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Strippers and Sages
by Lianne Sonia
A visionary podcast about the intersection of eros, consciousness, and liberation politics.
Episodes
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Ismail Ali on the future of MAPS & Psychedelic Policy
In this wide-ranging conversation with Ismail “Izzy” Ali, co-executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), we explore the intersections of psychedelics, spirituality, politics, social justice, and the evolution of consciousness. From the tensions between...
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Ismail Ali (MAPS) on Cognitive Liberty
Ismail Lourido Ali, JD is the current Interim Co-Director of Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He believes entheogenic consciousness is a crucial aspect of challenging oppression in all of its forms and has been doing vital work in the psychedelic space for over decade....
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Dancing with the Fairies: Remembering Tigre Bailando
This is an interview I recorded in the winter of 2020 with the inimitable Tigre Bailando, a dear friend and collaborator who passed away on October 1st, 2022 of their own volition. Tigre dedicated their life to the joyful pursuit of dance, artistic creation, unabashed self expression and social...
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On Anti-Racist Erotica & Sex-Positive Parenting with Jet Setting Jasmine
In this dynamic interview, the multifaceted Jet Setting Jasmine and I talk about liberation through erotica, dismantling white supremacy in the porn industry, and radical sex education. A psychotherapist with an emphasis on intimacy post injury and illness, Jet Setting Jasmine is the owner of and...
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On Sex Ed with Chris Soyong Harley, CEO of SIECUS (Sexuality Info. & Edu. Council of the US)
Since 2019, Christine Soyong Harley has led SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States), a national non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for comprehensive sexuality education in the United States. Founded in 1964, SIECUS promotes sex education that is...
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On Pleasure after Trauma with Jimanekia Eborn
Jimanekia Eborn is a Queer, Sexual Assault & Trauma Expert, Trauma Media Consultant, and Comprehensive Sex Educator. She is the host of Trauma Queen - a podcast for survivors of assault and our allies. The podcast focuses on uplifting voices in all communities and exploring our collective journey...
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Designing Spaces for Sexual Exploration with Daniel Saynt
We go behind the scenes at NYC's hottest sex club, the New Society for Wellness (NSFW...wink, wink). Daniel Saynt is the founder and Chief Conspirator of NSFW, a private club for the adventurous in NYC. Designed to be a safe, judgement-free, cannabis friendly space for sexual exploration, the...
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Ecosexuality with Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens
SEASON THREE IS HERE! What does it mean to be an eco-sexual? How are sex, ecology, and climate change interconnected? And why is laughter a key ingredient in both activism and performance art? The legendary duo Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens explain it all! Life partners and collaborators since...
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Luna Matata on Pegging the Patriarchy | Season Two Finale
In this episode, sex educator and pleasure educator Luna Matatas discusses threesomes, BDSM, sexual confidence and butt stuff, which you can learn more about on her podcast The Plug. Luna has over 10 years of experience teaching sexual empowerment workshops. She celebrates body confidence,...
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Burlesque as Liberation: A Panel Discussion
In this exciting episode, I interview Burlesque legends Jet Noir, Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière, and Una Osato about the political, spiritual, subversive, and revolutionary aspects of this radical artform. Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière, known as the stripping sensation from the Mohawk nation, has...
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Ze Royale on Spanking the System
Ze Royale (ze/they/them) is a writer, performance artist, sexual anarchist, social worker, and pleasure activist. Ze writes and performs in “post-pornographic” films for Aorta Films, performs chanting rituals in the musical duo Zoid^, and curates erotic events at venues like Ps 1 MoMA as a part…
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Professor Samantha Rose Hill on the Aesthetics & Politics of Pornography
Samantha Rose Hill is the assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, visiting assistant professor of politics at Bard College in New York and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York City, where she teaches courses such as...
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William Winters on Diversity & Inclusion in Sex-Positive Culture
Today I speak with William Winters about inclusivity and diversity in polyamorous and sex positive culture, consent as care, and the intersection of activism and erotic liberation. In 2014, the San Francisco Chronicle named William Winters the "de facto king of the East Bay polyamory scene." He's...
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Let's Talk About C*nt Spunk: Relanguaging our Erotic Consciousness
In this brief hiatus from our regular conversation series, Lianne waxes poetic on Wittgenstein, vaginal secretion, Beverly Hills 90210, the Encyclopedia of Sacred Sexuality, and the importance of relanguaging our erotic consciousness,
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Inside the Orgy Dome at Burning Man
I interview Lazlo (president emeritus), and Shade (current president of Consensuality), two of the wonderful, big hearted humans behind the Orgy Dome at Burning Man. The Orgy Dome is the playa gift of the camp “..And Then There’s Only Love”. Originally formed in 2003, the theme camp started out...
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Michaelah Ivie on Cultivating Safety for Erotic Health
Michaelah Ivie, MA holds a masters in both Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy and recently completed a year-long coaching program taught by Layla Martin at the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality as a Love, Sex, and Relationship coach. She is a wordsMYTH, conscious comedian,...
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Dr. Kim Tallbear on Decolonizing Sexuality through Critical Polyamory
Dr. Kim TallBear is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment. She is also a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow and the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False...
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Misha Japanwala on Casting the Female Form: Gender & Expression in Pakistan
Misha Japanwala is a Pakistani artist and designer who creates stunning body casts of the female nude to critique and raise awareness about gender violence and the repression of female sexuality in Pakistan and around the world. Born and raised in Karachi, Misha moved to New York City to attend...
