#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our Culture

In early January, educator, facilitator and applied theater practitioner, Channie Waites, led a remarkable Hollaback! Resilience workshop to help people process the compound traumas of the Jan 6 attempted coup by White Supremacists. Hear Channie share generously of her own wisdom about our nation’s illness of racism and the necessity of truth telling, reconciliation and joy. She unpacks many steps toward healing, drawing on her years of work in Rwanda, as well as personal experiences of grief, racial trauma, and resilience. In this bonus episode to conclude Season 3 of our #HealMeToo #AtHome series, Channie dives deeply into:The nature of racismThe ways trauma and resilience can take shape within usThe imperative of facing “what is” and then telling our storiesHow inhabiting our bodies and our power of choice help build resilienceWhy joy belongs at the heart of every step, even in grief or other painful feelingsWhy our culture cannot heal until we tell all the truths of White Supremacy, facing and feeling the ways racism infects us, and impairs our connections A joyful movement practice to shake it all out, inspire the giggles, and help shift stuckness in the bodyAnd so much moreLearn more about Channie and Hollaback!, and find links to resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0311.Subscribe now and catch new episodes of the #HealMeToo Podcast in 2021 on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our YouTube channel — for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

The final episode of 2020 and the concluding episode of Season 3: #HealMeToo #AtHome centers the needs (and the extraordinary resilience) of young people experiencing unprecedented isolation and many forms of trauma. As we enter a new year, with many young people resuming remote learning, we're sharing an interview recorded in early fall, with insights, guidance and practical tips from Ashleigh Anderson, a Relationship Abuse Prevention Program coordinator at NYC's Edward R. Murrow High School, working with Day One, a nonprofit that partners with youth to end dating abuse and domestic violence through community education, supportive services & legal advocacy. In this episode, learn about:Teen and middle-schoolers specific vulnerabilities to tech abuse in this timeCreating boundaries when we're at home and everyone's connected 24/7Why helping our kids can be tricky when we adults are enduring the same traumas, tooA deeper take on self-care (it's not just taking baths)How adults sometimes gloss over the impact of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement for young peopleWays to normalize the way kids and teens are feelingTips for recognizing and helping address some symptoms of PTSD Learn more about Ashleigh and Day One, and find links to resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0310.Subscribe now and catch new episodes of the #HealMeToo Podcast in 2021 on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our YouTube channel — for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

In this Podcast Extra, Hollaback! Deputy Director and bystander intervention trainer, Jorge Arteaga, leads listeners in a short grounding practice called "Box Breathing." This practice is used by the military and you may find it comes in handy to help de-escalate every other type of stress too. Learn more about using Box Breathing to keep steady when witnessing and intervening in harassment and other harmful situations during the full interview with Jorge in S3 E9: Bystander Intervention for Racism, Police Violence & Ending Harassment in All Its Forms. Or, watch the Video Podcast on our YouTube channel.Join us throughout 2020 for new episodes on all your favorite podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we wrap up Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Edited by Hope SingsenOpening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

After a hiatus to organize and lead election activist events 7-days-a-week, we’re back! Our guest this week: Jorge Arteaga, the Director of Operations for Hollaback!—an incredible FREE bystander intervention training org whose mission began with stopping street sexual harassment and has expanded, to stop harassment in all its forms.Jorge is also the originator of their training in Bystander Intervention to Stop Police Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment, which he previews during our interview. (Sign up for this training on 12/14 here.) In this episode:Hear Jorge’s powerful personal storyLearn techniques to safely practice the 5 Ds of Bystander Intervention (Distract, Delegate, Delay, Document & Direct intervention), especially in the presence of police violence. Find out about all the empowering free trainings Hollaback! offers Practice a meditative exercise called Box Breathing, which can help reduce the stress and even trauma when performing bystander interventions. (We’ll also share this practice as a Podcast Extra you can tap into any time you need a reminder or a moment of Zen!)If you don't know Hollaback! you'll love this org and their excellent trainings, which offer ways each one of us, whatever our identities, can show up as allies for others in trouble. Hollaback! has dedicated training modules to help intervene to stop workplace sexual harassment, LGBTQ+ harassment, street sexual harassment, online trolling, COVID-related Asian/American and xenophobic harassment and this fall they added a training in stopping voter intimidation at the polls! Hollaback! also offers advanced techniques for conflict de-escalation, a training to help examine and shift our implicit biases, and a beautiful training to strengthen our resilience to start healing from all 2020 has entailed. Learn more about Jorge and find links to resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0309.Subscribe now and catch the 10th episode of the #HealMeToo #AtHome Season 3 later this month on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our YouTube channel — for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

