Summary: We decided to pause our pilot program in October 2024 after a few survivors expressed concerns in a Facebook group about the community’s safety if we were to return to facilitation and/or participation in sacred sexuality or sex positive events.    A Conscious Pause on EP Events We deeply appreciate those who participated in and supported our pilot event program. This program is an important part of our larger Accountability Process, in which we have been actively engaged for the past 23 months.   For those who are not aware of the details, we scheduled three pilot events with the intention of practicing what we’ve learned from our Restorative Justice and Accountability Processes. As part of our pilot event program, our Accountability Team (including Kamela Love, Miles Hurwitz, and three additional professional colleagues) reviewed our event materials and gave feedback from a lens of trauma-informedness, gender and relationship diversity, and racial j...

  Hello! We hope you are all having a wonderful summer. As we begin our reintegration process, we wish to acknowledge the way we have harmed individuals and community and be accountable. We are certain that the findings from the Restorative Justice (RJ) report and accountability process are only a subset of the hurts and harms experienced. We wish to inform anyone following our journey about how to express concerns, hurts, and additional feedback that you or others may not yet have shared for all sorts of reasons. Fear of retaliation, not wanting to “pile on,” not having the energy to re-engage with past hurt, trauma, or for a myriad of other reasons, you may not yet have named your pain and shared your story with us. We invite any people who have been hurt in some way by either of us or at one of our events and who have not yet shared your story, to fill out our Accountability-Related Feedback Form (which can be completed anonymously), now live here - www.empoweredpleasure.org/f...

  Content/Trigger Warning This document details an accountability process and includes experiences of harm, including sexual harm. History of our Accountability Process In January 2023, we (Cliff and Charity) were invited into a Restorative Justice and Accountability process by Melanie Moseley.  Very sincere thanks to Mel for pushing us into this – it’s made a huge difference in our lives in many ways, and we wouldn’t have done it without her insistence. In March 2023, an anonymous survey form was provided to members of the Portland, OR sex-positive community by Marita DeLeon, Restorative Justice Practitioner & Equity Informed Mediator to report harms done primarily by Cliff and secondarily by Charity. Jessica Morgenthaler, a community member, teamed with one survivor to interview prospective Restorative Justice facilitators and hired Marita shortly after we were invited to initiate this process. Jessica and the survivor wished to ensure that the provider selected would m...