Erotic Devotion (formerly home-body podcast)

"Seek courage and bravery in every act that allows you to not live like you are in crisis or like you have to hide that you are in crisis." _Anana Harris Parris

My guest today is Anana Harris Parris -- is an activist, an author, a dancer, and entrepreneur, non-profit founder, among so many other things. In this episode, Anana gets really clear on what self care is, why it is revolutionary to take care of your needs and why communication and integration are really important for sustaining ourselves. 

We discuss:

• How she learned activism from her father
• Dance as a form of cultural activism
• How a traumatic experience giving birth kickstarted the urgency around her self care work and advocacy
• Why self care is revolutionary and political
• The role of community in addressing one’s self care needs
• How trauma creates blinders and detachment around our experience to survive
• The power of the question “What do you need?”
• How self care can help unlock freedom
• Including creativity and educational needs in our self care
• What is emotional slavery and how it prohibits critical self care
• Where to begin when you’re at the bottom
• Learning to integrate + communicate so that you aren’t living in crisis mode

If you enjoyed the episode, check out:
Episode 28 w/ Sabia Wade / Birthing Advocacy + Privileged Healthcare
Episode 15 w/ Dr. Tiffany Johnson / Reframing How + Why We Work
Episode 16 w/ Morgan Wider / Finding Joy in How you Dress
Episode 6 w/ Nicole Qualls / Birth, Postpartum + Finding Your Work

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"We can’t think in this finite way, in this defeatist way. Even if everything is ending…We can’t but bring joy and beauty into the world." _Alkistis Dimech

Alkistis Dimech is a dancer, choreographer, a writer and also a publisher. She and her partner run a publishing company called Scarlet Imprint where they print works on the esoteric and occult. I adored this conversation and all the deep, dark radiance that comes out of it. It felt very appropriate for this Scorpio full moon. We talk about dance, exploring the daimonic space, what it means to interact with what she calls the “occulted body”, and again re-orienting ourselves to a different narrative of time.

WE DISCUSS

• How her magic practice and dance practice intersect
• The “occulted body” and her dissatisfaction with many of the dualistic ideas between mind, body and “energetic” body
• The body as a way to re-learn and re-create language 
• Unifying the masculine and feminine energies into a hermaphroditic magic
• Why witchcraft needs to be re-wilded
• The role of the daimon and connecting with the sacred in-between
• Connective tissue + divination
• Embracing an erotic eschatology
• Connecting to cyclical time as a rejection of finality
• How life desires life on a cellular level
• The creative act as something that cannot be destroyed

If you enjoyed this episode, check out:
Episode 32 w/ Michael J Morris
Episode 19 w/ Lindsay Mack

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Alkistis Dimech's website
Alkistis Dimech's IG
Scarlet Imprint
The Brazen Vessel, book
The Brazen Vessel, digital version
Antonin Artaud, A Theatre and its Double
Butoh
Tatsumi Hijikata 
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie

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"How we can contribute to shift things is very personal and will look different for each person. And that’s ok. We have to let go that there’s only one way to do it."

In this episode, acupuncturist Chiara Galimberti shares about the challenges, values and dreams of healing justice within healthcare practices. She talks about the systemic ways she sees dis-ease showing up and approaching wellness with the goal of reducing harm.

We discuss:

• The challenges of engaging + practicing alternative healing within our systems
• The importance of healthcare within the framework of social justice
• The difference between neutral + mainstream spaces — embracing function over perfection
• Transparency around lineage as a way to participate in justice
• Centering your priorities, why you’re doing what you’re doing and who you are 
• The fluid experience of being ‘other’ in most circles and spaces 
• Acupuncture as an environmental medicine, understanding our circumstances as a part of our dis-ease and healing
• Breaking the hierarchy of practitioner and patient
• How acupuncture can lend itself to the practice of social justice
• Re-appreciating folk medicine + food as medicine
• How we’re already practicing natural medicine at home
• Her experience of the shortcomings of nationalized healthcare and private healthcare
• The systemic ways she see dis-ease showing up in the body
• How trauma sensitivity informs her practice
• Providing opportunities for self-sovereignty in healthcare
• Choosing harm reduction over perfection
• Re-framing how we value and notice care work

If you enjoy this episode, check out:
Episode 31 w/ Gina Badger
Episode 30 w/ Simone Gordon aka "Black Fairy Godmother"
Episode 28 w/ Sabia Wade

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Cara Page
Adela Nieves Martinez
Adrienne Maree Brown
Grace Lee Boggs
Mariarosa Dalla Costa

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In this episode, I share about my story opening and closing a storefront business and my top 5 greatest lessons from the experience. 

