Bio

Raised in Boston and currently settled in Brooklyn, Laura G. Duncan is a sexual health researcher and educator studying issues of sexuality within medicine. This research focuses on the issues of social inequity in sexual health care, as well as health technologies and accessibility in underserved communities.

With a degree in Medical Anthropology and Human Sexuality Studies from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, she has worked as a sexual health educator for a high school, medical school, condom company and health non-profit. She currently serves as a full-spectrum doula with The Doula Project and a Gynecological Teaching Associate.

For the past two years, Laura has been performing a multimedia research presentation on robotics, technology and sexual health in venues around New York City. This event has been featured on the cover of Time Out New York, as well as by The Village Voice, New York Magazine, Though Catalog and others.

Other public appearances have included workshops on topics such as: contraception and STI prevention, sexual health, and navigating healthcare resources for queer communities. She has been a featured guest on various radio shows, podcasts and at themed readings. Past publications include educational materials and web resources on sexual health, relationship and communication skills, as well as a paper on reproductive evolution coauthored for The American Journal of Human Biology.

She is the proud owner of one handmade Star Trek uniform, a collection of vintage cameras and a stack of 1920’s anatomical drawings.

If you’d like to chat, book a presentation, ask questions, write more in the awkward third person or trade philosophical musings on The X-Files, please feel free to contact!

media

  • AOL’s Lemondrop.com - Meet Roxxxy: “Come on, you didn’t really think that high IQ translates into low sex drive, did you? New York City–based Laura G. Duncan doesn’t either.”
  • Time Out New York: Own This City: “C-3PO started the sexual revolution among robots, getting greased up in Luke’s garage; now Avatar has taken tech-sex to another level. Sexual health researcher Laura G. Duncan will touch on this topic.”
  • Daily Candy: “Carnally inclined authors (memoirist Elizabeth Bard, sexual health researcher Laura G. Duncan) share jaw-dropping tales”
  • … and sometimes photographs: Press page for Brooklyn indie-pop band overlord

Upcoming Events
  • Arse Elektronica 2011 San Francisco, CA. Saturday October 2nd. “Hacking Health: Queer Machines, Ideal Bodies and What Medicine Can Learn From Sex/Tech”
  • Hey, Where’s My (Queer!) Robot Girlfriend? A Workgroup on Queering Sexual Technology with The Queer Commons. Wednesday July 20th. See website for location and (optional) reading assignments.

***Note: Due to popular demand, a SECOND DATE has been added for this lecture on Friday March 25th. Same time, same place.

  • QuORUM Forum 2011 (Queers Organizing for Radical Unity and Mobilization): “Queer Your Health: A Workshop and Open Discussion on Sexual Health Care for Queers.” January 17th in Kensington Brooklyn, NY.

  • The Red Umbrella Diaries: Healing Touch night. October 7th 2010 at Happy Ending Lounge, NYC.