Living in this Queer Body

By Asher PandjirisSociety & Culture

Living in this Queer Body episodes

October 07, 2019 Fuck Diet Culture with Meg Bradbury
Meg Bradbury (she/her) is certified as a holistic anti-diet nutritionist, Body Trust Provider™, Accessible Yoga™ Teacher, and registered Yoga Alliance™ yoga and meditation teacher. Meg is in private practice working with individuals, groups, and families, advocating for body acceptance, eating disorder/disordered eating/body shame recovery, freedom with food, joyful movement, and stillness/breathwork. Meg’s work is guided by the principles of Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size ™, and the Ellyn Satter Institute through a social justice and intersectional feminist lens. Meg’s practice is fat positive, weight neutral, and Q/T/GNC affirming. As an eating disorder and exercise bulimia survivor, Meg’s work is centered in the tenants of Relational Cultural Therapy; she holds space for clients of all ages with compassion, empathy, and humor. Meg is a member of the Association of Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) and the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). Meg lives and works in the Los Angeles area.

*** the audio quality of this episode isn't great, but it is such an important conversation**

@lamplight.space

In this episode Meg and I talk about her journey with disordered eating, queer life in 90's San Francisco, the punk scene in LA and her current enthusiasm for advocacy around body acceptance, fat acceptance and queer body eating disorder healing. Link to the video Meg references: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPYRZCXjoRo&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop
59 min
October 07, 2019 Dyke Soccer with Adele Jackson-Gibson and Yael Malka
In this episode, I interview two dyke soccer players, Yael Malka and Adele Jackson-Gibson, who talk about what it has been like to find community and confidence in their bodies.

Dyke Soccer is a community of amateur athletes that meets twice a week for free pickup soccer games in local gyms + parks. Dyke Soccer divines pop-up pickups that encourage queer cruising, promote physical and mental health, and provide a network for queers to find each other. @dykesoccer

Yael Malka (b.1990) graduated in 2012 from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Photography and minor in Art History. Solo shows include Almost Touching, at The Rubber Factory and Where’s the Invitation at The Leslie-Lohman Museum and group exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum Library, The Rubber Factory, Bruce High Quality, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Sikkema Jenkins, ArtBridge and Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, among others. She is currently working on her third book with a series of photos made in Kibbutz Kinneret, Israel. She is a co-founder of the artist initiative Memory Foam which curates exhibitions and live events with artists, produces an artist interview video series and publishes zines. Yael is from the Bronx, NY and currently resides in Brooklyn. @yael_malka

Adele Jackson-Gibson is a storyteller and fitness coach who writes about women’s sports, wellness and spirituality. @adelejackson26

LITQB Podcast This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience. Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast (support) can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.

Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody.

The Host Asher Pandjiris Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator

SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody

Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris Audio Production: ganym3d3.com and https://talkbox.studio/
53 min
August 28, 2019 Tea Leigh is Wild Like the Horses
Tea Leigh is a queer tattooer that has been living in Brooklyn for the past 7 years. With a background in music, installation art, photography and postpartum healing as a doula, Tea now concentrates on and hand poked tattooing and story telling.
Tea (@tealeigh) co-owns their own interdisciplinary tattoo studio, Welcome Home, with partner business Kelli Kikcio.
LITQB Podcast
This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience. Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast (support) can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.
Livinginthisqueerbody.com
@livinginthisqueerbody
The Host
Asher Pandjiris
Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator
Virtual Workshop: What do we really want from relationships?
October 1st
DM or email to register
SUPPORT
https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody
Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris
Audio Production: ganym3d3.com and https://talkbox.studio/
45 min
August 14, 2019 Jack Ferver is Half Girl Half Boy
Jack and I talk about alienation in the queer community, his refusal of categorical thought, accessing pleasure through humor and navigating life as a trauma survivor with an acuity of mind, with an intention to stay present, embrace his psychic inclinations, meditate and engage in therapy.
Jack Ferver is a New York based writer, choreographer, and director. His genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), explore the seams between fantasy and reality, character and self, humor and horror. The critically acclaimed artist has been presented throughout New York City, most recently at New York Live Arts, as well as domestically and internationally. Ferver is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. He teaches at Bard College. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous films and television series. More information at: jackferver.org and @jackferver
Mentioned in this Podcast:
Dance and Stuff
https://www.danceandstuff.com/
Justin Vivian Bond
https://www.justinvivianbond.com/
Karen Finley
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Different_Kind_of_Intimacy.html?id=CdRqQgAACAAJ
Fellowship:
https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/june-27-2019/new-york-public-library-performing-arts-announces-2019-dance
LITQB Podcast
This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.
Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast (support) can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.
The Host
Asher Pandjiris
Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator
Virtual Workshop: Navigating Relational Boundaries
AUGUST 22nd
7-8:30pm EST
DM or email to register
Join the LITQB TOGETHER community (post-podcast talkback sessions)
https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody
The Podcast
Livinginthisqueerbody.com
@livinginthisqueerbody
Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris
Audio Production: ganym3d3.com and https://talkbox.studio/
1 hr 17 min
August 05, 2019Voice Memo Me!
Another way to offer feedback! Maybe I will play your voice memo on the next episode.
Here is how:
Without the App
When viewing a podcast's page in Anchor, even if you're not logged in, you can click 'Send voice message' (Remember to give your web browser access to your microphone!)

You'll be brought to a record screen where you can record a voice message for up to one minute

You can record your message again, or, if you're happy with how it turned out, click 'Send this message!'

If you're logged in to an Anchor account, we'll send the message right away. If you're not logged in, you'll be prompted to create an account

*Note: Currently, you'll need to login with your email address
With the App
When viewing a podcast's page in the Anchor app, you can tap 'Voice message' (Remember to give the Anchor app access to your device's microphone!)

You'll be brought to a record screen where you can record and preview your voice message

You can record your message again, or, if you're happy with how it turned out, tap 'Save'

Remember to add a title to your voice message so the podcaster you're sending it to know's what it's about!
2 min
July 31, 2019 Decolonizing Fitness with Ilya Parker
We discuss medical gatekeeping and experiences with transphobic trainers/providers, queer life in the Southeast, the challenging intersection of body positivity discourses and the lived experience of gender dysphoria and the power of purposeful movement for trans/GNC people.
1 hr
July 23, 2019 Against Purity with Jade Marks
Jade and I speak about abelism, transphobia and purity discourses in herbalism, thoughts on unlearning binaries in the wellness world. They speak eloquently about permission to heal, within multiple, subtle and complex modalities (and at your own pace!).
49 min
July 17, 2019 Xara Thustra: STOP MEN
We discuss Xara Thustra's early days as a punk, a trans person, someone making art and challenging the lack of resourcing for trans and queer people in the art world, experiencing loss as a queer activist in the bay area, what STOP MEN means to them and how collaboration and "love over all decision making" is their priority.
1 hr 8 min
July 10, 2019 Adrienne Maree Brown: Let the hard shit be hard AND Look for the pleasure, look for the joy
We discuss navigating food and nourishment, sex education and consent, chair dancing and twerking, Adrienne's introvert and queer nature.
1 hr 2 min
July 03, 2019 Leah Jo Carnine on Following the Path of Ease, Sometimes
We discuss burnout, Leah's life transitions from activist and sex worker to somatically and trauma informed Physician's Assistant who embraces harm reduction in her current position and still needs to remember to prioritize sleep, gardening and nourishment.
55 min