Talking Taboos Foundation

It's #TrusteeWeek so wanted to take a moment to say a huge thank you to our amazing Trustees at the Talking Taboos Foundation. We are so lucky this year to have welcomed Louise McLaren, Shivani Gangrade and Katie Mallion to our board to join Hannah Marcus and Giles Gibbons. The integrity, generosity and thoughtfulness of all our trustees helps our charity be the best it can be. I love our board meetings and every contribution that our trustees make to Talking Taboos. Thank you to our trustees and all the trustees out there running charities - it's not always easy but it's hugely valuable!

Living with Crohn's or Colitis can be hard. Over the last year Common Collective has been working with Crohn's & Colitis UK to create a community-led understanding of the impact of the conditions on people's lives. The quality of life survey is now live. It takes around 10 minutes. If you have Crohn's or Colitis, are 18 or over and live in the UK please take part using the link below, we want to learn how you are affected. https://lnkd.in/eDAWe-Df

We are throwing it back to World Menopause Day and reminiscing about our inaugural Equity in Menopause festival brought to you by You and Me_nopause and Black Female Doctors UK. We celebrated a safe, inclusive and diverse space of insight, exchange, interaction and reflection ? It was such a successful day that went beyond all of our hopes and dreams and we are overwhelmed with joy and gratitude for the heartwarming feedback we continue to receive daily ever since. We are at a loss for words for the support we’ve received so far. One thing is for certain, this space was desperately needed and we are honoured to have been able to make this possible. ???? ??Thank you to our wonderful organising team including Dr Yansie Rolston Maureen Anderson Debi Lewinson Roberts Dr. Aziza Sesay. ??Thank you to all of our extremely knowledgeable and esteemed speakers, facilitators and panellist who provided their expertise to the talks. ??Thank you to our talented artists, masseuse, chef, entertainers, photographers, social media manager and so many more. ??And finally, a heartfelt thank you to our attendees who made the environment feel magical. The event was filled with love, respect and kindness. We are eternally grateful. ??And guess what? We’ll be back - bigger and better for 2025!!! If you’d like to be involved please email [email protected] ???We would also like to request your participation on our Habari Research and share with others. Link in bio. Our diversity and uniqueness is our superpower ?? ?? by our wonderful @sharronewallace ???? #worldmenopauseday #equityinmenopause #health #inclusiveresearch #inclusivecare #menopauseawareness Dr Anna Kusi Vikram Sinai Talaulikar Tracy Achieng-Ouko SAHIR AHMED EVANS Nitu Bajekal Elaine Banton Meera Bhogal Le'Nise Brothers Natalie Campbell Katie Day Raga D'silva Sheree Hargreaves Dawn Heels Itunuoluwa Johnson-Sogbetun Aaliyah Kelly-Hibbert Amari Leigh Andreena Leeanne Rose Matthews Lavina Mehta MBE Dr Wendy Molefi Marie Morice MSc, CSC Florence Nolan Dr Linia Patel (PhD) Shamina Pathan Claire Phipps Eneh Jones-Odeh Rianna Raymond-Williams FRSA FRSPH Lesley Regan Tanya Simon-Hall Tosin Sotubo-Ajayi Pamela Windle She/Her Dr. Pen Mendon?a khadijatou doyneh

Wow what a fantastic night we had on Wednesday, Stripping away the Stigma around Shameful Sex! Thank you to our wonderful panel who shared so bravely and honestly about their own experiences, as well as their experiences from working in Sex, Health, Intimacy and Wellbeing. You are amazing Benjy Kusi, Assoc CIPD?????Simphiwe Sesane MSc BSc (Hons) DFSRH FRT Gaby Hasham Brook @Robbie Taylor Hunt. All expertly chaired by our fantastic trustee, Hannah Marcus And thank you to the audience, who showed up willing to get comfortable feeling a bit uncomfortable ?? We had the most question submissions we ever have via the Taboo Box, so follow along here and on our IG to see how we answer them ?? That's a wrap on our taboo events for us this year! Join us in December for the launch of Todays Taboos 2024, revealing the four taboo topics most troubling to society this year. Sign up to our mailing list via our website to be the first to hear what they are, and see you in December!