In this episode, we changed up the format to #KeepSharingtheMic with Jovan Martinez and Cassity Yeye of the STEPS to End Family Violence Early Relationship Abuse Prevention Program, who graced the stage at a #HealMeToo Festival pop up event earlier this year, A Love Thing, recorded for Season 2 of the podcast. Jovan’s beautiful lead singing at that event also graces the opening and closing credits of each episode in Season 3, sampling The Whispers.We're so grateful that Jovan and Cassity returned to the platform to have a conversation about their work, about the intersections of so many types of stress & trauma at all times and especially right now for survivors of color, about how they're managing in 2020, and what wisdom they could share about how to heal.About the #ShareTheMicNow and #KeepSharingtheMic CampaignIn June, four badass women and Instagram luminaries founded the #ShareTheMicNow campaign. Bo-zoma Saint John, Luvvie Adjaii Jones, Glennon Doyle and Stacey Bendet worked together to center Black women’s voices on White women’s platforms. As they wrote: "When the world listens to women, it listens to white women. For far too long, Black women’s voices have gone unheard, even though they’ve been using their voices loudly for centuries to enact change. Today, more than ever, it is NECESSARY that we create a unifying action to center Black women’s lives, stories, and calls to action. We need to listen to Black women." Later they invited all of us to #KeepSharingtheMic. They wrote:"This campaign was born out of relationships. We invite other black and white women in relationship to recreate this action in their own spaces."Learn more about Jovan and Cassity on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0308Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer and fall for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

In such traumatic times, and especially in light of the Movement for Black Lives against systemic racism, as well as the dangers, lost lives and lost incomes in the pandemic, right now our workplaces and work relationships are pressed to become more centered in care. But how can each of us, as workers or employers, adjust our practices to do this?Akia Squitieri is an award-winning Producer, Director, Arts Administrator, and Anti-Harassment Advocate. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Rising Sun Performance Company and Co-Executive Director for the Innovative Theatre Foundation & New York Innovative Theatre Awards. She’s also the founder of Creating Safe Spaces, which offers anti-harassment training for theatrical environments. Akia coined the term "Culture of Care" to describe the shift in culture needed now, and joined Hope for a conversation delving into the challenges and opportunities for transformation of our shared spaces. Ideas and strategies for employers to self-assess and level up their support for workersQuestions and practices that may help White folks acknowledge and check our privilege, acknowledge our participation in the system of White Supremacy, and change our behaviorThe accountability facilitated by call-out and cancel culture, at their bestLearn more about Akia and find links to resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0307.Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer and fall for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Meet Jennifer Ruiz Diaz and Lorraine Correa, two amazing advocates and counselors from the Sexual Violence Project at Violence Intervention Program (VIP) in New York City, a community-based, non-profit organization partnering with Latinx and immigrant communities to end domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence. Jennifer and Lorraine share an update on how Latinx survivors are doing, who VIP Executive Director, Margarita Guzmán, recently described as hunted by abusive partners, abusive governments, and now by this deadly virus. You'll hear ways we all can step up to support Latinx communities with and without status, who heroically perform a disproportionate share of the essential labor the rest of us depend on, and are bearing a disproportionate burden of Covid and economic losses.Learn more about VIP and find links to their resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0306.Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on Apple at bit.ly/hm2pod and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel at bit.ly/hm2youtube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

