeds to a local initiative benefitting Vancouver’s marginalized communities.
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What: Join us for an intimate Grace Club evening discussing the topic of Sex Positivity!
For this event, we'll explore various liberating perspectives, in order to de-mystify and de-stigmatize what is too often shrouded in secrecy and shame. This will be a judgement-free zone, where we'll learn from our speakers' expertise and experience, and allow for some lively Q & A.
When: Monday March 9th 6-9pm
Where:Suite Genius Mt Pleasant , #200- 225 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver BC. This venue is wheelchair accessible, and has gender neutral washrooms.
Who: Speakers Gillian McCormick, Morgan Switzer-Rodney, and Jenn Doan, along with host Savannah Erasmus, will cover aspects such as sexual health, the anatomy of pleasure, kink, shame, and well, how to have better sex! Open to all womxn (cis or trans) and non-binary folx.
Gillian McCormick's first job is pelvic health physiotherapist. Her second is as podcast Co-Host for the Small Conversations for a Better World podcast. Lastly, she is an advocate for Clean Beauty. She is also a wife and a mother of two teen-aged children. She lives and works in her community, North Vancouver, British Columbia. She values people, family, nature, health, movement, inspiration, creativity and courage. She is intrigued by the transitions in human lives and loves to shepherd her clients across the threshold of new experience. Gillian brings over 20 years' experience to the Pandora’s Box of Pelvic Health. She is fascinated with the interconnectedness of the body systems, of human lives, of biological systems – consideration of how it all works together and the mysteries still unknown help find her place in our chaotic world.
Morgan Switzer-Rodney is a young Black, kinky, queer femme, full-time activist and part-time artist residing on the stolen ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, S’ólh Téméxw, Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ peoples. This time last year, she was being targeted with jube jube laden slingshots by her Aunt, !Kona, and other members of her chosen leather family at local annual kink conference West Coast Bound. Morgan has been bootblacking for the last two years as a form of service to her community amongst other things. She has been co-curator of the salon series Black Chat for the last 3 years. Running this space out-of-pocket and her home space, this work is a foundational act to counter the constant policing of Black lives, and to shine a light on the importance of intergenerational organizing. She was a core member and organizer of Black Lives Matter-Vancouver, working to unite the Black community in the lower mainland through art, dance, community conversation and protest, to fight the oppressive forces that be. Morgan works (and plays) through a foundational and intersectional feminist lens that begins with, and centralizes, women of colour, especially queer and trans women of colour.
Jennifer Doan is a sex & relationship coach and host of the podcast Taking Back Slut. She believes virginity & gender are social constructs, that sexuality is as fluid as her iced coffee and that everyone deserves to feel empowered by sex. Jenn has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Bustle, Slutty Girl Problems and Tinder. She helps womxn all over the world connect with their bodies, find confidence and have great sex. Follow her on Instagram @jenn_doan for rants and unapologetic nudes.
Partial proceeds from this event will be going to The Unist’ot’en (C’ihlts’ehkhyu / Big Frog Clan) who are the original Wet’suwet’en Yintah Wewat Zenli distinct to the lands of the Wet’suwet’en. Your contribution ensures that supporters on the land have food and medical supplies, that Unist’ot’en Youth are able to visit their territories, that Wet’suwet’en Elders have the necessary materials on the land to teach traditional hunting, gathering, food processing, language skills, songs, stories and more. Your monetary contributions enable the Unist’ot’en Clan to stop the pipelines that threaten all of us.
