Interviews and Features in Print, Online Articles, & More
— 2022
- 07/20/22 — Decarcerating Care: Community-Based Healing Alternatives and How to Build Them by Danielle Smith, LSW, for the Ohio Chapter Magazine of the National Association of Social Workers (jump to page 13 for my interview)
— 2021
- 08/20/21 — What does ‘sex positivity’ mean? by Jessica Klein for BBC Worklife
- 07/01/21 — Sesso e felicità: cos’è la sex positivity by Claudia Santini for Elle Italy
- 06/21/21 — Why I Broke Up with Queer Astrology by Ty Baniewicz for Mic.
- 06/11/21 — 14 Microaggressions LGBTQ People Deal With All The Time by Kelsey Borresen for HuffPost
- 06/04/21 — 8 Ways Tarot Cards Can Help Your Mental Health… or Hurt It by Beth Anne Mayer for Healthline
- 05/03/21 — How Do Numbing & Desensitizing Lubes Work? Are They Safe? by Emily Deaton for Women’s Health Interactive
- 04/09/21 — What is Edging? The Sexual Benefits and How To Do It by Ashley Laderer for INSIDER
- 03/26/21 — Your Everything-to-Know Guide on What It Means to Be Cisgender by Sophie Saint Thomas and Taylor Andrews for Cosmopolitan
- 03/22/21 — How Polyamorists and Polygamists Are Challenging Family Norms by Andrew Solomon for The New Yorker
- 02/22/21 — How to Make Peace with your Jealousy by Reina Gatusso.
- 01/20/21 — What It’s Like to be With a Polyamorous Person by Kat Jercich for Cosmopolitan (print version)
- 01/27/21 — Most of US Wants Sex Ed in Schools: Why Isn’t It Federally Mandated and Funded? by Eleanor J. Bader for TruthOut
— 2020
- 12/31/20 — The 5 Best Water-Based Lubes On The Market by Emily Deaton for Women’s Health
- 09/03/20 — What Does It Actually Mean To Be “Sex Positive”? by Gabrielle Kassel for Healthline
- 08/31/20 — LGBTQIA Safer Sex Guide by Mere Abrams, LCSW & Gabrielle Kassel for Healthline
- 08/31/20 — How to Figure Out Which Birth Control Method Is Right for You by Gabrielle Kassel for Healthline
- 08/31/20 — If Sex Has to Have a Goal, It Should be Pleasure – Not Orgasm. Here’s Why by Gabrielle Kassel for Healthline
- 07/15/20 — What Sex Educators Can Teach Us About How To Socialize During COVID-19 by Brittany Wong for HuffPost
- 07/02/20 — Breaking the Cycle of Harm by Talia Gruber for BriarPatch Magazine
- 06/30/20 — Artists Remember Bella Luna & The Milky Way, Boston’s ‘Cheers’ For People Of Color by Arielle Gray for wbur
- 06/21/20 — Powerful mental health tips for LGBTQ individuals and their allies by Sarah Sloat for Inverse
- 03/24/20 — Mental Health Resources for Restaurant People by Dahlia Snaiderman for On The Line
- 03/14/20 — I Reported My Rapist to His Bosses. Now They Want Me to Meet With Him. by Stoya for Slate
— 2019
- 08/27/19 — 17 Therapist-Approved Books That Will Teach You Something New About Yourself by Anna Borges for SELF
- 05/23/19 — Why These Women Dumped People Who Weren’t Pro-Choice by Brittany Wong for HuffPost
- 05/20/19 — College Theme Parties Are a Hotbed for Gender Stereotypes. Here’s How To Change That. by Suzannah Weiss for Tinder’s Swipe Life
- 05/16/19 — How To Ask A New Partner If They Have An STI (Without It Being Weird) by Brittany Wong for HuffPost
- 04/02/19 — What An LGBTQ-Inclusive Sex Education Would Have Taught You by Brittany Wong for HuffPost
— 2018
- 10/28/18 — Why Can’t I Orgasm? by Nicole Fabian-Weber for Livestrong
- 10/26/18 — This Is What It’s Like To Be Polyamorous In College, As Told By 4 People by Hannah Schneider for Elite Daily
- 09/28/18 — Some sexual assault survivors were empowered by Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony yet others re-traumatized by Dakin Andone and Christina Zdanowicz for CNN
- 08/15/18 — Women of Color and The Diversity of Social Work by Nicole Clark for her blog
- 06/20/18 — Beyond Sex Tapes: Experts Weigh in on Celebrity Sex Advice by Nicole Fabian-Weber for Livestrong
- 05/21/18 — 8 Hardest Parts About Being Polyamorous That No Tells You (But I Will) by Sydnee Lyons for Elite Daily
- 05/08/18 — There’s A Difference Between An Open Relationship & Polyamory — Here’s What It Is by Elana Rubin for Elite Daily
- 02/27/18 — Trump Wants To Put Millions Of Dollars Into Abstinence-Only Education And These Latinx Sex Educators Aren’t Having It by Raquel Reichard for FIERCE mitú
- 02/15/18 — 9 Things People Get Wrong About Being Non-Binary by Suzannah Weiss for Teen Vogue
- 01/30/18 — What’s The Difference Between Polyamory & An Open Relationship? by Kasandra Brabaw for Refinery29
- 01/25/18 — Consent, Pleasure, & Pegging: The Sex Advice Millennial Women Never Got by Kasandra Brabaw for Refinery29
- 01/03/18 — Black and Brown Rainbow Stripes by Sarah Adler for Roundtable Journal, Issue 2
— 2017
- 11/29/17 — You’re Not Out of the Woods Yet: Advocates Share Tips for Hard Conversations by Hannah Sheehan for Rewire
