Embracing Elephants

Fig Willow (they/them) of @moonthymearts sits down with Emme as her first transmasc non-binary guest with the experience of being on testosterone and having had top surgery! They talk all about neurodivergence, crip time, transness, the gender void, non-binary-ness, learning how to be okay with you and your body doing and needing the time it needs instead of what others ask of it. It's a sweet sen...

Emme sits down by a wood stove (installed manly-ily by her guest) with Toby Fraser of the Masculinity Action Project. This anarcho-punk and your hostess with the mostess talk all about FEELINGS, testosterone & estrogen, how transfeminity and masculinity run parallel and then diverge, body dysmorphia vs gender dysphoria, and many other topics. Check out @map_philly to learn about more of the organi...

An Ask Me Anything for Emme after her move to Canada from the United States. She's a citizen of both, and sourced questions from her past guests (thanks Kate, Jes, and others!) and does her best to answer them! Questions like: What was your biggest fear about staying in the US, and what is your biggest hope about moving to Canada? Is there anything that might have made you want to stay in the US?...

Emme sits down with Adrienne Gomez, 4th generation Latina and bisexual comedian who runs Sizzling Singles, a queer dating show running monthly right now at the famous Stonewall Inn! She chats with Emme about swimming in dick pics when she didn't love herself, but now that she does, it's like "everyone -- out of the pool!!" (her joke, fantastic). We talk all about being single, being unemployed/loo...

Emme welcomes her artistic inspiration to start doing stand-up: the amazing dramaturgical, writerly, and loud annoying Jew Alix Rosenfeld (written incredibly tongue in cheek). She talks with Emme all about medical challenges, fat (GASP) and weight gain and food and culture, and losing friends over this moment in world history. Check out the Third Narrative podcast she mentions in the conversation...

Emme sits down with her first CISGENDERED MALE guest, Eric Wunsch, a stand-up guy who's dabbled in stand-up, had a career in theatre he left it for the physical world of farming -- which we get into the muddy transitional feelings of it all. Eric brings sensitivity, depth, curiosity, and enthusiasm to the question of "what even is masculinity?" and we sort of solve it. You know, by accepting it's...

On Inauguration Day 2025, Emme sits down with old Museum Hack/Caveat/NYC theare compatriot, magnificent podcast producer, and dear friend Kate Helen Downey as Los Angeles continued to be on fire to talk about a DIFFERENT kind of pain and confusion, that of DEATH CRAMPS. Yes, an elephant in the room for MOST people with uteruses (and even some without) -- not only menstruation, but especially dysme...

Right after the 2024 US Presidential Election, Emme chats with Raluca Urea, a dear clowning, acting, and directing friend of hers from their grad school days at the University of the Arts with Pig Iron School's MFA in Devised Performance. Emme and Raluca were perfect misfits and worked together a bunch, and felt isolated in various ways by their differences -- so they talk about working in the US...

This week's conversation partner is Chelsea from @explore.embody, an embodied intimacy coach and avid rock climber who helps people pleasers lean into selfishness as self love to free their mind and body. We also DO IT LIVE, for the first time, in the Embracing Elephants "studio," which is not a studio but it feels so right to fully embody speaking in the same space as we talk about vulnerable thi...

This week Emme has a beautifully wide-ranging and emotional conversation with Dia Lupo, writer of Broke But Moisturized, about all kinds of transitions, involving hitting milestones of loss, pregnancy, marriage, loneliness in grief, hormones, gender, and transition. She writes with a wry, deep voice on Substack about all things beauty, inner and out. Her writing about grief and loss struck up a fo...

AuDHD coach and baker extraordinaire Jes Diverges chats with Emme about time, neurodivergence, coaching and work and study and capitalism, and then we get into a light convo about remembering we're going to die, and end with a discussion on the relationship with the self. So nbd. Just how we here at Embracing Elephants like it :-). Jes Diverges' Website: https://jesdiverges.com/ Jes' Podcast: Unsh...

Embracing Elephants co-producer Bryce Weinert chats with Emme about her top 10 horrible things that've happened in her life, tells a story of absurdity in loss about her cats, and we wax poetical on showing up for people in grief. Want more Bryce? Head over to her pop culture podcast You're No Fun Anymore. https://yourenofun.com/ Want to support Emme individually for her transition costs? Head to...

Emme welcomes her first guest, Danelle, a long time mentor, friend, and former client, to discuss many elephants in the room from gender transitioning, to change management, to communication at work, to radical shifts (gender, death, war, grief) of all kinds, to NOT managing peoples’ emotions, and the power of transparency in letting people know what’s actually going on. If you'd like to support E...

I read a conversation I had with my dad over email, where he wrote me a bunch of questions after I came out as trans and had him read the Gender Dysphoria Bible. I read the answers to his questions and comment on them a bit, too. Support me and this project at bit.ly/emmekay Gender Dysphoria Bible: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en Humble Step: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rqhrS08JW5JedgnybTiuB?si=...