Let's Talk About Sex
An Educational Podcast for Migrant Communities
Breaking down sexual taboos through the exploration of sex, resources, opportunity, the environment, personhood, and culture.
Hablame Sucio will begin the conversation with immigrant families in a slow and easily digestible manner. Discussing the importance of normalizing conversations about sex while alluding to adolescent behaviors in stricter [and more regulated] environments, will develop a pathway for the typically taboo conversation.
What price are you willing to pay? begins to examine structural economic, cultural, religious, and social barriers that prevent comprehensive sexual education. Through a Critical Medical Anthropological perspective, I hope to address the advantages/disadvantages of holistic sexual education and increase awareness about safety/reproductive technology for minorities.
The trees around us will employ a medical ecological perspective in understanding the connections between sexual understanding, sexual behaviors, and the environment. This episode will also encourage the audience to engage in discourse and introspection concerning sexual scripts over time, evolutionarily and generationally.
Tu y yo, yo y tu will discuss diversity in sexual relationships while alluding to ideas of autonomy, personhood, embodiment of experiences, and social structure. Through a meaning-centered approach, this episode attempts to tie the larger themes of introduced throughout the other episodes to an individual level. By reincorporating personhood and the “patient” experience in sexual education and its methods, will offer a new perspective in its application across these communities.
A Whole New World will investigate how the theoretical frameworks of medical anthropology and their connections to contemporary reproductive practices. This episode will also provide examples of ethnomedicine in relation to sexual scripts and the benefits of family planning/contraceptives.