- 10/20/17 — What Do To If #MeToo Is Triggering For You by James Loke Hale for Bustle
- 10/19/17 — For some, #MeToo sexual assault stories trigger trauma not empowerment by Sandee LaMotte for CNN
- 06/27/17 — Strategies To Support Non-Monogamous, Polyamorous Patients by Bianca Palmisano for Psychiatry Advisor
- 03/21/17 — The Growing World of Anonymous Dick Pic Appreciation Sites by Suzannah Weiss for Broadly
- 02/02/17 — Pornhub Launches New Sex Ed Site by Elizabeth Yuko for SheKnows
— 2016
- 10/25/16 — University of Chicago Tells Freshmen It’s Not Down With Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings by Elizabeth King for Complex
- 10/24/16 — The Sexperts Are Back and Ready for Your Questions by Kyler Sumter for BU Today
- 10/24/16 — MUSO puts sex myths to bed with lecture for The New Hampshire
- 09/07/16 — Orlando Shooting Highlights Disparities, Oppression in Latinx Community by Mike Givens for The Rainbow Times
- 07/28/16 — Everyone Wants to Talk About Sex. But Are They Doing It Well? by Lux Alptraum for Motherboard
- 06/15/16 — Queer Latinxs Share Love, Rage, Sadness and Strength For Our Family Lost in Orlando by Mey Rude for Autostraddle
- 05/04/16 — 5 Myths About Bisexuality Debunked by Lora Somoza for Vivala
- 04/07/16 — Lions, tigers, and butt plugs—oh my! by Katherine Burns for the Berkley Beacon
- 04/01/16 — A Guilt-Free Guide to Open Relationships and Getting All the Sex You Want by Sara David for NTRSCTN (now Complex)
- 03/23/16 — Quite Contrary: Lessons from three years of Sex Week by Summer Awad for the UT Daily Beacon
- 01/29/16 — How to put #FingersIntheBootyAssBitch the right way by Suzannah Weiss for NTRSCTN (now Complex)
- 01/06/16 — How to Have the Gentle Sex Your Doctor Ordered by Rachel McCarthy for Broadly / Vice
— 2015
- 12/15/15 — “I Really Feel Like I Have A Home” And Other Genderqueer Highlights From 2015 by Audrey White for Autostraddle
- 11/12/15 — Ronda Rousey Thinks Women Who Use Lube Have “Sandbox” Vaginas by Nicolas DiDomizio for Mic
- 11/10/15 — As Maxim columnist, UFC’s Ronda Rousey courts controversy from bedroom to White House by Staff Writers for Fox News Latino
- 11/05/15 — Maybe Don’t Listen to Ronda Rousey’s Bad Sex Advice by Joanna Rothkopf for Jezebel
- 11/05/15 — Ronda Rousey gives terrible sex advice: “If you need lube, then you’re being lazy” shows she has no business telling other people how to get off by Rachel Kramer Bussel for Salon
- 07/10/15 — Pulling Out Is As Effective As Using Condoms by Charlotte Shane for Broadly / Vice
- 07/14/15 — Is Orgasm Equality as Simple as Tit for Tat? by Rachel Kramer Bussel for Dame Magazine
- 07/11/15 — Rebel Girls: 20 Autostraddle Community Members Who Are Changing the World by Carmen Rios for Autostraddle
— 2014
- 12/18/14 — BUSSW Student Aida Manduley Joined BU’s 3rd Annual Sex in the Dark Event by Rebecca Deluca on the BUSSW News Section
- 11/24/14 — Glowsticks, vibrators and condoms galore: sex ed in college by Samantha Mellman in The Quad
- 10/29/14 — Here’s What Happens at a College Sex Panel by Shannon Nargi in AmericanInno
- 10/28/14 — Sex in the Dark Returns: Hottest Q&A on campus features a panel of “sexperts” by Samantha Pickette in BUToday
- 06/04/14 — RI: CSPH provides venue for community to share “Sticky Stories” by Lauren Walleser in The Rainbow Times
- 04/01/14 — Students stand up against sexual assault by Khin Su in The Brown Daily Herald
— 2013
- 09/09/13 — YWCA Rhode Island Launches ‘She Shines’ Radio Program by GoLocalProv Lifestyle Team for GoLocalProv
- 06/19/13 — QUEER AMERICA: LGBT people and communities across the country by Mike Yost in OUT Front Colorado
- 06/19/13 — Shaking up Somersworth Event gathers area entrepreneurs, activists for networking and more by Christina Higginbotham for Foster’s Daily Democrat
- 05/29/13 — Conference to educate professionals, community leaders on youth, sex, culture in The Cranston Herald
- 02/07/13 — Open Relationship Mini Interview with Aida: Exercise the Love Muscle by Sinclair Sexsmith in The Sugarbutch Chronicles
— 2012 and Before
- 12/09/12 — Conceiving Sex Weeks by Dan Stein in Yale Daily News
- 04/17/12 — Harvard Overachievers Fail to Make Sex Week Sexy by Doug Barry in Jezebel
- 04/16/12 — On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About Sex by Douglas Quenqua in The New York Times
- 03/16/12 — Sex week goes cross-cultural by Caroline Flanagan in The Brown Daily Herald
- 03/14/12 — Sex Week prompts contraception debate by Hannah Abelow in The Brown Daily Herald
- 02/15/12 — ‘Sex Week’ attracts controversy by Tom Owen for The Dartmouth
- 11/28/11 — Students fall short of sex expectations by Alexandra Macfarlane in The Brown Daily Herald
- 11/14/11 — “State reports spike in youth HIV cases by Eli Okun in The Brown Daily Herald