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What happens when we stop accepting the stories we’ve been taught about sex, gender, bodies, desire, and pleasure—and start questioning who those stories actually serve? In this episode, we’re joined by Ericka Hart, M.Ed. (she/they) , a trauma-informed, consent- and pleasure-based sex educator who has spent the past 15 years teaching comprehensive sex education at the elementary, high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Ericka is the founder of Sex Ed as Resistance , author of Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire and Liberate Yourself , and co-host, alongside her partner Ebony, of the critically acclaimed podcast Hoodrat to Headwrap . Ericka’s work challenges us to think differently about sexuality—not simply as something we learn about, but as something deeply connected to power, culture, history, identity, and liberation. Together, we explore how traditional sex education has failed to give many of us the tools to understand our bodies and desires, and how societal and colonial ideas about sex and gender continue to shape who is allowed to experience pleasure. We unpack the history of consent and what it means to define consent beyond a simple “yes” or “no,” particularly when it comes to access, agency, and pleasure. We also talk about reclaiming desire on our own terms, body positivity and the people left out of mainstream beauty and sex-appeal standards, and practical ways we can begin to challenge the messages we’ve internalized about our bodies. This is a conversation about unlearning, resisting, exploring, and imagining something better—a world where sexuality education isn't about shame or fear, but about agency, pleasure, consent, and liberation. In this episode, we explore: • Why “education meets agitation” is at the heart of Ericka’s work • Rethinking traditional sex education through Nasty Work • The impact of societal and colonial views on sex, gender, and pleasure • Consent, its history, and its relationship to access and agency • How to reclaim desire on your own terms • Body positivity, beauty standards, and who gets left out • Tools for reconnecting with your body and pleasure • What a radically different future for sexuality could look like • Ericka’s work, Sex Ed as Resistance , and Nasty Work Learn more about Ericka and her work at ihartericka.com . Get Ericka’s book: Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire and Liberate Yourself Learn more about Sex Ed as Resistance and Ericka’s offerings: Ericka Hart’s website Come to our October 2026 Couple's retreats! Learn more and reserve your spot here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.shamelesssex.com/retreat ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Do you love us? Do you REALLY love us? Then order ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ our book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ now! Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shamelesssex.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to snag your copy Support Shameless Sex by sending us gifts via our <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/ZMM6NZHZZMCJ?ref_=wl_sha

Yer Buzzkills break down the facts about Trump’s silent but deadly CDC nominee. Sure, she gleefully promoted surveillance on abortion seekers, but it’s what she DIDN’T say in her confirmation hearings that could be worse than a Jesse Watters stag party at a Taco Bell. All that and a lawsuit win comes out of South Dakota, updates drop on the Texas midwife story we’ve been following, and Josh Hawley throws a tantrum over Plan C Pills’ website. GUEST ROLL CALL: What does it mean to build a world where sex education is rooted in pleasure, consent, and liberation? The dopest sex educator we know is HERE! Author and activist, Ericka Hart, who combines her lived experiences as a Queer, Black, Femme with her expertise as a sex educator for her book Nasty Work . BONUS: Ericka has a great story of some shenanigans that got her booted from the Peace Corps! PLUS! What do clowns, REI, catchy songs, and emotional healing have in common? HEB MURPHY! The comedian and digital creator delivers the serotonin as she joins the Buzzkills to talk about writing jingles that we can all somehow relate hard to, why touching grass is deeply therapeutic, and what Bill Nye and Ken Ham have to do with her going from conservative AF to queer AF by the age of 22. Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y’all. We gotchu. URGENT ACTION: Share Your Medication Abortion Story Now! Telling your story can help protect mifepristone and ensure others have the same opportunity you did to choose their own path. This is a moment that needs all of us to share our stories, amplify them in our communities, and turn them into real, lasting change. Share your experience with medication abortion at MifeStories.com . OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: You can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by clicking HERE for past Operation Save Abortion trainings, your toolkit, marching orders, and more. HOSTS: Lizz Winstead IG: @LizzWinstead Bluesky: @LizzWinstead.bsky.social Moji Alawode-El IG: @Mojilocks Bluesky: @Mojilocks.bsky.social SPECIAL GUESTS: Ericka Hart IG/Youtube: @ihartericka TikTok: @ihartericka1 Heb Murphy IG/Youtube/TikTok: @hebontheweb GUEST LINKS: BUY: Ericka’s Book, “Nasty Work” Ericka’s Website LISTEN: Ericka’s Podcast, “Hoodrat to Headwrap” Ericka’s Patreon Heb’s Linktree BUY: Heb’s Merch LISTEN: Heb’s Spotify WATCH: Heb Hangs on Twitch Heb’s Patreon</a

