Presenting...Genesis

hello hello! 

thank you for being here. i'm very grateful to be here too :) 

recently in this past year, i've been learning how to make friends, what i like and don't like, how to say no again, basically how to be myself again after deciding to be sober and being committed to taking care of my mental health. it's not a straight line in terms of learning and applying those lessons to my life, but it's important that i take a moment to fully realize that all of the old ways that i used to do things just won't work anymore. that includes interrogating all of the limitations that other people have put on me and why i felt i had to believe those limitations. i talk about a lot - why the adult/child power dynamic is so intense in regards to this, why realizing that the very vast majority of people do not have my best interest at heart has been weirdly liberating, and how reading Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi has been a great book in this time of my life. 

if you haven't read Boy, Snow, Bird yet, I very much recommend it. You can find out more about it by clicking the title.  

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hello hello! if you're new here, hi! my name is genesis. and if you're not, hello old friend!

today, i am talking about nepotism. it's a really passionate topic of discussion lately and I'm honestly befuddled as to why. regardless, it's a topic that i've been thinking about for a while now, especially since enduring some financial trauma. i think it's really easy to think of nepotism as bad and "self-made" as good or vice versa. i think it's really easy to think about this as a right or wrong issue, but it's a fully gray area. and i think it’s really easy to think about it as only beneficial when that’s not always the case. everyone's experience (or non-experience) with nepotism is different, but it's all ultimately about money. i think the shame around money leads to the lack of transparency around it and why it can, most of the time, be a really taboo topic. i'm throwing my hat into the analysis ring. this week, i'm also talking about nepotism through a book I just finished: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I briefly state my review, but it also prompts some conversation about the topic of nepotism in regards to Hollywood and the entertainment industry (which seems to be at the center of the discourse). 

thank you for listening :) i'm happy you're here and i'm really grateful to be here too!

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Links:

I thought this take in a (too short) article in The New Republic about nepotism was interesting: Stop Whining About Celebrity Nepotism

i feel like i don't need to include a link to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo cause it's so famous now (and for what?) but here you go. 

hello hellooo!!

recently, i've been reflecting on hook-up culture and the future of monogamy. i feel like every fourth person is talking to me about someone they met on one of "the apps" whether that's Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, etc. And I think that there are some issues that we have to watch out for when body-based apps are how people are meeting people and putting themselves out there. Also! I think it's important we all remember that modern hook-up culture takes its roots in queer spaces, specifically the piers in New York City in the 70s and 80s. consent and safety are always topics to bring up when talking about sex whether we're having sex with our partner of 20 years in our bedroom or with a stranger in the bathroom of a club. can body centric apps be an avenue for sexual liberation? how is the prevalence of the "type" playing into all of this? i'm exploring all of this in this episode and i hope you enjoy. Safe Sex Is Hot Sex my friends!! 

if you have any thoughts of your own, i'd love to hear them! here's my email: [email protected]

thank you for being here! i'm grateful to be here too :)

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Links: 

Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider

The Queer Space Studies Initiative - New York Piers Archives

Safe Sex Is Hot Sex - photographs by Steven Meisel for Red Hot Organization

John Berger's Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

hello hello. 

part two is here :) i'm talking about the final 3 senses that I look for in my romantic and close platonic relationships. i also talk about shame which i felt was connected to this conversation. there isn't much explanation i want to do for this. if you haven't listened to part 1 (episode 14) then give it listen here.  

thank you for listening and for being here. i'm very grateful to be here too. you can support this podcast via the link in the description.

Transcripts available on Substack!

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Links As Promised:

Tim Kreider's "I Know What You Think of Me"

Here's Joe Dispenza's book description here too. check it out here if you want.

Music In This Episode:

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Are you excited???? (Anxious, nervous, anticipatory??) Cause I am!!! 

Hello and welcome to Presenting…Genesis and thank you for witnessing my presentation and my coming out of my whale mode.

I am talking these week about a prediction that I have for this year and the coming years: The Resurgence of Funk and Disco. And I’m taking this prediction very seriously. I don’t throw around prediction like it’s nothing. This is a Prophecy. A Vision. I don’t get these sorts of global prophecies very often, but this is one I’ve been getting since last fall, so I’m sharing it.

I talk about slavery and AIDS here for a hot minute because it’s inextricable from these two genres so warning for that. And also warning for any of you Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris fans, I absolutely body them. Omg remember when they dated and their music slowly got worse?? Gisele Bundchen and Azaelia Banks have their grip on witch culture. I don’t get obsessed with many things, but I’m really into that.

ANYwho… I hope you enjoy. Tell me what you think. You can send me an email at [email protected].

You can find the transcript here. 

Links As Promised:

The Blindboy Podcast - DeVitos teapot (on Disco)

The Blindboy Podcast - Steeplechasers Sepia (on Disco pt 2)

History of Funk: The Grand Funk Time Machine

Mike's Mic: Investigating the "influencer to pop star" pipeline

Tron: Legacy, the seminal album by none other than Daft Punk

The Tron: Legacy Remix Album aka Reconfigured

The Music in this Episode: 

Meadows in the Sky by Artificial.Music | https://soundcloud.com/artificial-music/

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helllooo! 

welcome back to Presenting Genesis where I (and honestly we, as a global community) come out of my (our) whale mode(s). lol

today we're talking about my seven relationship senses and what that means to me. I'm only talking about 4 out of 7 this week because i didn't want to talk for an hour and a half. part two will come out soon. this was all spurred by a.) talking to my therapist and b.) reading Lacey Ramburger's short essay called "A List of Green Flags You Should Strive For". i hope you enjoy. maybe this will inspire you, who knows?

thanks for being here :) i'm grateful that i get to be here too. 

