Aasect

08/24/2026

AASECT volunteer opportunities are now open!

Several volunteer positions are available across the Listserv/Community Moderation Committee and 2027 Conference Program Planning Committee, offering members multiple ways to share their time, perspective, and expertise. Learn more and submit your applications by September 13, 2026.

Learn more and apply for the Listserv/Community Moderation Committee:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HGRL5SD

Learn more and apply for the 2027 Conference Program Planning Committee:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DH95PY7

07/27/2026

Applications are now open for AASECT’s JEDI Scholarships and Microgrants!

These opportunities provide meaningful support for AASECT membership, certification, supervision, and community-based s*xuality education.

Learn more about available opportunities and submit your application by August 27, 2026 at https://www.aasect.org/2026-jedi-scholarships

07/17/2026

Save the date for AASECT 2027!

Join us in Detroit, Michigan from June 24–27, 2027, to celebrate AASECT’s 60th anniversary and experience the education, connections, and professional community that has united AASECT members for six decades.

More details coming soon.

07/15/2026

Let's shape the future of s*xual health together.

06/08/2026

From the bottom of our hearts: gracias, Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷

Thank you to the AASECT Board, the conference committees, our members, volunteers, presenters, speakers, and every person who helped bring this gathering to life.

Thank you to the people of Puerto Rico for welcoming us with warmth, culture, rhythm, generosity, and open hearts.

A special thank you to the technology, audio/video, and interpretation teams for making connection, access, and participation possible throughout the conference.

We leave with full hearts, meaningful conversations, new connections, and memories that will travel with us long after this conference ends.

Hasta la próxima. ❤️

06/07/2026

A beautiful farewell to Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷

Our AASECT members closed this gathering with connection, gratitude, and a delicious piña colada tasting—one more sweet reminder of the warmth, culture, and joy this island shared with us.

Thank you to everyone who came, connected, learned, laughed, danced, and helped make this conference so meaningful.

Puerto Rico, gracias por recibirnos con tanto corazón.

Until next time. ❤️

06/07/2026

06/07/2026

What an experience we had with Maribella and the beautiful Bomba experience. 🇵🇷

A heartfelt thank you to the community for dancing, sharing, and coming together with so much joy.

It was more than music and dance. It was rhythm, history, body, memory, joy, and community coming alive in the room.

Thank you, Maribella and El Junte Loiceño, for sharing this powerful cultural moment with AASECT and for reminding us that connection can be felt through movement, sound, and tradition.

Drop a ❤️ if you felt the rhythm, and don’t forget to tag us in your photos!

06/07/2026

S*x Research as Resistance ✨

What a powerful and necessary conversation with Dr. Carlos Rodríguez-Díaz at AASECT.

His presentation reminded us that s*x research is never only about producing knowledge. At its best, it can also be an act of resistance, disruption, and social change.

Dr. Rodríguez-Díaz also highlighted the importance of community-engaged research—research that does not simply study communities, but works with them, listens to them, and centers their lived realities.

By challenging stigma, inequity, and harmful assumptions in health systems, policy, and scholarship, s*x research can help us ask deeper questions: Who has been excluded? Who has been pathologized? Whose stories have been ignored? And what would research look like if equity, dignity, and community were at the center?

A meaningful reminder that rigorous research, community engagement, and justice-centered practice can belong together.

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