The #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival have always offered insights, art, and activism to change our culture. And today, we’re taking a break from our usual format, to focus on that third part: activism -- what each of us can do to help change the culture and meet the urgent needs of now. As you may have heard before from #HealMeToo Podcast host, Hope Singsen, she's led an electoral activist group since early 2017 called Swing Left Target 2020 NYC. You can learn more about that group at bit.ly/slt20.Last week, we recorded their full group meeting, where Hope shared the plan to help Democrats Win Everything in 100 Days, and then asked each one of us to make our personal plan of action. Because if we want to stop the murderous lies and hate violence of the GOP toward all the vulnerable populations in our country, including survivors of sexual, gender-based and intimate partner violence, then we need to take back ALL the houses -- by winning control of the White House, the Senate, and every State House where the GOP has drawn undemocratic gerrymanders that disempower Black and Brown voters, and all Democrats. But to take back all the Houses, it’s going to take all of us doing everything we can. In this recorded meeting, you’ll learn the Swing Left strategy to #WinEverything, and you’ll get to know the candidates in Swing States that Hope's group has adopted as their very own. You’ll hear about a ton of different ways you can get active, and you’ll get a chance to make your plan of action too. To follow along with the slides and see Hope's speaker notes with even more details, go to bit.ly/100dayplans. You can view the meeting Agenda here: bit.ly/slt20jul20. And we hope you'll complete the survey to make your personal Plan of Action here: bit.ly/100daysignups.Feel free to share the slides, agenda, survey and this recording with anyone you know who might feel better if they started taking action to rout the GOP from EVERY House. One caveat about the recording – we didn’t expect to end up sharing it here. We've used still images from the slide deck to replace all footage of group members, to protect their privacy in the comforts of their homes.Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel (bit.ly/hm2youtube) as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credits:: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Settle in for a short chair yoga exploration with Julie Fernandez, lead trainer from Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence.(And don't miss Julie's full episode: #HealMeToo Podcast S3 E4)Learn more about Julie and find links to Exhale to Inhale's free online classes and more on our episode page.Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as here, on our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credit: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Discover the amazing Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence, now available online for free to everyone experiencing stress and trauma! Our guest is Julie Fernandez, lead trainer at Exhale to Inhale, and the primary trauma therapist with the Hope Integrative Psychiatry team. (You can also experience Julie's beautiful 15-minute chair yoga as #HealMeToo Podcast S3 Xtra 4!)In this Season 3 Episode 4, you’ll hear about:Julie’s personal story of regaining comfort with her body and breath through yoga and embodied practices (after hating yoga to start with!) The anxiety and insomnia Julie is observing in clients right now, whether that’s due to the menace of COVID or the long-suppressed racial trauma that is now surfacing in order to heal through the Movement for Black Lives and a deeper reckoning with White Supremacist culture.How body-based work can gradually help us feel more comfortable within discomfort, something so many people need in this time of disruption, danger and stressWhy Exhale to Inhale is different from other yoga practices, from its welcoming affirmation of Black and Brown participants and every body shape, to its emphasis on the experience of choice for survivors that pervades every exercise How yoga and other embodied work may help survivors to sit with and gradually lessen the discomfort and heal the disconnections between our body, emotions, heart and mind that can stem from traumaThe research and theories that explain why embodied practices like Exhale to Inhale can help survivors reclaim their feelings of agency and power Short movement and meditation practices led by Julie How all of Julie’s work is intended to help clients feel safe in their bodies, comfortable in the world, and embodied, integrated and whole. Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page.Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Learn how technology is getting weaponized during the COVID-19 shutdown (and always) for people dealing with toxic relationships & intimate partner violence, as well as in the sextortion and abuse of minors and men--and most importantly, learn strategies that can help.Guests Carrie Goldberg of Victims’ Rights law firm, C. A. Goldberg and #HealMeToo Podcast returning guest, Maisie Breit of the NYC Mayor’s Office to End Gender Based and Domestic Violence (ENDGBV) share a wealth of insights and resources that illuminate:The uses of technology in sexual, gender-based and intimate partner harassment & abuseThe ubiquity of tech abuse as part of intimate partner violenceNavigating PTSD from past Tech Abuse in this virtual time What changing trends advocates are seeing in these times, including increases in domestic violence, targeting of minors, and sextortion of men, as well What parents and each of us can do to better protect ourselves and prevent our technologyWays to safeguard your cell so it’s less of a tracking deviceThe importance of keeping a log of all tech abuse events and all evidence of stalkingHow advocates are also using virtual tech to provide support while survivors have been stuck at home. Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page.Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Edited by Hope SingsenMusic Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

