Sera Miles

Sera Miles is the CEO of PEP Connections and the founder of Becoming: Education, Connection, & Support (BECS). Human sexuality courses at the University of New Mexico, Southwestern College, and University of Denver have welcomed her as a guest speaker; she’s presented at Texas Tech, University of Maryland, Central New Mexico Community College, DomConLA, DomConNOLA, Beat Me in St Louis, Northwest Leather Celebration, and Behind Closed Doors in Tucson; and taught workshops for various groups, from graduate students to kinksters to social workers, and at sex shoppes across the United States. For six vibrant years, Sera led New Mexico FetLifers, a social networking group she founded, and which produced the conference “Evolution of the Revolution.” In 2016, the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) of New Mexico invited Sera to speak about BDSM at their annual conference, and the following year, Sera was asked to serve as the BDSM advisor to the New Mexico Strangulation Task Force; unfortunately, whorephobic members prevented the task force from accessing her knowledge. Sera co-founded New Mexico's Sex Workers Outreach Project chapter and organized Albuquerque’s events for the International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers (aka Red Umbrella Day) from 2009 to 2015. Sera, by invitation, spoke at the 2018 March for Trans Rights in Albuquerque, which was an honor of which she strives continuously to be worthy. The United Court of Sandias bestowed upon Sera the lifetime title, “Inspiration of the Sandias,” and in 2018, she co-chaired UCS’ Year of the Woman committee, where she spear-headed the #PeriodPositive project, collecting menstruation supplies for under-served communities, and working to dismantle cultural shame about periods. 

Sera’s richly varied sex work career spans over two decades; she’s appeared in numerous fetish videos, some so ancient they require a VCR, and she stars in “Bonetown” and “Bonecraft,” the world’s first pornographic computer games. Listen for her voice, too, in the interactive game and platform “Erotic Heroes.” In October 2023, Sera hung up her own phone sex line to focus on growing PEP, developing BECS, mentoring and supporting sex workers, and opening the Soft Corners Studio Center for education and the arts, as well as on her own poetry and essay writing. Under her given name, Sarah E. Azizi, she’s published work in Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 34th Parallel, Blue Mesa Review, Fahmidan Journal, Clean Sheets, red, The Tide Rises, HELD, Wrongdoing Magazine, the winnow, Superpresent, Nine Mile, The Coop, and Emerge Literary Journal. Her work appears in the anthology Rituals from Bell Press and Not Ghosts but Spirits from Querencia Press. Under Sera Miles, her work has been published in $pread Magazine and Free State Review. As poet, D-type, activist, mother, facilitator, coach/consultant, wordsmith, and educator, Sera roots herself in Leather culture and in fighting for self-determination and bodily autonomy for all.

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