Sexuality

Through first-person stories, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah explores how desire, religion, queer life, trauma, and community shape sexual freedom across African and diasporic contexts.

Angela Chen uses asexual people’s accounts to question sexual attraction as a measure of adulthood, love and normality, reframing freedom through refusal and relationship differences.

Ho and Tsang use Hong Kong experiences to question expert authority, sexual hierarchies and research language, treating everyday accounts of desire as knowledge.

Adrienne Rich's groundbreaking 1980 essay challenges the assumption that heterosexuality is natural or innate, arguing that it is a political institution that has been imposed upon women and that a 'lesbian continuum' offers a space for female resistance and solidarity.

At a strict Himalayan boarding school, a teenager’s sexual awakening collides with institutional discipline and her mother’s interrupted youth, making desire an intergenerational feminist question.

Nepali activist Bivishika Bhandari argues that naming bodies and sexuality is a practical condition for health, autonomy, and economic participation, especially for women taught to treat their own anatomy as shameful.

Sex educators Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi use humor to question sexual shame and rigid scripts, inviting viewers to place pleasure, communication and autonomy back in their own embodied experience.

This All My Relations episode with Kim TallBear discusses critical polyamory, Indigenous relational ethics, feminism, and settler marriage, making it a key audio resource on how sex, intimacy, and family are structured by colonial power.