Taylor Harmon (she/her) is a sex educator, researcher, and advocate. She currently resides in Boston where she works as a sex educator and practice manager for a queer and gender affirming sex therapy practice. She began her journey in the field of sexuality and reproductive health in her hometown of Bloomington, IN, as an undergraduate student at Indiana University. There, she created her own major: Sexuality, Gender, and Reproductive Health, which served as a model for the now offered Bachelor of Science in Public Health in Sexual and Reproductive Health. She worked simultaneously as a peer educator and an undergraduate research assistant at the renowned Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. There, she was part of the team for the first ever study of The Kinsey Institute’s Disability and Sexual Health Initiative (DASHI), where she found her love for sex research.

After graduating, she moved to New England to earn her Masters of Art in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and in Anthropology at Brandeis University. During this time, she worked as a teaching assistant in both departments, as well as with nonprofit organizations dedicated to comprehensive and accessible health education, while earning her Sex Educator certification through the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). Taylor’s Masters thesis won her the first place prize in Brandeis’ “Three Minute Thesis” competition and was shortly thereafter published with the journal Feminist Anthropology.

Post-grad, Taylor began a research appointment with the SexTech Lab at The New School to continue her passion for research while working as a sex educator. She is passionate about decolonizing sexual and reproductive education while making it inclusive, comprehensive, and accessible. She hopes her work amplifies and affirms the experiences of people who have been systematically left out of research and lacked representation in educational settings, and encourages people to live authentically and make meaningful connections.

Outside of her work, Taylor enjoys exploring coffee shops, spending time outside, sewing, and theatre. Having grown up performing in theatre, much of Taylor’s pedagogy includes exercises that emphasize embodiment, somatics, connection, and internal reflection. This has also historically informed her research, which has interrogated performative aspects of sex and gender, both the limits and potential it holds.