Episodes
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All the Beautiful Qualities: Kintsugi Therapist Collective
In this episode, you will hear from beloved Kintsugi Therapist Colltive members, who participated in a group discussion about what KTC is, why it is a community that matters so much to them and why our care worker collective is a critically important space that counterbalances the extractive…
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From the River to the Sea: Hannah Moushabeck
Hannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author, editor, and book marketer who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers in Western Massachusetts and England. Born in Brooklyn into Interlink Publishing, a family-run independent publishing house, she learned the…
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Bitten by the Wolf: Asher's update
To support Kintsugi Therapist Collective: https://www.patreon.com/kintsugitherapistcollective To read this episode, subscribe to my free newsletter: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/contact
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Duet #3: Zena Sharman and Hannah McGregor
All things Kintsugi Therapist Collective: https://www.kintsugitherapistcollective.com/offerings In this conversation we hear Hannah and Zena talk about caring ferociously, macho homemaking, living life as a committed spinster, work as a trauma response and domestic embodiment. Hannah McGregor is…
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Duet #2: Fanny Priest and Erin Fairchild
All the links/info about Erin and Fanny: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/episodes/fanny-priest-erin-fairchild All things Asher Mending with Gold: Weekend Intensive Embodied Private Practice Cohort Embodied Testimony: Sick and Tired
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Samantha Irby and Marlee Grace: Duet #1
Samantha Irby writes a newsletter called Bitches Gotta Eat. Her favorite duet is Patti Labelle and Michael Mcdonald's “On My Own.” Marlee Grace is a dancer and writer whose work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, creativity, and art making. Their practice is rooted in improvisation as a...
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The Melancholy of Joseph M. Pierce
More about Joseph here Always Coming Home
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STOP MEN (to the point): clip from full length interview with Xara Thustra
[audio transcription] STOP MEN.. I've been probably writing it and it's been a part of my work for about 15 years. During that Gay Shame time and during a lot of my protesting and, and engaging with the Mission Anti- Displacement Coalition for, you know, a couple of years and the Coalition on...
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Una Aya Osato: Human Barometer
Una Aya Osato (they/she/flower) is a performer, writer, sex educator, community CareBear, stripper, and clown from NYC. They are an award-winning actor and playwright who tours her original work nationally and internationally. Una is also a co-founding member of brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque…
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#21): “What happens when we are reached for, and we are the alternative system, and we are completely tapped out?”
Thank you Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Bridget Bertrand and Dr. Jennie Wang-Hall who attempted to address the question: What does it mean to be a care worker in the third year of this global pandemic? Thank you for the additional question.....“What happens when we are reached for, and we are...
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Jenna Wortham on Finding Peace Beneath the Skin
We discuss the priority of supporting the body, Jenna's history with disordered eating and overwork, their anxious brain, what they are learning from their morning body/mind assessment ritual, the importance of rest and WHY the ceramic french press is a game changer.
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This Volatile Body: Mugabi Byenkya
Mugabi Byenkya is an award- winning writer who was born to Ugandan parents in Nigeria and is currently based in Kampala. Mugabi lives outside the gender binary and has a seizure disorder, chronic fatigue and experiences the world in a way that some would describe as “neurodivergent.” In 2018,...
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Always Becoming with Joey Soloway
Today I am thrilled to celebrate the 3 year anniversary of the podcast! We’ve had over 250,000 downloads and released 51 full length episodes along with some really powerful pandemic dispatches. Living in this Queer Body has become a platform that has connected queers through instagram, workshops...
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I Felt at Home in It: Alli Simon
I approached Alli for this interview as a fan and really loved meditating with her during the pandemic. During this interview we talked about what it is like for Alli to be a queer, larger bodied, POC in the wellness industry, endometriosis, her relationship with a queer femme identity as someone...
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Radical Healership: laura mae northrup
laura mae northrup is an author, educator, somatic & psychedelic psychotherapist, and podcaster. Her book Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World is an anti-capitalist, spiritually-led guide book for healing practitioners. She is the host and...
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For Life Till Death: Anastasia (Onyx) Fujii, LCSW
Anastasia (Onyx) Fujii is a queer, non-binary, chronically ill, mixed-race clinical social worker; living and practicing trauma-informed psychotherapy in Philadelphia, PA (on Lenni-Lenape land). They are a cultural humility consultant and group facilitator, as well as a lifelong East Coaster, a...
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#20): Susana Victoria Parras
Susana Victoria Parras (@heal2gether) is the founder of Heal Together, a Guatemalan daughter, Anti-Racist, LCSW, Intersectional, Mother and Partner. Susana is committed to justice and dignity for all peoples. In this dispatch, we hear a testimony of the intergenerational impact of multi-systemic...
