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Rethinking WellnessChronic Illness, Orthorexia, and Alternative Medicine with Asher PandjirisThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comPsychotherapist Asher Pandjiris joins us to discuss their experience with chronic illness and “autoimmune diets,” why they were attracted to naturopaths and other alternative-medicine providers, the role of values in people’s attraction to wellness culture, cultural healing traditions vs. cultural appropriation, their approach to working with orthorexia, and lots more. Paid subscribers can hear the full interview, and the first part is available to all listeners. To upgrade to paid, go to rethinkingwellness.substack.com. Asher Pandjiri...2024-11-1139 min

Business WitchTurning Compassion Towards Ourselves with Asher PandjirisIn this episode, I’m thrilled to welcome Asher Pandjiris—a powerful psychotherapist, ketamine-assisted therapy provider, and co-director of the Kintsugi Therapy Collective. Asher’s work is all about compassionate, trauma-informed care for folks navigating chronic illness, the LGBTQIA+ community, and care workers. Their podcast, Living in This Queer Body, is a beautiful exploration of healing as a liberatory practice. Together, we get into the heart of self-compassion, burnout, and building a sustainable approach to mental health. Asher shares their journey with ketamine-assisted therapy to help clients address deep-seated trauma, plus insights on balancing empath...2024-10-2848 min

MoonbeamingThe Healing Potential of the Unknown with therapist Asher PandjirisToday we begin a new mini series speaking with mental health professionals such as therapists, somatic educators, social workers, and caregivers. Our guest today is the one and only Asher Pandjiris! In this episode of the Moonbeaming Podcast, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and guest Asher Pandjiris delve into the intersections of spirituality, therapy, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. You’ll learn:the mystic supportive role of undefined circumstancesthe transformative power of ketamine therapyan experience from living in a queer bodydisordered eating and body dysmorphiaIf you’re curious about how ketamine therapy or if you’re a practitioner seeking to sup...2024-07-311h 05

Living in this Queer BodyAll the Beautiful Qualities: Kintsugi Therapist CollectiveIn this episode, you will hear from beloved Kintsugi Therapist Colltive members, who participated in a group discussion about what KTC is, why it is a community that matters so much to them and why our care worker collective is a critically important space that counterbalances the extractive nature of capitalism and toxic professionalism embedded in the mental health field. (Thank you Luca, Alice, Margee, Dani, Bec, Sebastian and Leah) About us: We need not be fine: A manifesto for care workers who can't go on like this 2024-05-0528 min

Living in this Queer BodyFrom the River to the Sea: Hannah MoushabeckHannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author, editor, and book marketer who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers in Western Massachusetts and England. Born in Brooklyn into Interlink Publishing, a family-run independent publishing house, she learned the power of literature at a young age. She is the author of Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books, March 2023). She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations. Hannah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannahmoushabeck/ Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (BUY NOW)2024-01-2246 min

Gender Spiral"My Kid Sees Me" (w/ Asher Pandjiris)Content warning for eating disorders from 21:50-22:59 and from 24:52 to 30:08. This week, psychotherapist Asher Pandjiris talks growing up as a tomboy and their relationship to masculinity, parenting as a nonbinary person, and mental health hurdles that often overlap with gender dysphoria. Article: "Unpacking 'gender exploratory therapy,' a new form of conversion therapy" Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world. Support us on Patreon! patreon.com/GenderSpiralPodcast Find Asher on Instagram...2023-08-1544 min

Living in this Queer BodyBitten by the Wolf: Asher's updateTo support Kintsugi Therapist Collective: https://www.patreon.com/kintsugitherapistcollective To read this episode, subscribe to my free newsletter: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/contact --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2023-06-0614 min $A Therapist Can\'t Say That$ A Therapist Can't Say ThatEP 2.3: Normalizing Vulnerability: The Power of Authenticity in Client Relationships with Onyx Fujii and Asher PandjirisIf you’ve been in this field for even a couple of hours or so, you have almost certainly had someone try to impress upon you the importance of self-care. Not usually in the context of your self being valued for its own sake, but self-care that enables you to show up effectively for your clients.On the face of it, there’s not much to disagree with there. Yes, when we are adequately cared for, we are better equipped to show up and care for our clients.2023-05-101h 02

Living in this Queer BodyDuet #3: Zena Sharman and Hannah McGregorAll things Kintsugi Therapist Collective: https://www.kintsugitherapistcollective.com/offerings In this conversation we hear Hannah and Zena talk about caring ferociously, macho homemaking, living life as a committed spinster, work as a trauma response and domestic embodiment. Hannah McGregor is an academic, podcaster, and author living on the traditional and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She co-hosts the podcast Witch, Please, a critical rereading of the Harry Potter series, and she is the author of A Sentimental Education (WLUP 2022). Hannah's website: https://www.hannahmcgregor.com/ Hann...2023-01-2052 min

Living in this Queer BodyDuet #2: Fanny Priest and Erin FairchildAll the links/info about Erin and Fanny: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/episodes/fanny-priest-erin-fairchild All things Asher Mending with Gold: Weekend Intensive Embodied Private Practice Cohort Embodied Testimony: Sick and Tired --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2022-12-2159 min

Conversations With a Wounded HealerAsher Pandjiris - Therapists as Human Beings, Not MachinesThe last 2.5 years (and counting) have opened floodgates of reckoning, especially within therapeutic spaces, and I’m so here for it! So, too, is Asher Panjiris, who rightfully points out that our profession is overdue for an overhaul. Yasss! Asher claims a lot of different identities: psychotherapist, queer parent, human to two dogs, and the host of Living in This Queer Body. They’re also co-founder and co-director of Kintsugi Therapist Collective, a community space dedicated to helping therapists build embodied and liberatory care practices. The Japanese art of kintsugi, or golden mending, is a perfect metaphor for...2022-11-1647 min