I discuss:
* Tarot for the week and accessing our inner fire to expand
* The value of failure + why we shouldn’t be afraid of it
* The necessity of self-forgiveness
* The multidimensionality of every story, business, life, situation
* How important it is to support small businesses you believe in
* What your energy can tell you about whether or not it’s working
* Who and who not to take feedback from
* How intense honesty arose out of a challenging situation

If you enjoyed this episode, check out
Episode 26 :Why We Shouldn't Bypass Money
Episode 2 :Searching for Vocational Ease
Episode 33: Taurus New Moon
Episode 29: Create New Ways of Being

ShowNotes
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Blog Post : Dissolve to Surrender
Blog Post: Endings
Blog Post: Failure

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In this week's episode, Mary Grace offers the teacher and support of Taurus.

• Being okay with being uncomfortable
• A childlike state of trust
• Tarot pull for the podcast collective
• Astrology highlights for the next week
• New Moon in Taurus and what Taurus has to teach us in this moment
• How we can experiment with accessing Taurus energy right now
• Adding creativity to our consumption
• Proposing the spring as a reminder of circular time and rebirth

SHOW NOTES
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The Way of the Rose (book)
Deborah Hay post
Chaos + Resurrection post
Dr. Amy King

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In this episode, Michael J Morris and I conjure up the dancestors for wisdom and body magic.

We discuss

• How necessary joy + pleasure are to “stay with the trouble”
• Re-imagining the indirectness of our survival and primal needs
• The false binary of survival + pleasure
• The body as the altar + container for magic
• Butoh’s approach to the body and dance, lineage and revolution
• Dance as a way to imagine other ways of being in a body
• Being “with” difficulty and toxicity
• Practicing empathetic embodiment and compassion
• Exploring ordinary movement as dance 
• Practicing the aspirational
• Authentic movement as a desire-based practice
• Desire + pleasure as emergent and nonlinear

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Pina, documentary / Alkistis Demech / Scarlet Imprint / The Brazen Vessel
/Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway /Pleasure Activism, Adrienne Maree Brown
/Alexis Pauline Gumbs /Audre Lorde /Phyllis Curott /Butoh /Yoshito Ohno /Kazuo Ohno
/Tatsumi Hijikata /Eiko Otake, A Body in Places (Fukushima) /Heather Davis, “queer futurity of plastic” /From Trinity to Trinity, Kyoko Hayashi /Deborah Hay, My Body the Buddhist
/Making Dances That Matter, Anna Halprin /Judson Dance Theater /

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My guest today is Gina Badger, and she is an energetic clinical herbalist. She shares  about how to build reciprocal relationships with plants and with the land, particularly as a non-indigenous person. Gina also breaks down what our bodies need right now in light of the pandemic and what plants can be our allies and how we can use them.

We discuss

• Tarot + astrology for the coming week
• How she emerged from working primarily in the art world to the work of a “kitchen witch”
• Her approach + practice to herbalism
• How being a settler is a fundamental orientation to how she relates to the land
• How she thinks about reciprocal relationship to the land in her practice
• Permission + consent in our relationship with plants
• How to do plant meditations 
• The experience of dissociation as a coping mechanism
• The diversity of orientations to this moment we’re in and what visions arise
• How her definitions of self care have changed and amplified over the past few weeks
• Her priorities for preventative care right now: staying warm and dry, strengthening deep immunity, antiviral + respiratory support
• The plants that she recommends we interact with right now and how to integrate them in a well-rounded way
• Her time-specific and accessible offerings for right now
• The teaching for this moment from gravel root

