Learn with Serina

The Elsewheres is a learning platform that was born from a refusal, the refusal to let colonial systems decide what counts as knowledge or who is allowed to hold it. I created The Elsewheres as a response to the extraction, isolation, and spirit injury often found within the Ivory Tower. It is a space that insists our wisdom does not need institutional validation to be real or powerful.

As a Chicana from Maryvale, I never learned my histories. The Elsewheres is the space I needed when I was younger, a place for anyone of any age to learn and re-member the stories that were withheld or erased. It is a gathering ground for community and continuity, where knowledge is not something to be mastered but to be lived with, shared, and carried forward.

The Elsewheres exists as a living praxis of relational accountability and collective restoration. It holds that knowledge is not a commodity to be accumulated but a relationship to be tended. Guided by the cosmology of the Nahui Ollin, The Elsewheres follows the rhythm of movement, reflection, action, and transformation.

Here, scholars, elders, artists, and knowledge keepers come together to share their teachings. Each offering, whether course, workshop, retreat, or supervision, centers Indigenous, queer, and decolonial ways of knowing that emerge from lived experience, ceremony, and the land. Learning becomes an act of spirit restoration, a returning to relation.

The Elsewheres is not an institution. It is a communal remembering, a place where story, body, and community meet to imagine and enact otherwise worlds.

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My sexuality education work lives at the intersection of body, land, and story. As an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, CE Provider, and Supervisor in Training, I have co-chaired the AASECT Institute, served as Dean of Student Affairs for an AASECT-approved CE Provider, and facilitated more than nine Sexual Attitude Reassessments (SARs). Within those spaces, I helped redesign curricula and develop social justice frameworks that centered decolonial, queer, and culturally responsible pedagogy. I do not separate sexuality from the rest of my work because it is at our core. It connects us to the land, to one another, and to the memories our bodies carry. 

Through my somatic and decolonial approach, I guide learners to unlearn colonial narratives and to remember pleasure, relationship, and belonging as acts of healing. This practice continues at The Elsewheres through offerings such as La Lengua de las Diosas and other community-rooted programs that honor sexuality as sacred knowledge. Found at TheElsewheres.com

The Chingona Retreats are gatherings of spirit and story held at Casa Salcido in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. These retreats emerge from the teachings of the Nahui Ollin and the living cosmology of the land. Participants move through reflection, ceremony, and rest, remembering their connection to ancestry, community, and each other.

These are intentionally exclusive spaces for Chicana/x, Latina/x, Indigenous women, trans women, and non-binary individuals with vulvas, those whose Indigeneity and wholeness have been fragmented by assimilation. Each gathering is a return to land, to story, to self.

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