Living in this Queer BodySamantha Irby and Marlee Grace: Duet #1Samantha Irby writes a newsletter called Bitches Gotta Eat. Her favorite duet is Patti Labelle and Michael Mcdonald's “On My Own.” Marlee Grace is a dancer and writer whose work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, creativity, and art making. Their practice is rooted in improvisation as a compositional form that takes shape in movement videos, books, quilting, online courses, and hosting artists. Grace’s Instagram dance project Personal Practice has been featured in the New York Times, Dance Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and more. They have a newsletter that comes...2022-10-2054 min

Living in this Queer BodyThe Melancholy of Joseph M. PierceMore about Joseph here Always Coming Home --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2022-09-021h 04

Living in this Queer BodySTOP MEN (to the point): clip from full length interview with Xara Thustra[audio transcription] STOP MEN.. I've been probably writing it and it's been a part of my work for about 15 years. During that Gay Shame time and during a lot of my protesting and, and engaging with the Mission Anti- Displacement Coalition for, you know, a couple of years and the Coalition on Homelessness and working for all these or organizations and advocating for different types of people and everything. Everything I did lost, you know, everything. Like every single fucking thing I participated in failed. Everything, everything. I like, if I breathed the thought, it would come back negative, like...2022-06-2603 min

Living in this Queer BodyUna Aya Osato: Human BarometerUna Aya Osato (they/she/flower) is a performer, writer, sex educator, community CareBear, stripper, and clown from NYC. They are an award-winning actor and playwright who tours her original work nationally and internationally. Una is also a co-founding member of brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque, a BIPOC femme burlesque collective. Una has been featured in the New York Times, Teen Vogue, NPR’s CodeSwitch, NowThis, and many other publications and platforms. For more Una happenings find flower on IG @ThisIsUna & on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ThisIsUna/membership We love you Una. Please consider supporting Una and the...2022-06-211h 21

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#21): “What happens when we are reached for, and we are the alternative system, and we are completely tapped out?”Thank you Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Bridget Bertrand and Dr. Jennie Wang-Hall who attempted to address the question: What does it mean to be a care worker in the third year of this global pandemic? Thank you for the additional question.....“What happens when we are reached for, and we are the alternative system, and we are completely tapped out?” (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha) and thoughts on rushing towards denial, heartbreak, disability justice, "i can't go to your party," "no vietnam war memorial for the covid dead," deep grief, being in crisis and at capacity, stuck...2022-06-1712 min

Living in this Queer BodyJenna Wortham on Finding Peace Beneath the SkinWe discuss the priority of supporting the body, Jenna's history with disordered eating and overwork, their anxious brain, what they are learning from their morning body/mind assessment ritual, the importance of rest and WHY the ceramic french press is a game changer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2022-06-041h 03

Living in this Queer BodyThis Volatile Body: Mugabi ByenkyaMugabi Byenkya is an award- winning writer who was born to Ugandan parents in Nigeria and is currently based in Kampala. Mugabi lives outside the gender binary and has a seizure disorder, chronic fatigue and experiences the world in a way that some would describe as “neurodivergent.” In 2018, Mugabi was named one of 56 writers who has contributed to his native Uganda’s literary heritage in the 56 years since independence by Writivism (East Africa’s largest literary festival). Mugabi wants to be Jaden Smith when he grows up. In this interview we cover so many topics including the distracti...2022-05-271h 12

Living in this Queer BodyAlways Becoming with Joey SolowayToday I am thrilled to celebrate the 3 year anniversary of the podcast! We’ve had over 250,000 downloads and released 51 full length episodes along with some really powerful pandemic dispatches. Living in this Queer Body has become a platform that has connected queers through instagram, workshops and group intensives. This community has allowed me to get to know so many beautiful, inspiring and generative people and I am humbled at all that has come into being over these past 3 years. I look forward to many more. Our guest on today's episode showed up with such openness and willingness to ask an...2022-05-0258 min

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison[Repost] #246: Chronic Illness, Body Acceptance, and Breaking Free from the Wellness Diet with Asher Pandjiris, Eating-Disorders Therapist and Host of Living in This Queer BodyEating-disorders therapist and fellow podcaster Asher Pandjiris joins us to discuss chronic illness in the context of body acceptance, the experience of living with an autoimmune disorder, the intersection of eating disorders and trauma, how the “personal responsibility” narrative perpetuates stigma, how being queer and non-binary has affected Asher’s relationship with their body, and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about whether trying to let go of restrictions in order to heal from diet culture means that you can’t follow Kosher customs. (This episode was originally published on July 6, 2020.) Asher Pandjiris is a psycho...2022-04-111h 17

Living in this Queer BodyI Felt at Home in It: Alli SimonI approached Alli for this interview as a fan and really loved meditating with her during the pandemic. During this interview we talked about what it is like for Alli to be a queer, larger bodied, POC in the wellness industry, endometriosis, her relationship with a queer femme identity as someone who grew up as a tomboy and how a meditation practice helped her navigate significant traumatic loss and much more. Alli Simon (she/her) is a certified yoga and meditation facilitator from Los Angeles. She commits her energy to working with nonprofits dedicated to systems change a...2022-03-2550 min

Living in this Queer BodyRadical Healership: laura mae northruplaura mae northrup is an author, educator, somatic & psychedelic psychotherapist, and podcaster. Her book Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World is an anti-capitalist, spiritually-led guide book for healing practitioners. She is the host and creator of the podcast Inside Eyes, an audio series about people using entheogens & psychedelics to heal from sexual trauma. Her work focuses on defining sexual violence through a spiritual and politicized lens and mentoring healing practitioners in creating a meaningful path. In this interview we talk about the impact that growing up poor has had on...2022-02-2857 min

Living in this Queer BodyFor Life Till Death: Anastasia (Onyx) Fujii, LCSWAnastasia (Onyx) Fujii is a queer, non-binary, chronically ill, mixed-race clinical social worker; living and practicing trauma-informed psychotherapy in Philadelphia, PA (on Lenni-Lenape land). They are a cultural humility consultant and group facilitator, as well as a lifelong East Coaster, a Cancer, a writer, and a parent. Onyx's professional practices and writing center the intersections of identity, trauma, (in)visibility, and connection. Kintsugi Therapist Collective (KTC) is a virtual community offering embodied care, support, wisdom, and resources to trans and non-binary, BIPOC, chronically ill, and disabled mental health providers. We aim to...2021-12-2154 min

