Cyberspace – Sssh.com recently announced that Mikel Ibarra of @piesinthewindow will serve as the special guest moderator of the March 22nd edition of #SexTalkTuesday. Ibarra will discuss the “mingling of art, sexual self-image, self-acceptance, and pleasure” during the Twitter-based chat event a rep wrote.
Ibarra is an artist who uses hand-sculpted desserts as her medium to explore the paths between empowerment, acceptance, sexuality and objectification. Her life has followed a curving path from artist to wife and mother to public school art teacher to baker – and, finally, back to artist. Ultimately, it was the process of spending hours in the kitchen seeking perfection in baking that awakened her inspiration.
“I wanted to tackle my feelings about the proverbial ‘woman’s place,'” Ibarra said, “and pie proved to be the perfect symbol to begin this exploration.”
“The vulva is a source of pleasure and portal of life while also being a source of shame and fear; like pie, it’s often treated as a consumable commodity,” she continued.
Hosted and coordinated by Sssh.com, #SexTalkTuesday is a fun, provocative Twitter-based chat held every second Tuesday of the month. Angie Rowntree, founder of Sssh and producer of #SexTalkTuesday, said that, “It’s such a treat — literally and figuratively — to have Mikel Ibarra share her art and insights with the #SexTalkTuesday community.”
Rowntree continued, “Her unique creations are statement pieces unlike any other we’ve ever seen, and this discussion is bound to go in many interesting directions.”
Learn more about Ibarra and her work at piesinthewindow.com.
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