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Gender StoriesHow to Understand Your Relationships: A conversation with the authors Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi'Profound and vulnerable. An essential gift for all of us that relate' - Anne MauroWhat do we mean when we say 'relationship'?How do we separate our needs and desires from norms and expectations?How can we approach our relationships with mutuality, care and compassion?This down-to-earth guide is the ultimate companion for anybody who wants to examine their place in the world -- how we relate to ourselves, and others.With considerations of historical, cultural, and developmental contexts; explorations of relationship diversity as...2025-02-111h 04
Gender StoriesIn Conversation with Anne MauroAnne Mauro (she/her) is a Licensed Couples and Family therapist, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapist (AASECT) certified sex therapist, sexuality educator, sex therapy supervisor, and American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) clinical supervisor. Her private practice is nestled in the interwebs on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples in Washington State. She has two publications: More Than Ebony and Ivory: Complexities of sex therapy with interracial couples, can be found in An Intersectional Approach to Sex Therapy: Centering the lives of indigenous, racialized, and people of color and The Colonization of...2024-11-2556 min
Gender StoriesIn Conversation with Maeve DuvallyMAEVE CHEVONNE DUVALLY Maeve is a transgender multi-cultural communications specialist, storyteller and LGBTQ+ advocate. She spent the bulk of her career as a journalist and corporate spokesperson, most recently at Goldman Sachs. After a lifetime of working for large companies, she now consults for corporations and other organizations on communications strategy and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Maeve also mentors transgender people, is a public speaker and a frequent subject of press interviews on LGBTQ+ workplace issues. She was a managing director in corporate communications at Goldman Sachs over an 18-year career. Prio...2024-10-0750 min
Gender StoriesFinding Our Voices with Gender-Affirming Voice Teacher Renée YoxonRenée Yoxon is a queer, nonbinary, and disabled gender-affirming voice teacher with a passion for voice education, creativity, and vocal curiosity. Since 2010, they have taught thousands of students how to love their voice. Their strength as a teacher is explaining complicated concepts in plain language that anyone can understand, as well as anticipating student problems before they occur. They are the creator of a suite of online courses that provide concise and easy-to-follow trans voice education to trans and nonbinary people all over the world. Renée is a creative thinker, and a deep listener, and their favourite th...2024-09-231h 06
Gender StoriesFrighten the Horses, a memoir by Oliver RadclyffeOliver Radclyffe is part of the new wave of transgender writers unafraid to address the complex nuances of transition, examining the places where gender identity, sexual orientation, feminist allegiance, social class and family history overlap. His work has appeared in The New York Times and Electric Literature. He currently lives on the Connecticut coast where he is raising his four children. He has two books: ADULT HUMAN MALE, a monograph, released by Unbound Edition Press in 2023, and FRIGHTEN THE HORSES, a memoir, forthcoming from Roxane Gay Books in 2024. Preorder Frighten the Horses: https://bookshop.or...2024-09-091h 15
Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs, and LGBTQ+ Parties'The First Gay Place That I Went Inside...' - with Alex Iantaffi from Gender Stories PodcastThe lyric to that very famous 80s TV theme song is 'sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name'.
Whilst I think that's true I also think there are times where you want to go where nobody knows your name and where there's absolutely no risk of running in to anybody that you even vaguely know.
