Our Better Half

Dr. Elisabeth "Eli" Sheff is a researcher, expert witness, coach, speaker, and educational consultant specializing in gender and sexual minority families, consensual non-monogamy, and kink/BDSM. Sheff is the foremost academic expert on polyamorous families with children, and her 20+ year Polyamorous Family Study is the only longitudinal study of poly families with children to date. Dr. Sheff co-chairs the Consensual Non Monogamies Legal Issues Team for the American Psychological Association, Division 44.

Dr. Eli is also editing a series of books on diverse sexualities, genders, and relationships with Dr. Richard Sprott and the publishers Rowman & Littlefield. If you're interested in contributing, please contact them here.

In collaboration with three colleagues, Dr. Eli developed the Bonding Project, a test you can take to explore your preferred bonding styles.

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Rev. Michael J. Crumpler works as the LGBTQ and Multicultural Programs Director at the Unitarian Universalist Association and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Michael lives in Harlem and is very active in social justice ministry at the historic Judson Memorial Church of New York City, where he served as President of the Board, 2016-2018.

Michael is most passionate about intersectional ministry centered in blackness, queerness, HIV/AIDS, economic justice, and emotional well-being. Michael has been published in two groundbreaking works related to HIV and AIDS, OnCurating Issue 42: What You Don't Know About AIDS Could Fill a Museum and Spiritual Care in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.

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Our guest this week is Terri Clark, an accomplished public health advocate with over 30 years of experience working on issues that advance the field of sexuality and aging, including the sexual health of older adults and working with aging services providers to insure inclusive, responsive services for LGBTQ older adult communities. Terri is co-author/editor of 25 Great Lesson Plans about Sexual Orientation and the expanded version, Orientation: Teaching about Identity, Attraction and Behavior. She is also part of the Pennsylvania LGBT Commission's aging workgroup doing advocacy for her state on aging to become more LGBT inclusive. They've recently had a huge success getting the PA Dept of Aging to include LGBT older adults as a population of greatest social need. In addition, Terri is a tireless advocate for bisexual visibility. If you're interested in learning more about her work, please contact Terri at [email protected].

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Dr. Kathryn Ellis frames conversations about sexual pleasure with candor. She is a PhD in Occupational Therapy and an AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor. She got her start at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where she developed the Occupational Therapy Sexuality and Intimacy Clinic and her book is about giving hope to wounded veterans. You can find out more about Dr. Ellis at her website and you can order her book, Sex and Intimacy for Wounded Veterans: A Guide to Embracing Change from your local bookstore. And if you'd like to hear more, visit our website and please subscribe! We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. You can find us on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter. Or you can write to us at this address. We can't wait to hear your thoughts. As always, thanks for listening!

Our guest this week, Lucie Fielding (she/they), is a sexuality educator and resident in counseling in Charlottesville, Virginia. They have an MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute as well as a PhD in French from Northwestern University. Their background in literature attunes them to ways narrative and image impact our embodied sexualities.

She talks about the "magically multi-orgasmic polymorphously perverse playground of wonder" and "the off label uses of our bodies". She is quite fond of reimagining our bodies in new and erotic ways.

Lucie just published her first book (which we highly recommend), Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (Routledge, 2021). You can find it here or at your favorite local independent bookstore. If you'd like to know more about Lucie, visit her beautiful website here.

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When Wildilisa Silverman talks about sex magick, she says it's "using the energy of the erotic to make your hopes and desires into a reality. " She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who received her MFT from Hofstra University. She is passionate about helping others live the life they deserve. Her practice focuses on the various needs of her clients–through individual, couples, relationship and family therapy.

She is also a native Spanish-speaker and has experience working with unique cultural backgrounds. She has completed levels 1 and 2 of the Gottman Couples Therapy Method, which can help couples learn how to manage conflict and rekindle fondness and admiration.

You can find out more about Wildilisa's work at The Long Island Institute of Sex Therapy here.

You should also follow her on Instagram at @lovesexwithwildy

Here is an article that explores similar sex magick techniques to the ones that Wildilisa mentions during the episode.

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Our guest today is Greg Dawson, a licensed clinical social worker who works at the Dallas VA as a case manager and therapist treating veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He treats veterans, family members, older adults, sex offenders, people with disabilities. He also works as a sex therapist at CAYA (which stands for Come As You Are), a sex therapy based private practice. He does education through Come-passion, an education and sexual expression site for all genders, cultures, and races. Greg Dawson describes himself "as a Black man from the South who grew up in a military family." He is committed to his clients and to his own self-care as a way to create balance as a clinician.

Listeners, if you're interested in contacting Greg, his sex therapy practice is at https://www.cayatoday.com/ and his sex education and party site is https://come-passion.com/.

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Dr. Sonia Bahlani is one of the world's leading pelvic pain medicine specialists. She graduated magna cum laude from her undergraduate school and then went on to receive her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine. She completed her residency in OB/GYN at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and then went on to a prestigious fellowship at the Smith Institute for Urology. Sonia is invited to present at many different conferences and has published numerous research articles. In addition to her career, Sonia is a mom to two beautiful sons and wife to a fellow physician.

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