Dr. Vanessa Carlisle, co-host and producer of Body Politics: Sex, Love and Liberation on KPFK 90.7FM, is a multidisciplinary somatic practitioner, writer, death doula, and advocate. Vanessa shares their journey with somatic self-support practices and gives listeners an exercise for connecting with and staying in your body. Vanessa brings a grounded gentleness to their work. Rather than joy seeking and searching for the next peak experience, Vanessa’s approach integrates simple pleasures for a more embodied experience and open presence, even in the darkest moments of fear and grief. Vanessa’s philosophical orientation towards community care and transformative healing is powerful. In our conversation, we not only discover the interesting links between Vanessa’s self defense work, sex work, and death doula services we also get the honor of experiencing Vanessa’s healing presence firsthand. Join us!

Vanessa's work combats stigma and improves conditions for queer and sex working communities, including trauma-supportive self-defense classes, sex worker advocacy, and culturally attuned death care. Learn more at www.vanessacarlisle.com

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