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I Knew I Had to Say it Out Loud: Nicole J. Georges
Nicole J. Georges is a graphic novelist and podcaster from Portland, Oregon. Nicole's podcast, Relative Fiction, adapted from her award-winning graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura. She is also the author of the book Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, and the queer arts & vegan food review…
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Belly of the Beast: Da'Shaun Harrison
In this episode, we talked about the long term impacts of childhood illness and confrontation with the fragility of the body, anti-fatness as a barrier for receiving medical care, how liberal folk’s disdain for the south constitutes anti-blackness, their discovery of fat studies and the impact of...
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Swimming Upstream: Sini Anderson on Late Stage Lyme, Long Covid, Queer Community Magic and the making of So Sick (2014-2022)
Sini Anderson is an award winning film director, producer, video art maker, and feminist art activist who lives in New York City. Her first feature length film, The Punk Singer -a documentary about Kathleen Hanna, premiered at SXSW in 2013 and was acquired by IFC Films. The Punk Singer received a...
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Stealing Astrology Back: Alice Sparkly Kat
Alice Sparkly Kat is an astrologer. They use astrology to re-chart a history of the subconscious, redefine the body in world, and reimagine history as collective memory. Their astrological work has inhabited MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum. They are the author of...
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Corporeal Biography: S.J Norman
S.J Norman (b. 1984) is a multi-award winning artist, writer and curator. His career has so far spanned 18 years and has embraced a diversity of disciplines and formal outcomes, including solo and ensemble performance, installation, sculpture, text, video and sound. He is a non-binary...
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My Body is not a Burden: Erica Woodland
Erica Woodland, LCSW is a black queer/genderqueer facilitator, consultant, psychotherapist, and healing justice practitioner based in Baltimore, MD. He has worked at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice and liberation for more than 18 years. In 2016...
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Safe Harbor: Christa Couture
Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also mixed Cree and Scandanavian-settler, queer, disabled, and a mom. Her seventh album Safe Harbour was released on Coax Records in 2020. As a writer and storyteller, she…
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#19): Renee
renee is a non-binary femme artist living on the unceded ancestral lands of the Duwamish people also known as seattle. a jack of many trades including writing, zine making, tap dancing and bending neon art! they believe deeply that everything is relational and that care, vulnerability and…
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"I looked like a tomboy... turns out I was": Colin Hagendorf
In this episode we discuss childhood gender play, complicating trans coming out narratives, the significance of sobriety and secure relational attachment in Colin’s creative life, her relationship to punk, dissociation and transformative justice and the clarity that comes when you get on the…
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#18)
Deep Gratitude to Sara Jane Stoner (@thingpartofus)
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Syd Yang: Finding Comfort in the Discomfort
Syd Yang (they/them) is a mixed race/Taiwanese American queer/non-binary healer, intuitive counselor and writer who weaves together magic, possibility and intention as an energy healer in the world through their practice, Blue Jaguar Healing Arts. As someone who lives with depression and anxiety,...
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You Are Wanted: MJ @margejacobsen
In this interview MJ and I explore so many topics including body shame, living with mental illness, showing up with compassion and softness for oneself, parenting, polyamory, examining proximity to whiteness and finally, the experience of being found by their biological family. Watch the journey...
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Becoming the Spell: Sarah Faith Gottesdiener
Sarah is an artist, writer, psychic tarot reader, teacher, & business owner living in LA. @gottesss www.modernwomenprojects.com We talk about the lingering impact of childhood trauma, living as a queer adult with ADHD, queerness as ideology, accessing protective energy for oneself and much more....
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"Check Your Past:" Eva Reign
In this episode, Eva and I talk about our shared hometown of Saint Louis, MO. We address the ways that Eva has`worked to undo her internalized homophobia, transphobia and anti-blackness. Eva also gives us her take on the current "trendiness" of transness and BLM. Eva Reign is an actor, writer and...
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Disrupting Linearity and 2 Spirit Body Reclamation: Coyote Park
Coyote Park is a Two Spirit artist, oral historian, and educator. They are Yurok (with their ancestral homelands being near the Klamath river), German, and Korean. Coyote grew up in Honolulu, Hawai'i and moved to New York when they were 18. Currently, they have relocated to Los Angeles where they...
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What a cute girl: Joon Oluchi Lee
JOON OLUCHI LEE lives and writes in femininity and feminism, whose latest novel is "Neotenica," published by Nightboat Books in June. The author of two other works of fiction, "94" (2015) and "Lace Sick Bag" (2013), both published by Publication Studio, as well as various essays on queer theory,...
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#17)
Deep Gratitude to @annefacee These pandemic times have been a time of interrogation, reflection, learning, and unlearning–which for me, includes exploring my gender identity and the ways in which I can get so tied up in how others may hypothetically react to it, let alone perceive it. I sat on…
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The Unseen World is Trying to Liberate Us: Lama Rod Owens
We are back with full length interviews!! I'd love to hear what you think of the conversation. Episode 34 features Lama Rod Owens, a black queer Buddhist Lama and author of the recently published book Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger. In this episode, we discuss the dangers of...
