Handbook of Sexuality Leadership Inspiring Community Engagement, Social Empowerment, and Transformational Influence

This interdisciplinary book bridges the gap between sexuality and leadership studies and serves as a blueprint for professionals seeking to understand the rationale behind leadership styles, particularly those which facilitate conversations that educate or liberate individuals, couples, families, and communities.

The Handbook of Sexuality Leadership brings together education, clinical, research, and advocacy experts from the field of sexology, who each speak of their unique leadership experiences ? with diversity and inclusivity in mind ? and serve as a medium of empowerment and transformational influence. This innovative compendium illuminates strategic planning, community engagement, and the necessity of working with underserved or marginalized communities using a combination of leadership styles. Chapters provide tools for risk taking, organizational improvement, collaborative leadership, and cultural intelligence, as well as strategies to emancipate underrepresented groups and lead systemic change.

With questions for further thought included to provoke critical thinking and initiate transformative conversations, this book will be an essential read for anyone interested in becoming a sexuality consultant or serving in a leadership position.

Biosketches

Introduction

JAMES C. WADLEY

SECTION I

Leadership in Sexuality Education

1 So, Exactly What Is “Appropriate”? Sex/ual/ity Education and Developmental Disabilities

RICHELLE FRABOTTA

2 Seven Leadership Skills for Sexuality Educators

KIRSTEN DEFUR

3 Sexuality Education for Current and Future Healthcare Providers

JENNA BENYOUNES

4 Feminist Activist Leadership and the Five Stages for Matching Values With Practice: A Case Study

KATHERINE MARTINEZ AND SYDNEY FOWLER

SECTION II

Leadership in Sexuality Activism, Counseling/Therapy

5 Marginality, Transformational Leadership, and Sexuality Work as a Psychologist: Traversing a Tough Terrain With Multiple Intersecting Identities

KAMILAH MARIE WOODSON

6 The Sex Therapist as Leader: Existential/Humanistic Reflections From the Therapist’s Chair

DANIEL N. WATTER

SECTION III

Sexuality Leadership and Mentoring

7 The Unit: Considerations and Challenges for Developing Leaders in the Field of Sexology

SHADEEN FRANCIS

8 Networking, Mentoring, Collaborating, and Risk-Taking: A Four-Strand Approach to Sexuality Leadership

MELANIE DAVIS AND KATHERINE GLICK

9 Clearing the Path: Queer Faculty of Color Navigating Tenure and Promotion

JAYLEEN GALARZA

10 Sexuality Leadership: The Next Generation

TANYA M. BASS AND BILL TAVERNER

11 The Color of Change: A Case Study of Student-Powered LGTBQAI Campus Engagement in Historically

Black Educational Spaces

MELINA McCONATHA AND DENISE FORD BROWN

SECTION IV

Leadership in Sexuality Consultation and Special Issues

12 Money Talks . . . Misogynists Walk: A Complex Conversation on Sexual Harassment, Race, and Equal Pay

LEAH HOLLIS

13 Intimate Partner Violence in Sadomasochistic Relationships: Freirean Leadership Through Disclosure and Raising Voices

DULCINEA/ALEX PITAGORA

14 A New Renaissance: Podcasting as a Tool to Provide a Nuanced Voice to the Black Gay Male Experience

PATRICK GRANT

15 But Did You Die? Leading Conversations About Sexuality and Loss

JEANAE HOPGOOD-JONES

16 Paradigms of Activism and Engagement for Sexuality Leadership in Faith Communities

CANDACE ROBERTSON-JAMES AND GEORGE JAMES

17 Addressing White Fragility Through Mindfulness-Based Inquiry in Sexuality Leadership

CAROLE CLEMENTS AND SATORI MADRONE

18 Ethical Considerations in Leadership

TRALONDA TRIPLETT

19 WTF SAR?! Elevating and Expanding the Sexual Attitudes Reassessment

BIANCA I. LAUREANO

20 Sexuality Leadership and Its New Face

JAMES C. WADLEY

Appendix: Graduate and Postgraduate Programs in Human Sexuality

Index

James C. Wadley, Ph.D., CSTS, is Professor and Chair of the Counseling and Human Services Department at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, USA. He is a licensed professional counselor and AASECT-certified sex therapist and supervisor. Dr. Wadley also maintains a private practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.