10/10/25 Live Webinar, 6-8 PM ET

Erotic Thrivance: Pleasure, Growth, Prosperity

Decolonial eroticologist will share counter hegemonic narratives, tools and concepts to support healing journeys towards erotic wellbeing and prosperity. We have the right to information and sexual knowledge(s) that supports healing, emancipation and liberation. There are non-western perspectives that can support post-traumatic growth for erotically colonized folks while disrupting trauma responses, suspending damage, and celebrating resilience and erotic survivance. For privacy, this event will not be recorded.

Learning Objectives:

1. By the end of the webinar, participations will be able to define erotic thrivance.
2. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to identify at least one non-western concept or practice that supports erotic wellbeing.

AASECT Categories: CKA: (M) Pleasure enhancement skills & (c) Socio-cultural, familial factors in relation to sexual values and behaviors

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists AASECT and is approved for 2 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information contact [email protected]

Presenter Bio:
Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clarke Carnagie, PhD, MSW, MEd,CSE, CST, (Dr.;they/them, zie/zir) is an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, as well as a loveologist, cultural and clinical sexologist, Africa-centered social worker, anti-racist sexuality educator, decolonial eroticologist, decolonizing autoethnographer, and consultant. Dr. Hepworth Clarke is the first Jamerican (Jamaican-American) to earn three degrees in Sexuality Studies from accredited universities in the United States: a Bachelor of Arts from NYU in Sexuality, Culture, and Oppression (2007); a Master of Education in Human Sexuality (2012); and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Human Sexuality (2015) from the Center for Human Sexuality Studies at Widener University.

Dr. Hepworth Clarke is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work. They are a graduate of the National Academy for African-Centered Social Work, the International School of Transnational Decolonial Black Feminism in Brazil, and the Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Summer School in Barcelona, Catalonia.

They co-founded the anti-racist decolonial sexuality studies program at Goddard College and co-created the Decolonial Sexual Attitude Restructuring/Reassessment (D-SAR), a sexuality training program that helps participants examine the impact of settler-colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and cisheteropatriarchy on sex, gender, and relational dynamics.
As the director of The Pluriversity LLC, Dr. Hepworth Clarke offers decolonial guidance services, love education, consulting, and counseling with a commitment to increasing sexual multiepistemic literacy, erotic sovereignty, and sensual justice. Their work centers communities of the African diaspora, along with kinky, non-monogamous, queer, gender-expansive, and erotically marginalized populations.

Dr. Hepworth Clarke’s approach integrates anti-erotophobic, anti-oppressive, and healing-centered approaches to support individuals and communities through transformative processes related to intimacy, eroticism, gender, sexuality, pleasure, and relationships.

More information can be found at www.zelaika.com