Fat Chicks on Top

Guest: Tiana Dodson

Tiana Dodson is Fat. Queer. Parent. Biracial Black and Guamanian/Chamorro Person of Color. Chronically ill. Acutely aware. Book lover. Music fanatic. Compulsive dancer.

Part of my work is to guide people feminine-of-center toward reconnecting with their bodies through pragmatic self-care practices so they can come to see that there is nothing wrong with living in a larger body.

Other parts of my work include being unapologetically fat, living my best fat life in Germany, and uncovering systems of oppression in the most important game of hide-and-seek in my lifetime.

She joins Auntie Vice to chat about her work, her life, and moving toward a more liberated world.

Sites and Socials:

https://tianadodson.com/about/

Live Your Best Fat Life

Instagram 

Other things mentioned in this episode:

Da'ShaunHarrison Belly of the Beast

Vanessa Rochelle Lewis Reclaiming Ugly

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Guest: Dr. Tracey Weise, ARPN, Clinical Director Identity Wellness in Anchorage, Alaska

Dr. Weise joins Auntie Vice to talk about what competent care for LGBTQ+ folks looks like in a medical setting. After working for six years as a forensics nurse, Tracey returned to school to get certified in mental health. She has a deep understanding of the how much trauma members of the LGBTQ+ community carry and how important it is to be competent when treating folks in this population. We chat what competence looks like (hint: it isn't just putting a rainbow flag sticker on your site), and what we should expect from healthcare providers.

She talks about Adverse Childhood Events, how they change the brain and body of everyone long term, what trauma-informed medicine looks like, and about starting Alaska's only gender and queer specific healthcare center. She is just awesome! Your should definitely listen.

SItes and Socials

Identity Health Alaska

LGBTQ Heroes Profile

Identity Alaska IG

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Big Queer Book Club on Discord

Sweet and Rough by Sinclair Sexsmith

T!tty Fkn article

Guest: Dalia Kinsey (registered dietician and nutritionist)

Dalia Kinsey, registered dietitian and nutritionist, joins Auntie Vice to talk about decolonizing health. She speaks to the experience of being a bigger bodied, queer, woman both in school and as a health care consumer. She lives with Grave's Disease (an autoimmune condition) and worked for years to figure out what was wrong. Her experience with hostile and dismissive providers drove her to pursue work to understand nutrition science and work to decolonize it to better serve marginalized communities.

Sites and Socials

DaliaKinsey.com

Instagram

YouTube

Guest: Lee Harrington (writer, kink educator)

Lee Harrington joins Auntie Vice to chat about kink, BDSM, spirituality, writing, and more. Author of eight kink-centric books, including Sacred Kink: BDSM and the Eight-Fold Path,  Harrington discusses what it is like putting the personal out there in written form. We also touch on the importance of connecting with communities, groupthink, and handling things in the kink world when a scene goes sideways.

Sites and Socials

PassionandSoul website

Instagram

Author Page on Amazon

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Other things mentioned in this episode

The Big Queer Book Club on Discord. Invite link https://discord.gg/MWTCCuPr  (These expire periodically. If you need a new one, please email [email protected]

February read Open Throat by Henry Hoke

You can also get the NEW! Fat Chicks on Top ball cap to show your love for the show! Buy it here.

Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism book

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This episode has explicit discussion of race play. Please be advised it may be upsetting to some folks. The play we discuss is consensual and there are no derogatory terms used in the episode.

Guest: Mollena Lee Williams-Hass (Actress, Writer, Educator, Librettist)

Larger than life, phat as hell, whipsmart AND smart about whips, Mollena [aka "The Perverted Negress" aaka "Mo" aaaka "Pony Oracle," but that is a longer tail] is a performer, storyteller, BDSM/Kink/Leather/AlternativeLifestyle Educatrix, Executive Pervert, librettist and Muse. She is beloved by and in service to her "Spousemeister," legendary contemporary music composer Georg Friedrich Haas.

Mollena is an outspoken footsoldier in the fight against bigotry and ignorance and a thought-leader in the world of Power Exchange dynamics. AND hey, she's been sober since 2007 and has a hard-on for living life fully and unabashedly.

We chat edge play, acting, story telling, race play, cannibalism, feral lesbians, and much more!

Sites and Socials

Mollena.com

Instagram

@Mollena on most other socials

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Big Queer Book Club on Discord will read Henry Hoke's Open Throat this month. Meeting is Feb. 14 at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST. If you can't find the server, feel free to DM for a personal invite.

Guest: Mama Vi/Viola Johnson (leatherwoman, founder of Carter-Johnson Library, Founding member Onyx Pearls)

Viola Johnson, author, activist, leatherwoman, joins Auntie Vice to chat about leather history, the importance of our history and stories, and the founding of the Johnson-Carter library. Mama Vi came out as a lesbian in the 1970s, when it was still illegal to be openly gay. She discovered leather and kink in college and married her college sweetheart.

