Bianca I. Laureano
Content Expert, Sexual Anatomies & Sexual Health
Bianca I. Laureano is an award-winning educator, facilitator, curriculum writer, and sexologist. A multi-disabled, queer, fat, LatiNegra, displaced from Boriquen, she is a co-foundress of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WOCSHN) and The LatiNegrxs Project. Bianca is the foundress of ANTE UP! a virtual freedom school for sexuality professionals offering professional development and certification.
Bianca earned her BA in individual studies with a focus on Latina sexualities in 2000 from the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned a masters of arts from NYU in human sexuality education in 2002 and a second masters of arts from the University of Maryland (UM) in women’s studies with a focus on sexualities, race, and racialization in 2006.
While at UM she was a CrISP scholar at the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity and helped create the Intersectional Research Database. Bianca was awarded a doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies in May 2020 in human rights and social justice.
She has written several curricula that focus on communities of color: "What’s the REAL DEAL about Love and Solidarity?" (2015), "Communication MixTape: Speak On It Vol 1." (2017), and wrote the sexual and reproductive justice discussion guide for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene published in 2018.
Bianca led the curriculum development for the award-winning Netflix film "Crip Camp" and the PBS documentary "I Didn’t See You There" which are rooted in Disability Justice principles.
Bianca has been on the board of CLAGS, the LGBTQ Center at CUNY, The Black Girl Project, and SisterSong: The Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. She was part of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance inaugural Black Maternal Health Incubator Hub pilot program offering a 5 part series on Disability Justice for birth workers.
She is an AASECT certified sexuality educator and supervisor and the editor of "The People’s Book of Human Sexuality: Expanding the Sexology Archive" (2023). Find out more about Bianca at her website and at ANTE UP!
Growing up with OBOS first edition in her home, Bianca values the collective approach to sharing knowledge and storytelling as practices of interdependence.