Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi: How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex
Tiffany Kagure Mugo y Siphumeze Khundayi: Cómo tener una relación más sana y positiva con el sexo
The curator of HOLAAfrica, Tiffany Kagure Mugo is a wine bar philosopher who pontificates on all things and is willing to learn about everything else. Full bioSiphumeze Khundayi - Photographer, theatre-maker, performer
Siphumeze Khundayi is founder and artistic director of HOLAAfrica, sparking conversations about sex and sexuality. Full bio
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a criterio del espectador]
ya no hay vuelta atrás.
there's no turning back now.
TKM: Hola a todos.
TKM: Hello, everyone.
that you don't.
para explicarles lo que no saben.
that no matter where you come from,
que no importa de dónde vengan;
Dubai to downtown London,
desde Dubai hasta del centro de Londres,
safe and spicy.
sigan siendo seguras y picantes.
of rubbing our naked bodies together
con el cuerpo desnudo
affected by eons of ideas.
afectados por muchas ideas.
have some internalized ideas about sex
algunas ideas internalizadas sobre el sexo
and some very, very strange.
y otras muy, muy extrañas.
to see you butt naked,
alguien te vea desnudo,
how the ideas that you internally have
que tus ideas determinarán
tickling your elbow or kissing your thigh
en el codo o que te besen los muslos
monitoring and evaluation
y evaluación interna
our best sexy lives.
how to have a great sex life, right?
una gran vida sexual, ¿sí?
you have about sex.
que tienen sobre el sexo.
that we need to change.
que tenemos que cambiar.
in all of their shiny newness.
incorporar en toda su brillante novedad.
on a journey of sex:
historically great sexual practices
sexuales históricamente grandiosas
seven billion people on this planet,
de personas geniales en este planeta,
the sex thing for a long time.
el sexo desde hace mucho tiempo.
we are actually good at it.
seamos realmente buenos en eso.
la cultura de violación.
limit ideas of pleasure.
la cultura limitan las ideas de placer.
that a DJ gives his deck
que un DJ manejando las perillas
pet peeve of mine.
a alguien de nuestro miedo.
to blame for our fear.
of every part of their anatomy,
a cada parte de su anatomía,
using their sexiness.
las que usamos su sensualidad.
and say, "My elbow hurts."
tranquilamente: "Me duele el codo".
has a strange buzzing feeling,
vibración en la vagina,
la pomada para la vibración vaginal?"
the buzzing-vagina ointment?"
to simply go into supermarkets
a ir a los supermercados
talking about chicken or turkey.
a los muslos de pollo o pavo.
and historical notions
culturales e históricas
tan profundamente en nosotros,
to freak out when somebody says "nipple"
extraño que la gente se ponga nerviosa
a diferencia de "rodilla izquierda".
con el sexo apropiadamente.
is admitting that it exists
like bottled water or coffee.
productos como agua embotellada o café,
poco realistas en las películas
on the internet "by mistake."
this ailment, again,
algunas ideas erróneas sobre el sexo.
some messed-up ideas of sex.
in our quest for coitus.
fallado en nuestra búsqueda del coito.
that the past can teach us
which I really wish I did --
lo cual realmente desearía tener,
in which African societies
en que las sociedades africanas
de que la C ... -- que no quiero nombrar--
before the C that shall not be named --
both social and spiritual,
tanto sociales como espirituales,
healthy sexual practices.
prácticas sexuales saludables.
that taught social and erotic cues.
enseñaban pautas sociales y eróticas.
could engage, understand
podían involucrarse, entender
how to handle sexual urges,
las necesidades sexuales,
the stresses and strifes of adulting.
manejar sus tensiones y conflictos.
ocultar la cuenta de tarjeta de crédito
you hiding your credit card bill
from your phone.
gratuito de su teléfono.
were so important for women.
muy importantes para las mujeres.
que se centraban en las mujeres
that centered women
about one in particular
como el erotismo africano.
welcome to the Thunderdome.
different shapes and forms
of sensual living.
sobre los placeres de la vida sensual.
of contortionist sexual positions,
de posiciones sexuales contorsionistas,
on living a good life.
sobre cómo vivir una buena vida.
interesante para nosotras
and creating pleasure for women.
y crea placer para las mujeres.
but back to the African erotic.
pero volvamos al erótico africano.
who is an orisha of the Yoruba people,
que es una orisha del pueblo yoruba,
and, most importantly, sensuality,
lo más importante, la sensualidad,
life-transforming energy
transformadora centrada en la mujer
who typify the osun force
que tipifican la fuerza de Oshun
and unselfconsciously.
bastante abierta y natural.
you got that line this time.
in conception and birth
a la concepción y el nacimiento
at the heart of copulation.
en el centro de la cópula.
at the heart of the creative energy
en el corazón de la energía creativa
como 'miel de Oshun' ".
of sexual pleasure and the erotic.
del placer sexual y lo erótico.
