Episodes
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Tabitha Britt: Do You Endo?
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Guest: Tabitha Britt (Journalist, Creator of DoYouEndo.com)
Endometriosis affects 10 percent of all AFAB persons (and some men). It is a painful and often debilitating disease. Tabitha Britt knew she had endometriosis for 14 years and still struggled to get doctors to believe and treat her. This is unfortunately the same experience millions of people have. So Tabitha started DoYouEndo.com to allow folks to connect, find information, and community.
She joins Auntie Vice to talk about the pitfalls of the medical system when it comes to treating AFAB folks, the stigma around endometriosis, the misinformation out there, and the social media bans and blocks on any medical information helpful for all things associated with women and periods (oof!).
Sites and Socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/do.you.endo/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DOYOUENDO/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/doyouendo
Endometriosis Foundation of America: https://www.endofound.org/
Dr. Seckin (highly recommend!): https://drseckin.com/
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Monday Mar 11, 2024
Tina Dodson: Fat Liberation at its Finest!
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Guest: Tiana Dodson
Tiana Dodson is Fat. Queer. Parent. Biracial Black and Guamanian/Chamorro Person of Color. Chronically ill. Acutely aware. Book lover. Music fanatic. Compulsive dancer.
Part of my work is to guide people feminine-of-center toward reconnecting with their bodies through pragmatic self-care practices so they can come to see that there is nothing wrong with living in a larger body.
Other parts of my work include being unapologetically fat, living my best fat life in Germany, and uncovering systems of oppression in the most important game of hide-and-seek in my lifetime.
She joins Auntie Vice to chat about her work, her life, and moving toward a more liberated world.
Sites and Socials:
https://tianadodson.com/about/
Other things mentioned in this episode:
Da'ShaunHarrison Belly of the Beast
Vanessa Rochelle Lewis Reclaiming Ugly
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Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Tracey Weise: Competence in Care
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Guest: Dr. Tracey Weise, ARPN, Clinical Director Identity Wellness in Anchorage, Alaska
Dr. Weise joins Auntie Vice to talk about what competent care for LGBTQ+ folks looks like in a medical setting. After working for six years as a forensics nurse, Tracey returned to school to get certified in mental health. She has a deep understanding of the how much trauma members of the LGBTQ+ community carry and how important it is to be competent when treating folks in this population. We chat what competence looks like (hint: it isn't just putting a rainbow flag sticker on your site), and what we should expect from healthcare providers.
She talks about Adverse Childhood Events, how they change the brain and body of everyone long term, what trauma-informed medicine looks like, and about starting Alaska's only gender and queer specific healthcare center. She is just awesome! Your should definitely listen.
SItes and Socials
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Dalia Kinsey: Decolonizing Dietitian
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Guest: Dalia Kinsey (registered dietician and nutritionist)
Dalia Kinsey, registered dietitian and nutritionist, joins Auntie Vice to talk about decolonizing health. She speaks to the experience of being a bigger bodied, queer, woman both in school and as a health care consumer. She lives with Grave's Disease (an autoimmune condition) and worked for years to figure out what was wrong. Her experience with hostile and dismissive providers drove her to pursue work to understand nutrition science and work to decolonize it to better serve marginalized communities.
Sites and Socials
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Mollena Lee Williams-Haas: Living Loudly
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
This episode has explicit discussion of race play. Please be advised it may be upsetting to some folks. The play we discuss is consensual and there are no derogatory terms used in the episode.
Guest: Mollena Lee Williams-Hass (Actress, Writer, Educator, Librettist)
Larger than life, phat as hell, whipsmart AND smart about whips, Mollena [aka "The Perverted Negress" aaka "Mo" aaaka "Pony Oracle," but that is a longer tail] is a performer, storyteller, BDSM/Kink/Leather/AlternativeLifestyle Educatrix, Executive Pervert, librettist and Muse. She is beloved by and in service to her "Spousemeister," legendary contemporary music composer Georg Friedrich Haas.
Mollena is an outspoken footsoldier in the fight against bigotry and ignorance and a thought-leader in the world of Power Exchange dynamics. AND hey, she's been sober since 2007 and has a hard-on for living life fully and unabashedly.
