Alex de las Mareas (she/they) is a Xicanx sex educator, body worker, anarchafeminist, cancer sun, and queer interdisciplinary artist living in Huchuin/Oakland, CA.

Alex chooses her projects through the lenses of pleasure brujeria, radical education, sex worker solidarity, Audre Lorde's The Erotic as Power, Carla Trujillo's anthology Chicana Lesbians, and the sensual connection between the moon and the tides.

Alex has been studying and teaching about sex for over 17 years.

They believe that sex education must be pleasure based, trauma informed, identity centered, and rooted in harm reduction and sex positivity.

Since receiving her B.A. in Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Humboldt State University in 2015, Alex has developed healthy sexuality curriculum for youth, facilitated pleasure based and technique focused sex workshops for adults, and hosted queer sexuality workshops and knowledge shares for college students.

Alex spends their time sharing glasses of water with their plantitas, placing their feet into shallow ocean waves, returning to touch in their massage therapy practice, strengthening their connection to Mexican cooking and kitchen curanderismo, and being a professional pelvis to revolutionize clinical sexual health as patient centered and queer inclusive.

Alex’s artwork has been shown at SOMArts, Oakland Museum of California, Southwestern University Fine Arts Gallery, and Crisis Club Gallery.