Sex in Space

Our Guest this Pod is the gorgeous Sonya Renee Taylor – award winning Performance Poet, long-time activist, educator and transformational leader. Force of nature. Sonya is Founder and Radical Executive Officer of the delightfully named: ‘The Body is Not An Apology’ (TBINAA), a digital media and education company promoting radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation.

Check her out at:

https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/

https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100052496942731

Sonya's shout out is for the wonderful Tu Tama Wahine o Taranaki. They are a tangata whenua development and liberation organisation, helping to meet the needs of whanau, with services and activities based in education, justice, health, community and social development.

Their services are free, accessible and confidential to all individuals and whanau. Check them out at:

https://www.tutamawahine.org.nz/

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Welcome to season 2!

This episode we are featuring an interview with Heather Morrison and Andrew Gurza. The co-founders of Handi.

Handi are literally making sex toys designed by and for disabled people. Handi was started with the belief that everyone should be able to ‘get off’ so they’re on a mission to put sexual pleasure within (everyone’s) reach. They unpack their fascinating origin story, their research and their fantastic first cab of the rank toy, The Handi Joystick. It’s a great chat and an awesome way to kick off season 2. 

Check them out on facebook and the gram:

https://www.instagram.com/thatshandi

https://www.facebook.com/thatshandi

To register interest in the toys and buy the book, ‘The Handi book of love, lust and disability’ head on over to:

https://thatshandi.co

If you want to check out more of Andrew, he has a website AndrewGurza.com

He is AndrewGurza_ on all social channels:

https://www.instagram.com/andrewgurza_/

https://twitter.com/AndrewGurza_

And he also has award winning podcast of his own, called disability after dark. It recently won gold in the Outstanding Adult Series at the Canadian Podcast Awards. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-242-acknowledging-disability-is-like-opening/id1151890990?i=1000521820212

Their chosen charity shout out is for Cerebral Palsy Society of New Zealand. Find out more at: 

https://cerebralpalsy.org.nz/

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This episode we are featuring an interview with the wonderful Olivia Hall.

Olivia has a master’s in gender at the London school of economics where she wrote her thesis on women’s experiences with painful sex and seeking medical support. She has an undergraduate degree in gender and politics from the university of Otago and completed her honours in sociology at Victoria university of Wellington. Her undergraduate thesis looked at fat women’s experiences navigating sex and sexuality in Aotearoa. She’s also a spoken word poet and toured New Zealand performing their feminist show How We Survive.

Check them out on the gram:

https://www.instagram.com/livs_hall

Their chosen charity shout out is for Wellington Rape Crisis. Find out more at:

https://wellingtonrapecrisis.org.nz

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In this episode we share an interview with a formidable double act, the lovely Dolly Padalia and Dr Emma Chan from the the School of Sexuality Education.

Since recording this interview, their organisation has had a name change. They used to be called Sexplain, so you’ll hear that pop up a couple of times during our chat.

Dolly Padalia is deputy CEO & COO of the School of Sexuality Education out of the UK - an organisation that offers inclusive and comprehensive sex education for the 21st century, with workshops on porn, consent, sexting and healthy relationships, in schools, universities, youth groups, and other learning centres. 37,358 young people have taken part in the School of Sexuality Education’s sex and relationship education workshops. 

Dr Emma Chan, who is the School of Sexuality Education’s reproductive and sexual health lead, a doctor, a blogger, and activist. Her blog: squishsquashsquelch.com is far more than just “doodles” on love, sex, genitalia and gender. It’s really wonderful, creative and informative... the doodles themselves had us scrolling for days, and we highly recommend the recipe for homemade play dough.

Check them out on the gram:

https://www.instagram.com/school_sexed/

or via their website:

https://schoolofsexed.org/

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For episode number 10 we are sharing great conversation we had with Cole Meyers. Cole is a writer, activist and educator. They are the writer and co-producer for the recent internationally and critically acclaimed film Rūrangi. He works as a consultant on trans and gender diverse narratives and inclusion in film, television, web series and theatre, including at Shortland Street, where he is currently a dialogue writer and previously a story-liner. He is a regular speaker and interviewee on trans representation, and is passionately focused on supporting the authentic representation, creative opportunities and powerful potential of gender diverse people.

