Guest: Imani Barbarin, disabilities advocate

Imani Barbarin (crutches and spice) joins Auntie Vice to talk about disabilities, representation, the American and French healthcare systems, SSDI, COVID and finding joy!

She spends time discussing racism, sexism, fatphobia, and gaslighting by doctors. We delve into how this impacts patient's health and long-term outcomes. For every doctor who has ever treated a fat, Black, or disabled person, hear what we actually experience at your hands.

With COVID now looking like it will be a mass disabling event, she discusses how the Social Security System is on the verge of collapse and how more than 10,000 people a year die while waiting for paperwork to be processed.

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Guest: Meg Elison

Ask Your Auntie: Tri tip, chili recipes

Episode:

Meg Elison, author of The Road to Nowhere series and recent Nebula winner for "The Pill", joins Auntie Vice to talk all things fat chicks.

- Growing up queer and fat.

- Writing futurism and sci-fi with queer and trans characters

- Best Lesbian Erotica v. 6

- Needing more sex in adult novels

- Dating as a bisexual

and... an amazing list of suggested reading!!!

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Books Mentioned in This Episode

Sabrina Springs. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Boston Women’s Health Collective and Judy Norsigan. Our Bodies, Ourselves

Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Siri Walker, Dietland

Julie Murphy , Dumplin’

Julie Murphy, If the Shoe Fits

Kate Staymen-London, The One to Watch

Peter Benchly, Jaws

Sinclair Sexsmith, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica, volume 6

Meg Elison, The Unnamed Midwife

Meg Elison, The Book of Etta

Meg Elison, Book of Flora

Meg Elison, “The Pill” in Big Girl

Collette, The Collective Stories of Collette

Pat Califia, Macho Sluts

Melinda Lao, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Gretchen Felker-Martin Manhunter

Guest: Devyn Stone, Kink Educator

Devyn Stone, kink educator and therapist, joins Auntie Vice to talk about how he became a kink educator, neurodivergence, the fawn response, and more! He talks about how he came to know he processed information differently from other people and how that understanding opened up his world.

He also discusses the upcoming Thrive conference - a conference dedicated to the psychological aspects of kink. The conference is free, online, and can be attended with a brief registration.

Register for Thrive at www.ThriveVirtualConference.com.

#BDSM #kink #conferences #education #trans #lgtbq #neurodivergence #fawnresponse #psychology

Guest: Jesse Rivera, Comic & Podcaster

Jesse Rivera, host of Jesse Rivera Likes to Talk, Jesse Rivera's Top 5, and producer/host of "Dear Abby WTF?" "Tele Novella" and other improv shows joins Auntie Vice to talk comedy, podcasting, growing up Mexican in California's Central Valley and MORE!!!

We chat the importance of finding tribe, how he connected with comics and found his, the recent death of his mom, doing body positive comedy, and turning 50!

He also heaps praise on the Sacramento comic community. If you have worked in, have a venue in, or attend comedy in the Sacramento era, you might just be name checked in this episode.

Episode 204: 

Guests: Dani D. and Paul Spock

Guest Hosts: Erica Ambrin, Wendy Lewis

Episodes recorded at STAB Comedy Theater in Sacramento, CA in 2019.

Catching up with some older recordings, this week include comedians Danielle Deluca and Paul Spock.

Dani D. talks phone sex, marrying too young, Mormonism, and online dating. We discover Dani and guest host Erica both love the same sex shop on Maui and are better at smoking weed than Auntie Vice.

Paul Spock talks comedy, Type I Diabetes, and DJing strip clubs.

Ask Your Auntie: buying a vibrating wand, cleaning the bathroom

Ep. 203

Guest: Alex Yarde, Good Men Project "All Things Geek"

Co-Host: CharRon Smith, Iambic Poetry Podcast

Alex Yarde of The Good Men Project, joins Auntie Vice and CharRon Smith to chat about comic books, superheroes, representation, and talking to kids about issues which arise when they consume this material.

We start with The Batman (2022), the evolution of Cat Woman from Eartha Kit, to Michelle Pfiffer, to Zoe Kravitz.

We then talk MCU, The Avengers, The X-Men, Spiderman and more.

Star Trek, Archer, Lovecraft County, and more!

Learn the best and worst of representation in comics and superheroes and how to explore and get excited about this world!

Episode 202

Title: Xavier Bettencourt: So Gay!

Guest: Xavier Bettencourt, comedian and drag performer

Xavier re-visits FCOT to update us about his life in the last two and a half years since we first interviewed him.

Interview 1, 2019. First interview with Xavier at STAB Comedy theater with guest co-host Wendy Lewis. Xavier talks comedy, body-positivity, and gender bending dressing.

Interview 2, 2022. (Time mark 20:00) Xavier updates Auntie Vice about what he has been doing in the past two and a half years. We talk about his project Queer Space, performing live in drag as Dolly Poppers, and getting paid what you are worth as a performer.

This episode also introduces two new segments for the show.

Ask Your Auntie! Auntie Vice takes questions from listeners. This episode she discusses the best way to get candle and weed smoke out of your walls and how to stop hyperfixating on a crush.

Moment of Gratitude: This episode, Xavier Bettencourt shares what he is grateful for.

Ask Your Auntie at approximately 45:00

Moment of Gratitude at 52:00

#drag #comedy #performerpay #pay #artists #notforexposure #bodypositive #MidnightSun #CastroDistrict #gratitude #weedsmoke #TSP #fixation #advice

We're BACK!!!

EARNIT ACT- Sen. Lindsay Graham is trying to create a way to allow government agencies to read all your DMs on social media, catalogue them, and identify any minors you mention. Understand this bill and how to fight it.

Rainbow Kisses- (time 14:07) This is the hot new sex act. Learn about what it is, how to do it, and safety concerns.

We are back SUNDAYS with new guests, new issues, and more!

Host & Producer: AuntieVice (@AuntieVice on most social media)

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Music: David Manga

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Episode 15: Queer Women

Hosts: Auntie Vice and Amy Estes

Guests: Shahera Hyatt (comic), Sage Fox (activist), Carly DuHain (musician)

This episode, hosts Auntie Vice and Amy Estes talk about being queer women, dating, comedy, and U-Hauling. They are joined by Shahera Hyatt, a comic and the head of the CA Homeless Youth Research Project; Sage Fox, the first trans woman invited back to serve in the US Army after transitioning and; Carly DuHain, lead singer of Drop Dead Red.

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