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#20): Susana Victoria ParrasSusana Victoria Parras (@heal2gether) is the founder of Heal Together, a Guatemalan daughter, Anti-Racist, LCSW, Intersectional, Mother and Partner. Susana is committed to justice and dignity for all peoples. In this dispatch, we hear a testimony of the intergenerational impact of multi-systemic oppression (separation, neglect, abuse, poverty, disordered eating, alcoholism), the way this trauma lives in the body of a parentified child, and the efforts Susana is making to reflect, transform, honor grief and proclaim: FUCK THE CONDITIONS THAT HURT CAREGIVERS THAT HURT US. "My practice is to be a whole ass human with my c...2021-11-2910 min

Living in this Queer BodyI Knew I Had to Say it Out Loud: Nicole J. GeorgesNicole J. Georges is a graphic novelist and podcaster from Portland, Oregon. Nicole's podcast, Relative Fiction, adapted from her award-winning graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura. She is also the author of the book Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, and the queer arts & vegan food review podcast, Sagittarian Matters. In this episode, Nicole and I cover topics ranging from punk righteousness, drawing comics, family secrets, podcasting, twelve step programs, chosen queer family, encopresis and making space for gentleness. Nicole makes the astute observation that “to be an adult, maybe, is to be less fragmented.” I urge you to c...2021-10-1256 min

Recovery BitesLiving in this Queer Body with Asher Pandjiris, MA, LICSWIn this episode, Karin is joined by Asher Pandjiris, MA, LICSW, psychotherapist, group facilitator, queer-identified parent, activist, podcaster, living with chronic health issues. Asher has years of experience working with issues related to trauma and its impact on the body and is a scholar of critical, psychoanalytic and mindfulness-based theories.Join Karin and Asher for a discussion on trauma’s effect on the body, how eating disorder behaviors can communicate trauma, how treatment exclusion heightens gender dysphoria, gender binarism’s role in body adherence, gender expression changes during the recovery process, the risk of chronic illness “quick fixes...2021-09-1347 min

Living in this Queer BodyBelly of the Beast: Da'Shaun HarrisonIn this episode, we talked about the long term impacts of childhood illness and confrontation with the fragility of the body, anti-fatness as a barrier for receiving medical care, how liberal folk’s disdain for the south constitutes anti-blackness, their discovery of fat studies and the impact of survival sex work on their sense of self, the significance of mutual aid work in Da’Shaun’s life, the limitations of academia as an institution and of course, their new brilliant book, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. Da’Shaun Harrison is a Black trans wr...2021-09-0656 min

Living in this Queer BodySwimming Upstream: Sini Anderson on Late Stage Lyme, Long Covid, Queer Community Magic and the making of So Sick (2014-2022)Sini Anderson is an award winning film director, producer, video art maker, and feminist art activist who lives in New York City. Her first feature length film, The Punk Singer -a documentary about Kathleen Hanna, premiered at SXSW in 2013 and was acquired by IFC Films. The Punk Singer received a theatrical release in 121 American cities and in 25 countries around the world. In 1994 Sini Anderson and friend Michelle Tea founded Sister Spit and Sister Spits’ Ramblin’ Road Show. From 1994-2001 Anderson and Tea held weekly shows at Blondies Bar and the CoCo Lounge in San Francisco. In 1997 Anderson and...2021-08-021h 41

Living in this Queer BodyStealing Astrology Back: Alice Sparkly KatAlice Sparkly Kat is an astrologer. They use astrology to re-chart a history of the subconscious, redefine the body in world, and reimagine history as collective memory. Their astrological work has inhabited MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum. They are the author of Postcolonial Astrology: READING THE PLANETS THROUGH CAPITAL, POWER, AND LABOR. We had a lovely conversation on a wide range of topics, including, the power of magical recognition, language as an organizing tool, the influence of feminist zine culture horoscopes, what makes astrology western And of course, perhaps predictably, queers kinky relationship...2021-08-0251 min

Living in this Queer BodyCorporeal Biography: S.J NormanS.J Norman (b. 1984) is a multi-award winning artist, writer and curator. His career has so far spanned 18 years and has embraced a diversity of disciplines and formal outcomes, including solo and ensemble performance, installation, sculpture, text, video and sound. He is a non-binary transmasculine person and a diasporic Koori of Wiradjuri descent, born on Gadigal land. Since 2006 he has lived and worked between so-called Australia, Germany, the UK and the continent known to many Native peoples as Turtle Island. His practice is routed through the volatile interstices of the social and the corporeal. Working extensively with du...2021-06-151h 09

Living in this Queer BodyMy Body is not a Burden: Erica WoodlandErica Woodland, LCSW is a black queer/genderqueer facilitator, consultant, psychotherapist, and healing justice practitioner based in Baltimore, MD. He has worked at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice and liberation for more than 18 years. In 2016 Erica founded the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, an organization committed to advancing healing justice by transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color. In this interview we talk about Erica’s childhood growing up black and genderqueer as the eldest child of a single mom, lessons he learned from work bu...2021-05-1549 min

Living in this Queer BodySafe Harbor: Christa CoutureChrista Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also mixed Cree and Scandanavian-settler, queer, disabled, and a mom. Her seventh album Safe Harbour was released on Coax Records in 2020. As a writer and storyteller, she has been published in Room, Shameless, and Augur magazines, and on cbc.ca. In 2018, her article and photos on disability and pregnancy went viral. She is the weekday afternoon host on 106.5 ELMNT FM in Toronto, Canada, and her debut memoir How to Lose Everything is out now with Doulgas & McIntyre. In this episode, we...2021-04-1355 min

Rebel TherapistLiving In This Queer Body With Asher PandjirisHow do you move towards healing and liberation while creating the business of your dreams? I wanted to explore this question with someone who centers these values in their work. Asher Pandjiris is a white, queer, non-binary psychotherapist, parent to a human and two rescue pups, group facilitator and host of the Living in this Queer Body podcast. They live and work on stolen Nipmuc and Pocomtuc land. Here's some of what we talked about: Always Coming Home, Asher's 8-week Group Program Embodied Testimony, Asher's 3-month Intensive How they create safety within...2021-04-0648 min