This week on Black Fat Femme , we sit down with the brilliant Ericka Hart to talk about their powerful new book Nasty Work —a deep dive into sex, power, and the labor of intimacy. We get into what it means to claim pleasure unapologetically, especially at the intersections of Blackness, queerness, and fatness. We also unpack the politics of credibility in the Black community—who gets taken seriously and why—sparked by conversations around figures like Cheyenne Bryant, and how degrees shape (and distort) trust. And yes, we go there: a candid, hilarious, and pointed discussion on why straight people should absolutely be paying more during Pride We want to hear from you! Send us an email with your thoughts/comments about the show: BlackFatFemmePod@gmail.com . Also, don’t forget to watch and subscribe on YouTube ! Buy DoctorJonPaul's book here! Buy Ericka's book here! Follow the show on social: Instagram | BlueSky | Threads | Tik-Tok | Facebook Follow DoctorJonPaul: BlueSky | Instagram | Website | Tik-Tok Follow Jordan: Instagram | Website | Tik-Tok Follow Ericka: Instagram | Tik-Tok | Website See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Season 14! We're kicking it off with an incredible conversation with Ericka Hart, author of the new book Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire, and Liberate Yourself! DB talks to Ericka about colonization, pleasure, shame, joy, and working in sex ed. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Ericka Hart (pronouns: she/they) is a black queer femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker and award-winning sexuality educator with a Master's of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University. IN THIS EPISODE: Ericka's book: Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire, and Liberate Yourself (this is an affiliate link, which really helps out our show!), Ericka's course Sex Ed as Resistance , the article we discussed in The Buzz , how to find out whose land you're living on right now , and the Indigenous Women Rising Rain Fund . DB donated, and if you can, you should too! TAKE OUR SMUT QUIZ: Find your page-turning turn-on with our new SMUT QUIZ! In just 5 questions, you'll get right to the good stuff with curated pages, poems, and audios. No slow burn. No fluff. Just pleasure.; Take the quiz here: https://sexedwithdb.fillout.com/smutquiz ASK AN ANONYMOUS SEX ED QUESTION: Fill out our anonymous form to ask your sex ed question. ABOUT SEX ED WITH DB: Sex Ed with DB is your go-to podcast for smart, science-backed sex education — delivering trusted insights from top experts on sex, sexuality, and pleasure. Empowering, inclusive, and grounded in real science, it's the sex ed you've always wanted. Season 14 of Sex Ed with DB is ALL ABOUT PLEASURE! Solo pleasure. Partnered pleasure. Orgasms. Porn. Queer joy. Kinks, sex toys, fantasies -- you name it. We're here to help you feel more informed, more empowered, and a whole lot more turned on to help YOU have the best sex. GET IN TOUCH: Email: sexedwithdb@gmail.com CONNECT WITH US: Instagram: @sexedwithdbpodcast ; TikTok: @sexedwithdb ; Threads: @sexedwithdbpodcast ; YouTube: Sex Ed with DB ; X: @sexedwithdb SEX ED WITH DB SEASON 14 SPONSORS: Uberlube , Magic Wand , Nancy , and Happy V . Get discounts on all of DB's favorite things here ! DISCOVER SEX POSITIVE EVENTS IN YOUR CITY: Subscribe to our newsletter for S.E.X I.R.L: your curated monthly list of sex-positive events, spaces, and experiences happening in person across major cities. FOR SEXUAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: Check out DB's workshop: "Building A Profitable Online Sexual Health Brand" SEASON 14 TEAM: Creator, Host & Executive Producer: <a href= "https://www.linkedin

Sexual wellness isn’t just about the physical—it’s about power, identity, and liberation. In this provocative and deeply necessary conversation, Shelah Marie sits down with trailblazing activist and sexuality educator Ericka Hart to explore the future of sex: how we unlearn shame, reclaim pleasure, and demand more from a system that has historically failed Black and marginalized communities. With raw honesty and humor, they tackle everything from body autonomy to intimacy after trauma, from the myths keeping us disconnected to the radical act of prioritizing our own pleasure. Want Shelah to answer your question? Record your question at: https://www.speakpipe.com/unruly and it could be featured on an upcoming episode.

Ericka Hart, M.Ed., D/s, pronouns: she/they, is a black queer femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker and award-winning sexuality educator. In this can’t be missed episode, we chat fatphobia and body neutrality, anger and racism, kink at pride and police at pride. We absolutely love this conversation with Erika and we hope you do too!

