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A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World#35 Gender, Feminism & Public/Private Space with Dylan BandyDylan is a photographer, filmmaker and musician. She also hosts a podcast about sex, feminism and power with her mother (Sonya Lea, who was also on this show) called BITCHCONOCLAST. Dylan and I have an open-ended conversation about both of our favorite subjects, namely, gender, feminism, power, public/private space and considering all of them from a cross-cultural and cross-generational perspective. Dylan and I don't always agree, but our conversation showcases what in my opinion is exactly the kind of conversation we need to be having about these topics - nuanced, curious, self-reflective and respectful. Dylan's's book...
2019-10-051h 31
BITCHCONOCLAST8. Dylan Bandy (daughter): Surprisingly Sexually RepressedThis week we talk with Dylan Bandy about developing her artistic voice. "There's a way in which talking about sex and sexuality is still important to me because it's still seen as this pornographic image, especially being a sexualized person. There are these ways of talking, like, yes while this may be frankly sexual, it is not your masturbation fantasy. Like, that's not what I'm here for. And, I guess, you know, you do what you want to. But, it's like you missed the fucking point. Because everything I was saying was about female friendship and how lonely I...
2019-04-1029 minBITCHCONOCLAST7. Sonya Lea (mom): Why Was I Born With This Animal DesireThis week, I talk with my mother about her memoir, which is the story of my father's cancer and his brain injury. "Seemingly, he remembered who I was. But, we found we had to start educating him about his entire life, from who he was to his entire childhood, our wedding day, the days that you children were born, all kinds of things.. that just absented themselves... The layers of what will go missing in a trauma."
Sonya Lea is a memoirist, essayist, and fiction writer. Her memoir Wondering Who You Are was a finalist for the...
2019-04-1024 min
BITCHCONOCLAST6. Suzanne Morrison: I Knew How Good I Could Make Myself FeelWith Suzanne this week in episode six, we talk about mothers and daughters and sex and orgasms and credos. "I was having oral sex for the first time.. and in my mind I circled those words: oral and sex. And going down. And the fact that this was being done to me, was almost enough to make me cum. It was his tongue that did it in the end though. ...I had been giving myself orgasms for as long as I can remember."
Suzanne Morrison is the author of Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism...
2019-04-1055 min
BITCHCONOCLAST5. Karen Karbo: It Was Crazy ProgressiveIn episode five, we talk with Karen Karbo about unsuspecting and historic feminists. "One of the women I've been researching is Helen Gurley Brown [1st Editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine] and it's really interesting because everything that we're talking about now, she talked about in Sex & The Single Girl, which was published in 1962. ...One of the chapters is: How Do You Have An Affair With A Married Man. Nobody had seen anything like it."
Karen Karbo is the author of multiple novels, working of creative non-fiction, and a memoir. Her Kick-Ass Women Series includes Julia Child...
2019-04-0947 min
BITCHCONOCLAST4. Vanessa Veselka: Chicken-fried Steak & Trying to Grab My AssThis week we talk with Vanessa Veselka about the 'quest narrative' and gendered experiences of freedom. "Jack Kerouac never went anywhere. He had cash and he crossed the country—like, he wants a prize??" We talk to her about her popular GQ essay, her novel, and her ideas on class warfare in America.
Venessa Veselka has been at various times a teenage runaway, a sex worker, a union organizer, and a student of paleontology. Her work appears in Salon, GQ, Bitch Magazine, The Atlantic, Tin House, Zyzzyva, and Best American Essays. Her novel Zazen won the 2012 PE...
2019-04-0939 min
BITCHCONOCLAST3. Elissa Washuta: Feelings I Don't Like Are Really Healthy For MeIn Episode 3, we talk with Elissa Washuta. "It's only been in the last of couple of years that I've learned to accept that I have feelings and that people have feelings and it's natural and it's normal. Which, when I was first diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, I didn't believe that. I thought: okay, I'm upset. This is an episode. I'm angry, am I going into hypomania. Everything was a potential symptom. There was no room in my life for sadness, for grief, for excitement, because anything scared me as a potential symptom."
Elissa Washuta is a...
2019-04-0932 min
BITCHCONOCLAST2. Claire Dederer: Intellectual DominanceIn Episode 2, we talk to Claire Dederer about her new memoir Love & Trouble. "I would not have wanted my sexuality be born of molestation or victimhood, but now that I have it--like, what are you going to do with it? It's like a bricolage, right? What are you going to make out of what you are given. And as a very sexual person, I made what I made."
Claire Dederer is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Love & Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning and NYTimes Bestseller Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses. Dederer...
2019-04-0942 min
BITCHCONOCLAST1. Nicole Hardy: I Was Told Daily That God Would Fix MeIn our very first episode, we talk with Nicole Hardy about celibacy and religion and her forthcoming memoir. "A lot of people have come from repressive sexual environments (for whatever reason) and I think giving voice to the complications of that issue was really important.. Because, when you talk about living a celibate life—for people who don't do that—it seems an easy thing not to be celibate... Anyone who has had any experience in that kind of situation knows, that it's a much deeper situation than the having or not having of sex."
Nicole Hard...
2019-04-0935 min
BITCHCONOCLAST0. BITCHCONOCLAST Teaser TrailerBITCHCONOCLAST is a mother-daughter podcast on sex, feminism, and power.
In season one, we interview Pacific-Northwest authors Nicole Hardy, Claire Dederer, Elissa Washuta, Vanessa Veselka, Karen Karbo, and Suzanne Morrison about their work and the state of the patriarchy. Then we talk to each other about our work and how our sexuality has impacted our work.
Producers: Sonya Lea & Dylan Bandy
Content editor: Dylan Bandy
Sound editor: Nora Knight
Illustration & Logo: Amy Mizrahi
Graphics: Nicole Geslani & Bex Karnofski
Music: Dylan Bandy, Adam Cohen-Leadholm, & Frankie Mars...
2019-04-0904 minBITCHCONOCLASTBITCHCONOCLAST Theme SongBITCHCONOCLAST is a mother-daughter podcast on sex, feminism, and power.
The theme song is written by Dylan Bandy and performed by Adam Cohen-Leadholm & Frankie Mars Gunner.
2019-04-0801 min