It's that type of space that gave this week's guest - scholar, therapist and host of the Gender Studies podcast Alex Iantaffi - the courage to actually go through the front door and start to explore their...2024-08-2156 min
Gender StoriesIn Conversation with Eli Lawliet, Ph.D. The Gender DoulaEli Lawliet, Ph.D., (he/him) is the dreamer and weaver of The Gender Doula. In addition to a decade of experience researching trans healthcare, law, policy, and history, he has formal training as a full spectrum doula, breathwork facilitator, and tarot reader, as well as many years of surviving the world of poverty wages and retail work. The broad scope of his experience directly informs the equally broad spectrum of his work as The Gender Doula. Eli has been seeing clients since January of 2020 and has worked with hundreds of trans folks nationally and internationally in sessions, classes...2024-08-201h 08
Gender StoriesCreating the Communities and Content That Reflect Us with Justine MastinJustine Mastin, LMFT (she/her) is a pop culture psychology expert and so much more. She literally wrote the book on Therapeutic Fanfiction—Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life—and she offered support to healers in The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World. Justine is proud to nurture future therapists as an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor and educator. You can find out more about Justine at http://justinemastin.com/ & follow her on Instagram & TikTok: @mindbodyfandom You can also follow the links below to find out...2024-07-2955 min
Gender StoriesMental Health Advocacy and a Gender Neutral Future with Non-Binary Rapper Dean FMDean FM (Dean-Fraser Milford) is a Boston Massachusetts based non-binary rapper, activist and influencer. His music encapsulates eclectic thoughts that scat over percussive rhythms and exotic sounds. His performances exude drag culture and satiric expression. In 2016, Dean released his debut EP “Watch It”, which received local and national coverage. In 2020, Dean FM released his EP entitled “SISSY.” The music video for his lead single “Bottom Bit” shines a light on the exploitation of prostitution. Dean FM stands for compassion, courage, and equality. In his activism, he supports the awareness and acceptance of gender neutrality. He refuses to den...2024-07-1548 min
Gender StoriesQueer and Trans Pleasure: In Conversation with Dr Damon Constantinides, PhD, LCSW, CSTDamon Constantinides, PhD, LCSW, CSTDamon is a queer trans man and sex nerd who loves being a dad, teaching and talking about queer and trans pleasure, and growing plants as a way to connect with magic and the sacredness of the earth. He is trained as both a clinical social worker and a sex therapist and has worked for more than 20 years in the fields of trans and queer health. He owns a private therapy and coaching practice where he offers virtual groups and services to trans and queer folks all over the world....2024-07-011h 16
Gender StoriesGender Affirming Therapy: A Guide to What Transgender and Non-Binary Clients Can Teach UsLaura Scarrone Bonhomme (she/her), is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who specialises in Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity. She provides assessment, psychotherapy, and training to other professionals through www.affirm.lgbt.https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-scarrone-bonhomme-3749087a laurascarrone.com Skye Davies (she/they) is a Peer Support Worker at TransPlus, a gender dysphoria service. They also work as a Volunteer Counsellor at Metro, helping LGBTQ+ people. Dr Michael Beattie (he/him) is a Counselling Psychologist in private practice with research interests in the psychology of men and ma...2024-06-171h 11
Gender StoriesPelvic Health Support for All Patients with Alex Papale PT, DPTAlex Papale PT, DPT (they/them) is a pelvic health physical therapist, consultant, sex educator and international speaker based in Boston MA. They specialize in queer and trans health, and treating patients of all genders at Flourish Physical Therapy. Alex especially loves to help patients with pelvic pain, difficulties around sex, peripartum care, pelvic floor support with HRT, orthopedic support for pain related to chest binding or genital tucking, and healing from gender affirming surgeries. When they’re not in the treatment room, you can find them writing and teaching gender affirming, sex positive, kink-informed cour...2024-06-0359 min
