At The P Word, we love, organize and co-exist at the intersection of justice, safety and pleasure, dedicated to centering the experiences of queer and trans folks of color. We believe in the dreamy (but feasible) notion that everyone deserves a life filled with pleasure, safety, and community connection.

We provide Love, Intimacy, Pleasure, and Sex (LIPS) Education through an intersectional, justice-forward, pleasure-oriented lens. Afrosexology reminds us that our bodies are not sites that can solely experience harm, abuse and violence; but instead are sites capable of love, liberation, and pleasure.

Audre Lorde taught us that we are not to settle for things that are not natural to us and our bodies, including oppression, self-doubt, harm, imposter syndrome and violence. Instead, at the P Word, we encourage community members to dare to dream and reimagine a world that prioritizes safety and sustainability for all us, on all lands. With information, comes responsibility and the ability for folks to make the most informed decisions for themselves and their communities.

Intersectional and comprehensive education means delving into all aspects of our identities, backgrounds, hi(stories) and experiences—not just the comfortable ones. At the P-Word, we recognize that we must be bold enough live, exist and “be” in the future; because our reality isn’t sufficient. And isn’t one we devised. Instead, imagine, dare to dream, that a world exists where we can all tap into our erotic and our own elements within intimacy.

At the P Word, we co-create communities and learning spaces where love, pleasure, and compassion unapologetically and actively disrupt systems of organized state violence. As our founder, Sam Casanova, always says: “I want that full-bodied ‘yessssss’ for all of us, in whatever form it takes!”