Lydia Kaye

Bodies in the Post

Society EN ↓ 19 episodes

Documenting a posthuman movement in art, fashion and culture. Here you’ll get to know the humans behind the creations, and their inner worlds that form the basis of what drives them. ------ Bodies in the Post Social Media Instagram: @bodiesinthepost Tiktok: @bodiesinthepostpodcast YouTube: @BodiesInThePostPodcast ------ Produced and hosted by Lydia Kaye Music by Liam Jones Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author

Lydia Kaye

Category

Society

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Latest episode

Sep 3, 2025

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Episodes

Bunny Kinney: Virtual Beauty, Ai & Identity in the Digital Age 03.09.2025

Bunny Kinney is known for working as a Creative Director in the digital space, specifically within fashion, film and beauty, and he’s worked for publications and platforms including Nowness, Dazed, Vice Media, and i-D. In 2018 Bunny launched DAZED BEAUTY, a gen z-focused beauty publication co-created with makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench. As of May 2025, Bunny was appointed as Global Executive Creati...

Godesosa: Intersexuality, Character Creation & Queer Inhumanism 12.08.2025

Artist Esosa Odia, known as Godesosa on Instagram, creates ‘characters’ through various digital software that read as posthuman figurations as they merge the organic with the natural to create notions of bodies from the future or another world. Godesosa uses their art as a way to work through their experience of being intersex, and to reimagine their body in alternative nonhuman ways. They use 3D...

Judassime: Self-taught Fashion Designer on Rejection, Corsetry & Confidence 24.06.2025

Judassime is a self-taught fashion designer whose otherworldly club-couture designs are known for their extravagance and intricacy. With dramatic silhouettes and a BDSM aesthetic, strength and confidence are prerequisites for wearing a Judassime garment.  As well as dressing stars including Katy Perry, Judassime has dressed friends of Bodies in the Post podcast Parma Ham and Dahc Dermur. In t...

Tamta: Ambition, Reinvention, Fashion & Embracing Ai 10.06.2025

Tamta is a Georgian-Greek pop star and fashion icon whose career started in the early 2000s and still storms on today. In this episode Tamta talks about her experience of growing up in Soviet Georgia in the 1990s, getting married at fourteen and having a baby 10 months later, before relocating to Greece and skyrocketing to fame through Super Idol . We dive into how she turned her dream into a real...

Ophelia Liu: Makeup, Parasites and Pregnancy Fear 07.01.2025

Pro makeup artist Ophelia Liu is known for her artistry and experimental makeup style. She creates intricate otherworldly designs that challenge conventional ideas of beauty. Her makeup work embodies themes of transformation, mutation, and hybridity, which resonate with posthumanism by exploring how identity and the body can transcend traditional human boundaries. We talk about talent and creativi...

Anthromorph Returns: Art & Body Modification 11.12.2024

Artist and friend of the podcast Constantine Semiramis (known as @Anthromorph on Instagram) returns for an update! Constantine is a mixed media artist who creates posthuman sculptures, otherworldly masks, and much more. Conversation topics, timings and links below: (00:41) : Introduction to Anthromorph and Bodies in the Post season 2 update! (05:51) : Feminine presentation on social media; pros an...

Dahc Dermur: The Multiple Lives of an Artist & DJ 04.06.2024

🫀Episode 12🫀 is with Dahc Dermur, who is an artist, performer, and iconic London DJ at Fold, Wraith and Kaos London. Known as 'Mother' to many in the queer community, Dahc talks about embracing this nurturing role; how they use their body as a canvas; their turbulent upbringing in a right wing, highly religious household; their addictions; their almost 10 year sobriety; and the many lives they’v...

Yaz XL: Hybrid Creatures & Dressing Bjork 21.05.2024

🪐 Episode 11 🪐 is with multi-disciplinary artist Yaz XL whose work straddles fashion, film, prosthetics, and special effects. In 2022, her Central Saint Martins final degree fashion collection went viral on TikTok amassing millions of views. Within a few months she was dressing the otherworldly icon that is Bjork. Yaz's fashion is a blend of futuristic and organic forms that speak of posthuman b...

Jemma Sawyer: Female Agency & Empowerment Through Tech 27.02.2024

🎀 Episode 10 🎀 is with Jemma Sawyer, who is the creator, founder, and CEO of ILOH , the UK’s first sexual health and pleasure product brand that is designed BY women FOR women. In this episode we talk about setting up ILOH, the products it provides, female pleasure, ownership of the body, women in business, egg freezing, and the pressure women feel to reproduce. We also talk about the power of h...

