ROGER KUHN

Dr. Roger Kuhn (He/Him) is a Poarch Creek Two-Spirit Indigequeer soma-cultural activist, artist, sex therapist, and sexuality educator.  Roger’s work explores the concepts of decolonizing and unsettling sexuality and focuses on the way culture impacts and informs our bodily experiences.  In addition to his work as a licensed psychotherapist, Roger is a faculty lecturer of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University.  He is a board member of the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco, a community organizer of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirit powwow, and a member of the LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.  In 2022, Roger was featured in the Levi’s Pride campaign.  At the time of this conference, he was writing his first book, Soma-Cultural Liberation, which will be published by North Atlantic books in 2024.

BEN STIMPSON

Ben Stimpson (He/They/Them) is an Ontario based queer counsellor and writer in the areas of spirituality and therapy.  Ben's physical practice is located on the Haldimand Tract, the unceded traditional lands of the Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Chinonton peoples.  Ben is a graduate of the Spiritual Psychotherapy program of the Toronto based Transformational Arts College and is a member of the UK's National Counselling Society.  An eternal student, Ben is currently in their final year of completing a Bachelor of Liberal Arts with focus on religious studies, medieval studies, history and classical studies at the University of Waterloo.  Ben's major interest is in utilizing spirituality as a modality for healing and personal exploration by marginalized peoples, particularly queer identities.  Ben's first book "Ancestral Whispers: A Guide to Developing Ancestral Veneration Practices" is set to be released in September 2023 through Llewellyn Worldwide, and focusses on working with ancestral story and healing as a lived spiritual practice.

MARTHA KAUPPI

Martha Kauppi (pronouns she or they) is a marriage and family therapist, educator, author, speaker, and AASECT-certified sex therapist and supervisor. Martha has a private practice in Madison, Wisconsin, the ancestral land of the Ho-Chunk Nation, where she specializes in complex relational therapy, a broad range of sex issues, diverse sexual expression and alternative family structures. Martha offers unique educational offerings to help therapists all over the world become comfortable, confident, and competent working with sex issues and consensual non-monogamies. She is the author of Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients).

SHADI K

You can find out more about Shadi here.

RANJITH KULATILAKE

Ranjith Kulatilake (he/they) has been working with LGBTQ+ refugees and newcomers for more than a decade. He coordinates The Neighbourhood Group Community Services’ Rainbow Connect resettlement support program. For his work Ranjith received the 2021 City of Toronto Access, Equity and Human Rights Pride Award, the 2020 Anti-oppression Master in Social Work Award at the Toronto Metropolitan University, and the 2014 United Way Toronto Award for Innovation and Creativity. Ranjith was a member of the City of Toronto’s 2SLGBTQ+ Community Advisory Body from November 2020 to November 2022. He is an advisory committee member of the Positive Spaces Initiatives at Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI). He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in social work. Ranjith is also a PhD student in social work at York University.

ROMEL SANTIAGO

As a clinical social worker, Romel has been treating individuals since 2015. Prior to that, Romel had been providing sexual health education and counseling in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Philadelphia since 2005. Throughout the years Romel has specialized in working with Non-Gay Identified Men who have Sex with Men (NGI-MSM) and presented various research on this population. 

Romel’s clinical approach is getting in and getting out. Romel’s company, Romeos Sensation LLC focuses on discharging folks between 6-18 months, emphasizing the idea therapy is not for life. As a sex therapist, it becomes about getting folks to shift their definition and experience of sex and sexuality. Romel’s definition of sex is ‘The unselfish exploration of pleasure’. Restructuring the ideas surrounding what sex is and how we experience sex, has long been a passion of Romel’s. 

Romel identifies as a gender non-conforming Androphile within the BDSM/Kink Community and Romel is one of the founders of the Florida chapter of a Leather Organization for Men of Color in Leather.

Ljudmila Petrovic (she/her/hers) is a Registered Clinical Counsellor based in what is colonially known as “ British Columbia," specifically on the unceded and occupied lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is a queer, cis, able-bodied white settler with immigrant experience, born in the former Yugoslavia. She does individual and relationship counselling primarily with survivors of sexualized violence, queer and trans folks (including those navigating complex identity intersections), and folks navigating various relationship structures. Prior to becoming a counsellor, she spent over a decade doing frontline work in various sectors, including with youth and in anti-violence and harm reduction settings. She holds an MA in counselling psychology from Simon Fraser University, where her thesis research focused on identity-building and intergenerational trauma in conflict-generated diaspora. Ljudmila believes in community work and activism as part of her therapeutic work and outside of her clinical practice, she organizes around various issues, including in the queer Balkan diaspora. To create balance, she finds ways to root into joy and community wherever she can, including through cooking and baking, spending time in nature, and finding queer subtext in any movie or show she watches with her cats, Wayne and Garth. 

ALOK

Comedian, Artist, Poet, Cultural Sensation, Public Thinker and Heroine of the Loving Clap Back. You won’t want to miss their warmth and wit.