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Fat Chicks on Top, a body liberation podcast We cover fatness, race, sex, gender, drag sex work, kink, relationships, geek stuff, and more!
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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
Read the rest of this entry »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
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Guest: Moxie Minion, TikTok Influencer, Bootblack
Moxie Minion, Northwest Bootblack Titleholder and TikTok influencer joins Auntie Vice to talk leather, queerness, books, history, and coming out later in life. We cover what leather is and how the title system works, how leather families work to support a healthy community, queer literature, and raising healthy kids in today's toxic world.
Sites and Soicals
Fetlife @MoxieMinion
Year of Queer Lit @YoQL
Year in Queer Lit reading list
Read the rest of this entry »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)
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Guest: Mx. Bliss (lawyer, rigger)
Mx. Bliss, the consent compliance officer and legal counsel for Kink.com joins Auntie Vice to talk about consent, the law, bondage, and her personal journey with kink. Mx. Bliss worked in the vanilla world as a lawyer until about five years ago. She closed her legal practice to work as a pro Domme. Eventually she was drawn back to practicing law for a kinky company (Kink.com).
We discuss the Explicit Prior Consent model legal policy she is working on with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom on through their Consent Counts committee. We then discuss the intersection of sex work, bias, and consent. We dive deep into how consent is evolving both in law and in community usage.
Sites and Socials:
Mx_Bliss on Fetlife
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
Read the rest of this entry »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 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
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 Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Guest: Danni Adams (body image coach, influencer)
Danni Adams, body image coach and influencer in the body liberation space, joins Auntie Vice to chat about body liberation, the connection between fatphobia and anti-Blackness, food access, growing up poor, and so much more!
Sites and Socials
Read the rest of this entry »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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