Jack Zisfain: Fashion Design, Insects, Transmasculinity & ‘Passing’ 13.02.2024

🪲 Episode 9 🪲 is with Jack Zisfain, a recent fashion design graduate (who I taught!) whose final degree collection was inspired by the anatomy of insects and forms that disrupt binaries between human and nonhuman. As a transman, Jack became deeply informed by posthuman theory's approach to binary disruption. He became fascinated by trans-speciesism and the overlaps this has with transgenderism....

Agnes Questionmark: Sea Creatures, Motherhood & Transgenesis 30.01.2024

🐙 Episode 8 🐙 is with Agnes Questionmark, an Italian artist based in New York, who identifies as trans-species. Artistically she is known for her use of marine-like sculptures and bodies of water. We talk about her transspecies endeavours, ideas for future projects, her personal experience of being a transwoman, her desire to become a mother and much more.   (00:39) : Introduction to Agnes...

Precious Opara: Capturing Human Essence, Embracing Nudity & Modelling 16.01.2024

💧Episode 7 💧is with Precious Opara, a young emerging figurative artist. Here we talk about how she took the plunge into becoming a full time artist, how she uses her body to communicate the essence of being human, gaining confidence through modelling nude, why female supporters are so needed, and the issue with being seen as ‘a black female artist’. (00:39) : Introduction to Precious Opara. (05:...

Oscar Salguero: Tiger Penises, Pig Organs & Interspecies Futures 02.01.2024

🐒 Episode 6 🐒 is with Oscar Salguero, founder of the Interspecies Library in Brooklyn, New York. He is also a researcher, critical designer, and independent book curator.   (00:41) : Introduction to Oscar Salguero (05:17) : Living in Tokyo; alternative industrial design; the posthuman condition; alternative interspecies ideas; Anthropocentrism; pigs in cigarettes; monkeys in space; nonhuman...

Dr. Jo Zayner: Biohacking, Gene Editing & Playing God 12.12.2023

🧬 Episode 5 🧬 is with Dr. Jo Zayner, a biohacker, scientist, artist, and CEO of The ODIN - a company that sells gene editing kits. We discuss: (04:03) : Science as gatekeeping; feeling fear and trans shame; being (seen as) controversial. (12:51): Unnatural Selection Netflix documentary; CRISPR; educating people on biotechnologies; enhancing the body; Posthumanism & Transhumanism; lab animals...

Proxima (Adriano Renna): Emetophobia, Art as Therapy & Embracing the Abject 28.11.2023

🌿Episode 4🌿 is with artist and DJ Adriano Renna, known as Proxima on Instagram (@proxima2000taur). We discuss: (00:56): Using organic material to create art; evolving as an artist; NOT being posthuman?; artists Fecal Matter as inspiration; being sustainable. (16:23): Emetophobia; using art to heal; body image; the software inside you; art as archive; challenging yourself to look ugly; synchronis...

Sade English: Anticlone Gallery, Black Representation & Creating Through Grief 14.11.2023

⚡️Episode 3⚡️is with Sade English, an artist, art director, curator, and founder of ‘Anticlone Gallery’ – a gallery that champions artists that don’t conform to the norm, and provides an alternative space in the art world. We discuss: (02:00): How the concept ‘Anticlone’ was born; creating conceptual fashion; lack of black representation in the arts; the importance of diversity. (16:55): Fe...

Parma Ham: Goth Culture, Being Bullied & 'Alien Aesthetics' 31.10.2023

🖤 Episode 2🖤 is with Parma Ham, a 'high goth', an artist, pioneer of the Wraith community, and designer of the sex and fetish brand Nullo. We discuss: (02.07):  Wraith; the Zine Slaves to Sin; being agender; the Nullo Project. (13.51): The future of sex & gender; ‘Alien Aesthetics’; humans integrating with technology. (21.18): Being a role model; moving past the Goth stereotype; being s...

Anthromorph: Posthuman Bodies, Gender Dysphoria & Being Nonhuman 17.10.2023

💫 Episode 1 💫 is with artist Constantine Semiramis, known as Anthromorph on Instagram. They create animal-esque masks, which they performatively wear for images and videos on Instagram. The masks simultaneously evoke monstrosity as well as other species and earthly bodies. In this episode Constantine explains how the masks helped them through their gender dysphasia and feelings of disassociation...

Introducing Bodies in the Post 09.10.2023

We all find ourselves living in a fleshy, fallible human body, embedded in an extended technological world, that intermingles with nature, nonhuman animals, biochemical science, and new digital realms. As normative binaries such as male/female, nature/technology, even real/ imagined disintegrate, we find that old definitions of the human cannot encompass the true complexity and diversity of bodies...

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