Love In The Time Of Corona

Please visit PleasureMechanics.com/care for updated resources on this global emergency – we love you – stay safe, stay connected.

This podcast was recorded on March 11, 2020, after we were recovering from family illness during the first few weeks of the global coronavirus outbreaks. As we watch this global situation unfold, this episode is a call to arms – a reflection on how we all must learn to act wisely, love bravely and care deeply as we face this, together.

We draw upon the wisdom from the community of early AIDS activists who organized and advocated for their community while immersed in the grief and fear of their own losses. ACTUP, an early community care coalition still active in AIDS advocacy, stands for the Aids Coalition To Unleash Power. With wisdom and love we too can unleash our own power and face this epidemic, together.

Be safe out there, and be in touch with us.

Update and Correction: This episode was recorded in the very early days of the Coronavirus pandemic, and we inaccurately called it “like a flu virus” Coronavirus is not the same as the “flu” virus, and it was inaccurate to name it such. The episode was edited and corrected to prevent misinformation. Big love to @CazKillJoy for the callout and correction! Check out their powerful resource guide for those of us with chronic illness facing this pandemic.

Public Health & Care Work Wisdom Resources

FlattenTheCurve.com – Easy to understand, evidence based best practices for minimizing risk for all

Care Work: by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Prentis Hemphill on Contagion, Consent and Connection

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Podcast Transcript for episode #368: Love In The Time Of Corona

Chris Rose (00:00):

Welcome to Speaking of Sex with the Pleasure Mechanics. I’m Chris.

Charlotte Rose (00:05):

I’m Charlotte.

Chris Rose (00:06):

We are the pleasure mechanics, and on this podcast we have explicit, honest conversations about sex, love, bodies and beyond. Come on over to pleasure mechanics.com to find our complete podcast archive, over 360 episodes waiting for you and organized by topic in our index, so you can dive in. And definitely head to pleasuremechanics.com/free to join our free online course and go a little deeper with us.

Chris Rose (00:42):

We are back. We had a really intense February of illness, and our whole family was ill and it was persistent. Our daughter was out of school for over a month, and we are now returning to you strangely in a new world,