Episodes
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Mama Vi: Preserving Our Stories
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Guest: Mama Vi/Viola Johnson (leatherwoman, founder of Carter-Johnson Library, Founding member Onyx Pearls)
Viola Johnson, author, activist, leatherwoman, joins Auntie Vice to chat about leather history, the importance of our history and stories, and the founding of the Johnson-Carter library. Mama Vi came out as a lesbian in the 1970s, when it was still illegal to be openly gay. She discovered leather and kink in college and married her college sweetheart.
Mama Vi holds multiple international leather titles and awards. She wrote To Love, To Obey, and to Serve, the first published novel of a consensual slave in a power exchange relationship. She began transporting magazines and event flyers from Los Angeles to Kansas in the 1980s during the first wave of AIDS. These materials would become the beginnings of the Carter-Johnson Library. After realizing she had won a queer book on eBay instead of a man who was looking to burn the book, she decided to start a formal library to save kinky, queer stories. The library recently expanded significantly after receiving the physical collection of the Center for Sex and Culture which lost its physical space in San Francisco, CA.
Sites and Socials
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Lamya H: Hijab Butch Blues
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Guest: Lamya H (writer, activist)
Lamya H chronicles their journey to living fully as a nonbinary, queer, hijabi in the book Hijab Butch Blues. Their work employs stories from the Koran and how Lamya interprets these stories to amplify their own journey into full personhood. We chat queerness, Islam, gender, hijab, religion, place and so much more!
Their memoir has been billed as one of the best LGBTQ+ books of 2023 by multiple literary associations and is a stunning example of how memoir can be used to toggle between the deeply personal and the universal.
Sites & Socials
@LamyaIsAngry on Twitter and Instagram
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Amazing Hijabi make-up artist does Disney Princesses
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Nov 20, 2023
Ragen Chastain: Debunking Bad Medicine
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Guest: Ragen Chastain (blogger, author, podcaster)
Ragan Chastian began debunking weight loss "science" in 2009. She originally just wanted to find the most effective diet for weight loss. What she found was over a centruy of bad research. It was so bad, she did her search a second time to verify she hadn't missed anything.
What she discovered is that most "weight loss" research limits its time period to less than two years. When participants began to regain weight, research simply stops and reports what happened in the first year. She discusses how current astroturf organizations (fake grass roots groups) continue to promote bunk science to further their profits.
We also chat about how the weight lost industry has co-opted the language of body liberationists to promote weight stigma and continue to get folks to risk their lives to be thin.
Sites and Socials
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Oct 09, 2023
Tristan Taormino: An@l Sex Made Me
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Guest: Tristan Taormino (author, educator, film maker)
Tristan Taormino, preeminent sex educator and author, joins Auntie Vice to chat about her new memoir A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten. The memoir focuses largely on her relationship with her gay father. She chat about her career as a sex educator and a feminist porn producer, depression, and her new, energizing relationship in her 50s.
Sites and Socials
Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaning Open Relationships
The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women
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Monday Apr 24, 2023
Tracy Whitmore: Parenting LGBTQ+ Kids
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Guest: Tracy Whitmore, registered social worker
Parenting an LGBTQ+ child presents unique challenges. Most parents do not have kids and plan on the day their child comes out as queer. Tracy Whitmore specializes in helping parents with LGBTQ+ children through the challenges they face. From managing their own expections and hopes for a child, to dealing with their conflicting feelings, to making sure their child makes it safely to adulthood, her work focuses on providing parents with the support and skills they need to raise healthy, happy, queer kids.
This is some great advice for any parent facing the challenge of raising an LGBTQ+ kid in today's world!
Sites and Socials:
Facebook: Tracy Indigo
Instagram: IndigoJourney.
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Marla Renee Stewart: Pioneering Pleasure
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Guest: Dr. Marla Renee Stewart, sexologist, educator, founder of Sex Down South, Clitfest, and Dickfest
Dr. Marla Renee Stewart, educator and pleasure pioneer, joins Fat Chicks on Top to talk about a career in human sexuality, Black queer sexuality, and founding major conferences about pleasure!Marla, a Californian native and a Southern transplant, is a woman with passion, charisma and integrity. Motivated by passion, her mission in life is to educate and inspire others in a variety of ways. First and foremost, she is truly dedicated to getting people in touch with their body, mind and spirit. She believes in harnessing love and accepting people for who they are and where they are at in their lives. Her non-judgmental spirit speaks to people from all different backgrounds and she has the ability to get along with just about anyone. She is a maven in most everything that she pursues and she strives for perfection in everything she does. Mediocre is not in her vocabulary. She has a wonderful and supportive family, as well as amazing and compassionate friends. When she has some free time, she likes to watch movies, have provocative conversations with her friends and play basketball. She also loves to dance and convince her house guests to play strategy games with her
Sites and Socials:
MarlaReneeStewart.com Personal site
Velve Lips Sex Ed content
Sex Down South Conference
Race & Kink Monthly online series
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Oct 24, 2022
Ruan Willow: F*cking Awesome!
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Guest: Ruan Willow, writer and podcaster
Ruan Willow, host of Oh F*ck Yeah! podcast and author of over a dozen erotic novels joins Fat Chicks on Top to chat erotic writing, what it has taught her, and how it helped lessened her own shame.
Sites and Socials
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Oct 10, 2022
Sinclair Sexsmith: Spicy Writing!
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Guest: Sinclair Sexsmith, (author, editor, kink educator)
Sinclair Sexsmith joins Fat Chicks on Top to chat about erotic writing, nonbinary identity, ethics, and teaching. They discuss the ethics and guidelines they use when engaging in erotic writing. We have an extended conversation about the "Daddy" role in kink, what that means for erotic writing, and what goes into exploring darker, less obviously consensual relationships. If you are looking for a deep dive into what it takes to be a great erotic writer, this episode is for you!
Socials and Websites
@MrSexsmith on Twitter and IG
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Aug 29, 2022
Lori Sweetman:Comes Into Herself
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Guest: Lori Sweetman, LGBTQ+ advocate and life coach
Lori Sweetman joins Fat Chicks to talk about working as a K12 teacher, transitioning into an LGBTQ+ youth advocate, coming out as queer after marrying a man and living for others for more than a decade.
Socials and Website
IncludeLGBTQ.com (professional site)
Lori@IncludeLGBTQ.com (email)
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Monday Jul 18, 2022
Mir Green: Caffinatrix
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Guest: Mir Green, Owner of Wicked Grounds and kink educator
Mir Green joins Fat Chicks on Top to talk about the intersection of kink identities, queerness, and politics. Tune in to find out how they organized the community to keep Starbucks from building in the Leather District in San Francisco, grouwing up queer in a 3-stoplight town in the dessert, the importance of community, and crushing the patriarchy. This episode will leave you wanting to rise up and fight the power!
Socials and Websites
Blog recommended by Mir We Hunted the Mammoth
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