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#19): Reneerenee is a non-binary femme artist living on the unceded ancestral lands of the Duwamish people also known as seattle. a jack of many trades including writing, zine making, tap dancing and bending neon art! they believe deeply that everything is relational and that care, vulnerability and curiosity belong at the root of any foundational future we move forward in building. find out what they are up to at www.kindergartenthoughts.com, support them on patreon or follow them @kindergartenthoughts --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2021-03-1409 min

Living in this Queer Body"I looked like a tomboy... turns out I was": Colin HagendorfIn this episode we discuss childhood gender play, complicating trans coming out narratives, the significance of sobriety and secure relational attachment in Colin’s creative life, her relationship to punk, dissociation and transformative justice and the clarity that comes when you get on the right psych meds. I really love Colin. I hope you enjoy this listen. Colin Hagendorf is writer, podcaster, trans Jewess, and New Yorker in diaspora. She is the author of the 2015 recovery memoir, Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza, and an as-yet-untitled novel in progress about lesbians in Queens that Br...2021-02-1258 min

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#18)Deep Gratitude to Sara Jane Stoner (@thingpartofus) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2021-01-2710 min $Giuliana Hazelwood\'s Bedside Manner$ Giuliana Hazelwood's Bedside Manner10 // asher pandjiris's bedside mannerwe are back in business BABE! after my dramatic medical leave, i have a lovely show for you, starring psychotherapist and queer icon Asher Pandjiris. we get right into it re: eating disorder treatment, queering the dogmatic paradigms that do ED patients more harm than good (ugh, gonna be a pass from me honey!), and i share a bit more about my own eating disorder recovery. (i.e. looooong intro alert)you will love this epi if you are interested in: improving eating disorder treatment art as a gateway drug for investigating people's interior w...2021-01-261h 10

Living in this Queer BodySyd Yang: Finding Comfort in the DiscomfortSyd Yang (they/them) is a mixed race/Taiwanese American queer/non-binary healer, intuitive counselor and writer who weaves together magic, possibility and intention as an energy healer in the world through their practice, Blue Jaguar Healing Arts. As someone who lives with depression and anxiety, and has recovered from severe eating disorders, Syd's work finds its resonance in the stories we each hold at the intersection of memory, body, sexuality and mental health. Syd works primarily with queer and trans BIPOC individuals as well as regularly leads workshops, community healing circles and has been a group facilitator for...2021-01-2349 min

Living in this Queer BodyYou Are Wanted: MJ @margejacobsenIn this interview MJ and I explore so many topics including body shame, living with mental illness, showing up with compassion and softness for oneself, parenting, polyamory, examining proximity to whiteness and finally, the experience of being found by their biological family. Watch the journey unfold @margejacobsen Margaret Jacobsen (they/them) is a writer, photographer, and copyeditor in Portland, OR. As a volunteer coordinator for nonprofit Free Geek, Margaret’s interest in tech accessibility combines with their care for underserved communities. At Portland PR Agency, EARLY, they work as a writer and copyeditor helping sustainability, health and we...2020-12-2352 min

Living in this Queer BodyBecoming the Spell: Sarah Faith GottesdienerSarah is an artist, writer, psychic tarot reader, teacher, & business owner living in LA. @gottesss www.modernwomenprojects.com We talk about the lingering impact of childhood trauma, living as a queer adult with ADHD, queerness as ideology, accessing protective energy for oneself and much more. Shockingly we do not talk about TAROT but we do talk about the moon. Sign up for Queering the Holidays (www.livinginthisqueerbody) QUEERING THE HOLIDAYS Friday December 18th 5-7pm EST How do we navigate caring for ourselves, our par...2020-11-2256 min

Living in this Queer Body"Check Your Past:" Eva ReignIn this episode, Eva and I talk about our shared hometown of Saint Louis, MO. We address the ways that Eva has`worked to undo her internalized homophobia, transphobia and anti-blackness. Eva also gives us her take on the current "trendiness" of transness and BLM. Eva Reign is an actor, writer and artist originally from St. Louis, Missouri. She is a columnist at the Condé Nast publication Them. where writes on Black trans life and profiles people across the country. Her work as a performer has been showcased in the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art through the...2020-11-061h 00

Living in this Queer BodyDisrupting Linearity and 2 Spirit Body Reclamation: Coyote ParkCoyote Park is a Two Spirit artist, oral historian, and educator. They are Yurok (with their ancestral homelands being near the Klamath river), German, and Korean. Coyote grew up in Honolulu, Hawai'i and moved to New York when they were 18. Currently, they have relocated to Los Angeles where they are doing online lectures, finishing up schooling, and multi-media work. They cofounded ENBY Spoken Histories with Angel Labarte. ENBY Spoken Histories is a storytelling archive with the trans community, as it centers nonbinary, 2spirit, gnc, intersex, and genderqueer voices. The archive is preserved within the Library of Congress and ENBY...2020-10-1059 min

Living in this Queer BodyWhat a cute girl: Joon Oluchi LeeJOON OLUCHI LEE lives and writes in femininity and feminism, whose latest novel is "Neotenica," published by Nightboat Books in June. The author of two other works of fiction, "94" (2015) and "Lace Sick Bag" (2013), both published by Publication Studio, as well as various essays on queer theory, feminism, and fiction writing, including "The Joy of the Castrated Boy," and the blog "lipstickeater," Joon is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Creative Writing at Rhode Island School of Design. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner Roderick Schrock and their rescue dog Nella. Neotenica 2020-09-2353 min

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#17)Deep Gratitude to @annefacee These pandemic times have been a time of interrogation, reflection, learning, and unlearning–which for me, includes exploring my gender identity and the ways in which I can get so tied up in how others may hypothetically react to it, let alone perceive it. I sat on this recording for several months as my fear of not “succeeding” kept me discouraged and apprehensive. Perfectionism–a very old learned behavior of mine from childhood– is the antithesis of everything I believe gender and queerness to be. For me, gender and sexuality are not fixed, and there is no right o...2020-09-1603 min

