What if there was no sexual shame?
Intersections
In this mini-documentary series, six stories open a window into the complexities of Filipino identities taking shape as migrants and new citizens in the USA.
Before Andrea Barrica became wildly successful in her career as a queer woman of color in tech, she needed to work on reconciliation with her own parents who struggled with her identity.
In Shameless, she talks about her business, her family, and growing up queer. The episode also features life coach, Jo Encarnacion, who chats with Andrea about breaking the bias around cultural shame when it comes to discussing sex.
“When I started getting obsessed with the problem that I’m loving at O.school — which is why are there no resources out there that are between porn and medical websites, like WebMD and Planned Parenthood? — I started to tell people in my community about the business that I wanted to run. And everyone told me to not even try.”
“I was building O.school for 15-year-old me who was really in pain, and lost, and really needed help. But I am also building it for my parents… because all this is a cycle.”
“Every day, my sexuality is booming, We have to start educating women about all the organs in their bodies.”
“My best vision for the world is every single human being on the planet gets educated about sex, their bodies, and has a place that’s safe to talk about their sexuality with during their hardest times.”
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Andrea Barrica is the founder of a pleasure education platform, O.school. Raised in a religious, conservative family that only permitted abstinence, her work envisions a world free from sexual shame where everyone has autonomy over their own bodies. After all, she does believe that everyone deserves to orgasm.