May 15, 2026
2:00PM-4:00PM EST
IN PERSON EVENT: Boston Public Library, Brighton Branch
40 Academy Hill Rd., Brighton, MA 02135
$: Donation based
Presented by Taylor Harmon, MA, CSE
SEX WEEK BOSTON INFORMATION
We’re so excited to be a part of Sex Week Boston in May! It’s going to be a week of community focused sex education, queer and trans joy, and sexual liberation. Follow @sexweekbos and get on the email list for event updates!
Here are the details:
Sex Week Boston 2026 will be from May 10 to 17, 2026. It’s going to be a vibrant week of community focused sex education, queer and trans joy, and sexual liberation all around Boston.
Sex Week Boston centers sexual and reproductive justice, queer and trans liberation, and sexual freedom for all.
SWB loves sex education that is affirming of all genders, sexualities, desires, and relationship structures—with consent as a foundation. This means queer and straight friendly, asexual and allosexual friendly, trans and cis friendly, non-monogamy and monogamy friendly, and kink and vanilla friendly.
SWB’s vision for sex education comes from a perspective of intersectional liberation. This means recognizing the ways that sexism, racism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, capitalism, and other systems of oppression impact all our lives. It also means pushing back against these oppressive systems, both in our own lives and in our education and advocacy efforts.
SCIENCE AND SOUL OF PLEASURE EVENT DESCRIPTION
Join Darling Mental Health’s resident AASECT sex educator, Taylor Harmon, for a workshop that explores pleasure as both a biological experience and a source of personal and collective liberation. This workshop draws on the work of Audre Lorde, Emily Nagoski, and adrienne maree brown, whose frameworks offer an understanding of how pleasure operates in the body, how the erotic functions as a source of knowledge and power, and how cultivating pleasure can be a practice of care, resistance, and transformation.
The session will begin with a brief lecture grounding participants in key concepts, including Nagoski’s research on the physiology of pleasure and stress, Lorde’s articulation of the erotic as a site of knowledge and agency, and brown’s vision of pleasure as a tool for healing and social change. From there, participants will move into facilitated discussion to reflect on how pleasure shows up, or is constrained, in their own lives and relationships.
The workshop will conclude with activities designed to help participants identify what feels good, practice communicating needs and boundaries, and build skills for advocating for their pleasure with others. This event is intended for adults of all identities and is beginner friendly for those interested in pleasure activism. Emphasis will be placed on accessibility, consent, and honoring diverse bodies, desires, and lived experiences. Masks are not required but participants are welcome to mask.