Living in this Queer BodyThe Unseen World is Trying to Liberate Us: Lama Rod OwensWe are back with full length interviews!! I'd love to hear what you think of the conversation. Episode 34 features Lama Rod Owens, a black queer Buddhist Lama and author of the recently published book Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger. In this episode, we discuss the dangers of disembodied anger, what it feels like to navigate transhistorical trauma in the body, anger, and the woundedness beneath anger, as an entry point to embodiment, and Lama Rod's relationship with depression and much more. It was a true honor to speak with Lama Rod Owens. I really encourage you to re...2020-08-261h 02

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#16)Deep gratitude to: Nalo @nalodarling (@blackgirlmasculine and @yaziclothing) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-08-2108 min

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#15)CW: mention of suicide Deep gratitude to: Erin (@erin_everett15), Meg (@lamplight.space), Daniel (eyes_of_daniel) and Lex (@the.days.eye). As much as possible I aim to center the voices and experiences of BIPOC queer folks. That being said, I know that participation can involve significant emotional labor, both in generating a dispatch as well as opening up publicly and sharing often marginalized and discarded voices. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-07-1023 min

Food Psych Podcast with Christy HarrisonChronic Illness, Body Acceptance, and Breaking Free from the Wellness Diet with Asher Pandjiris, Eating-Disorders Therapist and Host of Living in This Queer BodyEating-disorders therapist and fellow podcaster Asher Pandjiris joins us to discuss chronic illness in the context of body acceptance, the experience of living with an autoimmune disorder, the intersection of eating disorders and trauma, how the “personal responsibility” narrative perpetuates stigma, how being queer and non-binary has affected Asher’s relationship with their body, and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about whether trying to let go of restrictions in order to heal from diet culture means that you can’t follow Kosher customs. Asher Pandjiris is a psychotherapist and host of the Living in this...2020-07-061h 16

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#14)Deep Gratitude to: Abby, a Nanticoke Lenape and a 2-spirit lesbian (@asfk.art) and Kbb is a white, queer, non-binary professor of Performance Studies in the Theater Department at Wesleyan University (@brewerball). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-06-2510 min

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (Trans Folks Fighting Eating Disorders @transfolxfightingeds)This episode features voices from the organization TRANS FOLKS FIGHTING EATING DISORDERS (@transfolxfightingeds) Deep gratitude to: Kacey, Kian, OJ (@thirdwheeled), Scout (@wickedlittletown) and Ethan (@heartshapedhickies). This episode features non-black voices, in part, because food/nourishment and dysphoria are things that take time and energy to talk about. These topics are particularly vulnerable to talk about publicly. White trans people have privilege and, in this episode, they are using this privilege to draw attention to the depth of pain and struggle that is housed in trans bodies. There is so much more to say about the impact of a culture that dev...2020-06-1609 min

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#13)Deep gratitude to: @qweenamor, @blackqueerbaby and @love.gia $upport AND DONATE TO: @btfa (Black Trans Femmes in the Arts) Activation Residency @activationresidency (Venmo is Activation, PayPal is info@activationresidency.com) As much as possible I aim to center the voices and experiences of BIPOC queer folks. That being said, I know that participation can involve significant emotional labor, both in generating a dispatch as well as opening up publicly and sharing often marginalized and discarded voices. I will be collecting stories all su...2020-06-1110 min

Rebel TherapistStarting A PodcastThis here podcast has changed a lot since I started it in the spring of 2017. My business has grown a lot, largely thanks to this podcast. I started this podcast as a way to reach more therapist entrepreneurs and give you inspiration and information about growing your business. I've found my voice more and more over the last 3 years. I've learned a ton about podcasting and I have discovered that I LOVE it. Since then I've gotten to support some of my clients in creating their own podcasts. Here are a...2020-06-0225 min

Living in this Queer BodyDISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#12)Deep Gratitude to: Margaret Jacobsen (@margejacobsen), Shantira Jackson (@tira_tira_tira), Vic Michealis (@vicmmic), Jill Casid (@jillcasid) and Savannah Jane (@queer_mama_4_the_rev). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-05-2911 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (#11)Deep gratitude to: Eva Reign (@msevareign), Domonique Echeverria (@domonique_echeverria), Rebekah Erev (@rebekaherevstudio), Lukaza Branfaman-Verissimo (@bluekaza), Joon Oluchi Lee (@girlscallmuder) and E.R. Fightmaster (@genderless_gap_ad). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-05-2212 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (#10 EMBODIED TESTIMONY)This is a really special episode to me. Over the past couple of months a small group of folks have been recognizing, allowing, investigating and nurturing their embodied testimony in the LITQB Program Intensive (all while living in pandemic times). A few folks were willing to share their reflections with you. Deep gratitude to the entire group. You shared so deeply. Featured in this episode: Leigh Hendrix (@leighhendrix) and Claire Wirick (@clairey.sage). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-05-1811 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (#9)Deep gratitude to: Ted Kerr (@tedkerr), Eli Raczynski (@eli_eli_eli_), Marina Labarthe del Solar (@okdood), Mel Plaut (@newyorkhack), Andrew Greene (@beingandrewgreene), Alynda Mariposa (@hurrayfortheriffraff), Victoria (@queermoneyproject), Colin Hagendorf (@colinhagendorf), Jeff Hinshaw (@cosmic.cousins) and Martha Oatis (@marthaoatisacupuncture) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-05-0830 min

