The Sew Manly Podcast

In this episode I talk to Sarah Vezina, one of the creators behind Octopied Mind, a fashion and lifestyle brand that I’ve recently fallen in love with.

We talk about the freedom and responsibility to be inclusive and use inclusive language, the journey to getting there as a business owner, and my experience feeling included in their community as a nonbinary person buying earrings and thongs.

We also discussed her journey with mindfulness and psychedelics and Octopied Mind’s IWD 2021 plans!

In this episode I chat with Ro Nwosu about her yoga practice and the importance of a global community within it. She also talks about how important inclusivity of all abilities and bodies and people is to her space and the need to listen to feedback from her community on how she teaches in order to keep learning herself.

Thankfully, she also gives tips on how we can all find little bits of time to keep moving or keeping our minds engaged in times like these when a pandemic makes this kind of practice difficult.

In this episode I chat with Darby Babin (She/They) about our amazing friendship. But more about her masters research into adding feminist pedagogy into legal education and the fun that comes with talking to legal departments about that. We also talk about her upcoming PhD work in support for sexual assault survivors and where the support and research is lacking.

Of course we also talked about their creative side and their amazing earrings that have come out of Peach Tree Pieces too.

In this episode I talk to KJ Forman (they/them), the amazing non-binary artist behind Lucky Little Queer.

We talk about their art, collaborations, healing journey, their ongoing learning process, and the expression of queer joy through artistic expression.

You can find more about KJ at luckylittlequeer.com.

In this episode I talk with Kat Inokai about the things we are doing to take active ownership of our own identities. Kat talks about spoonie theory and the impact it has had on her life, about the Alinker mobility device she has been using, and both of us talk about the mental health challenges we have faced throughout our lives and how this podcast has had to take place over the course of 10 days because of that.

Kat inokai is Bumpandhustle on Instagram and the internets and is one of my favourite people in the world even though I’ve only had the opportunity to talk to her a few times before.

In weird times like these it’s a really great reminder for me that we’re lucky to have access to the lives of people like Kat who share their wisdom with us daily. She also seems to have a really rad family which is no surprise given the geeky cool parenting inspiration they have.

In this episode I chat with Cat Cabajar about her many passion projects. We chat about body art and the body art movement as well as how she's incorporated art into being able to help others. She talks about her own body journey and how her art helps not just others but also herself and we talk about how we're going to partner to bring my love of nudes into an empowering art project.

In this episode I chat with Dr. Yolanda Kirkham, an Obstetrician Gynecologist and Assistant Professor in Toronto. Dr. Kirkham kindly offered up her time to answer our questions on women’s, trans men’s, and nonbinary gynecological and reproductive health.

We put a call out to our audiences to share their questions and she sat down with me to answer them all! This was a fun episode and a great way to help us all learn and help understand that bodies are bodies and continued conversations on sexual health are a great way to reduce shame around our bodies.

In this episode I got to chat with Ashley Casselman of Hare & Hound Barbershop, who is both a great family friend and also my barber. We chatted about what it's like to be introverts who work in roles where we need to regularly talk with people, about how she creates safe spaces for clients, about confronting sexism in her job, and about Halloween.

Eva is a sex researcher and online sexuality educator focusing on the social psychology of sexuality, with interests in technology, self-compassion, and sexual communication.

She is also the host of "What's My Body Doing" --- a web series all about pleasure-inclusive sex-ed for the people traditional sex-ed leaves behind. 

In this episode we talk about Eva's sexual communication research, coming out later in life, talking to kids about sex and health education, and the value of lived experiences in learning.

patreon.com/WhatsMyBodyDoing

youtube.com/c/WhatsMyBodyDoing

sexedschool.ca

instagram.com/whatsmybodydoing

twitter.com/whatsmybodydoin

I chat with Mike Adamick about his recent work, Raising Empowered Daughters: A Dad-to-Dad Guide which is a wise and witty handbook for dads, suggesting ways to raise girls who won’t settle for second-class-citizenship.

Mike examines the array of sexisms---both subtle and not-so-subtle-girls encounter and highlights not just the ways that girls and boys are treated differently but how the roles of moms and dads are shaped by society, too.

Raising Empowered Daughters: A Dad-to-Dad Guide

Mike Adamick