The Health Justice Commons' Founding Director, Mordecai Cohen Ettinger (they/them), joins me on this podcast episode to discuss the meaning of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). The Health Justice Commons offers a biannual Political Education Series about the MIC so we can learn and build our community of visionary resistance together. The curriculum digs deep to expose the historic roots of the MIC, supporting participants to understand the interconnections of healthcare institutions with governmental bodies, Big Pharma, health insurers, and agribusinesses, and providing a foundation to understand and critique the role of systemic racism, sexism, ableism, fatphobia, transphobia, and heterosexism within the MIC.

Mordecai has nearly 30 years experience as a multi-sector social justice activist and organizer, holistic healer, radical scholar, and educator. In addition to being the Founding Director of the Health Justice Commons, they also co-founded the TGI Justice Project, served as an Interim Co-Director at Justice Now, and as Interim Executive Director at Caduceus Outreach Services, a radical mental health organization. They are adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Their field is critical science, technology, and medicine studies. Mordecai’s research spans environmental health and toxicology, to the workings of the Medical Industrial Complex, to the neurobiology of the social nervous system, and its implications with regard to collective and historical trauma, healing, resilience and social change.

The next cycle of the HJC's Pol Ed Series starts Sept. 29th, 2022! You can learn more about it and enroll today by visiting their website:

https://www.healthjusticecommons.org/upcoming-events

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Join us for an amazing conversation on how music heals. What it is like to traverse living in a world as a plus-sized femme and ssocial activism in her first album Enough. She then tackles mental divergency in her second album glimmer and is currently working on a third album where she discusses consent.. Please note this might be a difficult conversation for some to listen to.

Heather is a role model for blowing up stories on how to live and create your own story. Lastly, she discussed living with her partners in a queer polyamorous relationship to find out more about her please go to:

https://www.heathermaemusic.com/

https://www.patreon.com/heathermae

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How do we keep healing and transforming and changing the social conditions? Staci and I discuss how Somatics is defined as a living organism of our wholeness and embodied transformation is knowing that transformation occurs when our visions and values align even under pressure. Staci continues to work in somatics because she notes that the soma profoundly moves towards light and reconnects the individual and the collective. We then discuss how in times of inequity and chaos we can resource ourselves and each other daily, monthly, and yearly given age stage and condition.

In the second half of the interview, we discuss how it is to raise a queer family without the legal acknowledgment of being a parent and the backlash of gay marriage on both our middle school boys. Additionally the joys and challenges of being in a non-dominant trans and poly family.

Staci has written to spectacular books!

The Politics of trauma @ thepolticoftrauma.com

Healing Sex

and has a website launching in summer of 2022 at stacihaines.com

You can also work with her in class through:

https://strozziinstitute.com/staff/staci-k-haines/

https://www.theembodylab.com/embodied-social-justice-summit

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Join us as Kinfolxz in living time, models how to create community-based healing at the Queer Healing Arts Center in Oakland, CA. " Because self-care is a collective effort: we are not intended to be alone." She helps us see that one of the ways we can create this is by asking the right questions of the communities we serve. such as " What is it you Deserve?, What do you need? What are your dreams/ Visions?" It is through the answers to these questions and partnering with other members of the community that the center has created an interdisciplinary approach that helps the LGBTQ community at risk develop skills to be employable through coding, help achieve safe housing, create food justice, and support other realms of healing and art. Creating a living community that answers the question of how we can show up with compassion and be responsible to our community through giving and receiving. Both are integral to the healing of all creatures. Lastly Kinfloxz invites us to practice decolonizing our language by using the term dark and black in positive ways and not negative ways for ourselves and future generations.

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Join us for a delightful conversation with Shauna about how to listen to your body and its wants and needs without worries about getting it right or embaressment. We talk about what somatic coaching is and what an individual somatic sex education appointment looks like.

