Do Care Podcast

Neville Taraporevala was a Master’s Student at Utah State University currently participating in a Kansas canid study - The Witchita Urban Coyote and Fox Project. We talk about science, grad school, predators in urban places, and the human-wildlife interface. 

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:

• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• We Are Lady Parts, a TV series streaming on Peacock 

Also mentioned:

• Fox and I by Catherine Raven

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Liz Whittaker is an Intimacy Coordinator who choreographs intimate scenes for theater and film. Learn more about theatrical intimacy and principles of consent on their website and IG @intimacywithliz.

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:

• @QueerSexTherapy
• @Consent.Wizardry
• Reservation Dogs on Hulu

Also mentioned:

• Nimbus the Purrari
• BDS Boycott List
• Liz Whittaker - The Daily Utah Chronicle
• Sexual Harassment in Theater
• ‘Night Mother by Marsha Norman
• Shakespeare in Love at West Valley Arts
• Intimacy Direction in Love Lies Bleeding
• Theatrical Intimacy Education

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Amanda Madden is a local filmmaker and queer community builder based out of Salt Lake City. Check out upcoming workshops and queer collaborations on their website. 

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:

• @AriaVelz / @CriticalLesbian - Lesbian Film Reviewer 
• Lilith’s Brood series by Octavia Butler

Also mentioned:

• Freyja’s cat-pulled chariot 
• Artist Solidarity Club
• Documentary Accountability Working Group
• Utah Film Center
• Subject - Documentary
• We Will Not Cancel Us by Adrienne Maree Brown
• Queer in Utah Photography Project by Fazilat Soukhakian

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Misty Murphy, an avid climber and the vice president of Southern Utah Climbing Alliance(SUCA) discusses the work that SUCA does to keep climbing areas safe and protected, as well as a bit about climbing and climbing culture. Check out SUCA on their website here and on Instagram @SUCA, and Misty on her website and @misty_murphy_realtor on Insta.

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:

• You’re Wrong About - one of our favorite podcasts!
• Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life by Judith Hanson Lasater

Also mentioned:

• Limestone Bible: a guide to limestone sport climbing for Southwestern Utah, Arizona Strip, Virgin Mountains, and Arrow Canyon by Misty Murphy & Bill Ohran
• Zion Climbing Coalition on Insta @zionclimbingcoalition

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Dr. Christy Glass, a thoughtful professor of Sociology at Utah State University, discusses workplace justice - how race and gender play a role in who is "the boss" and what makes a workplace (and state) habitable.

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:

• Enter Ghost, a 2023 novel by Isabella Hammad
• Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber

Also mentioned:

• Maintenance Phase, a podcast that debunks and decodes wellness and weight loss. @maintenancephase
• Dr. Glass' Glass Cliff Research
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett
• Harvard University President Claudine Gay stepping down
• Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi
• Performative Contortions
• Does Workplace Discrimination Contribute to Sex Work for Trans and Nonbinary Workers?
• “Barriers to Advancement: Gender & Racial Bias in Utah’s Legal Profession.”
• US Trans Survey
• Rock Camp SLC
• Disclosure Documentary
• Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer
• Queer Survival Guide
• HB 257 - Anti-trans bathroom law
• HB 261 - Anti-DEI bill aimed at dismantling DEI efforts at pubic = universities

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Nan Seymour is a local poet and founder of the River Writing Collective who will be holding the third Great Salt Lake Vigil in 2024. She is spunky, beautifully full of emotion, and inspiring. We talk about how you can participate in the 2024 Utah Legislative session, grieving Great Salt Lake, and how we can connect with each other to make an impact.

@nan_seymour

@riverwritingcollective

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Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:

• La Fracture, a play by Yasmine Yahiatene
• Bloodtide: A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs by Eli Nixon

Also mentioned:

• Tracy Aviary and Jordan River Nature Center
• The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Akerman
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
• Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club by Celeste Ng
• Radio West (episode with Bonnie Baxter)
• irreplaceable: a collective praise poem for Great Salt Lake
• Great Salt Lake Collaborative
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
• Save Our Great Salt Lake Coalition
• Mirabilite Formations Tours

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Aimee Van Tatenhove, a Pelicanologist, talks about pelicans and other migratory birds that visit Great Salt Lake and how their populations are managing in the face of drought, as well as the lake and art and fullhearted stewardship. Aimee is a grad student at Utah State University researching American white pelicans. See her website at www.avantatenhove.com and on Instagram @aimeevantatenhove and @full_o_fulmars

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: 

• Maintenance Phase, a podcast that debunks and decodes wellness and weight loss. @maintenancephase
• Ali Rez, an environmentalist and food waste activist with a rap song about saving Great Salt Lake @yo_alirez

Also mentioned:

• You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend
• Great Salt Lake Collaborative @greatsaltlakenews 🔥🔥
• Great Salt Lake Institute and the Salty Science Seminars
• The awesome Jaimi Butler  @jaimibulter
• Nan Seymour and the Great Salt Lake Vigil
• BirdCast
• Sageland Collaborative @sagelandcollab
• “Your Kids Are Not Doomed” NY Times article by Ezra Klein @ezraklein
• Dan Savage Lovecast  @dansavage

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Jeff Paris discusses Meanwhile Park - a small, urban backyard in Salt Lake City, Utah that hosts community gatherings including art, theatre, and just plain fun. We discuss the inspiration for Meanwhile Park, past and future events including plays, theatre in general, and how you can get involved. Follow on Insta @meanwhilepark

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: 

• Casa Ivium 
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief a novel by Francis Weller

Also mentioned:

• Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival @greatsaltlakefringe
• The play Roxie Hart Syndrome
• WILL IT GO ROUND a staged reading by Matthew Ivan Bennett
• Pioneer Theatre Company @pioneertheatrecompany
• Plan-B Theatre @planbtheatreco
• Umbrella Theater @umbrella_theatre
• Game of Shrooms @gameofshroomsofficial
• From June to August a play by Matthew Ivan Bennett
• Meanwhile Park 2024 Playwright Prize

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Madazon Can-Can is an inspiring, refreshigly sex positive burlesquer, puppeteer, clown, drag performer and instructor. They join us to passionately discusses using performing arts for social change in Utah. Follow at insta @madazon_can_can. Also see their website at https://linktr.ee/MadazonCanCan.

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: 

• @safe.slut - a sex positive influencer on Instagram 
• @pattigonia - an environmentalist drag queen influencer on Instagram

Also mentioned and worth checking out:

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow 
• Louis Manhattan, Emcee
• Kory Edgewood, Drag King
• Willie Touchya, Drag King
• Liam Manchesthair, Drag King 
• Queer Spectra Arts Festival
• Sex Positive Utah
• The Salt Mine SLC

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Dr. Chris Babits, an interdisciplinary scholar with specializations in the histories of the modern United States, lived religion, gender and sexuality, and psychology, talks about our homosexuality and conversion therapy history in the US. Specifically, we talk about Cured, an award-winning documentary about the fight to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and his role as a historical advisor for the doc. Note that we DO NOT discuss the traumatic details of conversion therapy practices, though it is mentioned.

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode:  

• History is Gay, a podcast hosted by Leigh Pfeffer @historyisgaypod
• Sexing History, a podcast on the history of sexuality hosted by Gillian Frank and Lauren Gutterman @sexinghistory

Also Mentioned:

• Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth by Wayne R. Besen
• The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson
• Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
• Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past by Thomas A. Foster
• Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism by Taylor G. Petrey @taylor_petrey
• Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences by Gregory A. Prince (get the link to the PDF on the Wiki page here)

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