Anastasia (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 help other similarly situated clinicians build gainful income streams that do not rely on the same level of constantly reliable physical, mental, and emotional presence that is embedded in extractive business models and clinical training programs. We believe our private practices, in collaboration with the support of the Collective, can provide stability for our complicated bodies, not only existing for everyone else at the detriment of our wellbeing. For more info find us here:  www.kintsugitherapistcollective.com and @kintsugitherapistcollective 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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another. Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

Living in this Queer Body

For Life Till Death: Anastasia (Onyx) Fujii, LCSW

Susana 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 child, with my partner, to keep the distance that I thought I couldn't keep because I thought I always had to be there for my parents."  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#20): Susana Victoria Parras

Nicole 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 check out all of Nicole’s work. She is prolific and funny and powerfully insightful. Since recording this episode I listened to every episode of the Relative Fiction podcast and I must say, if you are interested in complicated families, queerness, attachment styles, intergenerational trauma transmission, this podcast has that and more, so definitely check it out.  Email Asher at livinginthisqueerbody@gmail.com to join the waitlist for Embodied Testimony, a 3 month program intensive, starting DECEMBER 5th The theme for this Embodied Testimony will be, quite broadly, SURVIVING ADULT LIFE AS A PARENTIFIED CHILD. 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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.   Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody  Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio   Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris  “Uninvisible Pod is an award-winning podcast about invisible conditions and chronic invisible illness, featuring interviews with survivors, their loved ones, advocates, and experts in varied healing modalities. Hosted by Lauren Freedman, an activist and patient advocate, who lives with Hashimoto’s disease, multiple sleep disorders, depression, and anxiety, Uninvisible uncovers real stories of survival and humanity – complete with laughter. In truth and with candor, Lauren and her guests offer solutions – and challenge the world to change. Lauren’s latest episode is an interview with Hyperacusis Awareness founder Jemma-Tiffany, a remarkable teenager who has devoted her life not only to having her rare and disabling condition — one that causes physical pain in reaction to everyday sounds — recognized as such, but also to raising awareness and encouraging inclusion. Catch this episode and over 130 more at uninvisiblepod.com or wherever you subscribe to podcasts. You can find Lauren and the podcast @uninvisiblepod on instagram. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

I Knew I Had to Say it Out Loud: Nicole J. Georges

In 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 writer and community organizer in Atlanta, GA. Harrison currently serves as the Managing Editor of Wear Your Voice Magazine, and is the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. A public speaker who often leads workshops on Blackness, queerness, gender, fatness, disabilities—and their intersections—Harrison’s portfolio/works can be found at dashaunharrison.com. Scholars and Activists mentioned in this episode: Sabrina Strings (author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia), Sherronda J. Brown, Hunter Shackelford, Caleb Luna (@chairbreaker) and Aubrey Gordon (yrfatfriend). 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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.  Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio  Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

Belly of the Beast: Da'Shaun Harrison

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 Tea produced their first, of four, Cross Country Tours. Packing two vans with 12 queer artists they zig zagged across the United States and Canada for six weeks performing 40 shows! It was such a hit, they did it again for another 3 years, gaining national recognition they were signed to Mercury Records and released 3 tour albums with them. In 2000 Sister Spit released their final album, I Spit On Your Country, on radical queer & feminist label,  Mr. Lady Records & Videos. Eventually Sister Spit would tour with over 50 queer artists and were credited with creating a queer literary scene that still thrives 20 years later as Radar Productions. Anderson was the Chief Curator and the Co-Artistic Director for The National Queer Arts Festival and has served as the president of the board of directors for The Harvey Milk Institute and the co-chair of the board of directors for The Queer Cultural Center. Sini is in the final phase of her second feature length film, So Sick (2014-2022) . The documentary is an exhaustive look at women/gender non-conforming people who are suffering so called “mystery illnesses” like Late-stage Lyme disease, Fibromyalgia, ME/Chronic Fatigue. 50 Million Americans been diagnosed with Autoimmune Illnesses, 85-90% of them are Women. So Sick uncovers infuriating truths behind women’s health care and the health care of PEOPLE OF COLOR and calls bullshit on American Medicine, Medical Education, and Bio-Medical Research, whose non-compliance with federal laws demanding Equality within government funded research, has only stoked the myth of “hysterical women” who are making themselves sick. Contact Sini:  sinianderson3@gmail.com So Sick Facebook The Punk Singer Sister Spit 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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.  Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio  Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

Swimming Upstream: Sini Anderson on Late Stage Lyme, Long Covid, Queer Community Magic and the making of So Sick (2014-2022)

Alice 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 to astrology. I hope you enjoy the show. If you do, please give us a 5 star rating on apple podcasts and if you write a review you will 100% get a big time shoutout on my instagram. It really gives this project such a boost to get those reviews. 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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.  Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody Purchase a recording of the Navigating Pandemic Fatigue from a Disability Justice Perspective Webinar: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/pandemic-fatigue The Host:  Asher Pandjiris is a Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody  Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio  Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