Shauna Farabaugh is a certified Somatic Sex Educator and Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) provider in San Francisco, CA, US who fiercely believes in the right to sexual expression for every body and is committed to making sex education more “sexcessible.”  She is particularly passionate about exploring the intersection between sexuality and life transitions of all kinds—both how life change impacts our sexual identity and expression and how we can connect with our sexuality in times of transition as a source of strength, resilience and wisdom to guide us through change.  Shauna has been a professional sex educator since 2007, with certifications from San Francisco Sex Information, The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, and the Somatic Sex Educators Association.  She serves as adjunct faculty at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education and is an Advisory Board member for Ignite Collective, Inc, an agency providing individualized services for PWD in California.  She published a book on pelvic pain (and pleasure!) in 2017 with mentor and colleague Caffyn Jesse. Reverently irreverent, Shauna brings a profound sense of play to both her group classes and one-on-one work with students of all genders, sexualities, and sexual lifestyles…because sex really is supposed to be fun! Learn more about Shauna at www.sexualityintransition.com.

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Luke Lintott talks about reprograming your mind and body so that you can be who you want to be and who you are becoming. He discusses his journey as a bisexual and bi-cultural man and finding the beauty and accepting his fluidity and moving out of the binary and embracing his whole being. "Be exactly who you are!" How are we treating our bodies and minds? Luke talks about how fitness and mindset coaching transformed his problems with insomnia, and anxiety with coaching and fitness. Learning to work with emotions through breath practices, journaling, and creating affirmations that work. Lastly, he helps us learn how to work with negative social influences to find our own strength.

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Join us as Skeeter truly lives and practices the art of allowing each human to come to terms with their own autonomy on the mat as a reflection of how they bring themselves to their lives. As a yoga teacher who did not fit in with her "butch/ MOC tattooed" white woman Skeeter has created a space that changes the White washed idea of a skinny white woman in tight yoga pants. She states, " Deferring to each person's individual experience. Not making assumptions about what anybody else needs." We discuss that this relationship with ourselves at any given time is evolving with each practice and each day. So one day just showing up and sitting on your mat may be enough for that practice.

Skeeter may be found @ Email: [email protected],https://www.facebook.com/skeeterbarkeryoga/,https://www.instagram.com/skeeteryoga/?hl=en

Note to the listeners

MOC= Masculine of Center

Savasana= A meditative yoga posture in which one is typically laying on their back.

Apologies for using the dated term "differently-abled" I have been gratefully educated that more people prefer the term person with disabilities.

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Dr. Peg talks about creating safety in our bodies so that we can organically value and bring forward that safety in our relationships with others. She does this by, examining the nervous system and patterns that the nervous system chooses to protect. This can inform how we respond to life, express our emotions and un-consciously runs the patterns of safety caping how much we can expand. By, creating a space where people can practice embodiment and acknowledging that lack of safety allows for expansion. Expansion not just for the individual but for our communities. Creating safety in each human so that the hard conversations can be had to move forward.

Next, she discusses, what does it look like when we "shut down". How do we work with that in a short time and overtime? How being different as a practitioner creates a view that creates newness and pushes the edge of the dominant paradigm. The joy of creating something different in unique in the world is really needed to assist people to bridge where they are to where they want to be, particularly when communities are not recognized in other offices. "Poke a hole in the defense where something else can emerge." This is also done beyond the moment of words, There is a lot we are registering in each other's bodies, and healing can be done when we create a space where something is more available.

A self-awareness practice is shared at the end.

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Join as we explore what is somatic and embodiment practices and how they create changes in our daily life and create change in the larger world. What happens when we connect to places of ease in our body and how does that create repercussions in the world around us? Learned that the magic of body-based practice is that our bodies already know how to move towards wonder and innate connection. How the alternative vantage point of being queer feels like being home and how that difference encompassed all the different parts of identity and embodiment practices. This episode ends with a somatic practice for you at home

Find Teresa Lau @https://lab.vibrantbodywellness.com Instagram@vibrantbodywellness

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Lev helps us understand how and why we introduce ourselves with titles of privileges and or ways we are oppressed. We then discuss the power of naming our suffering so it can be acknowledged and given voice and care to. Next, we discuss how to be compassionate and loving with ourselves and others. Fresh explains how Queer is outside the box, and the norm and being open to human experiences spiritually, scientifically, physically, and sexually, Integrating the whole person. Our take-home practice is on compassion.

Fresh Lev White https://affirmativeacts.org/ Coach-Diversity Training- Meditation Teacher-Dismantling Micro Aggressions in the workplace.

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