Safe Sex with Tina Horn
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Writer Tina Horn has created one of the most sex positive and sex worker positive pieces of media with her new comic SFSX (aka Safe Sex). We talk about how sex work informed her take on a dystopian San Francisco, and about the business of moving from nonfiction writing to journalism to comics.
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Adipositivity with Substantia Jones
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Photographer Substantia Jones joins Allison to discuss fat visibility. We discuss the challenges and joys of working with amateur models, the barriers fat people face when trying to exist let alone thrive in a world that wants them to disappear, and the utter joy of watching people embrace their bodies on camera.
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Naked Athena and Portland's Protest Symbols
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Naked Athena and the Wall of Moms have been getting a lot of mainstream news coverage in response to Federal agents' hostile occupation of Portland, Oregon. Is this a show of allyship or appropriation?
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Rope and Sweet Grass with Midori
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Installation artist and Shibari educator Midori joins me for an exploration of some of her most evocative installation pieces and how her work as a bondage educator intersects with her artistic practice.
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Reluctant Sexpertise with Stephen Penta
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Sex podcaster Stephen Penta talks with Allison about gender, being a dude in the sex-ed world, RomComs as "pornography of the heart" and talking love with people who just want to learn about bjs.
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Creative Partnerships with Kevin Patterson and Alana Phelan
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Co-writers Alana Phelan and Kevin Patterson discuss navigating metamour-ship and friendship while writing books, making private lives public, and bridging the gap between relationship education and narrative fiction. Find their books here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732872805
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Neurodiversity and Superpowers with Rachel Gold
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Allison is joined by old friend and splendid writer Rachel Gold to discuss queer representation in lit, sex in YA, neurodiversity as a superpower. From lesbian werewolves to Wolverine doing dusting, we cover a lot of ground! Learn more about Rachel at rachelgold.com
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Hidden Queer Histories with Booksellers Charlotte and Fi
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Booksellers Charlotte and Fi of Category Is in Glasgow, Scotland, join Allison to discuss the politics of queer visibility and the ongoing need for social spaces for sexual minorities. Come for the vampires and stay for the Gore Vidal.
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American Gothic and the Fear of Being Wrong
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A writer shared an interesting fact about American Gothic and got odd blowback from people who refused to acknowledge the truth. When our opinions are so tied to our emotions, how can we ever hope to have our minds changed?
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Prevention Meets Fashion with Nhakia Outland
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Fashion designer and social worker Nhakia Outland uses fashion to teach young audiences in Philadelphia about empowerment, sex education, and healthy relationships.
info_outlineDr. Carol Queen created the Center for Sex and Culture over 20 years ago with her partner Robert Lawrence. Together they amassed a HUGE amount of San Francisco sex culture history. We talk about the brilliant mystery of the secret sex lives of the people around us and dive deep into “Erotology” aka the study of eroticism.
In the intro: Men’s fashion and the way the Napoleonic Wars took away men’s cultural permission to be pretty.
Plus:
Betty Dodson “The Mother of Masturbation” | the Lusty Lady | San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI)| Jack and Jill Off Parties | Queen of Heaven Parties | Masturbate-A-Thon | Getting non-profit status as a sex-positive organization | The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality | Good Vibrations | 848 Community Space | The Silo-ing of Gay Communities | The Zine Revolution & On Our Backs Magazine | Perverts Put Out | The safety of being an audience member | Coming of age in Eugene, Oregon | The joy of small-town gay bars | Polyamory vs. Sex Positivity | The Individuality of Sexual Etiquette | HIV and surviving community crisis | Patrick Califia & Samois | Charles Gatewood | Larry Townsend & Drummer Magazine | The “Nomenclature Wars”
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