Healing Pleasure Restriction

with Sonalee Rashatwar, LCSW, MEd 

Normative sex therapy is interested in creating cures for the mechanical dysfunction of healthy sexuality measured by cisheterosexist white supremacist standards. In working with sexual violence survivors for more than a decade, Sonalee Rashatwar - The Fat Sex Therapist - has noticed there is much more happening below the surface when we have a disordered relationship to pleasure. Disordered eating is just one type of disordered relationship with pleasure. In this workshop we will redefine pleasure outside of the narrow sex positive lens, map the ways racial capitalism encourages us to restrict, and unlearn moralism hierarchies.

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Sonalee Rashatwar, LCSW, MEd 

Sonalee Rashatwar (they/he) LCSW MEd is an award-winning clinical social worker, sex therapist, adjunct lecturer, and grassroots organizer. Based in Philly (licensed in NJ and PA), they are a superfat queer bisexual non-binary therapist and co-owner of Radical Therapy Center, specialized in treating sexual trauma, diet trauma, racial or immigrant trauma, and South Asian family abuse, while offering fat positive sexual healthcare. Sonalee received their Master of Social Work and Master of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University in 2016 and have been working in the field of anti-violence for 10+ years.