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Gina's website
Gina's IG
Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine
Layla Feghali, River Rose Remembrance - “plantcestors”
Mugwort (artemisia vulgaris)
Raven Rose
Portland Plant Medicine Gathering
White Cedar (thuja occidentalis)
Robin Wall Kimmerer - "honorable harvest"
Karyn Sanders
Brunem Warshaw
The Rise Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein (book)
Get Radical, Boil Roots (document)
Gravel root (eutrochium)

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Simone Gordon is as community organizer who supports minority women. She connects them with resources, food, safe places, finances and has earned her nickname "The Black Fairy Godmother." Simone has a true and beautiful heart and is being a bridge that helps so many people. She especially uplifts people with special needs children or folks who themselves have disabilities. In this episode, Simone shares with us about her personal story and how she got her nickname; she shares about the people she serves and the need to evolve how we view folks who need help.

In this episode

• Some exploration prompts for this moment
• Tarot card for the week 8 of Cups reversed
• Astro for this week
• Taking space to honor what is difficult right now
• The uninterrupted life that’s happening all around us
• Simone’s work and how she became known as the Black Fairy Godmother
• Assisting women in domestic violence situations
• Shifting our focus from the negative 
• The difficulty in dealing with the government systems + larger nonprofits when you need help
• Mothering a special needs child
• Her studies and dreams to become a nurse
• What she wishes the wider community knew about the work that she does and the people she serves
• The dreams she hears from people who are asking for help
• Her challenge for all of us

SHOW NOTES
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Jennifer Pastiloff

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"I feel certain that the seeds for the biggest changes of the decade are in this moment... We have to create new ways of being."

In this episode I’ll share some Tarot cards I pulled for the collective, a little update on some astrological aspects this week; and I’ll also share some of my thoughts and intuitings around the moment we find ourselves in right now. 

• Tarot reading for the collective
• How I’m grounding with cooking + reading
• Astrological aspects for the week: Sun into Aries, New Moon in Aries, Saturn moving into Aquarius
• The optimistic value of compost
• The worst thing we can do right now
• The epic unique quality of this moment
• How the Earth is benefitting right now
• Dis-ease calling us to healing and SHIFT
• Moving into generative rest
• Re-membering to adapt
• Leaning on each other’s diversity
• Why we need to stop complaining
• Eliminate the “should”

If you enjoyed the episode, check out...
Episode 17 w/ Mary Grace Allerdice: A Call to Maintenance
Episode 22 w/ Diana Rose Harper: Engaging in Crafts w/ Possibility + w/o Appropriation
Episode 10 w/ Michael J Morris: Connection as Healing, Witchcraft Politics + the Aesthetics of Ethics
Episode 8 w/ Asia Suler: Earth Sentience + Realizing Our Innate Goodness

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Sabia Wade is a radical doula, educator, coach, advocate & the founder of For the Village and Birthing Advocacy Doula Training (BADT). Her mission is to bring inclusive, accessible and full spectrum education and resources to all individuals and organizations ready to take the next step in creating a world of inclusion, justice and equity to birthing people all over the world.⁠

We discuss:

• How she got into birth work + BDSM
• The discrepancies in care she witnessed when working in healthcare
• Where birth work + sex work intersect for her 
• What is full spectrum birth work?
• The importance of representation in these fields
• Racism + privilege in birth and birth work
• Why she also decided to pursue somatic experience training
• Being in our body as opposed to talking about how we look
• The importance of being seen, witnessing + celebrating one another and how BDSM makes space for that
• Dealing with imposter syndrome in her role as a leader + educator
• The importance of transparency as a leader
• What she’s learned about abundance + money
• Dealing with the push-pull of stability and drive

If you enjoyed this episode, check out
Episode 26 w/ Mary Grace Allerdice :Why We Shouldn't Bypass Money
Episode 13 w/ Andrea Glik :De-pathologizing our Stories, the Significance of Pleasure to Healing + What Kink has to Teach Us about Sex
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Episode 6 w/ Nicole Qualls :Birth, Parenthood, Postpartum + Finding Your Work

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Sabia's website
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Prison Birth Project
Jenna Brown's IG
The Fourth Trimester (book) by Kimberly Johnson
@kinkyblackeducator IG

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