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I'm back from a prolonged hiatus with my very first solo ep! What a risk! Tell me how it goes! I talk about losing a friend, traveling for the first time since the pandemic began, turning 30, getting engaged, and more. I also discuss my love of Lindsay Lohan and Anthony Kiedis, the shameless way I engage with Bravolebrities, and my year of only reading memoirs. 

Please subscribe to the show wherever you're listening. New interviews coming soon! Follow me on IG @TSTAR7 and write me with questions and comments at [email protected]. 

Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing. 

Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. 

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Welcome back Beth Pickens! My favorite art consultant, art counselor & lesbian-feminist  money coach (she's a Capricorn too!) We celebrate her new book “Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles” and discuss some of its core topics — money, time, fear, grief, isolation, education, and asking for what you want. Listen for a chance to win your own copy! 

Beth shares tons of tips to enhance your experience of both your art and your life. Investing time and money into yourself, distinguishing isolation from solitude, and warming up for your own creative practice are all talked about. We also explore staying connected to stillness while an abundance of ways to spend time become available to us. Beth gives advice to artists with common fears like experiencing disappointment while pitching and avoiding promoting your completed projects. 

Beth says, “For artists, the hard thing is not attaining goals, getting the grant or getting the opportunity or the show or whatever, the hard thing is being present for it and actually enjoying it.”

She reminds us all, "We can’t solve interior situations with exterior things!"
 
Follow Beth, buy her book & listen to her podcast. (Some LA libraries also have the book!) 

Tierney Talks is engineered & edited by Margot Padilla + hosted & produced by Tierney Finster.  Subscribe to the show wherever you're listening.  Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Listen to their new track "I Want You" on Bandcamp now. 

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Holistic esthetician ANDREA ÁMEZ returns to the show for the first time since launching the ÁMEZ Marketplace and developing her ANTI-POLLUTANT MASQUE w/ ALIANGÉ.

We discuss building an independent skincare brand during the peak of the celebrity skincare boom, hand-picking products for her own retail platform and formulating her first masque with protective and reparative properties.

We pour ourselves into the topic of perfume and luxuriate in memories of the defining scents of our pasts. We touch on hair brushing and hair serums, meditating and resourcing inner power.  Andrea talks about treating kilaris pilaris, identifying melasma, using microcurrent facial devices at home, double cleansing sensitive skin and more. She explains choosing mineral vs chemical sunscreen, protecting your skin from the sun while driving and incorporating smaller lines into your wellness rituals. There are tons of ÁMEZING tips! All rooted in Andrea’s interdisciplinary knowledge of holistic wellness, health, beauty and experiential personal care.

Listen to learn how to win your own ÁMEZ x ALIANGÉ ANTI-POLLUTANT MASQUE, courtesy of the ÁMEZ MARKETPLACE :) Visit AMEZSKIN.COM to shop the marketplace or to book a service with Andrea in LA. Follow Andrea on IG @amez_pro and @amez_marketplace.  For the full list of every product we discuss in this ep and more, check the show notes and IG. Want more? Listen to Quarantine Glam with a Holistic Esthetician or Unpretentious Glam

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Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Listen to their new track "I Want You" on Bandcamp now.

Tierney Talks is engineered & edited by Margot Padilla & hosted  & produced by Tierney Finster. 

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Alissa Nutting talks about adapting her novel "Made For Love" into a TV series and reflects on writing her singular first novel "Tampa" almost nine years after its release. She tells me about creating a character that engages with being loathsome and going over the top to make your point. We discuss eating breakfast at McDonald's and eulogize the Mexican Pizza at Taco Bell. Toward the end, I endorse a new drugstore lip product, share the perfect spring coffee order, gush about the documentary "Naughty Books" and more.

Watch Alissa's new TV series "Made For Love" on HBO Max. Buy her books "Made For Love," "Tampa" & "Unclean Jobs For Women and Girls: Stories" on Bookshop.

Subscribe to Tierney Talks wherever you're listening now. If you liked this episode, revisit my conversation with Michelle Badillo here.

Follow Alissa on IG @nutting_alissa  & Twitter @alissanutting.

Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Listen to their new track "I Want You" on Bandcamp now.

Tierney Talks is engineered & edited by Margot Padilla & hosted, written & produced by Tierney Finster.

