It is between genuine pride and vibrating nostalgia that we welcome you to the last episode of our very first season. As we turn the remaining pages of Pleasure Activism, we get the privilege to witness adrienne maree brown, Dani McClain and Jodie Tonita’s deeply intentional friendship which prompts us, your devoted hosts, to reminisce and take an open dive into our own. From our unbelievably inappropriate but shared sense of humor all the way to how our friendship saved our lives numerous times. Finally, we actively listen to brown’s parting little gems of advice and reflect on how her work and every single soul living between Pleasure Activism’s pages changed us in such a profound way. It’s been an honor; it’s been a pleasure. Thank you. 🖤

With love, always. 

Your devoted hosts, 

Mayis & Lucie

✨ Soft Edges Podcast will be back for Season 2 after a short break. Stay tuned until the end of the episode to find out exactly when and, most importantly, what will be our next literary adventure! ✨  

A huge thank you to Yuri Sato for creating our unique graphic design, to Alizé Esnault Wachthausen for capturing our fierce portraits and to Patrick Walinga for making our beautiful music theme.

This one is all about building liberated relationships: with ourselves as we age, with children in our care, with/as parents, with lovers, comrades and with being second to someone. Idelisse Malave and Alta Starr offer aging as a pleasurable ripening, while Autumn Brown, Janine de Novais and Zahra Alta come in as wonderful examples of brilliant intentional parenting, raising sexually liberated kids well equipped to go through life with direct embodiment of their wholeness. Under adrienne maree brown’s guidance we ponder on nonmonogamy and confront our own conditioning, jealousy and territorial feelings; at times it gets difficult, but we’re lucky to have brown right here expanding our vision for endless possibilities of liberated love.

The Soft Edges Podcast is a project created and produced by yours truly, Mayis Rukel and Lucie Gérard.

We release a whole new episode every Sunday at 12 PM CET (Central European Time).

Our enchanting music is by the amazing Patrick Walinga and our beautiful graphic design is by the wonderful Yuri Sato.

You can find us on Instagram at @softedgespodcast as well as on YouTube on the Soft Edges Podcast channel.

Feel free to follow us on there for the latest updates and share our podcast with your friends, your family, your neighbours, your colleagues or even your plants (why not?) if you think they could benefit from it/enjoy it!

Thank you so much for listening! We appreciate you endlessly.

Your devoted hosts,

Mayis & Lucie

In this episode we got to talk about the legendary BEYONCÉ! And how claiming our love for such a brilliant pop star so publicly can be one way of accessing our wholeness, as it was for adrienne maree brown. As the Rocca family had an intimate conversation with the enigmatic character that is Zizi on the uses of fear, curiosity and Zizi’s strong opinions on shame, we engaged with it in both agreement and at times disagreement. Dallas Goldtooth brought in the crucial reminder of the importance of humor and joy in the political movements. All in all, the chapters in this episode give many affirmations and specifically one: we deserve to follow and display our joys in our wholeness and still be taken seriously in whichever spaces we exist.

The Soft Edges Podcast is a project created and produced by yours truly, Mayis Rukel and Lucie Gérard.

We release a whole new episode every Sunday at 12 PM CET (Central European Time).

Our enchanting music is by the amazing Patrick Walinga and our beautiful graphic design is by the wonderful Yuri Sato.

You can find us on Instagram at @softedgespodcast as well as on YouTube on the Soft Edges Podcast channel.

Feel free to follow us on there for the latest updates and share our podcast with your friends, your family, your neighbours, your colleagues or even your plants (why not?) if you think they could benefit from it/enjoy it!

Thank you so much for listening! We appreciate you endlessly.

Your devoted hosts,

Mayis & Lucie

This week, we invite you to join us in holding space for one another as we let ourselves float on the often unpredictable tides of self-love; where Junauda Petrus prompts us to discuss our own relationship with Nature, from its stress-absorbing powers all the way to conversing with the wind, while Dr. Micha Cardenas leads us along the intimate journey to reconnecting to herself and (re)defining her worth. Later, the inspiring Amita Swadhin reaches into our hearts by allowing us into her road to survival recovery and pleasure reclamation. Finally, we witness the beautiful Alana Devich Cyril’s nearly unshakable commitment to pleasure, while Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha reminds us of the importance of joy at the intersection of disability justice, care and pleasure. And, all the way through, we love and hold each other between the bursts of laughter and the waves of raw emotions. 

Trigger warning: As usual, we invite you to enjoy the ride but most importantly to be kind to yourself; feel free to opt out of this one if need be as some of the topics discussed could be triggering.

With love always. 

Your devoted hosts, 

Mayis & Lucie 

Referenced in this episode: 

·  Marina Abramovich’s video series titled “Balkan Erotic Epic Series”

·  Alana Devich Cyril “My Life Interrupted” available on Vimeo

·  Text by Maisha Kai on theglowup.theroot.com

·  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” + “A Modest Proposal For a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy Centered By Disabled Femme of Color Working Class/Poor Genius” (bitchmedia.org)

✨ You can find us on Instagram @softedgespodcast ✨

✨ Our beautiful music is by the amazing Patrick Walinga and our gorgeous graphic design is by the wonderful Yuri Sato. ✨

This one is all about the politics of radical drug use and we were so here for this expansive conversation urging openness and safe adventure. We were high on adrienne maree brown’s frankly told experiences with weed and ecstasy when Monique Tula came in to introduce the principles of harm reduction; weaving a life-affirming web. Malachi Garza gave us a brilliant picture of possibilities: Reparations from the war on drugs as Black and Brown ownership in the booming marijuana industry. So spiders unite, and join us in this multifaceted discussion as we ponder our own methods of joy, pleasure and slowing down.