Stealing Astrology Back: Alice Sparkly Kat

S.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 durational and spatial practices, as well as intimate/one-to-one frameworks, Norman's primary medium is the body: the body as a spectacle of truth and a theatre of fantasy; a siphon of personal and collective memory; an organism with which we are infinitely familiar and eternally estranged; a site which is equally loaded and empty of meaning, where histories, narratives, desires and discourses converge and collapse. Norman frequently utilises relational and process-based choreographies as a mode of structural critique: reflected in his work is an abiding interest in the space of co- and inter-corporeality, the forces that suffuse it, and how the live act might be utilised as a mean to examine, disrupt and re-inscribe prevailing systems of social power. Drawing on embodied ancestral lineages of ceremonial praxis, Norman seeks through much of his work to implicate the body of the audience and the body of the performer as co-agents in magickal acts. He has received numerous awards for both his art and his writing, including a Sidney Myer Fellowship and an Australia Council Fellowship, two of Australia's most prestigious honors for art. In this episode, we discuss the precocity of the body, how death awareness shapes S.J’s view on life and the way being in transit helps him feel most at home and much more. Permafrost book Knowledge of Wounds (program launch is June 21st) National Indigenous Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia Decolonial Love Letters: https://performancespace.com.au/program/xxx/ What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? First Nations Dialogues Purchase a recording of the Navigating Pandemic Fatigue from a Disability Justice Perspective Webinar: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/pandemic-fatigue The Host:  Asher Pandjiris is a Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody  Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio  Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

Corporeal Biography: S.J Norman

Erica 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 burnout, queerness as radical imagination, healing justice organizing and the danger of prescriptive self-care approaches and much more.  NATIONAL QUEER AND TRANS THERAPISTS OF COLOR NETWORK https://www.nqttcn.com/ Cara Page https://carapage.co/about/ Healing and Transformative Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDHrgaTmpo 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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.  Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody Purchase a recording of the Navigating Pandemic Fatigue from a Disability Justice Perspective Webinar: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/pandemic-fatigue The Host:  Asher Pandjiris is a Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody  Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio  Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

My Body is not a Burden: Erica Woodland

Christa 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 talk about finding a messy-middle of acceptance, a childhood living with bone cancer, life as a queer amputee, GRIEF AS AN ACCESS NEED and much more. http://christacouture.com/ 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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.  Livinginthisqueerbody.com  @livinginthisqueerbody Purchase a recording of the Navigating Pandemic Fatigue from a Disability Justice Perspective Webinar: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/pandemic-fatigue The Host:  Asher Pandjiris is a Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody  Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio  Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

Safe Harbor: Christa Couture

renee 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://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#19): Renee

In 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 Brontez Purnell described in a text message as “East Coast Love & Rockets.” She writes the monthly print fanzine Life Harvester with her partner, Rebecca Giordano, and hosts, engineers, and edits the podcast Life Harvester Radio, a series of monthly conversations with writers, artists, activists, tattooers, musicians, and other counter culture types about their cultural production under capitalism, aka “why should we make stuff when society sucks?” 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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.  Livinginthisqueerbody.com  @livinginthisqueerbody Register for:  Navigating Pandemic Fatigue Through a Disability Justice Framework: A Webinar March 20th 1-3pm EST Navigating (not fighting off or “combating”) Pandemic Fatigue Through a Disability Justice Framework is an offering that aims to honor that this pandemic time, this "slowing down," is a pace of life that is necessary for many and also offers us a lot of lessons towards individual and collective liberation. In this virtual webinar, Ilya Parker (@decolonizing_fitness) and Asher Pandjiris (@livinginthisqueerbody) will share their personal experiences with their complicated queer bodies during the pandemic and will provide a framework for thinking about taking lessons forward beyond “pandemic time.” Asher and Ilya will also present material on a disability justice perspective on rest, relating to time and moving through the world in ways that honor the body's needs. Registrants for the live event can submit questions before or during the event for us. Recordings will be available. If you haven’t already, make sure you head over to the LITQB podcast archives and check out our conversation. It is episode 14. The Host:  Asher Pandjiris is a Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody  Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio  Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

"I looked like a tomboy... turns out I was": Colin Hagendorf

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DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#18)

Syd 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 over two decades, with a specific focus on grief, healing ancestral trauma, sexuality + spirituality, body liberation and eating disorder recovery. Their recent memoir, Release: A Bulimia Story, re-imagines what recovery would look like without shame.   @releasebulimia  Bluejaguarhealingarts.com  Queer Spirit Podcast interview: http://queerhealingjourneys.com/syd-yang/  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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.  Livinginthisqueerbody.com  @livinginthisqueerbody  The Host:  Asher Pandjiris is a Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator  SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody  Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio  Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

Syd Yang: Finding Comfort in the Discomfort

In 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 wellness, and lifestyle businesses strategize and advocate for their place in a shifting world. Their writing on Blackness was once praised on social media by Beyoncé, and IRL when Beyoncé sent them flowers. Margaret’s writing on life while Black, queer, non-monogamous, and a parent have appeared at Romper and Medium. Sign up for Queering the New Year (www.livinginthisqueerbody)  A workshop about eating, rest and nourishment in a decidedly anti-diet, anti-resolution, allowing for messiness space Tuesday January 5th, 2021  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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.  Livinginthisqueerbody.com  @livinginthisqueerbody The Host:  Asher Pandjiris is a Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

You Are Wanted: MJ @margejacobsen

Sarah 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 partners and our friends during this pandemic holiday season? A portion of proceeds will go to The LGBTQ Freedom Fund How do we nourish ourselves? (In this first “holiday” session we will focus on food) How do we identify our needs when the demands of heteronormative, colonial settler and patriarchal holiday discourses threaten our self-determination and sovereignty?  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 might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.  Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.  Livinginthisqueerbody.com  @livinginthisqueerbody  The Host:  Asher Pandjiris is a Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody  Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio      Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

Becoming the Spell: Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

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