Sex With a Brain Injury with Annie Liontas
Sex Ed with DB: smart, science-backed sex education
Release Date: 05/22/2024
Sex Ed with DB: smart, science-backed sex education
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info_outlineAnnie Liontas, author of Sex with a Brain Injury, sits down with DB to discuss the challenges of sex and intimacy after experiencing brain injuries. DB and Annie also answer a listener's question about having sex for the first time with someone you don't know, and play a fun round of sexy trivia!
Annie Liontas is the genderqueer author of the queer-crip memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, which was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and selected as SELF Magazine’s Book of the Month. They co-host the literary podcast LitFriends. At George Washington University, they helped to secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. Annie lives in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit.
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About Sex Ed with DB:
Sex Ed with DB is a feminist podcast bringing you all the sex ed you never got through unique and entertaining storytelling, centering LGBTQ+ and BIPOC experts. We discuss topics such as birth control, pleasure, LGBTQ+ health and rights, abortion, consent, BDSM, sex and disability, HIV, sex in the media, and more.
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Sex Ed with DB, Season 10 Team:
Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Danielle Bezalel (DB)
Producer: Sadie Lidji
Communications Lead: Cathren Cohen
Marketing Coordinator: Mitch Coburn
Social Media Coordinator: Emm-Kirsty Fraser