One Voice At A Time Unless We Are Singing!
TBTS is back!!!!
Darling people,
This is Pam, coming to you from the top of today to love you, look in your eyes, say hello. Earlier this morning I stepped outside here in Los Angeles and the gorgeousness of this spring day licked me like a big cat, top to bottom, and I laughed out loud. That is the energy over here.
I am swooping in on the shared SET space to blast off the announcement that I am coming to the UK to join forces with Emily like this:
(Can you tell I’m absurdly excited? I haven’t gotten to hug Em in MANY MONTHS.)
As part of that explosion of good, Emily will be hosting and supporting me for the first Take Back the Speculum class I will have taught in ages.
There are not words big enough to express the enormity of my feelings about teaching this class again.
I will be teaching these classes because the politics of this moment involve the gutting of reproductive rights and trans rights here in the US and, as of this week, in the UK.
They’re happening because my mentor and dear friend and unconquerable badass Carol Downer passed away a few days in the the Los Angeles fires in January and she is poking me ceaselessly from the other side, urging me to get off my ass and do what needs doing, and I cannot refuse this.
We, collectively, have tools to deal with what’s afoot, and this is one of them.
Coming to TBTS as a participant is an experience of realizing, often for the first time, that we have surrendered out authority over our bodies to others without ever knowing that we’ve done so, that everyone else around us has done so, and we begin to understand the cost of that to our health, our psyches, our relationships, our society. There is grief in it, and rage.
And then - there is the magnificent joy of realizing that all it takes is one human being who already knows the way to light it up for all of us, and that the ripple effect of that can go on indefinitely, so long as there are people willing to take that first weird step of doing this very peculiar thing.
I get to be that human being. And then you do, too.
It’s uncomfortable because it’s taboo, and that taboo is in place to keep us disempowered and in the dark. And we get to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.
To clarify: the conversations we are having about reproductive care, about abortion, about gender affirming care, about birth, about miscarriage, about contraception are radically different from the other side of this realization, and the empowerment of your hands, eyes and attention to know and feel and call the shots about the destiny of your body.
Classes in the UK will be in Oxford with Emily and then, 2 days later, in London in collaboration with the amazing Dyana Gravina. I will be teaching in L.A. upon my return, and then will hold a class online at the end of June.
TBTS class schedule:
OXFORD, UK: MAY 2, 2025, 2-6 pm, with Emily Carson
LONDON, UK: MAY 4, 2025, 2-6 pm, with Dyana Gravina at H’or London
LOS ANGELES, CA, 6-9 pm, JUNE 14, 2025
ONLINE: JUNE 28, 2025, 10 am-1 pm
No one will ever be turned away from this class for lack of $, as this is information that my teachers and I strongly believe must be made available to everyone. Please just reach out to me if you need financial assistance.
All information and registration can be found here, on my website.
Additionally, I have one or two spots left for session work in Oxford. If you would be interested in working with me, please email me at embodyworkla@gmail.com and put OXFORD SESSIONS in the header.
I’m sending you giant love, courage, fortitude, spring breezes up your skirts, and a healthy dose of fighting spirit. Please write back if you feel like it!
XOXOXOXO
PCWS
p.s. Apologies if you are also a subscriber to my newsletter as well and are receiving this announcement twice!