Decolonising Queerness and Making Sex Playful with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Hannah Witton

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, who is a decolonising sex educator with the School of Sex Ed and Decolonising Contraception, as well as the founder of Inclusive Tamil Arts. Gayathiri discusses the history of what we're teaching as sex educators, looking at how we know what we know and at whose expense we know it. They and Hannah talk about what it means to decolonise queerness, and queerness in Tamil history. Finally, Hannah and Gayathiri discuss centring joy in sex educator work and how important play, imagination, and creativity are in both education spaces and our sexuality!

MORE ABOUT GAYATHIRI KAMALAKANTHAN
Gayathiri (they/she) is a sex and relationships education facilitator and writer. Working with the School of Sexuality Education and Decolonising Contraception, they aim to create decolonising and inclusive spaces for underserved communities. Gayathiri is the founder of Inclusive Tamil Arts - a community space for people of all sexualities and genders, to create and celebrate inclusive Tamil arts and culture.

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unembarrassable/
- School of Sexuality Education Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/school_sexed/
- Inclusive Tamil Arts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inclusivetamilarts/

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0:00.0	The point that we want to be at is that no one like questions or like challenges
0:04.4	you about your own identity because it doesn't make any sense for someone to be like,
0:09.2	oh, I know better than you about who you are, right?
0:13.2	That is in a sentence like the colonial problem.
0:21.1	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships,
0:27.3	dating and our bodies.
0:32.8	Hi, welcome back to doing it in the UK.
0:36.3	It is currently LGBT History Month and normally I'm really bad at remembering to time relevant episodes around Awareness Days, weeks, months.
0:46.9	And this is no different. I just got lucky this time that this episode we happened to talk about some of the history of
0:56.3	queerness and colonization there is so much LGBTQ plus history in uk and in the rest of the world
1:04.7	definitely go and check out LGBT plus spelt plus history history month.com.org,
1:12.0	LGBT plus history month.com.com.
1:14.5	Where you can find a calendar of all sorts of online events happening that you can get
1:21.1	involved in from workshops, virtual working from home for the LGBT plus community,
1:30.3	talks, Q&As and film screenings. And of course, lots of other organisations are doing all sorts of things for LGBT History Month,
1:37.3	so get involved. Also, if you haven't watched It's a Sin on Channel 4 yet, I would highly recommend.
1:46.2	But you may need to pace yourself because it is a lot.
1:50.5	It is beautiful and heartbreaking.
1:53.6	It's about the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s and I won't ramble on about it now.
1:58.7	But it is brilliant.
2:00.1	Definitely go and check it out if you
2:01.7	haven't already. So my guest this week is the wonderful Gayathri Kamala Kanthan. They are a
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