In 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 Nations, Fort Frances, Ontario.  Huard graduated from Concordia University in 2018 and is currently attending OCAD University’s graduate-level Criticism and Curatorial Practice program. She is on the planning committee for the upcoming Two-Spirit Pow Wow happening on May 30th in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It will take place during Canada Pride (a nationwide Pride celebration) and Adrienne is really looking forward to a high attendance this year.

You can connect with Adrienne on instagram @adrienne_loon

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.

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The Host:  Asher Pandjiris

Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator

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Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris