S02.6: Jennifer Yashari: Coping with an Ever-Evolving Disability and Living with Presence along the way
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
Release Date: 09/04/2017
S02.20: Eliza Hope Duran & Juno Ishida: Dismantling the Gender Binary
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
Last May, Juno Ishida and Eliza Hope Duran joined Samantha Paige for an honest conversation about living beyond the construct of a gender binary. In this special episode, Juno, a trans male university student, and Eliza, a gender fluid prize-winning poet, share their views about the boxes that society places us in around our bodies, gender and sexuality. They highlight what it means to navigate life beyond the gender binary and add insight and perspective to the experience of expressing one’s identity in a manner that lines up who we are on the inside with who we are out in the world. This...
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S02.19: Samantha Paige & Lisa Field: Reflections on another powerful season
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
Samantha Paige and Last Cut Photographer Lisa Field reflect on the second season of Last Cut Conversations. They discuss the universal threads shared across the many diverse conversations, and the notable moments that made a lasting impression as well.
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S02.18: Zoe Buckman: A Beautiful Intersection of Art and Activism
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
Zoe Buckman is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, activist and mother. Originally from East London, she now lives and works in New York. Buckman powerfully weaves together art and activism into pieces that draw viewers in with aesthetically pleasing beauty, while offering an undercurrent that inspires deeper contemplation on political issues.
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S02.17: Pidgeon Pagonis: Unraveling the lies, myths and trauma around growing up Intersex
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
Samantha Paige first heard of Pidgeon Pagonis’ powerful story of growing up Intersex through a video clip produced by Human Rights Watch.
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S02.16: Kyle Knight: Exposing Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
Kyle Knight is a researcher in the LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch in New York City. A former media journalist who chose to do reporting work with more policy follow through and impact, Kyle is a brilliant motivator for change.
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S02.15: Lily Mandelbaum & Elisa Goodkind: The Mother-Daughter Duo behind the Style Like U Self-Acceptance Revolution
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
Samantha Paige met Lily Mandelbaum and Elisa Goodkind, the creators of Style Like U, at their “True Style is What’s Underneath: The Self-Acceptance Revolution” book signing in Los Angeles.
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S02.14: Melinda Alexander: The Life Lessons We Aren’t Taught in School
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
“I am always refining my truths, and my truths are always changing.” Melinda Alexander
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S02.13: Charlie Linville: Mind over Matter to the Summit
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
“You are what you can mentally achieve, not what you perceive your body capable of.” Charlie Linville Samantha Paige sits down with her friend and inspiration, Charlie Linville, to talk about life-changing last cuts, overcoming trauma, perseverance, adventure and inspiration on the other side of pain. In 2011, while in Afghanistan, Charlie, an ex-Marine Sergeant, was injured on a mission to dismantle improvised explosive devices (IED’s) as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician. After 14 surgeries over 18 months, his injured foot was not healing. Charlie made the ultimate last...
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S02.12: Mia Sabel: Stitching Together a Meaningful Life
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
Samantha Paige sat down with bespoke leather worker and qualified saddler, Mia Sabel of Sabel Saddlery, in her East London studio. The two talked about how one creates a life that feels like one’s own and the freedom found on the other side of our biggest last cuts.
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S02.11: Lily Parrott and Laura Stahnke of Migration Collective: Changing the Conversation on Migration
Last Cut Conversations with Samantha Paige
Samantha Paige recently sat down in London with Lily Parrott and Laura Stahnkhe, two of the founders of Migration Collective. Migration Collective is a group of dynamic and creative women who aim to challenge the current, narrow rhetoric on migration. Through events, film festivals and soon cooking programs, they seek to focus on inclusion, what is shared rather than what separates people.
info_outlineIn this moving episode, Samantha Paige reunites with her childhood friend, Jennifer Yashari, who opens up about living with hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM), a rare degenerative disease that causes muscle cells to weaken progressively. Diagnosed in her early 30’s, Yashari, a psychiatrist, has learned to cope with the massive loss delivered with the disease and all the subsequent losses that have come in its wake over time. She started a blog, “Living with HIBM,” in 2011, and writes beautifully and with a piercing rawness about the experience of a living with an ever-evolving disability that affects how she moves, parents and interacts with the world. Yashari details the importance of mourning each and every loss fully, so that we can then do our best to be present in life, and fostering strong, loving relationships to support us on the ride. In telling her own story, she provides guidance and vision for how to speak with others about differences and how to maintain a connected mindfulness in the process. For more information on Jennifer Yashari, please visit her website, www.jenniferyasharimd.com, and her blog, www.livingwithhibm.com.