On A Pleasure-Centered Approach to Trans Sexualities (Livestream)

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In her work, sex therapist and author Dr. Lucie Fielding seeks to move trans sexualities from the margins of gender-affirmative clinical practice to centering pleasure and sparking creativity and empathic attunement within the client-provider relationship.

Dr. Fielding's groundbreaking book, Trans Sex, challenged limiting models of gender-affirming care focusing on resolving gender dysphoria, preserving sexual function, and highlighting sexual losses that may arise because of transition pathways. In the latest expanded second edition, Trans Sex offers new concepts such as gender-pleasure and solidarity to bring theory to practice and features contributing trans and gender expansive authors working at the intersections of sexuality and gender. Grounded in social justice, somatics, and queer theory, Dr. Fielding and contributors offer new frameworks for a nuanced pleasure-centered approach to nurturing trans erotic embodiment and finding gender-pleasure in the body.

Join CIIS Human Sexuality faculty and Trans Sex contributor Dr. Roger Kuhn for a conversation with Dr. Fielding exploring a pleasure-positive approach to working with trans and gender expansive individuals. Dr. Fielding shares how mental health and medical providers can harness creative strategies to enhance their practice and become more imaginative, ethically curious providers. She discusses tools and strategies for trans and gender expansive folks and allies for circumventing limiting understandings of the erotic and opening a potential universe of pleasure that celebrates the polymorphous perversity of our bodies.

Dr. Lucie Fielding, PhD, LMHC, LPC (she/they) is a white, neurodivergent, queer, trans misogyny affected (TMA) femme, and a therapist practicing in Virginia and Washington (on Monacan lands and unceded Duwamish territory, respectively). They specialize in sex therapy, kink-knowledgeable therapy, 2SLGBTQIA-knowledgeable therapy, sex work-affirming therapy; and they work from narrative, imaginal, and somatic frameworks that honor the (intergenerational) wisdom of the body, promote community-care, and support empowered embodied eroticism. She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (2018) and a PhD in French from Northwestern University (2008), specializing in erotic literature. Their background in literature attunes them to the ways that cultural scripts inscribe themselves on our bodies and inform our embodied erotic lives. In addition to being a therapist, Lucie is a sex and kink educator who has facilitated workshops for a range of groups, organizations, universities, and agencies. They are the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (2021), which was named a 2022 Lambda Literary Award finalist (in the Trans-Nonfiction category) and the winner of the 2022 AASECT Book Award (Book for Sexuality Professionals), the 2024 SSTAR Health Professionals Book Award, and the 2024 APA Division 44 Distinguished Book Award. A revised and expanded second edition of Trans Sex will be published in late 2025. You can find out more about Lucie at: https://luciefielding.com or follow them on Instagram (@sexbeyondbinaries) or BlueSky (@sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social).

Dr. Roger Kuhn is a Poarch Creek Two-Spirit Indigiqueer soma-cultural sex therapist, sexuality educator, writer, activist, and musician. Roger’s work explores the concepts of decolonizing and unsettling sexuality and focuses on the way culture impacts and informs our bodily experiences. He is a community organizer of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirit powwow, and a board member of the Two-Spirit & Native LGBTQ+ Center for Equity. His first book, Somacultural Liberation, is available in both paperback and audio. His music can be streamed on all digital platforms.

www.rogerkuhn.com