Kari Lerum leads workshops on Sexuality, Politics & Faith at Holden Village

For a week in late August, IAS faculty member Kari Lerum served as a discussion facilitator at Holden Village, a spiritual retreat center in the North Cascades. Organized under the theme of “Sexuality, Politics, and Faith,” Lerum’s workshops explored how faith communities in the U.S. intersect with policies around gender, sex education, family & reproductive justice, and the treatment of sex workers and LGBTQ+ individuals. Each session defined concepts and traced the socio-cultural-historical contexts of debates around what is considered normal, sacred, and lawful.