ABOUT ME
I am a sexuality scholar with a M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from UNC Greensboro. My research and personal interests have luckily aligned in this lifelong project.
From drawing diagrams of uteruses in my notebook my freshman year of college, to a formal campus program, then later a podcast format, Hoe Talks has been years in the making. I have spent years working with young people across difference to take control of their bodies, reproduction, and wellness through education.
Undertaking this project is a labor of love, lust, pleasure, and fullness. I am attempting to create a platform where my own thoughts can flourish along with the resources that I have spent years cultivating for people seeking real freedom through sex.
About Hoe Talks
Hoe Talks is my baby, my literal life’s work, and although I pursue other dreams it continues to pull me back home.
It is more than just the sexual education curriculum I started for my collegiate peers; Hoe Talks is about critical community and radical political consciousness. This platform seeks to bring the connections between race, gender, ability, class, sexuality (and more) to the forefront of conversations about sexual liberation. Here I aim to highlight other voices and experts alongside myself in order to bring pleasure and insight to any who will lend an ear. Hoe Talks continues to grow and evolve to become more than an education, a community, or a political commitment, but also a way of living and hoe-ing in alignment with the goals of social justice movements.
hoe talks : live & in living color
Aries, creator of Hoe Talks, is available for speaking engagements, workshops, panels, consultations, and more.
Check out the link below for details.
Other projects
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KAREN: the zine
In this digital project I pass through the history of white women’s racism, using it to contextualize the contemporary “Karen” we have all come to know through social media and viral trends. This zine includes links to videos, articles, music, and so much more to round out the reading experience to match the internet-age. Through this exploration of history, current trends, and alternative sources of knowledge, I bring to the forefront the realities of Black and White women as the oppressed-oppressor dynamic is muddled by the intersectionality of identity categories.
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Hoes Talk: The Podcast
Listen to my co-host, Ahmad, and I talk about sex from all sides. We address our own lives and experiences, desires, opinions, and the critical theory that informs our sexual practices. In an informal environment enjoy all the jokes, companionship, insightful information, and joy that this podcast has to offer.
Follow my co-host on twitter @riqonastee
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The Importance of Pleasure Politics and Other Tales
February of 2021 I presented at the National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates Conference. My presentation on Alice Dunbar-Nelson author and Black leader of the early 20th century centered her multiple marriages, literary work, and desire for erotic fulfillment as expressed by her personal letters. The paper I wrote and the presentation I gave based on that research project is one that asks Black women first, and all others afterwards, to seek pleasure and fulfillment in their lives and destroy the barriers that keep us from the erotic satiation we all need.
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Politics of Pleasure: A Conversation Zine on Our Thick Desires
Written in conjunction with Jasmine Getrouw-Moore and John Sopper, this zine explores the interconnectedness of pleasure and education. From sex education, to racialized objectification, to examining fiction and music as a site of redress, and so much more this zine presents a conversation about how to address issues of harm, oppression, and political urgency through a pleasure politic.