Statement of Solidarity: At ASPECC we will fight tooth and nail to prevent any province or federal government from restricting the rights of transgender, 2spirit, and/or queer people of Canada. This has been an incredibly difficult post to write. Like many you, I was devastated to see Marlaina Smith’s newest…

This just hit my inbox, and I am SO EXCITED!! There is a research team that includes sexuality experts, health care professionals and kink community folk that aims to explore, name and help bridge the gaps in healthcare for kinky people! I desperately want to get involved, on the research…

Recently an article posted on the Canadian Bar website was shared with me. The article is Hot for Kink, Bothered by the Law: BDSM and the right to autonomy“, written by Ummni Khan, (August 8, 2016). It is one of many books, articles and blog posts I have seen that…

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That’s right, I am talking about consent… Again. I will probably still be talking about when I am 107 years old, unless we, as a collective and as individuals, really start to unpack our gender-based expectations; our anitquated ideas about sex and sexuality; our onging entitlement to having our needs…

There’s been an ongoing conversation at the centre about the overlap between the autism spectrum detention deficit Spectrum and the BDSM community. Many of us have noticed patterns of behaviour in the Kink community that could be indicative of folk who are on these spectrums. (Folk like ME!) We’re not…

Written by Angel (they/she) Content Warning: I am going to talk about my own experience with body shaming, fitness based yoga and compare it to this experience. I wasn’t going to go. I arranged for one of the board members to be the co-host (thank you for stepping up, you…