Heather Corinna

Heather Corinna (born April 18, 1970) is an author, activist, and Internet publisher with a focus on progressive, affirming sexuality. She is a self-described "queer, rabblerousing, polymath." She was one of the pioneers of positive human sexuality on the Internet. She has advocated for accepting the diverse forms of a sexual experience and avoiding "expertitis". 2Biography Heather Corinna was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Chicago and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She suffered sexual assault at age 12, and was homeless by age 16. She has written about the role that her experience with sexual assault and other violence in her youth have played in motivating her art and activism. Corinna is a 1986 graduate of the Chicago Academy of the Arts, where she studied music, creative writing, and art. She also attended Shimer College, then located in Waukegan, majoring in Humanities. During her twenties, Corinna worked for several years as an early childhood educator. After working in education with developmentally disabled adults and in a Montessori elementary classroom, she founded an alternative kindergarten/pre-kindergarten in Chicago, which she ran from 1992 to 199