2022 WSW Sex & Sexuality Calendar

Katie
34 | Sex Positive Asexual
AFAB Intersex
The past couple of years have been… interesting. Just before
the pandemic hit, I met the love of my life, and, honestly, what
timing! These past years of the pandemic were hard enough
without having someone beside me to love me, to support me,
and to just sit in comfortable silence with me on those days
when we’re both exhausted from telecommute meeting after
telecommute meeting.
That was before I had to open my home to my father who
suffered a stroke late last year. This pandemic really brought
to the forefront a conversation on health: mental health,
physical health, even sexual health. These aren’t easy conversations
to have; between the constant stigmatization of mental and
sexual health and this weird viewpoint of illness as some sort of…
moral failing; it’s hard to find answers to questions everybody
has without feeling like you’re somehow weird or deviant for
asking. I am grateful to In Our Own Voices for holding space for
community where these conversations can happen, and where
staff, who genuinely care, work hard to provide information
and support to a marginalized community. Thanks to IOOV,
I was able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and a safe,
judgment-free zone to get tested for HIV.