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Interview with sex educator Kim Loliya

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Kim Loliya is a trained sex educator, facilitator and body-based coach specializing in women's sexuality and empowerment. In addition to one-on-one sessions with clients and couples, she runs workshops, courses and retreats in the UK and abroad. She is also one of the editors for  Sex+ , a sex positive magazine rewriting narratives about sex. What is sex education? What does a sex educator really do? What I do has multiple strands. The first strand is education, it’s really about speaking to people, running workshops, doing presentations, talking about sexuality and talking about relationships on subjects like consent. It’s similar to what I did a couple of weeks around the orgasm gap or things that interest people around sex, relationships and sexual health as well. Sometimes that goes into areas that are related to sexuality such as well-being, vulnerability, how we communicate our desires and what feels good, etc. That side is very public facin...

Interview with Catriona Smith, founder of Mini Schmidt Productions

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Catriona Smith is a writer, curator and artist based in London & Glasgow. In 2018, she founded  Mini Schmidt Productions  with the aim to create work on what she feels society around her needs to hear most about. She has recently produced a series of sex positive events for those who would like to know more about sex positivity, equality within sex and consent. The project is a collaboration between  Sex+ Zine  and  The Empowered Woman Project , led by Kim Loliya and Mandy Rose Jones.  What can you tell me about Mini Schmidt productions? My own company is a bit of a mish mash, I started off as an actor and became quite disenfranchised with the profession. It’s quite daunting, specially, for women regarding things like aesthetics and weight. I think it’s quite soulless and I just sort of thought, “I’d like to be in charge of the projects that I want to do, I want to be my own boss, I’m tired of bubbling around people”. In the acting ...