About Che Che...
Che Che Luna (they/them) is a certified sexuality educator, somatic movement facilitator and ecoerotic artist dedicated to collaborative liberatory praxis. Their lens as a queer, trans, mixed, Autistic, kinky, polyamorous being informs their multidisciplinary work, which includes ecosomatics, somatic sex education, inherited ancestral knowledges, social justice frameworks and multi-cultural dance studies. It is their honor and life’s work to support queer and gender expansive humans in reclaiming the body as a source of pleasure, elemental wisdom, expansion, transformation, erotic aliveness, autonomy, interconnectedness, and love. Luna evokes permission for others to live into their truth, heal from systemic oppression, embody their desires, and find their own access points into the sensual body and the collective interdependent body of the more-than-human world.
Che Che was born and raised on the sacred lands of the Chumash people (Santa Barbara, California). Their papa’s ancestors are indigenous to the desert of Sonora, México and South Central Arizona. Their mama’s ancestors are settlers from England and The Balkans. Che moves through the world with a deep and humbling awe for the ways that their chosen family, friends, beloveds, teachers, mentors, collaborators, plant + animal kin, landscapes and histories, in all of their constellations of existence, come together to shape who they are today and inspire them to be the ancestor our future needs. To build a sense of belonging, reconnection and repair to their origins, Che Che has a long standing practice of dancing with the earth and listening to the beingness of relationship that is our connection to each other, the land, and the multiplicity of beings within and around us. This practice has become foundational in their space holding over the last decade of co-creating body based experiential workshops, 1:1 sessions, gatherings, ceremonies, celebrations and performances. A forever student, they are devoted to a lifetime of (un)learning, decolonizing, and providing deep community care.
Some of the activists, creatives, educators and disruptors that have shaped Che Che are Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Bell Hooks, adrienne maree brown, Mia Mingus, Bianca Laureano, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alok Vaid-Menon, Kai Cheng Thom, Ev’Yan Whitney and Caffyn Jesse. I am a proud descendant of sacred erotic courtesans from Ancient Mexico, and the work I am doing would not be possible without the queer femme sex workers, birth and death doulas, grief workers, and two-spirit activists that have come before me.
Some of Che's groundlaying trainings and certifications include:
Nationally Qualified Level 10 Gymnast, B.S. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Dance Minor from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Certified Holistic Sex Educator from the Institute for Sexuality Education & Enlightenment (ISEE), ANTE UP! Sexuality Educator Certification, and they are currently studying through the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education program.
