The origin story of my work as a Taboo Doula begins, like most real stories, at a kitchen sink. I was doing Z’s dishes when she told me her only regret. She was in her 90s, living in a senior community. Her family had originally reached out to me, but she was the one who…
May is a tricky month for grief and me. My mom died in 2007. May was her birth month. It’s also Mother’s Day. And my maternal grandmother, Grandma Becky, died in May two years before my mom did. So every year, May arrives and it’s not just spring. It’s like a carnival funhouse, laughter around…
What does pleasure actually look like when we stop performing it for someone else? Join us Friday at 6pm for Sex Café: Pleasure Anatomy for All Bodies. All genders, sexualities, and relationship configurations welcome. Free will donation.
Talking about sex, touch, and intimacy after loss Grief and sex. Two things we’re trained to talk about in whispers, if we’re allowed to talk about them at all. But here’s the inconvenient truth: they’re tangled together. Not because grief is “romantic,” and not because sex is some kind of cure. They’re linked because both…
“Sex Cafe? What on earth is that?!” Honestly, that is a fair question. Before I tell you what Sex Cafe is, I need to tell you why it exists at all. From a time even before our great-great-great grandparents, our culture has used sex as a tool to shame and control people. Sex has been…
I’m Erika Hall. I do my work where culture looks away. I am a Taboo Doula My passions live where culture looks away…death and sex. I created the Taboo Doula path to bring them back into honest light. End-of-life support and embodiment belong together here, alongside open and honest talk about consent, kink, aftercare, safety,…
I’m joining Pollinate Hive House, an inclusive neighborhood home for care. First up: a Death Circle with Charlotte’s Door for suicide-loss survivors on Nov 7 at 6 pm CT.