Mama Vi holds multiple international leather titles and awards. She wrote To Love, To Obey, and to Serve, the first published novel of a consensual slave in a power exchange relationship. She began transporting magazines and event flyers from Los Angeles to Kansas in the 1980s during the first wave of AIDS. These materials would become the beginnings of the Carter-Johnson Library. After realizing she had won a queer book on eBay instead of a man who was looking to burn the book, she decided to start a formal library to save kinky, queer stories. The library recently expanded significantly after receiving the physical collection of the Center for Sex and Culture which lost its physical space in San Francisco, CA.

Sites and Socials

Carter Johnson Library

Fetlife

Facebook

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Global Summit for Sexual Freedom Conference Feb 3-10 online

Eulenspeigel Society

Onyx Pearls

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Guest: Moxie Minion, TikTok Influencer, Bootblack

Moxie Minion, Northwest Bootblack Titleholder and TikTok influencer joins Auntie Vice to talk leather, queerness, books, history, and coming out later in life. We cover what leather is and how the title system works, how leather families work to support a healthy community, queer literature, and raising healthy kids in today's toxic world.

Sites and Soicals

TikTok

Fetlife @MoxieMinion

Linktr.ee

Year of Queer Lit @YoQL

Year in Queer Lit reading list

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Discord The Big Queer Book Club

February Book Club pic Open Throat, Henry Hoke.

Global Summit for Sexual Freedom tickets through Eventbrite

Guest: Bri Burning (educator, International Person of Leather 2020-2024)

Bri Burning (she/they) is a non-binary, queer, fat, femme, leather, ethical non-monogamist, genderqueer, babygrill, and slave-identified person. I'm a very thankful girl to have such a supportive, loving, and incredible Partner who challenges me and pushes me to be my best, thank you JoshInTheBox.

Bri joins Auntie Vice to chat about the leather community, being bigger bodied, finding family and community in the leather world, reconciling with their body, and much more!

Sites and Socials

Bri_Burning on Fetlife

BriBurning (Instagram)

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Auntie Vice's The Big Queer Book Club  on Discord meets the second Wednesday of the month at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST. It is free to join. The February book is Open Throat by Henry Hoke.

Guest: Mx. Bliss (lawyer, rigger)

Mx. Bliss, the consent compliance officer and legal counsel for Kink.com joins Auntie Vice to talk about consent, the law, bondage, and her personal journey with kink. Mx. Bliss worked in the vanilla world as a lawyer until about five years ago. She closed her legal practice to work as a pro Domme. Eventually she was drawn back to practicing law for a kinky company (Kink.com).

We discuss the Explicit Prior Consent model legal policy she is working on with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom on through their Consent Counts committee. We then discuss the intersection of sex work, bias, and consent. We dive deep into how consent is evolving both in law and in community usage.

Sites and Socials:

Mx_Bliss on Fetlife

Linktree

National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

Kink.com

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Guest: Christina Hughes (doula, pregnancy support)

While less than 2% of pregnant people choose planned out-of-hospital birth in the US, there are many studies comparing the safety of home birth and birth center births to hospital birth. Studies show that planned home or birth center births, for low-risk clients, attended by qualified midwives, are as safe, or safer than, hospital births. Overall, when birthing at home, interventions are reduced and satisfaction is increased. Decades of research studies continue to demonstrate the safety of out-of-hospital birth for low risk childbearing people.

• A 2021 study out of Washington state published in Obstetrics and Gynecology concluded that planned home births in Washington state had comparable safety outcomes to those in Canada, the U.K., and the Netherlands, all locations that have long standing integration of midwives and home birth in their healthcare systems. This study also confirmed no difference in safety outcomes between midwife-attended planned home births and births in a state-licensed, freestanding birth center. 

• A study out of McMaster University in Canada was published in September 2009, in the journal Birth comparing outcomes for midwife attended planned home births and midwife attended planned hospital births. That study concluded:
  – All measures of serious maternal morbidity were lower in the planned home birth group as were rates for all interventions including cesarean section (5.2% vs 8.1%).
  – Midwives who were integrated into the health care system with good access to emergency services, consultation, and transfer of care provided care resulting in favorable outcomes for people planning both home or hospital births.

• In a 2005 study, published in the British Medical Journal, evaluating the safety of home births in North America involving direct entry midwives, found that intervention rates were substantially lower than for low risk US clients having hospital births. The study concluded:
  – Planned low risk home births in North America attended by certified professional midwives were associated with lower rates of medical intervention but similar intrapartum and neonatal mortality to that of low risk hospital births in the United States.