Our online speaker series opens up space for honest conversations about sexuality, gender, body sovereignty, and sexual health through decolonial and Indigenous perspectives. We’ll explore how colonial histories, contemporary policies, and social norms have shaped the way we understand gender, sexuality, desire, our bodies, and our relationships, and how we can reconnect with liberating, culturally grounded ways of being.
Featuring Indigenous and decolonial sexual health educators, midwives, Aunties, knowledge keepers, performers, and scholars, the series includes talks and discussions on safer sex, consent, body autonomy, queer joy, and the power of pleasure in resistance. Other potential topics may include Two-Spirit teachings, monogamy/polyamory, peri/menopause, in/fertility, medicinal plants for menstruation and sexual wellness, and arts-based practices for healing.
Interested in a specific topic? This series is grounded in community care and collective learning, which means that your thoughts and voices matter. We’re inviting you to share the topics and ideas that feel most relevant and timely to your lives and the times/places we live in. Your input will help shape future sessions and scheduling to ensure this series remains relevant in what matters most to you.
You can share your thoughts anonymously (here) or reach out directly. We’re listening and we’re building and strengthening community together.
We’re thrilled to announce the first session of our Tipi Confessions Speaker Series featuring Ashleigh Cardinal (She/They), a Two-Spirit nehiyaw artist, educator, and advocate who is deeply rooted in community wellbeing.
Ashleigh is a dedicated helper, actively involved with the Edmonton 2 Spirit Society, the Premier's Council on MMIWG2S+ and the Skydancer Indigenous Cultural Centre. Ashleigh is also a passionate cultural tattoo practitioner, who loves participating in tattoo ceremonies to support Indigenous Peoples in reclaiming tattooing as an ancestral practice. As a facilitator with a profound love for educating, Ashleigh's work beautifully blends artistic expression with passionate advocacy, striving to uplift and empower. Ashleigh is honored to share their insights and experiences with you all.
Follow Ashleigh:
Instagram: @heartxmedicine
TikTok: @heartxmedicine
Join us for an intimate lunch hour to learn more from Ashleigh’s stories, teachings, and reflections. Online - Register now: linktr.ee/tipiconfessions.
Our Speaker Series is supported by the Edmonton Heritage Council and the City of Edmonton through Funding Indigenous Resurgence in Edmonton (FIRE).
To be announced shortly.