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How Vagesteem and Its Founder Is Helping Spread Female Sexuality Education




How Vagesteem and Its Founder Is Helping Spread Female Sexuality Education

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From DC to Atlanta, Vagesteem’s mission to educate women about their bodies, and to address problems and issues about female sexuality, has been drawing crowds with eager ears everywhere. Like the Wow Festival where founder Vanessa Geffrard not only emphasized feminine self-care, but also issues like sexuality, the importance of consent in relationships, but also female-to-female empowerment. The New York-born social and health entrepreneur is of Haitian descent, so of course I’ll be curious as to whether she’s bringing her movement to Port-au-Prince.
Vagesteem interview
Kreyolicious: You are based in Maryland. Did you grow up there as well? What was it like?
I did grow up there. I was born in New York and moved to Maryland when I was five years old. I grew up in Columbia, a suburb, and it was awesome seeing cousins and family come to visit since we were the only ones who moved. We also had a strong Haitian community there, so we still had Haitian parties and food, which was awesome. I currently live in Baltimore City, and I love it. It’s interesting how city neighbors look out for each other, friendly, and really embody community.

Kreyolicious: Have you actually been to Haiti?
Yes! It’s my happy place. My mother is from Baraderes. My father is from Jacmel, and my mother’s side of the family lives in Petit Goave. I’ve been traveling to Haiti since I was a baby. I go almost every year. When I need to make big life decisions, I go to Haiti to get myself together. It’s centering and calming for me. I love it. I’m going next month for my Tatie’s 80th birthday.
Vagesteem
Kreyolicious: Any thoughts on having Vagesteem programs or workshops there?
Yes. That’s been something I’ve been envisioning for years and haven’t found the right way to make it work just yet. I’ve been speaking with a few organizations on the ground to work on a sexual health curriculum that is pertinent, speaks to the women there, and aligned with their values.

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K St. Fort
ABOUT K. St Fort K. St. Fort is the Editor and Founder of, well, Kreyolicious.com and wishes to give you a heartfelt welcome to her site. She loves to read, write, and listen to music and is fascinated by her Haitian roots, and all aspects of her culture. Speaking of music, she likes it loud, really, really loud. Like bicuspid valve raising-loud. Her other love are the movies. She was once a Top 50 finalist for a student screenwriting competition, encouraging her to continue pounding the pavement. She has completed several screenplays, with Haiti as the backdrop, one of which tackles sexual abuse in an upper middle class Haitian family, while another has child slavery as its subject. She is currently completing another script, this time a thriller, about two sisters who reunite after nearly 10 years of separation. A strong believer in using films to further educational purposes, and to raise awareness about important subjects, she has made it a point to write about social issues facing Haiti, and making them an integral part of her projects. She has interviewed such Haitian-American celebrities as Roxane Gay, Garcelle Beauvais, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Briana Roy, Karen Civil, and many, many more. And that’s her writing this whole biographical sketch. She actually thinks writing about herself in the third person is cute. MY WEBSITE Kreyolicious ™: kree-ohl-lish-uh s: Surely an adjective…the state of being young, gorgeous, fine and utterly Haitian. Kreyolicious.com™, the hub for young, upwardly mobile Haitian-Americans, is akin to a 18th Century cultural salon but with a Millennium sensibility–an inviting lair, where we can discuss literature, music, problems facing the community, and everything on the side and in-between. Kreyolicious is the premier lifestyle, culture and entertainment blog and brand of the hip, young, trend-oriented, forward thinking Haitian-American. It’s the definite hot spot to learn more about Haiti our emerging identity as a people, and explore our pride and passion about our unique and vibrant culture. Within the site’s pages, Kreyolicious.com is going to engage you, empower you, and deepen your connection to everything Haitian: the issues, the culture, our cinema, the history, our cuisine, the style, the music, the worldwide community. Make yourself at home in my cultural salon. If you’re looking to learn more about Haiti, Kreyolicious.com invites you to board this trolley on a journey–on our journey. For me too, it is a process, a non-ending cultural odyssey. If you’re already acculturated, I can certainly learn something from you. We can learn from one other, for certain. With my site, Kreyolicious.com I look forward to inspiring you, to enriching you, and to participating alongside of you, in the cultural celebration. And being utterly kreyolicious. How do you wear your kreyoliciousness? On your sleeves, like I do? Kreyoliciously Yours, Your girl K. St. Fort, Ahem, follow me elsewhere!

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