In Light of Current Events
PIP stands in solidarity with our colleagues and students who are facing human rights violations, both online and abroad.
No matter what pronouns you use, if you are cis or trans, a part of the Global Majority, an immigrant, have a uterus or lack thereof, or have a lower income, we at PIP will continue to support our community as Intimacy Professionals and instructors. The fact is our industry would not be what it is without you.
We are proud of our students and the projects we’ve had an opportunity to work on, as well as the diversity they bring to the field. Our kits also contain many products developed by and for trans folks — shout out to Tuck Kits and Trans Tape! — and we will continue to credit and praise them at our workshops and when we offer modesty wear on set. We will continue to help artists tell the stories they want to tell in the way they want to tell it, and we will continue to offer the most comprehensive and intersectional services possible.
We are currently devising how to best offer in-person training for folks in the US to keep our team and students as safe as possible. PIP also acknowledges that certain social media platforms have changed their community agreements to roll back on protections against hate speech whilst censoring anything deemed “inappropriate”. Unfortunately, topics like sex, human anatomy, gender, personal expression — basically, everything that makes up our jobs as intimacy professionals — are often the target of this censorship. We will, therefore, explore alternative options to grow our online presence without compromising our values. While we will post basic updates on our usual feeds, we encourage everyone to follow us on Bluesky, which will be the home of our new series PIP Pop Quizzes for IPs and non IPs.
No person — or government — should get to dictate another’s right to autonomy, dignity, respect, and love.
If you would like to see additional actions from Team PIP that you feel we should consider, please contact us. This is an ongoing and indefinite effort, but we would like to hear from you if you want to reach out.
https://translifeline.org/ | https://glaad.org/transgender/resources/ | https://sayitoutloud.org.au/learn-more/romance-intimacy-love-while-trans/
“In the younger and formative days of my transition, I believed I would never be worthy of love. Or rather, the same kind of love cis people are entitled to. I couldn’t have been more wrong.”
This blog post was written in collaboration with PIP’s Social Media Team, which is comprised of several Launchpad students training to become Intimacy Professionals through our energy exchange initiative.