The Soft Edges Podcast is a project created and produced by yours truly, Mayis Rukel and Lucie Gérard.

We release a whole new episode every Sunday at 12 PM CET (Central European Time).

Our enchanting music is by the amazing Patrick Walinga and our beautiful graphic design is by the wonderful Yuri Sato.

You can find us on Instagram at @softedgespodcast as well as on YouTube on the Soft Edges Podcast channel.

Feel free to follow us on there for the latest updates and share our podcast with your friends, your family, your neighbours, your colleagues or even your plants (why not?) if you think they could benefit from it/enjoy it!

Thank you so much for listening! We appreciate you endlessly.

Your devoted hosts,

Mayis & Lucie

It is in a space of safety and sensitivity that we are honored to meet you in this week’s episode. From reshaping or even rebuilding our bodies’ boundaries to communicating needs that are hard to express, in moments where it can be tough not to disconnect. We hold ourselves accountable as adrienne maree brown invites us to look at our fantasies straight in the eyes and potentially unveil what in that realm is actually ours and what isn’t… We learn to carefully listen to the various tones inhabiting our sometimes muted expression of consent and we discover what celibacy – intentional and unintentional – can look like and mean to the both of us.

As usual, enjoy the ride but most importantly be kind to yourself; feel free to opt out of this one if need be as some of the topics discussed could be triggering.

With love,

Your devoted hosts 

Mayis & Lucie

Join us every Sunday at 12PM for a whole new episode and more wide open discussions! 

Our music is by the amazing Patrick Walinga and our graphic design is by the wonderful Yuri Sato. 

We can’t contain our excitement for this one. Our fifth episode is hilarious and it shines like the sun with priceless career encouragement from Nenna Joiner, who built the wonderful Feelmore Adult Gallery from ground up. We were still in awe when Sami Schalk picked us up and took us on a ride through disability justice, BDSM and polyamory. Filled with emerging dreams of different forms of intimacy, we felt the white-cis-men-built ground beneath us shake with Chanelle Gallant’s legendary essay, Fuck You, Pay Me. Seriously tho, that entire essay was the ULTIMATE delivery of TRUTH. As hoes empowered by Gallant, we dove into #MeToo and #WeConsent while we shared how we flirt in the sensual seas.

The Soft Edges Podcast is a project created and produced by yours truly, Mayis Rukel and Lucie Gérard.

We release a whole new episode every Sunday at 12 PM CET (Central European Time).

Our enchanting music is by the amazing Patrick Walinga and our beautiful graphic design is by the wonderful Yuri Sato.

You can find us on Instagram at @softedgespodcast as well as on YouTube on the Soft Edges Podcast channel.

Feel free to follow us on there for the latest updates and share our podcast with your friends, your family, your neighbours, your colleagues or even your plants (why not?) if you think they could benefit from it/enjoy it!

Thank you so much for listening! We appreciate you endlessly.

Your devoted hosts,

Mayis & Lucie

In this week’s episode, we are invited to dive head first (pun intended) into one of the juiciest topics of all… S.E.X.

So kids, grab your notebook and your to-do list because you are in for a sweet, sweet treat. 

Our slippery ride starts with a candid conversation around our relationship to sex toys, guided by adrienne maree brown’s own discussion with one of the most famous and enjoyed “adult” toys of our time. A little further down our path, we *almost* get carried away as we run into the deliciously dear to our hearts topic that is nipple magic, before our delectably bumpy road takes us through the nooks and the hills of casual – and less casual – sex, as Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha reminds us of its trauma healing powers and as Holiday Simmons lets us into his dating life, from Mr. Streetlamp Sugar Lips all the way to the joys of getting back on D.

We laugh and we blush and, as usual, we have nothing to hush.

With love, your devoted hosts

Mayis & Lucie

You can find us on Instagram @softedgespodcast for the latest updates. 

Our beautiful music is by the incredible Patrick Walinga and our unique graphic design is by the wonderful Yuri Sato. 

We begin this week’s discussion on Pleasure Activism with an incredibly comprehensive essay by Joan Morgan as we relate WAP by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion and the misogynoiristic backlash it received to Morgan’s hip-hop feminism. While Ingrid LaFleur reminds us of the healing power of sequins and the joy of our quirky pleasures, we receive adrienne maree brown’s blessing in the form of a poem reminding us of our own histories of sex ed (or lack thereof). Enhancing our orgasms, decolonizing our desires, integrating radical self-love beyond a rational acceptance of it. We find ourselves dreaming & drooling over a passionate fuck with ourselves.

The Soft Edges Podcast is a project created and produced by yours truly, Mayis Rukel and Lucie Gérard.

We release a whole new episode every Sunday at 12 PM CET (Central European Time).

Our enchanting music is by the amazing Patrick Walinga and our beautiful graphic design is by the wonderful Yuri Sato.

You can find us on Instagram at @softedgespodcast as well as on YouTube on the Soft Edges Podcast channel.

Feel free to follow us on there for the latest updates and share our podcast with your friends, your family, your neighbours, your colleagues or even your plants (why not?) if you think they could benefit from it/enjoy it!

Thank you so much for listening! We appreciate you endlessly.

Your devoted hosts,

Mayis & Lucie