Gender StoriesQueering Magical Practice with Enfys J BookEnfys J. Book (they/them) is an author, priestx, blogger, teacher, performer, singer, songwriter, and comedian. They wrote the Gold COVR award-winning Queer Qabala: Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Omnisexual Mysticism & Magick (Llewellyn, June 2022); co-authored (with Ivo Dominguez, Jr.) Sagittarius Witch (Llewellyn, 2024); and wrote the forthcoming Queer Rites: A Magickal Grimoire to Honor Your Milestones with Pride (Llewellyn, 2025). They are also a founding member of the "funny, filthy, feminist, fandom folk" band The Misbehavin' Maidens, the creator of a website on queer magick called majorarqueerna.com, and the host of a podcast called "4 Quick Q's: Book Talk with E...2024-05-201h 08
Gender StoriesRepresenting Queer Characters in Fiction with Miah JeffraMiah Jeffra is author of The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! (Sibling Rivalry 2020), The Violence Almanac (Black Lawrence 2021), the chapbook The First Church of What’s Happening (Nomadic 2017), and co-editor, with Arisa White and Monique Mero, of the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart (Foglifter 2021). Awards include the New Millennium Prize, the Sidney Lanier Fiction Prize, The Atticus Review Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship, Lambda Literary Fellowship, and 2019 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Outstanding Anthology. Most recent work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, The Pinch, The Greensboro Review, DI...2024-05-0655 min
Gender StoriesGraphic Journaling with Visual Artist Nicoz BalboaNicoz Balboa is an Italian visual artist, using his life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, tattoo, to pyrography, graphic journal and sketchbook. He reveals his hopes, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous. The themes of provocation and sexuality repeatedly surface in Nicoz’s work, as his oeuvre is firmly rooted in the tradition of transfeminist discourse. website https://www.nicozbalboastudio.com/ substack: https://nicozbalboa.substack.com/ patreon: https://www.patreon.com/graphicjournalclub Support the showIns...2024-04-221h 15
Gender StoriesTrans Day of Visibility: A Conversation with Marissa SteinMarissa Stein is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Washington (LMHC), an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist (CST), and a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC). They are a non-binary, neuroqueer, kinky, and queer, Pagan, practitioner of magic, who lives with chronic pain and disability. Given these lived experiences, they have felt the impact of intersectional marginalization. As a white person, they do their best to be aware of their privilege and biases as part of dominant euro-centric descendant culture. Marissa endeavors to do their best to do anti-oppression work that is trauma aware as they believe every person...2024-04-0842 min
Gender StoriesIn Conversation with House Mother Alice O'CallaghanAlice O'Callaghan is a transgender community activist and CEO for the queer production company Zenith City Horror. She is a "20 under 40" award winner for her queer community and artistic leadership which spans over a decade in the Twin Ports. She is a modern day House Mother, providing advocacy and safe spaces for vulnerable queer youth and artists in the Twin Ports area. She prioritizes her fight against discrimination and exploitation of trans artists in the entertainment industry.Zenith City Horror: https://www.zch.gay/Miss Cupcake: https://www.instagram.com/ms.cupcake.drag/ Support...2023-12-1855 min
Gender StoriesSupporting Trans Community with Aydian DowlingAydian Dowling is the co-founder and CEO at TRACE. With the support of just 1 person, a trans or nonbinary youth’s risk of suicide goes down by 40%. This is why Aydian co-founded TRACE, the app created to foster a brighter and more gender-affirming future for transgender and non-binary individuals. He has been a transgender activist and influencer for more than 12 years and has been featured on the Ellen Degeneres Show as well as on the cover of Men’s Health. As the founder of Point of Pride, a global nonprofit that has generated over $2.5M in aid for...2023-12-0449 min
Gender StoriesWriting Her Identity with October RyanBorn in a small pentecostal coal-mining town in the Appalachian Mountains, October Ryan struggled to express her true self from a very early age. When her femininity was met with hate, anger, & abuse, she retreated into a series of approval-seeking fake personas. The pentecostal pastor-in-training, the meek academic bookworm, the rebellious grad school party boy, the small town psychology professor... none of her false identities gave October any sense of peace. When she moved to the diverse haven of LA, she finally came out as a proud transgender woman. While healing her traumas & beginning her transition, she wrote & published...2023-11-2748 min
