“Sexual health was not being talked about enough within healthcare – so we created Sex[M]ed”
Sex[M]ed is a Canadian-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to combatting sexual health inequities by providing comprehensive sexual health education to healthcare practitioners.
At Sex[M]ed, we work to highlight what is missing from the healthcare curriculum by providing inclusive, diverse, and comprehensive resources about sexual health. We are committed to upholding reproductive justice by recognizing that each individual has the right to make choices about their sexual and reproductive life, and should have access to sexual and reproductive health services. We strive to make our work trans and intersex-inclusive, anti-ableist, anti-classist, anti-racist, anti-fatphobic, and anti-sexist.
We wish to use our platform as a means to emphasize marginalized voices of communities that are not adequately represented within the healthcare system and curriculum. We acknowledge our own biases, privileges, limitations, and positionalities; and continue to challenge ourselves and our networks to have important conversations about diversity, equity, and representation in the healthcare field. We recognize and respect the expertise that healthcare practitioners bring to our platform; but we also wish to emphasize the unique value of people’s lived experiences and strive to centre this throughout the work that we do.
Our goals are to:
- Publish valid, accurate, and useful sexual health educational resources that are accessible to a wide range of healthcare practitioners
- Promote topics of sexual health that are often mis-represented in, or absent from, the healthcare curricula and the healthcare system
- Actively advocate for the integral component that sexual health has within the overall health of individuals
- Combat the social and medical taboos about sexual health
- Emphasize the collaborative nature of healthcare beyond just the doctors office
- Ensure that inclusivity, diversity, and intersectionality are at the focus in all of our work
To learn more:
Watch: An interview with CTV Montreal about the mission of Sex[M]ed
Read: An article in the Globe and Mail about how Sex[M]ed was founded