Follow @TSTAR7 on IG & write to me -- [email protected]

Links:
Alissa's Grub Street Diet
Revlon ColorStay Satin Ink Liquid Lipstick
Naughty Books on Hulu
Burgers at chi SPACCA
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Dr. Carl Hart 

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Niko Karamyan (@nikotheikon), Saturn (@saturnrisin9) and Katrina Kemp (@kueenkatrina) join us after watching "Framing Britney," the new New York Times documentary about Britney Spears. Saturn decodes Britney's ability to use performance as protest, Katrina recounts spending time with Britney and paparazzi in the Valley as a high-school stan and Niko raises questions about the role of the rose imagery in Britney's quest for autonomy. We discuss our emotional responses to the doc, explore what else we wish it would have touched on and tell precious Britney stories (including an epic dance battle). Also: the sick connection between Amanda Bynes and Jamie Lynn Spears (trigger warning!), the way Britney's torturous predicament led to the creation of a personal space bubble law in LA  and the Felicia Culotta of it all.  Katrina pulls an oracle card for the #FreeBritney movement. "Look at what white men do to their daughters," Saturn says, summarizing it all. Recorded on the anniversary of Anna Nicole Smith's death, we love you Anna! Write to Tierney -- [email protected] Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Recorded and edited by Margot Padilla. Hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster.

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Erin Taj joins us to share astrological knowledge juicy enough for beginners and devotees alike. Taj breaks down fixed, mutable and cardinal signals, explains astrology as geometry and defines what houses mean in the context of your natal chart. She teaches what having planets “conjunct” and “square” one another means, expands on popular misconceptions of rising signs and discusses favorite parts of her own astrological makeup. Saturn Return, synastry and generational forecasting based on Pluto are also hot topics. “No one owns astrology,” Taj says, “It’s embedded in us to be curious.” 

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Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Recorded and edited by Margot Padilla. Hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster. 

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Jane Ward is a feminist scholar and author of the books “Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men” and “Respectably Queer.” She teaches gender and sexuality studies at UC Riverside, specializing in feminist, queer and heterosexuality studies and creating “scholarship for the feminist revolution.” Jane joins Tierney to discuss her new book “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” a “lesbian feminist diagnosis” of heterosexuality that exposes the realities of heterosexual culture while encouraging its development into something deeper, more loving and less violent. Jane declares herself an ally to straight people as “they work to liberate heterosexuality from misogyny.” She’s an expert at revealing how weird most “normative” cultures and social identities tend to be. In this book, Jane contextualizes heterosexuality as the romantic arm of patriarchy and details how the heterosexual advice industry has been trying to help men and women in this country survive their marriages for the last 100+ years (not all that successfully, either). 

Do you want a chance to acknowledge queer people as allies to straight people, especially straight women experiencing romantic discontent, instead of vice versa? How about a celebration of the immeasurable contributions lesbians have made to the mainstream feminist movement? Listen to this and more importantly, read the book! 

Ward quotes Edith Massey as Aunt Ida in John Waters’ “Female Trouble” several times: “The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.” 

No matter who you are or who you’re attracted to, Ward’s work has tons to offer you! 

“As with the often nebulous racial category of whiteness, one of the ways that we avoid looking critically at straightness is to keep it indefinable, to imagine that it is so vast and irreducible to any one way of being,” Ward writes in the book. 

Buy “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality” from NYU Press today - https://nyupress.org/9781479851553/the-tragedy-of-heterosexuality/

Follow Jane Ward on Twitter @thequeerjane and check out https://www.janewardphd.com/.

To enter to win a copy of “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” please follow these instructions: 

1. Listen to this conversation with Jane Ward in full ASAP
2. Select a quote, topic, theme or question from our conversation that inspires, arouses or interests you the most and jot it down. 
3. Subscribe to or follow the podcast!
4. Email your selection/reflection and a screenshot of your subscription to [email protected] before 10/24/20
5. TWO winners will be selected via a completely random name picker and notified via email Tuesday, 10/27/20. 
6. Note: There is no minimum or maximum word count for your reflections, and your entry won’t be judged based on the content or “quality” of your share. Feel free. Feel safe. Have fun. Your responses won’t be shared elsewhere without your explicit permission! 

Subscribe to Tierney Talks today and follow Tierney on IG @TSTAR7. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy. Recorded and edited by Margot Padilla. Hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster. 