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The transcript for this episode can be found on Substack.

Links As Promised: 

Lacey Ramburger's website (which is written in a lovely Didot font)

A List of Green Flags You Should Strive For ( I saw this on tumblr and i cannot find it anywhere?? what's up with that. so clicking this will take you to the tumblr post. If I ever meet Lacey Ramburger, I'll ask what's up with that from all of us.)

Happy New Year to those that celebrate the Gregorian calendar. 2023! And a big happy birthday to my fellow Capricorns who celebrate a birthday from the 24th to the 1st. I see you. This is coming out on Monday (I know). The future ones will be on Sunday, but I had to get my ritual on and get centered for the new year that I celebrate at my birthday, especially since it's so close to the end of the year.  So I prioritized that!

today, I am talking about the art of being serious. about contrivance. about the art of devotion and dedication. i have been thinking a lot about how i have so many hobbies, most of which are directly applicable to the things i want to do and succeed at in my life, but i've been trifling and joking around. i'm deciding to take my life and my crafts and the skills i am cultivating seriously. 

as usual with any talk about language, i'm talking definitions. i'm talking gratitude for years old conversations that continue to have an impact on me. i'm talking being young and being serious (and how weirdly controversial that can be). and about why we shouldn't internalize the limitations that others have for us. 

i am very happy to be alive and to be here and to be year older. 

i thank you! for being here too. 

Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

You can find me on Spotify, Substack, Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, and Anchor all under the moniker "Presenting...Genesis"

hello hellooo. welcome to Presenting...Genesis where I present myself to you all and come out of my "whale mode" (or go further into it. who knows anymore.)

i feel like it's really easy to come on the podcast and give advice and things to remember and anecdotes and what not and pretend like I have my shit together and that I know what I'm doing and that I'm in control. I am not. And this is me being very (too?) transparent about that fact. 

i'm being vulnerable here and talking about how really one of things I excel at is making mistakes. I make them every day. whether they're innocuous errors or grievous lapses in judgement, i never know if and/or how they're going to affect me longterm. but there is ALWAYS a lesson to be learned from those mistakes. at least i think so. 

i talk about drugs and NA/AA and Step 5 and eating disorders and family drama and almost car accidents and art and stealing and hard truths. if any of those things are something you cannot handle, then leave. take care of yourself. it's not offending me. come back to this when or if! you can. 

thank you for being here!! i'm so grateful to be here too ☆

For help on body dysmorphia and eating disorders for you or that friend you have (that might actually be you. i've been that friend for myself plenty of times) - 

7 Ways to Help Someone With Body Dysmorphia

National Eating Disorders Assoc. (NEDA) Helpline

NA/AA 12 Steps - if you don't do steps, i recommend that you look them over. they are amazing self-awareness and necessary betterment practices for addicts of all kinds. They are consecutive and in that order for a reason. You don't have to "reinvent the wheel". (Thanks Bob!!) And this site has a number you can call to talk to specialists for free. 

Step 5 (the topic that inspired this podcast) 

The Killers - Hot Fuss (if you haven't heard it. i do NOT recommend listening while driving if you are one to get riled up by fun music as i am)

hello hello. 

welcome back to my podcast where I present myself to you all and come out of my "whale mode" and today is the day. The day where I talk about what "whale mode" means to me is finally here. 

this is a very personal episode. i'm talking about the origin stories of a deeply personal lesson for me in self-recognition. you could liken it to step 5 of the AA/NA handbook in which i say fuck you to fear and step into the unknown of (over?)sharing on the internet. 

i'm talking bipolar disorder, its mania and depression. i'm talking going outside and seeing wild nature behavior which happens all of the time but i'm seeing with virgin eyes. i'm talking how beautifully related we are to other animals other than size. 

thank you for being here and for listening. i cannot express in words (not yet anyway) how very grateful i am to still be here too. 

(p.s. please keep praying for me if that's something you do for i am still sick but i have a sneaking suspicion that it's due to an unlearned lesson about being born in the late 90s hustle culture that has unsustainably developed even in long Covid and connecting my worth to how much i work. i'm working on it. maybe i'll make an episode about it.)

Naked by Bickle

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hello hello! welcome back to Presenting...Genesis where I present myself to you all, to the world, and I come out of my whale mode. I promise I’m going to make an episode about what the hell whale mode is, especially cause now I feel I’m actually coming out of it and entering this mode I call my “sun mode”.

Anyway… this episode is about the idea of deserving love. I got the idea to do this episode through two quotes that I have known for a while

“The idea of deserving love. And then watching love being given to people who did nothing to deserve it.” - Anaïs Nin

AND

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” - The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

I get into these quotes and tear them about and subsequently myself. Questions like: Why do we feel we need to deserve love? Why do I  feel I need to deserve love? What does the love once gotten prove to me? What is this supposed love supposed to feel like? Is there always a better love? Is love hierarchical? Is love even something that can be deserved? And many, many more…

If you enjoy this, let me know. Leave me a comment, share your thoughts. I want to hear from you if you want to share :)

The cover I’m playing on the ukulele in the opener and the closer is Ooo by Karen O. Amazing song, amazing album.

Thank you for being here and I’m really quite grateful to be here too ☆

You can find this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, and Substack. You can support this podcast on Anchor (where I record) and also via Substack. And you can send me an email —> [email protected]