In this episode, the folks of Melanated Social Work connect with sex educator, activist, and writer, Ericka Hart. Tap in to hear about her experience as a sex educator, hear about a recent incident involving the Columbia School of Social Work, and a discussion about changing the system of higher education. recorded on 4/1/21

For this episode, Dr. G speaks with renowned sexuality educator, podcaster, model, cancer survivor and activist Ericka Hart (she/they) about the experience of existing in Black femme bodies, and the various systems (capitalism, fatphobia, transphobia, Western medicine, colorism, antiBlackness) impacting that lived experience. ( Click to download the episode transcript ) Episode Question to Ponder : What is your relationship to the Black Femme body? Guest Bio : A kinky, poly, cancer-warrior, activist and sexuality educator with a Master’s of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University, Ericka Hart has taught sexuality education for elementary aged youth to adults across New York City for over 10 years, including serving as a Peace Corps HIV/AIDS volunteer in Ethiopia from 2008-2010. Diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer in May 2014 at the age of 28, she realized that neither her identity as a queer black femme, nor her sex life as a survivor, was featured prominently in her treatment. She decided to do something about it: going topless (and viral) in public, bearing her double mastectomy scars to end the lack of black, brown LGBTQIA+ representations and visibility in breast cancer awareness. Dismantling the ways that systemic patriarchy and anti-black standards of beauty affect our everyday lives, Ericka is shifting ingrained cultural modes and attitudes on chronic illness and posits visibility as vital to any radically inclusive movement toward equity. But it is her work on the medical industrial complex that forces us to see our institutions and systems of care as complicit in the perpetuation of illness in marginalized communities; unabashedly centering and sentient such that queer, trans black, brown and femme voices aren’t lost among the drone of scholarly research less skilled than Hart in bringing academia to the places it refuses to go. Audiences around the world admire Ericka for her ability to challenge anti-blackness everywhere it rears its head–from the front pages of magazines, fashion week runways to the lectern. She is committed to empowering students to make a difference in the world and with each other, opening up robust discourse that connects sexual health and wellness to the systemic issues at the root of social injustice, helping students at over 20 colleges and universities across the country this past year alone discover actionable steps to confront those issues powerfully. More information about Ericka and their work can be found at iHartEricka.com . Episode References: Philly Women Rally (2017, Oct 18). Ericka Hart @ The Women's March on Philadelphia [Video]. YouTube.com ( click here to watch ) Ziyad, H. (2017) My gender is black. Afropunk.com ( click here to read )

What does it mean to be a woman? It’s a question that Charla and Lauren hadn’t thought too much about until their conversation with Ericka Hart. As a a sex educator, activist, writer, model, and plant mom Ericka Hart has spent her career working to dismantle anti-black and beauty standards that persist in our culture. Ericka shares exactly what led her to this work and some of the internal battles she had to overcome in order to flourish. You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/ Follow SLBW on Twitter and Instagram @theslbw Find Ericka Hart @ ihartericka on Twitter and Instagram Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Danielle and the team get real about their trauma in this episode, confronting hard truths and how to heal from them. The ladies explore everything from generational trauma, to coping mechanisms and Danielle has a therapeutic conversation with queer sex and racial justice educator Ericka Hart. Hosts: Danielle Cadet @dbcadet, Laurise McMillian @Lauriseirl, Channing Hargrove @Chan_inthecity, Raven Baker @Theglogoddess Instagram : @R29Unbothered Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you have any questions, any comments about the episode? Jimanekia would love to hear from you! Trauma Queen and Ericka Hart (@ihartericka) sit down to talk about all kinds of REAL conversations. From decolonizing sex ed to gate keepers and soo much more. www.traumaqueen.love Online Therapy - www.betterhelp.com/queen ACCESSIBILITY - Link to Transcription: --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/traumaqueen/support Thank you all for listening. Set a boundary with yourself this week, set a boundary with someone else. If someone else does not respect that boundary. LET THEM LOOSE YOU! Stay hydrated internally and externally. We do not have an ashy family. IG: @The_Trauma_Within Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thetraumawithin Jimanekia Ig: @Jimanekia

On this week's episode of RECLAIM I am joined by activist and sexual educator, Ericka Hart. Ericka shares their insightful views on a variety of topics, from the women's march to the #metoo movement, from sex education to performative social justice. This conversation is passionate and deep, offering a raw perspective on the ways we can do better to elevate the lives of those who have been historically marginalized. To grab the show notes including all the information on today's guest, go to www.ThaisSky.com/podcast/17 If you like what you heard, it would mean the world to me if you took a moment to leave a review and share this podcast with your community. Thank you for your generous attention. XO Thais Socials // Website: www.ThaisSky.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/IamThaisSky Instagram: www.instagram.com/IamThaisSky