Living in this Queer BodyQueer Futures: Sav SchlauderaffAs the global pandemic continues, I think we are all feeling quite deeply and concretely the barriers to embodiment in various aspects of of our life, perhaps more acutely than ever. My guest today is someone who is very well versed in speaking about the body in pain and the multiplicity of embodied experience. Today I have the honor of interviewing Sav Schlauderaff. Sav (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled PhD student in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. Their research in critical disability studies centers chronic illnesses, (embodied/felt) memory, pain, trau...2020-05-0453 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (#8)Deep gratitude to: Lauren (@laurensallpurpose), Makoto (@ma_ko_to_), Vanessa, Gia Love (@love.gia), Cat Tyc (@catherinetyc), Atalanta (@blossomingresistance), Char (@chartwodeetwo), Sanyu (@sanyutattoo), Patrilie (@the_bodylib_advocate) and Hannah Hiaasen (@studio.hh) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-05-0128 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic times (#7)Deep gratitude to Emily Wells (@emilywellsmusic), Joss Lake (@joss.e.lake), Jewel Cadet (@jewel_thegem), Courtney Perkins (@notallgeminis), FRAMACHO (@framacho), Jaffa Aharonov (@jafqueen) and Bunny Michael (@bunnymichael) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-04-2514 min

Living in this Queer BodyI am the Site of Possibility: Shira ErlichmanIn this episode, which was recorded many months ago, Shira and I talk about what it means to not be able to “outrun” her Bipolar diagnosis and the long process of acceptance that followed this confronting reality. Shira shares about her early childhood growing up in Israel, noticing as a radical act, the mind as queer and a lot more. I am a such a fan of Shira’s book, her poetry and most recently I have taken such pleasure in watching her daily instagram stories in which she prepares iced coffee. Shir...2020-04-2057 min

Living in this Queer BodyRecovering from Covid-19 (Dispatches from our Queer bodies in pandemic times part 6)In this episode, Cassie Peterson @cassmastery returns to tell us about recovering from Covid-19. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-04-1509 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (Part 5)Deep gratitude to Gala Mukomolova (@galactic_rabbit_horoscopes and @bigdykeenergypodcast), Rachel Burgos (@snakerootapothecary), Andrew Gurza (@itsandrewgurza), Colin Self (@colinself), Dr. Sand Chang (@heydrsand), Vi Khi Nao (@vikhinao), Liz Collins (@lizzycollins7), Zena Sharman (@zenasharman) and Una Osato (@thisisuna). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-04-1119 min

Living in this Queer BodyTo be in the middle of what is here: Susan RaffoIn this episode, recorded in the midst of a global pandemic, we explore, with such tenderness and fierceness, what it means to be in the middle of what is here. Susan talks about mutual aid initiatives as "collective nervous systems" and emphasizes the importance of acknowledging what is unfinished in us (intergenerational trauma or other complex traumas that many of us hold in our bodies) while we work towards shared liberation. Susan and I talk about how death rests right alongside our embodied aliveness and much more. Susan Raffo is a queer bodyworker with ancestr...2020-04-0658 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (part4)Thank you to Cassie Peterson (cassiePetersonLCSW.com), Isake Smith (@is_she_okay), Corinna Rosella (@riseupgoodwitch), Coyote (@nativeboytoy) and Sara Jane Stoner (@thingpartofus) for sharing your pandemic life with us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-04-0314 min

Living in this Queer BodyPa'Lante: Alynda Mariposa Segarra of Hurray for the Riff RaffI hope this interview brings you something good in this time of quarantine. I recorded this episode quite a long time ago so the content is not directly reflective of the time in which we are currently living. Visit Alynda on instagram @hurrayfortheriffraff to learn more about what she is doing (singing to us! + much more, as always) in this current wild wild time. Alynda was one of my dream guests when I imagined this podcast. I love the way her music rests in such beauty, the traveling life and all the wisdom it holds, political clarity and...2020-03-231h 02

Living in this Queer BodyA Beautiful Fuck You: Adrienne HuardIn this episode we speak about Adrienne’s powerful discovery of pole dancing, the complexity of sobriety and harm reduction, the experience of learning to love her body after struggling with body dysmorphia and disordered eating. Adrienne sees this body nourishment as an expression of connection to the land and a fuck you to colonialism. We talk about much more and I hope you enjoy our conversation. Adrienne you are such a warm and open person! Adrienne Huard is a Two-Spirit Anishinaabekwe born and raised in so-called Winnipeg, Manitoba and registered at Couchiching First Natio...2020-03-2339 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (part 3)Frankie Baker @yarrow_medicine --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-03-2203 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from Our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (Part 2)Thank you to kei tsuruharatani @keipence Prentis Hemphill @prentis.h --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-03-2102 min

Living in this Queer BodyDispatches from our Queer Bodies in Pandemic Times (Part One) I hope these LITQB podcast alumni voices are soothing during this time. More to come! Thank you Adrienne Maree Brown, Meg Bradbury, CJ Miller, Adele Jackson-Gibson, Leah Jo Carnine and Ilya Parker. Please excuse the volume issues. This is like a mixtape--- made with love, but not expertly edited. SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2020-03-2109 min

Living in this Queer BodyLiving in the Gray with J AprileoWe talk about how J found community on youtube, their gender feels, the morality discourses we place on fatness, finding accessible forms of movement and more. J is a nonbinary fat activist passionate about trans advocacy and making the world a little more accessible for people of size! They believe in self compassion and the power of a good laugh. J writes about their experience as a fat nonbinary person out in the world over on Patreon (patreon.com/comfyfat) and shares resources for the plus size community on social media.” @comfyfattravels...2020-02-2450 min

Living in this Queer BodyMy Whole Body is My Friend: Jewel CadetIn this episode, we discuss Jewel's love language (words of affirmation), her powerful and important work organizing black/queer/trans party spaces (A Ratchet Realm), the influences that impacted the expression of her sexuality and much more. Jewel was such an open, lovely, fierce guest! Raised by a Haitian single mother in Brooklyn East New York, Jewel Cadet is a vibrant virgo force to be reckoned with. Multi-awarded (Featured in #BETQueerAF: 29 Days of Black Queer Excellence) both locally and nationally for her activism and community organizing, Jewel thrives on supporting the Black Queer, Trans & G...2020-02-2452 min

Living in this Queer BodyI Just Went Free: Gloria NotoGloria and I talk about the power of incubating yourself in your artistic practice, life as a queer first generation Sicilian, activism as identity, growing in power during in the Detroit punk scene and much more. Gloria was a generous and warm guest and I hope you enjoy this episode. Gloria Noto is the Founder of NOTO botanics - a non binary natural product line. You can connect with all things Noto at noto_botanics or notobotantics.com. If you are in LA, Noto now has a flagship store in...2020-02-1056 min