The difference between sexuality and sexual orientation & why it matters: These terms are often used interchangeably, but there’s an important distinction between them – and understanding this difference can help address the hypersexualisation that LGBTQIA+ people often face. Sexuality is a broad term that includes a person’s sexual feelings, desires, behaviours, and preferences. It describes how someone expresses their sexual identity – who they’re attracted to, how they experience attraction, and the ways they define their sexual expression. Sexual orientation, on the other hand, specifically refers to who someone is attracted to, focusing on attraction itself rather than behaviour. For example, a bisexual person may be attracted to more than one gender without necessarily engaging in relationships with each. So, knowing someone’s sexual orientation doesn’t give a complete picture of how they express their sexuality. In essence, sexual orientation tells us who someone is attracted to, while sexuality reflects how they experience and express these feelings. Both can change over time and are unique to each person. Recognising this difference is particularly important for LGBTQIA+ people. When sexuality and sexual orientation are conflated, LGBTQIA+ identities can be reduced to sexual acts, feeding into the hypersexualisation and unfair scrutiny the community often faces. While this conflation isn’t unique to LGBTQIA+ people, it’s worth noting that, due to the normative, dominant status of being cisgender + straight, the impact does differ. This isn’t to say that others don’t experience hypersexualisation, but that LGBTQIA+ people do face additional layers of scrutiny in this specific way. Understanding the difference between sexuality and sexual orientation helps foster more respectful and accurate conversations that don’t reinforce harmful stereotypes. #linkedinlearning #inclusion #lgbtqia #lgbtq #sexualorientation

Wow what a fantastic night we had on Wednesday, Stripping away the Stigma around Shameful Sex! Thank you to our wonderful panel who shared so bravely and honestly about their own experiences, as well as their experiences from working in Sex, Health, Intimacy and Wellbeing. You are amazing Benjy Kusi, Assoc CIPD?????Simphiwe Sesane MSc BSc (Hons) DFSRH FRT Gaby Hasham Brook @Robbie Taylor Hunt. All expertly chaired by our fantastic trustee, Hannah Marcus And thank you to the audience, who showed up willing to get comfortable feeling a bit uncomfortable ?? We had the most question submissions we ever have via the Taboo Box, so follow along here and on our IG to see how we answer them ?? That's a wrap on our taboo events for us this year! Join us in December for the launch of Todays Taboos 2024, revealing the four taboo topics most troubling to society this year. Sign up to our mailing list via our website to be the first to hear what they are, and see you in December!

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What a fantastic and frank conversation we had at the Talking Taboos Foundation’s Shameful Sex event last night. Three things really stood out to me about the power that taboos hold over us: shame, stereotypes and assumptions. Shame - taboos created a culture of judgement and shame, which we can often internalise and harm ourselves and others with. We need to fight this by removing the silence that taboos hold over us. Stereotypes - taboos often come with stereotypes of who is affected or how people do or ought to behave or feel, often these stereotypes are inaccurate and create false beliefs that hold us back. Assumptions - in the space of silence that taboos create our minds fill in the blanks with the stereotypes and other negative assumptions that again are not accurate and negatively affect us. Our assumptions might hold us back from experiencing pleasure or push us into painful situations because we assume it’s what’s expeted. We break the power of taboos by opening conversations, getting comfortable being a bit uncomfortable and being honest and a bit vulnerable. We need to show up and support our friends and colleagues in these conversations- removing judgement, and listening and learning empathetically. About the event… The event started with a panel conversation- introduced by Florence Nolan who talked about our charity’s mission and why these events are so important, then Hannah Marcus chaired a brilliant panel with Robbie Taylor Hunt, Benjy Kusi, Assoc CIPD?????, Simphiwe Sesane MSc BSc (Hons) DFSRH FRT and Gaby Hasham. The conversation touched on shame, pleasure and the importance of using the right language, good communication and freeing ourselves from assumptions. The audience then got the chance to break for a bit of a chat and submit their questions… and there were a lot of questions (we’re going to try to figure out a way to answer some that we didn’t get to last night). I love how the conversation and cadence of the panel shifts at that point in our events - to enter topics and spaces that the audience have need for and help shape. Thanks to all our panelist’s for showing up fully and sharing their experience - professional and lived. What next? That’s a wrap on our todays taboos for last year - we’ve covered Unruly Bowels, Shameful Sex, Daily Disgusts and Unmentionable Mental Health. Next years taboos are nearly ready and we’ll be launching very soon so keep an eye out for news on that.

Are you free Wednesday night? We've got a fantastic panel and discussion lined up for the last in the series of Today's Taboos, hosted at Impact Hub Euston. The fabulous Hannah Marcus will be chairing a panel with Benjy Kusi, Assoc CIPD?????, Gaby Hasham, Simphiwe Sesane MSc BSc (Hons) DFSRH FRT and Robbie Taylor Hunt! There's just a few tickets left so book now and come and say hi to us! https://lnkd.in/egM3VfQE

it's not too late to join us at our event tomorrow, we have a few tickets left! come join us for a fascinating discussion on taboos around sex - I had some of my assumptions challenged just in prepping with the panel, so I know it's going to be a fascinating discussion