Raised in the 1970s by a children’s librarian and a sex therapist, Cory grew up to be a sex educator, and author, and a queer person who smiles a lot when they talk.
They spend a lot of their time reading, writing, and talking about sex and gender and are happiest working with others. Cory was a founding member of the Come As You Are Co-operative and worked as a researcher and television consultant in Canada for over 10 years. Cory is a core team member of ANTE UP!, a virtual professional freedom school founded by Bianca I Laureano. They also spend a lot of time helping other people make books.
Cory is the co-author of four books including The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability (with Fran Odette and Miriam Kaufman), What Makes a Baby, Sex Is a Funny Word, and the forthcoming You Know, Sex, all with Fiona Smyth.
They received a master’s degree in education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Since 1997 Cory has developed and facilitated workshops for hundreds of agencies and organizations serving both youth and adults across North America on a range of topics including gender expression and identity, sexuality and disability, sexual pleasure, sexual communication, technology, and access + inclusion. They have delivered keynotes, and led small book groups, and regularly speak with parents, educators, and librarians about how to think and talk about sex, gender, and disability in more expansive ways.
White, Jewish, and queer, Cory tries to center justice in their life and work. They have learned (and continue to learn) to do this by centering collaboration, humility, curiosity, and accountability, working across and within the spaces that divide race, gender, embodiment, disability, and identity. Cory’s life is full of kids. All of them know where babies come from. Some know more.