Living in this Queer BodySoft Power: CJ MillerIn this episode I talk with the heartfelt and fierce CJ Miller. We speak about her movement towards the dance/movement practice as a Pony Sweat instructor, inhabiting her body as intersex and trans, her relationship to empowered femme-ness and her identification as a Leopard Grrrl, amongst other things. CJ Miller is a dancer, poet, illustrator, and musician. Currently she is the frontwomxn for agitprop Clueless Soundtrack worshipping riot grrl band dimber and plays bass for queer anarcho death rock band Remorseless. She is an instructor for Pony Sweat - fiercely non-compe...2020-01-141h 01

Living in this Queer BodySomatic Witch: Andrea GlikI was so glad to sit down and talk with Andrea Glik. They are so many things including the creator of the wildly popular and deeply resonant instagram account @somaticwitch, where they give us frequent doses of wisdom about the nervous system and working through trauma. Andrea Glik, LMSW is a psychotherapist, somatic healer, sex educator, and witch living and practicing on occupied Lenape territory (NYC). Andrea specializes in treating trauma and PTSD for queer & trans folks, using body based and feminist therapy practices to help clients come home to themselves. insta: @somaticwitch w...2019-12-3149 min

Living in this Queer BodyRage Kidvai: You and Your Body are EnoughIn this episode we talk about queerness, body shame, disordered eating, Islamaphobia, pregnancy, questions around activism and self care and so much more. Rage does a million rad things and it was truly an honor to interview them in the midst of their last moments of pregnancy. I am inspired by them and all they do, truly. I hope you enjoy this episode. Rage is a queer Muslim migrant from Karachi, Pakistan. They’re a public defender and organizer around the criminal punishment system and prosecutor accountability with Court Watch NYC and 5 Boro Defenders. Since moving to Brooklyn almost a de...2019-12-171h 11

Living in this Queer BodyYour Curiosity Will Save You with Cindy CrabbIn this episode we talk about dissociation, choice and consent, gender as "all kinds of ways," life before punk, how adrenaline and traumatized bodies interact and the dull and repetitive conversations that led her to live life as a writer. Cindy Crabb is the author of the long-running feminist autobiographical zine Doris and compilation book Encyclopedia of Doris. She edited the zine and book Learning Good Consent. She is a somatic experiencing trauma therapist living in Pittsburgh. Cindy wrote her zine, DORIS, like she is figuring out the human...2019-12-1649 min

Living in this Queer BodyWe have always been here: A mini-episode featuring the Diaries of Lou SullivanThis is the inaugural episode of the WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE: A LITQB reading series. In this excerpt we hear Ellis Martin read several passages from Lou Sullivan's diaries. WE BOTH LAUGHED IN PLEASURE: THE SELECTED DIARIES OF LOU SULLIVAN (edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma) narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and...2019-12-1008 min

Living in this Queer BodyMerging Bodies: Savannah KnoopThis is a special interview with a creative, inspiring and deeply insightful artist and human. In this episode we talk about their wild life as JT Leroy, their passion for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Savannah’s complex relationship with their mom amongst other things. Savannah Knoop is a New York-based artist engaging in writing, performance, and object-making. From 2009-2016, Knoop co-hosted the monthly queer audio-visual party WOAHMONE. They received their BA at at Cuny under the mentorship of Vito Acconci, and their MFA at Virginia Common Wealth University in Sculpture+ Extended Media. They have shown and performed at the Whitney,Mo...2019-11-1850 min

Living in this Queer BodyPrentis Hemphill: There is a Brilliance in These BodiesIn this episode we discuss generative somatics as an activist and healing practice, the power of reclaiming our bodies, complicating queer belonging, the spiritual and disruptive possibilities of queerness and Prentis's particular focus on being authentically oneself. Prentis Hemphill is movement facilitator, Somatics teacher and practitioner, and writer living and working at the convergence of healing, individual and collective transformation, and political organizing. Prentis spent many years working with powerful movements and organizations, most recently as the Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network. In 2016, Prentis was awarded the Buddhist Peace Fellowship Soma A...2019-11-0650 min

Living in this Queer BodyFrankie Baker: Provocation and the Intimacy of HealingFrankie opens up about their journey with disordered eating as a way to manage dysphoria and the things they are finding to assist with anxiety without extreme orthorexia. Their relationship to rigidity has evolved as a result of their study of Chinese Medicine along with giving themself permission to speak openly about their body’s experience. Frankie breaks all sorts of rules in the spirit of providing an open and safe environment for queer, trans and non binary patients. Frankie is an acupuncturist and herbalist with a focus on trans affirming health practicing out of B...2019-10-2350 min

Living in this Queer BodyQueer Introverts Unite! with Josh HershJosh Hersh is an entrepreneur, writer, seeker, and community architect. Over the years, he’s focused on creating mindful, heart-centered spaces for queer people, such as The Thoughtful Gay Man and queeret (pronounced queer-it), a global community for queer introverts. He believes in the power of belonging and connection as a means to bring healing and a sense of togetherness to queer communities. @queerintroverts @joshhersh LITQB Podcast This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a po...2019-10-0954 min

Living in this Queer BodyFuck Diet Culture with Meg BradburyMeg Bradbury (she/her) is certified as a holistic anti-diet nutritionist, Body Trust Provider™, Accessible Yoga™ Teacher, and registered Yoga Alliance™ yoga and meditation teacher. Meg is in private practice working with individuals, groups, and families, advocating for body acceptance, eating disorder/disordered eating/body shame recovery, freedom with food, joyful movement, and stillness/breathwork. Meg’s work is guided by the principles of Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size ™, and the Ellyn Satter Institute through a social justice and intersectional feminist lens. Meg’s practice is fat positive, weight neutral, and Q/T/GNC affirming. As an eating disorder and...2019-10-0758 min

