Metaphysical Girl

Get mystical with one of the smartest dark fantasy authors working today - not to mention the author of one of my favorite sapphic slowburns. Maddie Martinez is the USA Today bestselling author of The Maiden and Her Monster and the forthcoming gothic novel The Haunting of Lady Death . She has a bachelor’s in political science and a master’s in international peace and conflict resolution, and I am...

Come get obsessed with one of my favorite people! Rachel Parsons is a queer interreligious spiritual director, author of smutty gay poems about God, and fellow survivor of Southern evangelicalism. She is a grade A certified body witch babe — and my own spiritual director. If you love medieval erotic mystics and Sufjan Stevens, find the Divine in punk rock, or want to learn more about building an i...

Happy Valentine's Day, freaks and lovers. I’ve got a sweet treat for you: an audio essay on desirous gazes, the theatre of kink, and the wild vulnerability of wanting, all seen through the lens of FIT’s recent Fashion and Psychoanalysis exhibit. IN THIS EPISODE: - Trouble the Freudian gender binary of man as fetishist and woman as narcissist - Explore the queer gaze, and new models for loving and...

New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten joined me on the pod to talk about deconstructing evangelical Christianity, learning to love horror, writing religious trauma narratives and yes, enjoying a Switchfoot banger from time to time! What a treat to dig into all the exvangelical Christian feelings with one of the smartest working writers in the game, and my dear friend. IN THIS EPISODE: -...

Have you noticed the way everyone's late twenties feel so chaotic, defined by plot twists that shift the course of their life? That’s your Saturn return, baby! A landmark astrological transit kicked off by Saturn, planet of duty and discipline, moving back through the place in the sky it was when you were born. There’s a lot of fear-mongering around Saturn, but as someone who has just emerged on t...