{"id":33145,"date":"2023-04-14T13:48:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T18:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/?p=33145"},"modified":"2023-04-14T13:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T18:48:26","slug":"elevate-announces-avril-heals-as-aprils-community-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/?p=33145","title":{"rendered":"ELEVATE Announces Avril Heals as April\u2019s Community Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago – ELEVATE (presented by Streamate) continues to change the narrative around people engaged in and\/or who work adjacent to the adult space. They\u2019ve announced their Community Partner for April, and it\u2019s Avril Heals co-founded by Minnie Scarlet and Jae Ortiz.<\/p>\n

After losing a close friend named Avril, Minnie Scarlet and Jae Ortiz came together to create Avril Heals as a tribute to honor and uplift trauma survivors. Avril Heals puts accessibility and inclusivity at the forefront by offering creative arts healing spaces centering around BIPOC, queer people, and sex workers who’ve experienced gender and race-based trauma. The organization’s current services include community groups and workshops that explore revolving creative writing and art healing themes.<\/p>\n

Executive Director, Jae Ortiz, a trauma recovery coach and art therapist in training, elucidated, “When building creative art spaces through Avril Heals, we focused on what we personally understood so that our approach could resonate with other sex workers, queer people, and BIPOC that were like us.”<\/p>\n

Streamate Director of Community Relations, Vanessa Eve, lauded the initiative, “the amount of care and intention that Minnie and Jae have infused into Avril Heals is palpable. It’s inspiring to see individuals recognizing needs within their community and being proactive to meet those needs, especially in situations where there may be limited or inaccessible options.”<\/p>\n

Fellow co-founder and Director of Communications, Minnie Scarlet, has a background in sex work, art, and digital marketing. “Sometimes, experience in sex work can be regarded as a setback instead of the asset it is,” Scarlet noted. “We couldn’t be prouder to be partnering with ELEVATE to continue highlighting sex workers and their allies.”<\/p>\n

As part of their ELEVATE community partnership, Avril Heals will host a mini-series of exclusive free virtual pop-up workshops during April:<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 19th at 12pm PDT\/3pm EDT \u2013 Body Scan Art Workshop
\nThursday, April 20th at 6pm PDT\/9pm EDT \u2013 Black-out Poetry Workshop
\nTuesday, April 25th at 6pm PDT\/9pm EDT \u2013 Zine Making Workshop<\/p>\n

Adult community members are welcome and can register at\u00a0beyondsexwork.com<\/a>\u00a0before each workshop. Details on each workshop can also be found there.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Avril Heals at\u00a0avrilheals.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ELEVATE continues to change the narrative around what it means to be someone engaged in or works adjacent to the adult space.\u00a0Learn more about ELEVATE (presented by Streamate) by going to\u00a0beyondsexwork.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ABOUT ELEVATE<\/em><\/div>\n
Presented by Streamate, ELEVATE is an initiative that recognizes adult industry members and allies working to positively impact their community through advocacy, direct support, and\/or creative endeavors. ELEVATE spotlights a different Community Partner featured on social media to bring awareness to their causes and their work within their community each month. Partners also develop original content or live streams to connect with fans and community members during their spotlighted month. And Community Partners can expand on their platform and give further exposure to matters that the community should be aware of by writing an opinion piece published in XBIZ Magazine. Find out more about ELEVATE at\u00a0beyondsexwork.com<\/a>\u00a0or by following them on Twitter and Instagram at @beyondsexwork.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago – ELEVATE (presented by Streamate) continues to change the narrative around people engaged in and\/or who work adjacent to the adult space. They\u2019ve announced their Community Partner for April, and it\u2019s Avril Heals co-founded by Minnie Scarlet and Jae Ortiz. After losing a close friend named Avril, Minnie Scarlet and Jae Ortiz came together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33147,"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions\/33147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvalleymedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}