Living in this Queer BodyDyke Soccer with Adele Jackson-Gibson and Yael MalkaIn this episode, I interview two dyke soccer players, Yael Malka and Adele Jackson-Gibson, who talk about what it has been like to find community and confidence in their bodies. Dyke Soccer is a community of amateur athletes that meets twice a week for free pickup soccer games in local gyms + parks. Dyke Soccer divines pop-up pickups that encourage queer cruising, promote physical and mental health, and provide a network for queers to find each other. @dykesoccer Yael Malka (b.1990) graduated in 2012 from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Phot...2019-10-0752 min

Living in this Queer BodyTea Leigh is Wild Like the HorsesTea Leigh is a queer tattooer that has been living in Brooklyn for the past 7 years. With a background in music, installation art, photography and postpartum healing as a doula, Tea now concentrates on and hand poked tattooing and story telling. Tea (@tealeigh) co-owns their own interdisciplinary tattoo studio, Welcome Home, with partner business Kelli Kikcio. LITQB Podcast This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who mi...2019-08-2844 min

Living in this Queer BodyJack Ferver is Half Girl Half BoyJack and I talk about alienation in the queer community, his refusal of categorical thought, accessing pleasure through humor and navigating life as a trauma survivor with an acuity of mind, with an intention to stay present, embrace his psychic inclinations, meditate and engage in therapy. Jack Ferver is a New York based writer, choreographer, and director. His genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), explore the seams between fantasy and reality, character and self, humor and horror. The critically acclaimed artist has been presented throughout New York...2019-08-141h 16

Living in this Queer BodyVoice Memo Me!Another way to offer feedback! Maybe I will play your voice memo on the next episode. Here is how: Without the App When viewing a podcast's page in Anchor, even if you're not logged in, you can click 'Send voice message' (Remember to give your web browser access to your microphone!) You'll be brought to a record screen where you can record a voice message for up to one minute You can record your message again, or, if you're happy with how it turned out, click 'Send this message!' If you're logged in to an...2019-08-0501 min

Living in this Queer BodyDecolonizing Fitness with Ilya ParkerWe discuss medical gatekeeping and experiences with transphobic trainers/providers, queer life in the Southeast, the challenging intersection of body positivity discourses and the lived experience of gender dysphoria and the power of purposeful movement for trans/GNC people. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-07-3159 min

Living in this Queer BodyAgainst Purity with Jade MarksJade and I speak about abelism, transphobia and purity discourses in herbalism, thoughts on unlearning binaries in the wellness world. They speak eloquently about permission to heal, within multiple, subtle and complex modalities (and at your own pace!). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-07-2348 min

Living in this Queer BodyXara Thustra: STOP MENWe discuss Xara Thustra's early days as a punk, a trans person, someone making art and challenging the lack of resourcing for trans and queer people in the art world, experiencing loss as a queer activist in the bay area, what STOP MEN means to them and how collaboration and "love over all decision making" is their priority. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-07-171h 07

Living in this Queer BodyAdrienne Maree Brown: Let the hard shit be hard AND Look for the pleasure, look for the joyWe discuss navigating food and nourishment, sex education and consent, chair dancing and twerking, Adrienne's introvert and queer nature. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-07-101h 01

Living in this Queer BodyLeah Jo Carnine on Following the Path of Ease, SometimesWe discuss burnout, Leah's life transitions from activist and sex worker to somatically and trauma informed Physician's Assistant who embraces harm reduction in her current position and still needs to remember to prioritize sleep, gardening and nourishment. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-07-0354 min

Living in this Queer BodyBody Hacking with Andrea Abi-KaramWe talk about the queerness of physical language and how they approach queering text, moving from life as an EMT to life as a poet, their self-proclaimed unnerving gaze, creating a temporary autonomous zone with their audience PLUS we get a special reading from their newly published book, EXTRATRANSMISSION. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-06-1948 min

Living in this Queer BodyKei Tsuruharatani on Moving Between Stability and ExplorationWe talk about the queer immigrant experience, exploring an open relationship in the context of marriage, navigating the entertainment/Broadway industry as a non-binary quiet(er) person, working with a therapist and meditation to support mental health struggles and the power of dance in helping him align with his gender/sexuality --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-06-1244 min

Living in this Queer BodyAtalanta is Blossoming ResistanceAtalanta explores what they call the "fabulous unfolding." Atalanta is as a nonbinary queer parent living with chronic illness who believes in plant magic and lives rurally. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-06-0554 min

Living in this Queer BodyLindsay Mack This Wild BodyLindsay talks about pelvic pain, her relationship to queerness as a cis woman married to a cis man, forgetting aspects of her sexuality, navigating the specificity of her boundaries as a public figure and her experience with termination. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-05-291h 03

Living in this Queer BodyMel Plaut on Guns and Guts in Rural GeorgiaMel shares their experience with gun ownership, low dose testosterone and leaving the blue bubble of NYC as queer non-binary New Yorker living in rural Georgia. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-05-221h 02

Living in this Queer BodyMarlee Grace on Learning the Body Again and Again, and More all the timeMarlee talks about coming out to herself in her 30's, learning the body again and again, unpacking addictive behaviors, body pain and navigating embodiment as a public artist/creative/person. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-05-1541 min

Living in this Queer BodyWolf Medicine Magic on the Body as Student and TeacherRegina, a lifetime dancer, talks about ALL the embodiment tools she has gathered to help her own body, and those of her students (Breathwork, yoga, Barre, Ayurveda), navigate trauma, toxic masculinity and other barriers to embodiment. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-05-0855 min

Living in this Queer BodyEpisode 0: Introduction to the Podcast and Asher (a mini-sode)Asher talks about her hopes for the podcast, who she is and why you might want to listen. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-05-0105 min

Living in this Queer BodyTattoo Doula Tamara Santibañez on Reclaiming EmbodimentIn this inaugural episode, Asher interviews queer tattoo doula Tamara Santibañez. They talk about reclaiming power in one's body, the therapeutic role of the tattoo artist, navigating self-care as an empath, the importance of personal style and much more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asher-pandjiris/message 2019-05-011h 06