We chat edge play, acting, story telling, race play, cannibalism, feral lesbians, and much more!
Sites and Socials
@Mollena on most other socials
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Bri Burning: Finding Family
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Guest: Bri Burning (educator, International Person of Leather 2020-2024)
Bri Burning (she/they) is a non-binary, queer, fat, femme, leather, ethical non-monogamist, genderqueer, babygrill, and slave-identified person. I'm a very thankful girl to have such a supportive, loving, and incredible Partner who challenges me and pushes me to be my best, thank you JoshInTheBox.
Bri joins Auntie Vice to chat about the leather community, being bigger bodied, finding family and community in the leather world, reconciling with their body, and much more!
Sites and Socials
Bri_Burning on Fetlife
BriBurning (Instagram)
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Christina Hughes: My Big Fat Pregnancy
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Guest: Christina Hughes (doula, pregnancy support)
While less than 2% of pregnant people choose planned out-of-hospital birth in the US, there are many studies comparing the safety of home birth and birth center births to hospital birth. Studies show that planned home or birth center births, for low-risk clients, attended by qualified midwives, are as safe, or safer than, hospital births. Overall, when birthing at home, interventions are reduced and satisfaction is increased. Decades of research studies continue to demonstrate the safety of out-of-hospital birth for low risk childbearing people.
- A 2021 study out of Washington state published in Obstetrics and Gynecology concluded that planned home births in Washington state had comparable safety outcomes to those in Canada, the U.K., and the Netherlands, all locations that have long standing integration of midwives and home birth in their healthcare systems. This study also confirmed no difference in safety outcomes between midwife-attended planned home births and births in a state-licensed, freestanding birth center.
- The Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group published a study on planned hospital birth versus planned home birth in September 2012 concluding that:
– Observational studies of increasingly better quality and in different settings suggest that planned home birth in many places can be as safe as planned hospital birth and with less intervention and fewer complications.
- A study out of McMaster University in Canada was published in September 2009, in the journal Birth comparing outcomes for midwife attended planned home births and midwife attended planned hospital births. That study concluded:
– All measures of serious maternal morbidity were lower in the planned home birth group as were rates for all interventions including cesarean section (5.2% vs 8.1%).
– Midwives who were integrated into the health care system with good access to emergency services, consultation, and transfer of care provided care resulting in favorable outcomes for people planning both home or hospital births. - A 2009 study published in BJOG: An International of Obstetrics & Gynaecology compared perinatal mortality and morbidity between planned home and planned hospital births among low-risk pregnancies, and found no difference in safety.
- A 2018 study published in PLOS ONE affirmed that integration of midwives into the healthcare system is associated with higher rates of physiologic birth, fewer interventions, and fewer adverse outcomes for babies. In addition, this study found that Washington state ranked highest in the United States for our level of integration.
- A 2014 study published in Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health reviewed outcomes for over 16,000 midwife-led planned home births from 2004 to 2009 in the United States. This prospective study compared safety data as well as rates of intervention to low-risk hospital births, and found that midwife-led home births were comparably safe to hospital births, while minimizing interventions.
- In a 2005 study, published in the British Medical Journal, evaluating the safety of home births in North America involving direct entry midwives, found that intervention rates were substantially lower than for low risk US clients having hospital births. The study concluded:
– Planned low risk home births in North America attended by certified professional midwives were associated with lower rates of medical intervention but similar intrapartum and neonatal mortality to that of low risk hospital births in the United States. - A report released in Birth in 2019 finds a continuing increase in the percentage of out-of-hospital births in the US. This study examines out-of-hospital birth trends from 2004 to 2017: “Trends and State Variations in Out-of-Hospital Births in the United States, 2004-2017”.
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
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Summer Innamen: Embracing Yourself
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Guest: Summer Innanen (Writer, Podcaster, Body Image Coach)
Summer Innannen, host and creater of Eat The Rules, offers her take on body image, healing your relationship with your body, and dealing with food over the holidays. We delve into how to handle relatives who still feel it necessary to comment on what we eat, how we look, and our "health" because of our size. She talks about her work and her own journey to reconcile with her own body.
Sites and Socials:
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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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