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Today’s guests are Erin Christovale, Asuka Hisa, Suzanne Isken, Sarah Williams, Morgan Elder, Allison Littrell, Vanessa Zenedjas, Rudeness, Tatiana Vahan, Abby Kavanaugh, Katrina Carl, Laura Mart, Katherine Ross, Angelique Soave & Klaus Biesenbach. 

Tierney Talks hosted the first TELETHON For Your Art at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth on the Paramount Pictures Studio backlot, all Frieze long. The result is this collection of 60+ interviews about art, entertainment and community in Los Angeles. We had so much fun! 

This episode celebrates a handful of places and community spaces for art in Southern California. 

Erin Christovale (Black Radical Imagination, The Hammer Museum)

Asuka Hisa (Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)

Suzanne Isken (Craft Contemporary)

Sarah Williams (The Women’s Center For Creative Work) 

Morgan Elder and Allison Littrell (Murmurs gallery and cafe) 

Vanessa Zendejas (AZ West)

Rudeness (Queen of Angels)

Tatiana Vahan (Los Angeles Artist’s Census) 

Abby Kavanaugh (The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures) 

Katrina Carl (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)

Laura Mart (Skirball Cultural Center)

Katherine Ross and Angelique Soave (Re: LA) 

Klaus Biesenbach (MOCA)

This is the fifth in a five-part series of Tierney Talks episodes documenting TELETHON For Your Art. Tierney Talks is pleased to partner with For Your Art to present this series of talks. ForYourArt is a source of free information about L.A.'s art scene and ForYourArt’s mission is to inspire more people to make art a part of their daily lives. 

Subscribe to this podcast to receive a couple of new conversations a month. Follow Tierney on IG @TSTAR7 and For Your Art @foryourart. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy (streaming everywhere!) 

Special thanks to Jess Calleiro, Niko Karamyan, Bryan Johnson, Ali Madigan, Bettina Korek, Kevin McGarry, Cobi Krieger, Peter Shire, Kayne Griffin Corcoran and Pretend Plants and Flowers. 

Today’s show was recorded and edited by Margot Padilla and hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster. 

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Today’s guests include: Tini Stormberg, Trevor McFedries, Janet Taylor Pickett, Samantha Taylor Pickett, Chloe Coover, Zoé Blue M., Jiro Maestu, Jasmine Nyende, Irina Karamyan, Han Donovan, Toryn Seabrooks, Emily Barker & Peggy Noland. Tierney Talks hosted the very first TELETHON ForYourart at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth on the Paramount Pictures Studio backlot, all Frieze long. The result is a collection of 60+ interviews about art, entertainment and community in Los Angeles. We had so much much! This is the fourth in a five-part series of Tierney Talks episodes documenting TELETHON ForYourart.  

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Tierney Talks hosted the very first TELETHON ForYourart at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth on the Paramount Pictures Studio backlot, all Frieze long. The result is a collection of 60+ interviews about art, entertainment and community in Los Angeles. We had so much much!   

This is the third in a five-part series of Tierney Talks episodes documenting TELETHON ForYourArt. Today’s guests include: 

Saturn (Listen to their new single "Ready" on Bandcamp) 

Cyrus Dunham (Read his book "A Year Without A Name")

Martine Syms (Subscribe to Scene Report) 

Jonny Makeup & Christopher Schwartz (View The Gallery @'s exhibition "Chips")

Casey Jane Ellison (Watch this tbt of her talkshow) 

Lili Lakich (Take the Van Nuys Flyaway to see one of her public sculptures) 

Jason Correa (Visit his project space and gallery for some the best contemporary art, music, and performance in Van Nuys) 

Willy Boston (Remember this tweet?) 

Samantha Blake Goodman (Look at stunning documentation of her choreography). 

Amelian Kashiro Hamilton (founder of Sisters With Invoices)

Follow Tierney on IG and Twitter @TSTAR7 and subscribe if you haven’t already. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy (streaming everywhere!) Today’s show was recorded and edited by Margot Padilla and hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster.

Tierney Talks is pleased to partner with For Your Art to present this series of talks. ForYourArt is a source of free information about art in LA and ForYourArt’s mission is to inspire more people to make art a part of their daily lives. Follow ForYourArt on IG @foryourart and check out http://foryourart.com/. 

Special thanks to Jess Calleiro, Niko Karamyan, Bryan Johnson, Ali Madigan, Bettina Korek, Cobi Krieger, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Kevin McGary and Pretend Plants and Flowers. 

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