Resisting Norms, Reclaiming Power: Queer of Color Perspectives with Bernadette Calafell PhD

Join us on Thursday, November 20th at 9pm EST for our discussion with Bernadette Calafell PhD.

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🔍 What We’re Talking About

In this vibrant and defiant conversation, Dr. Bernadette Calafell brings Queer of Color Critique into the dungeon, where theory meets lived resistance. As a kinky, genderqueer Chicana and Hip-Hop Feminist scholar, Calafell invites listeners to imagine power not as domination, but as reclamation: an embodied practice of saying yes to oneself in a world that too often says no. Through reflections on race, desire, and community, she illuminates how intimacy can become a site of cultural survival and rebellion, where the politics of the body are rewritten through pleasure, story, and mutual care.

Challenging the sanitized narratives of both academia and mainstream kink, Calafell calls us to see how storytelling, consent, and vulnerability can transform oppressive histories into rituals of liberation. This episode is an invitation to unlearn the binaries of theory and practice, of shame and desire, and to live the complexity of being unapologetically embodied.

What might liberation look like when resistance itself becomes an act of pleasure?

🎙️ Meet Our Guest

Bernadette Marie Calafell, Ph.D. is a kinky, genderqueer, sapiosexual, pansexual Femme Chicana and Hip-Hop Feminist and Generation Xer.  Since graduating with her doctorate in Performance and Cultural Studies she has held academic appointments at universities across the country and traveled extensively to speak about her research at universities, conferences, and symposiums nationally, internationally, and virtually. Dr. Calafell’s award winning and nationally recognized activism, teaching, and research in Critical Sexuality Studies and Latina/o/xe Studies include foci in LGBTQ Studies, the experiences of BIPOC folx, Chicana, Black, and Hip Hop Feminisms, kink, BDSM, and sex work. She has been honored both by the National Communication Association, including being named a Distinguished Scholar, a rare distinction bestowed upon scholars who have been active in the discipline of  Communication Studies for more than twenty years and serve as exemplars. This distinction is particularly significant as a working class Chicana who started her education at the local community college and ended up with a Ph.D. Dr. Calafell has partnered with organizations, such as the Mile High Horror Film Festival and the Washington State Department of Licensing, to offer her expertise. She is also an active member of her local kink community where she is able to find joy in bridging theory and practice.  Dr. Calafell runs the Patreon ChingonaKinkPhD where she offers Chicana and Hip-Hop Feminist perspectives on Kink and BDSM as the Carrie Bradshaw of Kink. She also facilitates dialogues focused on kink related topics monthly at As You Like It in Eugene, Oregon.

Links

https://linktr.ee/chingonakinkphd

https://linktr.ee/bernadettecalafell

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