Each Tuesday throughout Remix Conference we will meet as Adults living with T1D and our supporters.
Talking about diabetes and intimacy - let's face it, diabetes can be that third wheel in intimate settings of any form!
We are having that conversation that doesn't happen with our doctors, non-t1 partners, or even our non-t1 friends! You have the opportunity to ask panelists who have t1 any question you might have about diabetes in an intimate setting; this could be friendship, partnership, or even sexy time. Our goal is to have an open, honest, and delightful conversation around all of those awkward topics that need to be aired out!
Come join us at Diabetes in the Dark, where we bring light to those questions around intimacy that we almost never talk about.
Submit your question to the panelists here.
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This conversation is open to participants ages 16 and over, conversation could include: sex, drugs and other mature topics.
TeeAira Averette is from Detroit, MI and has been a Type 1 diabetic for 12 years. Of those 12 years, she has been single eight. Between diabetes and love, it’s been a journey, especially with intimacy. TeeAira loves the color purple, after all it is the color of royalty and she believes she is a Queen.
When Jake was diagnosed with T1D at age 3, he was told that a cure was “five years away.” Jake is currently on his 9th cure and is also the parent of a 15-year old daughter with T1D so understands living with T1D from different perspectives. Jake is one of ConnecT1D’s founders and is the president of a small consulting firm. Jake believes that cinnamon is not a cure and that a ten pack of lancets might actually be a lifetime supply. Jake lives in Seattle, works in Seattle and Washington, D.C. and leaves his Pod on longer than he ought to.
Jamie has been a part of the Seattle/PNW diabetes community basically since she moved to Seattle in 2010 and has had T1 for 31 years as of this past July! A lot of her life is diabetes-related, including her community, career (Registered Dietitian, Diabetes Educator), and many of her friends. If you know her from Camp Leo - her camp name is Sonic because she had a hedgehog named Kaylee for a long time; current non-human family members are Kaylee's chinchilla brothers, Mark & Basil (pictured).
Simone Satchell is a Black Trans Queer Non-binary artist, originally hailing from Staten Island, NY. Simone has since lived in each borough of NYC twice. Simone was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1993 and has recently been involved in talks with T1D community that consider experience and intersectionality. He completed his undergraduate education at Queens College, obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008.
Simone’s art is a means of working through his mind's pathways and his best tool for communicating. He has developed a deep passion for using artistic expression to help foster healing within himself and to help others experience the same types of freedoms that have proven to be life-saving for him.
Simone hopes to create programming and curriculum for interesectionality folks of varying abilities to learn, use and share art and processes as a means of collaboration, communication and healing.