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Ayden LeRoux on the Aesthetics & Fragility of the Body
Ayden LeRoux is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, critic, and educator whose work explores embodiment, eroticism, and illness, in order to complicate narratives about gender, sexuality, and family structures. Her essays, fiction, and translation have been published in Guernica, Catapult,...
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Leila Raven on Abolition & Decriminalizing Sex Work
Leila Raven is a queer mama, organizer, and prison abolitionist from New York City. She is one of the creators of the #8toAbolition platform outlining specific, actionable steps that cities can take to move toward a world without police, and she has been a founding organizer with the DecrimNowDC...
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Katherine Rowland on The Pleasure Gap: the Unfinished Sexual Revolution [Season Two Premiere!)
Katherine Rowland, former publisher and executive director of Guernica Magazine, recently published The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution. In it, Katherine investigates everything from big pharma’s attempts to pathologize low female libido to the neoliberal...
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Season Two Teaser
A quick teaser to you know about some of the remarkable conversations we'll be releasing over the next few weeks! Upcoming guests include activist, organizer, and queer mama Leila Raven of Decrim NY talking about abolitionism and decriminalizing sex work; author and medical anthropologist…
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B.K. Chan On Rejection Resilience
In this episode, I speak with B.K. Chan about how rejection resilience enables us to live more courageous and authentic lives. In the last episode of Strippers and Sages, Jamila Reddy spoke about the importance of being in touch with and brave enough to pursue our desires. That bravery involves...
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BONUS: Jamila Reddy on Sex in the Orgy Dome
Ever wondered what it's like to have sex in the Orgy Dome at Burning Man? Jamila shares about their delicious sexcapade on the playa. Enjoy!
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Jamila Reddy on Having the Courage to Pursue Excellence Over Mediocrity
Jamila (she/they) is a dear friend who never ceases to inspire me. In this very personal and provocative conversation, Jamila talks about re-imagining intimacy, expanding their erotic horizons through gender-fluidity, navigating fear, and finding their "inner daddy". They share their experience...
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Eli Marienthal on Wilderness Exploration for Young Men
In this rich conversation, Eli talks about how spending time in the wilderness helps adolescent boys hone their inner voice, an essential tool when it comes to resisting and reprograming the toxic messages they receive from society around sex and masculinity. Eli shares vulnerably about his own...
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Jewel Love on the Golden Rhino, Healthy Manhood, & Consent
With Appearances at the Bioneers and the IONS conferences, Jewel Love is deeply committed to leading new conversations surrounding healthy manhood and joining ancient conversations about sacred masculinity. As the founder of Black Executive Men and Urban Healers, Jewel specializes in creating...
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Eve Lady Apples: Part II - On the Erotic Basis of Being
This is part two of my conversation with the illustrious Eve Lady Apples Bradford. Eve discusses the Erotic Basis of Being as a philosophy and sheds historical light on how we arrived at our current state of sexual affairs. It's a conversation not to be missed. Eve Bradford is an educator, artist...
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Eve Lady Apples: Part I - on Ritual & the Erotic Web of Being
Eve Bradford is an educator, artist and oracular practitioner working at the intersections of art, activism and magic to create work primarily intended to call upon the true capacity of our most authentic selves in service of full-spectrum health, embodiment, expression and ecstasy. Eve has been...
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Gaia Ma on Tantra, Permaculture, & Erotic Ecology
Transformational facilitator Gaia Ma pioneered the Tantric Way Process, a world renowned personal and spiritual development practice that helps to shatter programmed patterns of the body mind. A former stripper and exotic dancer, she is the co-founder of InanItah, an earth-based community on the...
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Ian MacKenzie & John Wolfstone On Love School: Systems Change & Sexuality
Filmmakers Ian MacKenzie and John Wolfstone discuss their upcoming documentary Love School, which is about the Tamera Institute, a communal research village founded on and dedicated to systems change in love and sexuality as a foundation for planetary healing. Together, Ian and John produce new...
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Nenna Joiner: Feelmore, Do More
Award winning adult film director, author, and activist Nenna Joiner is the Owner of Feelmore Adult in Downtown Oakland. Nenna has won two Feminist Porn Awards for the films Hella Brown: real sex in the city and Tight Places: a drop of color, which have screened in countless cities across the...
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On the Politics of Intimacy: Sexual Freedom as a Blueprint for Democracy
My guest today is a social worker, educator, consultant, and former sex store employee. Her background is in sexual health education, gender-based violence response and organizational responses to trauma. In her current practice, she works with individuals, groups and organizations who want to…
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Nikesha Breeze: On Desire & Destiny, Decolonizing the Body, & Becoming Sensitive to the Invisible World
Nikesha is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the inter-relationality and resilience of the black and queer body in relationship to power, vulnerability, the sacred, and the ancestral. In this episode, Nikesha talks about Daoist sexology, becoming sensitive to the invisible world...
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Strippers & Sages: Teaser
A podcast about sex - and so much more. Weekly discussions with brilliant guests about everything from eroticism to politics, mysticism to pornography. Subscribe now! Full episodes will soon be released. Visit www.strippersandsages.com to learn more!
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A visionary podcast about the intersection of eros, consciousness, and liberation politics.
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Who hosts Strippers and Sages?
Strippers and Sages is created and hosted by Lianne Sonia.
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