Please check their amazing film at: https://rurangi.com/

or: https://www.facebook.com/rurangiofficial

or: https://www.instagram.com/rurangiofficial/

Cole's charity shout out for this episode is:

https://genderminorities.com/

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This week share a great conversation we had with Evie Fehilly. Sex educator, clown and sex clown. Drag king, queen and all-round queer mega-star, Fehilly creates taboo busting theatre, but also puts sex education at the core of her work – both hosting the sex-clown cabaret in London, and running workshops at feminist sex shop – Sh!

Check them out at:

https://www.instagram.com/eviefehilly

or:

https://www.eviefehilly.com/

Sh!

https://www.sh-womenstore.com/

Evie's charity of choice today is:

https://www.decolonisingcontraception.com/

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This week we bring you an amazing conversation with Dame Catherine Healy. She spearheaded the decriminalisation of sex work in New Zealand, is national co-ordinator and founding member of the NZPC, Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers' Collective, the only sex worker union in New Zealand, and is world-renowned speaker, researcher and advocate for sex workers rights and de-stigmatising our sex workers. 

Check out NZPC, Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers' Collective

https://www.nzpc.org.nz

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We're back after a little easter break. This week, we bring you the wonderful Ash Holwell!

Born in Whangārei NZ, Ash has trained, studied and worked as an industrial designer, artist, and theatre maker in Wellington, Rotterdam, Vienna, and Auckland. He is known in both Whangarei and Pōneke as a free-thinking entrepreneur, who creates spaces for community connection and radical resource distribution from the ground up. In Whangarei, he started Whare Bike, OneOneSix and in Te Whanganui a Tara he has recently opened Two/Fifty Seven, a collaborative workspace in the CBD encouraging cross-pollination across arts and business to amplify the impact of people working for the social good. He talks to us today as the father of Indigo Taetaeata Fox, who he is raising and supporting to grow into who they are without gender.

Ash has some great recommended reading for you this week, instead of the usual social links.

Check out:

Raising Them - Dr Kyl Myers

https://www.kylmyers.com/book

Raising Zoomer

https://www.raisingzoomer.com

French Children Don't Throw Food - Pamala Druckerman

https://www.amazon.com/French-Children-Dont-Throw-Food/dp/0385617615

More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory -Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Than_Two

Sex at Dawn - Dr Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_at_Dawn

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We sat down with Chye-Ling Huang, who is a Chinese-Pākehā director, writer and actress, and co-founder of Proudly Asian Theatre Company, which is dedicated to showcasing and empowering Asian storytellers in Aotearoa. She is currently lighting up the small screen in New Zealand playing 'Theo' on our national soap - Shortland Street. She dropped in to talk to us about her documentary Asian Men Talk About Sex and her experience of the intersections between sex, sexuality and Asian identity in New Zealand... and some other juicy stuff too.

The content is rich with this one!

Check her out on the gram:

https://www.instagram.com/chyeling.huang/

Watch Asian Men Talk About Sex:

https://youtu.be/v_nLwm-ev0o

Learn more about Proudly Asian Theatre:

http://www.proudlyasiantheatre.com/

Enjoy Life is Easy:

https://www.facebook.com/lifeiseasywebseries/

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This week we're sharing a conversation with Kassie Hartendorp who is an incredible political activist and a passionate advocate for the LGBTQIA and takatāpui communities. She is Director at ActionStation - which is an independent, crowdfunded, community campaigning organisation - and studies Ahunga Tikanga – which are Māori Laws and Philosophy at Te Wānanga o Raukawa. She came to talk to us about indigenous gender, sexuality and the decolonisation of the ways we educate and celebrate LGBTQIA communities.

Check out their amazing work at:

https://actionstation.org.nz/

https://www.facebook.com/ActionStationNZ/

https://www.instagram.com/actionstationnz/

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