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#16)
Deep gratitude to: Nalo @nalodarling (@blackgirlmasculine and @yaziclothing)
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#15)
CW: mention of suicide Deep gratitude to: Erin (@erin_everett15), Meg (@lamplight.space), Daniel (eyes_of_daniel) and Lex (@the.days.eye). As much as possible I aim to center the voices and experiences of BIPOC queer folks. That being said, I know that participation can involve significant...
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#14)
Deep Gratitude to: Abby, a Nanticoke Lenape and a 2-spirit lesbian (@asfk.art) and Kbb is a white, queer, non-binary professor of Performance Studies in the Theater Department at Wesleyan University (@brewerball).
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (Trans Folks Fighting Eating Disorders @transfolxfightingeds)
This episode features voices from the organization TRANS FOLKS FIGHTING EATING DISORDERS (@transfolxfightingeds) Deep gratitude to: Kacey, Kian, OJ (@thirdwheeled), Scout (@wickedlittletown) and Ethan (@heartshapedhickies). This episode features non-black voices, in part, because food/nourishment...
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#13)
Deep gratitude to: @qweenamor, @blackqueerbaby and @love.gia $upport AND DONATE TO: @btfa (Black Trans Femmes in the Arts) Activation Residency @activationresidency (Venmo is Activation, PayPal is [email protected]) As much as possible I aim to center the voices and experiences of…
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#12)
Deep Gratitude to: Margaret Jacobsen (@margejacobsen), Shantira Jackson (@tira_tira_tira), Vic Michealis (@vicmmic), Jill Casid (@jillcasid) and Savannah Jane (@queer_mama_4_the_rev).
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Dispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (#11)
Deep gratitude to: Eva Reign (@msevareign), Domonique Echeverria (@domonique_echeverria), Rebekah Erev (@rebekaherevstudio), Lukaza Branfaman-Verissimo (@bluekaza), Joon Oluchi Lee (@girlscallmuder) and E.R. Fightmaster (@genderless_gap_ad).
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Dispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (#10 EMBODIED TESTIMONY)
This is a really special episode to me. Over the past couple of months a small group of folks have been recognizing, allowing, investigating and nurturing their embodied testimony in the LITQB Program Intensive (all while living in pandemic times). A few folks were willing to share their...
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Dispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (#9)
Deep gratitude to: Ted Kerr (@tedkerr), Eli Raczynski (@eli_eli_eli_), Marina Labarthe del Solar (@okdood), Mel Plaut (@newyorkhack), Andrew Greene (@beingandrewgreene), Alynda Mariposa (@hurrayfortheriffraff), Victoria (@queermoneyproject), Colin Hagendorf (@colinhagendorf), Jeff Hinshaw...
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Queer Futures: Sav Schlauderaff
As the global pandemic continues, I think we are all feeling quite deeply and concretely the barriers to embodiment in various aspects of of our life, perhaps more acutely than ever. My guest today is someone who is very well versed in speaking about the body in pain and the multiplicity of...
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Dispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (#8)
Deep gratitude to: Lauren (@laurensallpurpose), Makoto (@ma_ko_to_), Vanessa, Gia Love (@love.gia), Cat Tyc (@catherinetyc), Atalanta (@blossomingresistance), Char (@chartwodeetwo), Sanyu (@sanyutattoo), Patrilie (@the_bodylib_advocate) and Hannah Hiaasen (@studio.hh)
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Dispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic times (#7)
Deep gratitude to Emily Wells (@emilywellsmusic), Joss Lake (@joss.e.lake), Jewel Cadet (@jewel_thegem), Courtney Perkins (@notallgeminis), FRAMACHO (@framacho), Jaffa Aharonov (@jafqueen) and Bunny Michael (@bunnymichael)
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I am the Site of Possibility: Shira Erlichman
In this episode, which was recorded many months ago, Shira and I talk about what it means to not be able to “outrun” her Bipolar diagnosis and the long process of acceptance that followed this confronting reality. Shira shares about her early childhood growing up in Israel, noticing as a radical...
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Recovering from Covid-19 (Dispatches from our Queer bodies in pandemic times part 6)
In this episode, Cassie Peterson @cassmastery returns to tell us about recovering from Covid-19.
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Dispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (Part 5)
Deep gratitude to Gala Mukomolova (@galactic_rabbit_horoscopes and @bigdykeenergypodcast), Rachel Burgos (@snakerootapothecary), Andrew Gurza (@itsandrewgurza), Colin Self (@colinself), Dr. Sand Chang (@heydrsand), Vi Khi Nao (@vikhinao), Liz Collins (@lizzycollins7), Zena Sharman (@zenasharman)...