MD and Mari interview Jae, former psychologist and now full-time writer of books in which women unapologetically love women.

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Mari and MD talk to Katy-Jon Went, an activist on equality, diversity, and intersectionality, about being a religious queer person, the pitfalls of fundamentalism, and self-acceptance in the Church.

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Mari and MD discuss the concept of toxic masculinity; what it means, how it happens, how it impacts society, and how it puts people in boxes.

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Sources:

http://theconversation.com/australian-study-reveals-the-dangers-of-toxic-masculinity-to-men-and-those-around-them-104694

https://www.apa.org/research/action/speaking-of-psychology/men-boys-health-disparities.aspx

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062033/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662681/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/toxic-masculinity.html

https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/1594205078

Mari and MD talk to Tracy and Mika, creators and editors of LezWatchTV, "the greatest database of queer female, non-binary, & transgender characters & shows on TV" about the good, the bad, and the queerbait-y of representation. NOTE: Sorry for the funky audio, Skype screwed up and we tried our best to reduce the echo!

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Mari and MD, inspired by an email from one of our listeners, discuss negative coming out experiences and how one can cope with things going sour when sharing their sexuality or gender with their loved ones.

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Mari and MD talk to Katy-Jon Went, an activist on equality, diversity, and intersectionality, about a variety of topics including gender, sexuality, Christian fundamentalism, and queer spaces.

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MD and Mari address the infamous bi/pan discussion and delve into what sexual orientation and attraction really are, how they come about, and what our attitudes are toward them.

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Sources:

- https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/sex-sexuality-and-romance/201711/the-truth-about-pansexuality?amp

- https://edition-m.cnn.com/2016/01/07/health/bisexuality-on-the-rise/index.html

- Morandini, J. S., Blaszczynski, A., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2017). Who adopts queer and pansexual identities? Journal of Sex Research, 54, 911-922.

- https://www.psypost.org/2017/01/adopts-queer-pansexual-identities-study-examines-sexual-demographic-characteristics-47187

- https://books.google.nl/books?id=SwtQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR3&lpg=PR3&dq=Bisexuality:+Theories,+Research,+and+Recommendations+for+the+Invisible+Sexuality&source=bl&ots=XP4W8STzdr&sig=ThGcE6eI3_59cFgufd7UL0l6SmU&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRiqGSipHfAhUCaBoKHYteDr4Q6AEwBXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Bisexuality%3A%20Theories%2C%20Research%2C%20and%20Recommendations%20for%20the%20Invisible%20Sexuality&f=false

- https://medium.com/@puentera/bisexual-vs-pansexual-9da1190b8fc5

- http://repositor.essex.ac.uk/12910/1/E%26G%20Edited%2011.14.14.pdf

- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1529100616637616

- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1529100616637618

Mari and MD talk to Nicole Pacent, bisexual actor, writer, activist, and overall awesome human being about queerness, marriage, representation, and how it is to navigate a relationship with a cishet partner.

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Mari and MD sit down to talk about marriage equality, its history from Ancient Rome to today, and its influence on mental health.

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Sources:

Marriage equality and mental health

Am J Public Health. 2015 June; 105(6): 1101–1105.

Published online 2015 June. doi:  [10.2105/AJPH.2015.302589]

PMCID: PMC4431106

PMID: 25880959

Ben Lennox Kail, PhD, Katie L. Acosta, PhD, and Eric R. Wright, PhD

Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 80, Issue 2

Brief Report

Legal Marriage, Unequal Recognition, and Mental Health Among Same‐Sex Couples

Allen J. LeBlanc David M. Frost Kayla Bowen

First published: 08 January 2018

https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12460

Am J Public Health. 2013 February; 103(2): 339–346.

Published online 2013 February. doi:  [10.2105/AJPH.2012.301113]

PMCID: PMC3558785

PMID: 23237155

Richard G. Wight, PhD, MPH, Allen J. LeBlanc, PhD, and M. V. Lee Badgett, PhD

Mari and MD talk to Cathy and Barry, pioneers of the poly community, about self-determination, the bisexual unicorn, and how the culture at large sells toxic monogamy.

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Barry and Cathy Smiler have been presenters and organizers in polyamory and related communities for many years, on both the US east and west coasts and now in Europe, and are members of the global Polyamory Leadership Network. Ex-Californians, they are former organizers of East Bay Poly in the Berkeley/Oakland area. Then while living in Maryland they led BmorePoly, which they grew to more than 3000 members and over 50 events every month making BmorePoly the largest and most active such group in the Mid-Atlantic and one of the largest in the world. Currently they are based in the Netherlands where they help organize events for Leiden Open Relationships. At the core of their approach is a belief that All This Stuff is really a reflection of everyone's right to live their own life their own way, on their own terms, and has rather more to do with connection and self-determination than with sex and number of partners. They can be reached at [email protected]

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