Ep 50 Stephanie Zvan
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
This episode I sit down via Skype with radio host, author, speaker, organizer, and activist Stephanie Zvan. Stephanie has been a major impact on my life through her friendship, her writing, and her ability to bring people together in an effort to improve the world. I'm grateful to have the chance to chat with her one on one, across a variety of topics from Minnesota Atheists to the conferences she has organized and some behind the scenes radio stuff. I hope you enjoy this conversation.
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Ep 49 Cup of Words with Paige Converse
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
Call the show at 612-643-1108 or email [email protected]
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Ep 48 Maddy is Interviewed
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
My guest this episode is Shanna Felix, and she will actually be interviewing me. Shanna is a 3rd year phD student with Georgia State University working on a dissertation relating to criminal justice where her field of study is criminology, queer criminology, and the experience perceptions of people who identify as queer have with the criminal justice system.
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Ep 47 Everyone's Agnostic
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
Ep 47
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Bonus Episode Shout Out to Marissa Alexa McCool
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
We’re here to bring you an extra special crossover episode in support of Marissa Alexa Lennox-Mccool. She is a podcaster, author, performer, speaker, and an LGBT rights and atheist activist. She co-founded the Trans Podcaster Visibility Network, she is the host of the podcasts The Inciting Incident and The Cis Are Getting Out of Hand, and she produces a few other shows and helps out numerous other podcasters in many ways, including being a rad guest.
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Ep 46 Slurm Flirty Worm
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
This episode features an interview with a really fun punk band from the Pacific Northwest, Slurm Flirty Worm. Slurm's drummer and back up vocalist (Abbi) is trans, and a listener local to Slurm helped connect Abbi and I. The whole band, Abbi, Michael, & Zakk are awesome, and I had a lot of fun chatting with them about how they got their name, what kind of music they play, and of course which hot pockets are the best hot pockets.
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Ep 45 Yannick Taylor
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
Episode 45
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Ep 44 Giving Birth as a Man
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
My guest for this episode is Shane Armstrong-Phairchyld, artist, dad, and the branch co-director of the trans-youth education and support of Colorado. Shane was responding to a question Daylin had posted on facebook regarding the experiences of trans men who had given birth. Shane was so willing to share that I asked if we would be willing to share his experiences here on this show as well.
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Ep 43 Dr. Eric Meininger
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
My guest this episode is Dr. Eric Meininger specializes in adolescent health with special emphasis on transgender adolescents and LGBT homeless youth. After the interview stick around for “American Punk”, a track from the recently released “Burning Rubber” the newest EP from The Homobiles.
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Ep 42 The Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence
A Minnesota Trans-Atheist
Call the show at 612-643-1108 or email Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: This podcast is proud to be a part of the Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: Main show page is The Trans Lifeline is US: and Canada: Quick links 001:13 Brief personal transition story 007:58 Thank you 009:05 Interview with Jennifer Landuis - Director of Social change at The Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence 138:35 Mya Byrne, American Dream (so far away) My guest for this episode is Jennifer Landuis, she is the Director of Social...
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- 01:02 Thank you!
- 07:36 Interview with Ted Meissner
- 71:58 Nicki Andro "Cylinder Spin"
- 75:30 Nicki Andro "Distant Hearts (Raise Community Awareness)"
My guest today is Ted Meissner, the Executive Director of the Secular Buddhist Association, host of their official podcast The Secular Buddhist, and on the Advisory Board for the Spiritual Naturalist Society. His background is in the Zen and Theravada traditions, he is a regular speaker on interfaith panel discussions, and is interested in examining the evolution of contemplative practice in contemporary culture. Ted works at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society doing community development and teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.
In addition to all that formal stuff, Ted is also one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. Whether or not mindfulness, is your cup of tea or not, Ted’s approach to life is definitely working for him. When I asked Ted if I could sit down with him, it was with the goal of learning more about Secular Buddhism, because it seemed like a contradictory term. Just like when someone identifies as “Christian” there is no way to know whether they take communion with wine or grape juice (and don’t for a minute think that’s not an important question to a lot of Christians) It is important to remember not all Buddhists have the same philosophy, there are many differing ideas and schools of thought. Some Buddhists believe in reincarnation and some don’t. There are around 350 million Buddhists worldwide, and just 6 months ago I was completely ignorant of different and nuanced those different belief systems were.
As Ted is a secular Buddhist, this interview will focus on what he believes, and I hope that you find it as interesting and thought provoking as I did.
Ted Meissner Links:
The Secular Buddhist Associations main page: http://secularbuddhism.org/
The Present Moment, Mindfulness, Practice, and Science: http://presentmomentmindfulness.com/category/podcasts/
Ted mentions http://whatstheharm.net/ as a website you can peruse to see how people have been harmed by pseudoscience they thought was harmless.
Ted discusses the book Mindfulness for Depression and Anxiety by Mark Williams. You can find the book online just about anywhere books are sold, here is the link for Google Books https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Mark_Williams_Mindfulness?id=fReoFW9tLxAC
http://www.mindfulschools.org/
Another podcast referenced by Ted: http://www.angryasianbuddhist.com/
Ted tells a humorous story about Uri Geller and James Randi. Here are a couple clips from YouTube:
The first one is a bit longer in the setup, but is well worth the watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo
The second is a TED talk given by James Randi on why skepticism is so important....and you should be asking tough questions of those who claim to have supernatural powers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Z7KeNCi7g
Nicki Andro Links:
Here is an interview with TransMusePlanet: http://transmuseplanet.blogspot.com/search?q=nicki+andro
Here is Nicki's SoundCloud Page: https://soundcloud.com/nicki-andro
You can also connect with Nicki on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickiandromusik?_rdr=p
Here is her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8XPXuE4ABMAQe_pObsuFsQ
And links to both of the songs played in the episode:
Opening and bumper music provided courtesy of Obsidian Shell you can find their music at http://obsidianshell.com/ or find them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/obsidianshell
Thanks again for listening and downloading.
- Why don't robots have any brothers? Because they're all trans-sisters!
- Two molecules are walking down the street and one starts looking around. The other asks,
"What's wrong?"
"I have lost my electron!"
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive!"
- Q: Why do the Daleks eat apples?
A: Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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