Panel: “The Care Gap” – Sex, Pleasure and Community-based Care
S*MAC Forum, 60 min.
With: Martin*, Madi Awadalla
Care for our sexual lives comes from different places. It happens on dancefloors and in darkrooms, in peer networks and group chats, through the friend who knows which clinic won’t judge you and the stranger who checks you’re okay at 5am. That web of care matters more as austerity cuts into public health, the system retreats or falters, and the market steps in, selling pleasure, wellness and testing back to us as products and brands: some genuinely useful, many out of reach for the people who need them most.
Part panel, part knowledge share. Practitioners working inside the medical system and well beyond it pass on what they’ve learned about looking after our sexual lives: where the gaps are, how services actually work today, and what to do when the official route doesn’t.
We’ll talk about the care that happens in between: harm reduction and nightlife interventions, consent work and awareness-raising, peer-led support by and for sex workers, and the psychosocial care the system rarely pays for. Together we’ll ask what counts as care, who gets to define it, who pays for it (and profits from it), and what community-led care that makes room for pleasure, mental health and wellbeing should look like.
Panelist bios and more info on ticket page.
Location
tak Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg
Prinzenstraße 85F
10969 Berlin
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