Gender StoriesTo See or Be Seen Nonbinary Tarot with PJ DesrochersPJ Desrochers is a visual artist who explores their nonbinary humanness through art. PJ creates images, builds sculptural installations and immersive experiences of theirgender and a life well-lived. Their media originates with photographic self portraits printed on transparency film. PJ then builds creations by layering the transparent images and connecting them quite often using fingerprinted scotch tape and fishing line to found objects. These Photographic Assemblages can often be found installed within the natural beauty of central Vermont where they photograph and film these beloved creations to become gallery accessible and presented for your viewing pleasure.2023-11-1343 min
Gender StoriesMasculinity in Transition with K. Allison HammerK. Allison Hammer is assistant professor and coordinator of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Southern Illinois University. Masculinity in Transition traces the roots of “toxic masculinity,” showing that while toxic strains of masculinity are mainly associated with straight, white men, trans and queer masculinities often reiterate similar patterns of behavior. Arguing that these malignant forms of masculinity can be displaced, K. Allison Hammer’s bold rethinking lays bare the underlying fragility of normative masculinity.Link to more information about the book or to order: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/masculinity-in-transition 2023-10-231h 16
Gender StoriesThe Glass Scientists: In conversation with S.H. CotugnoS. H. COTUGNO (Sage) is a queer and mixed-race Victorian horror nerd born and raised in Los Angeles, California. They are a director, writer and storyboard artist in the animation industry and have previously worked on projects such as Gravity Falls, The Owl House and Star vs. the Forces of Evil. The Glass Scientists will be their first published graphic novel. You can see more of their work at SeeGoatRun.com or check out their linktree at: https://linktr.ee/arythusa Support the showInstagram: GenderStoriesHosted by Al...2023-10-0243 min
kembar kelekDOWNLOAD [epub] How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi DOWNLOAD [epub] How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi Read Online How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook How to Understand Your Gender for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://sr-book-sudut.blogspot.com/35290631-how-to-understand-your-gender **Download Book Here ==> https://sr-book-sudut.blogspot.com/35290631-how-to-understand-your-gender Book Synopsis : For anyone who's ever wished they had a smart, kind, friend with whom they could calmly and safely discuss gender issues: this most...2023-09-0100 min
kembar kampretDOWNLOAD [epub] How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi DOWNLOAD [epub] How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi Read Online How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook How to Understand Your Gender for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://sr-book-sudut.blogspot.com/35290631-how-to-understand-your-gender **Download Book Here ==> https://sr-book-sudut.blogspot.com/35290631-how-to-understand-your-gender Book Synopsis : For anyone who's ever wished they had a smart, kind, friend with whom they could calmly and safely discuss gender issues: this most...2023-09-0100 min
kembar belekDOWNLOAD [epub] How to Understand Your Gender by Alex IantaffiDOWNLOAD [epub] How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi Read Online How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook How to Understand Your Gender for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://sr-book-sudut.blogspot.com/35290631-how-to-understand-your-gender **Download Book Here ==> https://sr-book-sudut.blogspot.com/35290631-how-to-understand-your-gender Book Synopsis : For anyone who's ever wished they had a smart, kind, friend with whom they could calmly and safely discuss gender issues: this most excellent book is that kind of friend...2023-09-0110 min
Gender StoriesThe Power of Story and Representation with D'Lo D’Lo is a queer/transgender Tamil-Sri Lankan-American actor/writer/comic. He has toured his solo shows internationally, his last show “To T, or not To T?” running last year at the Kirk Douglas Theater in LA. Acting credits include: LOOKING, TRANSPARENT, SENSE 8, and MR.ROBOT, CONNECTING, Quantum Leap and Billy Eichner movie BROS. He is a Senior Civic Media Fellow through USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab funded via the MacArthur Foundation. His work has been published and/or written about in academic journals, literary anthologies, and print/online journalism sources, such as LA Times, The Guardian, NBC, CNN and The Adv...2023-08-2845 min
