Episodes
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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Monday Dec 04, 2023
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 Jun 12, 2023
Condoms for Schools (and other great ideas)!
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Guests:
Amy Moy, Essential Access Health
Fiona Lu, Gen Up
This is the start of a series of episodes with activists, policy makers, and legislators discussing politics and bodily autonomy. Amy Moy works with Essential Access Health to make sure health care service providers have the knowledge, skills, and funding to provide services to all people regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ability to pay, insurance status, documentation status and more. Fiona Lu is a high school student and policy director for Gen Up, a student-led organizaation which creates and advocates for policies to better the lives of youth.
We discuss SB541, a bill working its way through the CA legislative process which would mandate schools provide free condoms for students. Condom access is a primary reason many students do not use barrier protection and why 50 percent of all chlamydia cases is in someone under 18.
We talk about the new constitutional right in California for reproductive care and abortion services and what that means for people in states hostile to abortion. Essential Access Health is administering major grants for increasing service capacity (especially in the Los Angeles area) as well as funds to cover lost wages, transportation, hotel lodging, and post-procedure care for people traveling to access abortion services.
We discuss Title X and what that means for minors seeking health care.
Show Links:
Teen Source+ (a health care service and learning portal for teens)
Talk with Your Kid (guides and help for parents talking to their kids about sexual health)
CA Reproductive Healthcare Bills 2023
Leg Info (find the most up-to-date information on bills in the CA legislature)
@GenUp.US (instagram)
@EssnAccessHlth (Instagram)
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Auntie Vice Responses to Listerner Questions
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
This episode Auntie Vice responds to questions from listeners.
If you have a question you want answered, please email AuntieVice@FatChicksOnTop.com and I'll answer you on an upcoming episode!
Links from this episode:
Thompson, Mark et al. (2004). Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice.
Beckett, Cooper and Lyndzi Miller. (2023) The Pegging Book.
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 06, 2023
Sunny Megatron: Sexy & Brilliant
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Guest: Sunny Megatron, podcastor, television host, sex educator
Sunny Megatron is an award-winning Sexologist, Kink & BDSM Educator, Certified Sex Educator and Relationship Coach, and media personality. She’s the host and executive producer of the Showtime original television series, SEX with Sunny Megatron, plus co-hosts AASECT Award-winning American Sex Podcast and Open Deeply Podcast. XBIZ 2021 Sexpert of the Year, Sunny is now Editor-in-Chief of kink-focused Zipper Magazine.
Known for her unique build-your-own-adventure approach to sex, kink & relationships, Sunny coined the BDSM community catch-phrase, Kink is Customizable™. In her sell-out workshops, her unique brand of “edutainment” seamlessly combines her humorous lecturing style, interactive exercises, and the latest sexuality research. Sunny’s passion is helping people become their authentic, erotic selves by learning to overcome shame and shed inhibitions. As a lifestyle BDSM enthusiast, her work focuses on demystifying alt-sex, amplifying erotic intelligence, and ending stigma.
Sites and Links
@SunnyMegatron on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok
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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Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Comedy & Sex
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Episode 204:
Guests: Dani D. and Paul Spock
Guest Hosts: Erica Ambrin, Wendy Lewis
Episodes recorded at STAB Comedy Theater in Sacramento, CA in 2019.
Catching up with some older recordings, this week include comedians Danielle Deluca and Paul Spock.
Dani D. talks phone sex, marrying too young, Mormonism, and online dating. We discover Dani and guest host Erica both love the same sex shop on Maui and are better at smoking weed than Auntie Vice.
Paul Spock talks comedy, Type I Diabetes, and DJing strip clubs.
Ask Your Auntie: buying a vibrating wand, cleaning the bathroom
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Ep 203: Alex Yarde
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Ep. 203
Guest: Alex Yarde, Good Men Project "All Things Geek"
Co-Host: CharRon Smith, Iambic Poetry Podcast
Alex Yarde of The Good Men Project, joins Auntie Vice and CharRon Smith to chat about comic books, superheroes, representation, and talking to kids about issues which arise when they consume this material.
We start with The Batman (2022), the evolution of Cat Woman from Eartha Kit, to Michelle Pfiffer, to Zoe Kravitz.
We then talk MCU, The Avengers, The X-Men, Spiderman and more.
Star Trek, Archer, Lovecraft County, and more!
Learn the best and worst of representation in comics and superheroes and how to explore and get excited about this world!
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
Episode 6: Healthy Bodies
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
Episode 6: Healthy Bodies
Guests: Kelli Dunham, HethreBeth Woodford
Co-hosts JennyLynn and Auntie Vice chat about trying to access effective healthcare and how they employ self care.
Kelli Dunham is a stand-up comic and RN who teaches about accessing care with a focus on queer women and people who have experienced trauma. She talks about accessing care and then turns to talking about doing stand-up.
HethreBeth Woodford, founder of Sex Positive Sacramento and a social worker talks about sex positivity, tips and tools on raising kids in a healthy environment, and her favorite vibrator.