Ignacio Rivera: Building Your Healing Village: At The Intersections of Pleasure, Trauma and Survivorship

Come on out to Colton Chapel to see our featured Keynote Speaker: Ignacio Rivera.

Ignacio G Hutía Xeiti Rivera, M.A. who prefers the gender neutral pronoun, They, is an Activist, Writer, Educator, Sex(ual) Healer , Filmmaker, Performance Artist and Mother. Ignacio has over 20 years of experience on multiple fronts, including economic justice, anti-racist and anti-violence work, as well as mujerista, LGBTQI and sex positive movements. Their work is influenced by their lived experience of homelessness, poverty and sexual trauma. Ignacio’s work is also driven by the strengths of identifying as a survivor, transgender, Yamoká-hu/Two-Spirit, Black-Boricua-Taíno and queer.

The keynote, entitled "Building Your Healing Village: At The Intersections of Pleasure, Trauma and Survivorship,” will discuss the culture of sexual violence, the cycle of healing including how we need communal healing to achieve our own healing, how oppression plays into all of this, and how to navigate the thin line between survivor and harmdoer.