Gender StoriesNobody Needs to Know with Pidgeon PagonisPidgeon Pagonis is an activist on behalf of intersex and marginalized people. They have advanced youth advocacy with interACT, launched an intersex YouTube channel, written for Everyday Feminism, cofounded the Intersex Justice Project (IJP) and the #EndIntersexSurgery campaign, and introduced the intersex and nonbinary clothing line Too Cute to Be Binary. They’ve created two short documentaries, The Son I Never Had, which premiered at Outfest, and A Normal Girl, which screened at the American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival; appeared on the cover of National Geographic’s “Gender Revolution” special issue; and been honored as an LGBT Champion...2023-08-141h 20
Gender StoriesBuilding a Web of Care with GenderMeowsterGenderMeowster (they/them) is a white, trans masc, nonbinary, AuDHD, mobility aid using, disabled content creator on Twitch, YouTube, and social media platforms. They, along with their friends, curate and maintain the Meowster’s Clowder discord server, Trans101 content on social media, and host and produce the Genderful Talk Show! Their online community is an intersectional 2SLGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, disabled, BIPOC-forward, plural, and alterhuman friendly space and we welcome people with these identities and our allies.Gender Federation is a stream team and mutual aid fundraising entity created by GenderMeowster that hosts events to raise direct mutual aid fo...2023-07-2458 min
Gender StoriesSearching for What's True with Eli ConleyEli Conley is an indie folk singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and activist based on Miwok and Nisenan land (Sacramento, California). He makes music for queer and trans folks, justice seekers, and anyone who doesn’t fit easily in a box. Eli's voice is tender and heartfelt, with melodies and that can leave you teary-eyed yet hopeful. As a queer transgender man from the South, his songs tell stories that aren’t always reflected in roots music. Eli founded Queer Country West Coast, a regular series featuring LGBTQ+ blues, folk, and country artists in California. He has opened for Carsi...2023-07-0354 min
Gender StoriesBEGIN TRANSMISSION The trans allegories of THE MATRIX with Tilly BridgesTilly Bridges is one part of the trans woman / cis woman writing team (with her wife Susan) and creators of comics, screenplays, teleplays and audio dramas. On June 27th, Bridges releases BEGIN TRANSMISSION – The Trans Allegories of the Matrix, tracking one person’s transition journey — from Thomas Anderson, to Neo, to Trinity. As a transgender woman, Bridges said she had always connected with the Matrix movies on a level so strongly that she didn’t understand. The first time she watched the movies after coming out publicly was revelatory. “I was motivated to rewatch and take notes,” says Bridges...2023-06-191h 00
Gender StoriesSpeculative Queer Fiction with Redfern Jon BarrettRedfern Jon Barrett (they/them) is author to novels including Proud Pink Sky, a speculative story set in the world’s first LGBTQ+ state – which will be released by Bywater Books in March 2023. Redfern’s essays, reviews, and short stories have appeared in publications including The Sun Magazine, Guernica, Strange Horizons, Passages North, PinkNews, Booth, FFO, ParSec, Orca, and Nature Futures. They are nonbinary, have a Ph.D. in Literature, and currently live in Berlin. Read more at redjon.com. ** Proud Pink Sky is a novel set in the world's first gay state – described as “gripping”...2023-06-051h 03
GenderfulGenderful E87: Intersectional Identity Studies with Alex Iantaffi (they/them)
In episode 87 we discuss Intersectional Identity Studies with Alex Iantaffi (they/them)
GUEST PROMOS
▶ Alex Iantaffi, PhD, MS, SEP, CST, LMFT (they/he/lui) is a family therapist, WPATH certified gender specialist, AASECT certified sex therapist, Somatic ExperiencingⓇ practitioner, clinical supervisor, and award-winning author. They have researched, presented and published extensively on gender, disability, sexuality, and relationships. More information available at www.alexiantaffi.com
YOUTUBE VERSION
More specific show notes in the Youtube description: https://youtu.be/wqd-3vSBL7k
LINKTREE
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Gender StoriesGender Affirming Care: in conversation with Coltan SchoenikeIn this episode of Gender Stories, Alex talks to Coltan Schoenike, (they/them) a queer, nonbinary, trans and femme marriage and family therapist mentee, sex therapist, sex educator, doctoral student, researcher, and author. Together they discuss gender affirming care: what it is, what it isn't, and why it is vital. Find out more about Coltan at:https://www.coltanschoenike.com/You can also follow them on Twitter and Instagram @ColtanSchoenike Support the showInstagram: GenderStoriesHosted by Alex IantaffiMusic by Maxwell von Ra...2023-05-011h 11