deities of fertility across Africa,
femeninas de la fertilidad en África,
the importance of female sexuality
de la sexualidad femenina
sexuality schools of thought
pensamiento sobre la sexualidad
about the power of this inner force.
sobre el poder de esta fuerza interna.
about the synergic nature of sex
la naturaleza sinérgica del sexo
as a social good.
that the rivers are replenished
se reabastecen
have become some sort of battle
se han convertido en una batalla
to subvert each other.
derribarnos los unos a los otros.
using sex as a weapon,
usamos el sexo como un arma,
para conquistar,
when it comes to this war.
cuando se libra esta guerra.
and explore your sexuality and your sex
abiertamente tu sexualidad y tu sexo
with healthy sexual practices.
de prácticas sexuales saludables.
to get really, really good.
realmente bueno.
of the monster hiding in the night?
del monstruo que se esconde en la noche?
para hacer maravillas
the backseat of a car
solitaria, en el asiento de un auto
and sliding into the present,
deslizándonos en el presente,
explain and denounce
explicar y denunciar
is one of the realms
es uno de los reinos
can be unpacked and explored.
desempacar y explorar.
to call upon the osun honey
que prueben la miel de Oshun,
of sex and pleasure
con nuevas ideas de sexo y placer
to build a new identity
una nueva identidad
como un vestido ajustado
slowly choking the life out of us.
lentamente estrangula nuestra vida.
charting their own sexual paths.
sus propios caminos sexuales.
not to mention the digital realm.
no mencionar el reino digital.
creating incredible conversations,
creando conversaciones increíbles,
and also cunnilingus.
y también de cunnilingus.
But that's not the point.
are resurrecting the work of ancestors
el trabajo de los antepasados
algunas conversaciones increíbles
buried and sealed.
enterradas y selladas.
that we are so afraid to ask,
que tanto tememos preguntar,
in sticky situations.
the charting of a new sexual path
un nuevo camino sexual
and their engagement in kink.
su gusto por la desviación.
who does not understand consent.
entiende lo que es el consentimiento.
prácticas no convencionales
is actually rope play.
is the Japanese art of rope play.
Kinbaku, es el arte japonés de la atadura.
of restraining captives,
para sujetar a los cautivos,
and spreading across the globe
por todo el mundo
with a respected and erotic aesthetic.
respetuosa de estética erótica.
que las mujeres queer africanas
queer women would be kinksters?
slavery and a lack of bodily autonomy.
de violencia sexual,
that despite the dark history
que a pesar de la oscura historia
from our beautiful continent,
de nuestro hermoso continente,
and beautifully constructing
de forma activa y bella
significa para ellas.
now needs to rush out and engage in kink.
que adoptar prácticas no convencionales.
can come out of a history
pueden salir de una historia
slavery, colonization
esclavitud, colonización
religious and cultural pitfalls,
tradicionales, religiosas y culturales,
y el placer significa para ellas,
and pleasure means to them,
that we have about sex -- the bad ones,
que tenemos sobre el sexo,
and creating new ones
y creando otras nuevas
and natural human acts ever.
más prolíficos y naturales
what counts as a system bug.
qué cuenta como un error del sistema.
deberíamos agregar.
for their superpower to upgrade.
por el avance de su superpoder.
para nuestra sexualidad.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Tiffany Kagure Mugo - Curator, blogger, media consultantThe curator of HOLAAfrica, Tiffany Kagure Mugo is a wine bar philosopher who pontificates on all things and is willing to learn about everything else.
Why you should listen
Tiffany Kagure curates and creates knowledge on women and sexuality on the African continent, manages spreadsheets and creates conversations -- all the while trying to figure out how to adult. Founding and running HOLAAfrica helped to bring together her various skills as it demanded all of them, all the time.
A passion for making sure people had the orgasms and conversations that elude them whilst being given the comprehensive healthy knowledge of sexuality that eluded her meant that HOLAAfrica forced her to grow as a blogger, project creator and guru of excel spreadsheets. The need to have conversations about sex and sexuality, seeing what the novel ways this could be done whilst exploring what boundaries could be pushed meant that her life at the helm of HOLAAfrica and her personal consultancy work grew, and life got wild. Sometimes the best life choices come from trying to figure out how to get through your own existence.
Tiffany Kagure Mugo | Speaker | TED.com
Siphumeze Khundayi - Photographer, theatre-maker, performer
Siphumeze Khundayi is founder and artistic director of HOLAAfrica, sparking conversations about sex and sexuality.
Why you should listen
Siphumeze Khundayi has found art to be a great tool for her to explore and express who she is. So she makes art about the experiences of African women and their sexuality. When she is not creating and performing, she is founder and Artistic Director of HOLAAfrica, where she gets to facilitate dialogues and make sure the site is looking pretty while annoying the curator for taking ages to reply to emails. She also dedicates her life to floating through the world having conversations with the universe, struggling through yoga poses, meditating, blowing bubbles and playing Candy Crush.
Siphumeze Khundayi | Speaker | TED.com