Living in this Queer Body

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 right psych meds. I really love Colin. I hope you enjoy this listen. Colin Hagendorf is writer, podcaster,...

Deep Gratitude to Sara Jane Stoner (@thingpartofus)

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, and has recovered from severe eating disorders, Syd's work finds its resonance in the stories we each...

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 unfold @margejacobsen Margaret Jacobsen (they/them) is a writer, photographer, and copyeditor in Portla...

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. Shockingly we do not talk about TAROT but we do talk about the moon.  Sign up for Queeri...

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 artist originally from St. Louis, Missouri. She is a columnist at the Condé Nast publicati...

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 are doing online lectures, finishing up schooling, and multi-media work. They cofounded ENBY Spoken Hi...

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, feminism, and fiction writing, including "The Joy of the Castrated Boy," and the blog "lipstickeater,"...

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 this recording for several months as my fear of not “succeeding” kept me discouraged and apprehensive. Pe...

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 disembodied anger, what it feels like to navigate transhistorical trauma in the body, anger, and the...

Deep gratitude to: Nalo @nalodarling (@blackgirlmasculine and @yaziclothing)

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 emotional labor, both in generating a dispatch as well as opening up publicly and sharing often marginalized...

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).

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 and dysphoria are things that take time and energy to talk about.  These topics are particularly vulne...

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 info@activationresidency.com) 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 emotional...

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).

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).

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 reflections with you. Deep gratitude to the entire group. You shared so deeply. Featured in this episode: Leigh...

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 (@cosmic.cousins) and Martha Oatis (@marthaoatisacupuncture)

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 embodied experience.  Today I have the honor of interviewing Sav Schlauderaff. Sav (they/them) is...

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)

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 act, the mind as queer and a lot more. I am a such a fan of Shira’s book, her poetry and most recently...

In this episode, Cassie Peterson @cassmastery returns to tell us about recovering from Covid-19.

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) and Una Osato (@thisisuna).

In this episode, recorded in the midst of a global pandemic, we explore, with such tenderness and fierceness, what it means to be in the middle of what is here.   Susan talks about mutual aid initiatives as "collective nervous systems" and emphasizes the importance of acknowledging what is unfinished in us (intergenerational trauma or other complex traumas that many of us hold in ou...