A very special Podcast Extra with Sherina Davis, professional trainer, ontological coach and educator with Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Sherina led us in a short guided meditation to explore the grounding comfort of being quiet and simply present with our bodies, and with deep and gentle breaths.Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, and Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs, joined us for the meditation, and share about the experience afterward.Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0302.Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Edited by Hope SingsenOpening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Learn about the incredible work of NYC’s Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs and Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, help kick off the #HealMeToo #AtHome series with an update on the spike in domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse experienced through the shutdown, the sudden recession, and the toll of racial trauma coming up in response to increasing White Supremacist violence, unrelenting police brutality, and the uprising in defense of Black Lives. Sherri and Maureen also shared ways Safe Horizon has adjusted its therapy and advocacy to address survivors’ changing needs during this crisis, and how virtual services may actually serve to strengthen their offerings, even after they can resume in-person services. Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page.Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Edited by Hope SingsenMusic Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called "Supportive Touch." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel. Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Edited by Hope SingsenOpening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called a "Self-Compassion Break." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel. Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Edited by Hope SingsenOpening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

In the Premiere Episode of Season 3, hear the therapist and teacher of a healing practice called Mindful Self-Compassion, David Fredrickson, and learn some techniques that may help you offer yourself loving kindness, support or even comfort right when experiencing stress, discomfort or pain. Throughout the #HealMeToo #AtHome series, we'll explore tools that may help with the many forms of trauma that survivors and our communities are encountering in these times of hate violence and the Uprising in Defense of Black Lives, ongoing state violence against immigrants, and the losses, confinement, and economic stress of the COVID-19 pandemic.David generously shared three guided meditations during the episode, which we’ll offer as Podcast Extras as well, so you can dial them up anytime! At the end of the interview, David also drew on his deep experience working with children who have experienced trauma, to offer ways we can support kids who may be suffering in this hard time. Learn more about David on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0301Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we premiere Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Edited by Hope SingsenMusic Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa MarieSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Announcing the #HealMeToo Podcast's third season -- #HealMeToo At-Home — with insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Tune in on July 6 on your favorite podcasting platform or on our new #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival YouTube channel.It’s never been more urgent to change our culture. It’s also never been clearer that all forms of violence intersect, and impact some communities more brutally than others. Throughout the #HealMeToo At Home series, we’ll highlight ways listeners can take action. And we’ll keep centering the intersecting harms that so many survivors and communities are going through right now. We'll #KeepSharingtheMic to invite advocates, healers and community members to share stories that aren’t getting told, together with ideas and tools that may help.On July 6, our first episode explores a meditative practice called Mindful Self-Compassion, which can offer support when you are in the grips of pain.Our second episode welcomes advocates and therapists from Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States, so we can get an update on that spike in domestic violence form early in the shutdown, as well as other family violence we’re not hearing about.We’ll have conversations that unpack the compound trauma for Black and brown communities in this time—and all times.We’ll center Latinx survivors with and without status, who’ve been hunted by the government, and now by COVID 19. We’ll ask how tech abuse is changing in this virtual age.We’ll learn what the shutdown means for kids dealing with family violence or sexual abuse. And how to spot signs of trauma in young people, and be ready to respond if and when they disclose.Tune in July 6, to join Founding Artistic Director & Host, Hope Singsen, for the first episode of Season 3: #HealMeToo At Home.Music Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan MartinezChoral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa MarieSampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Sexologist Joli M. Ienuso (@jo_li_brary on IG) discusses the road to heal our intimate relationships after sexual, gender-based or intimate partner violence, including options to gradually reclaim sexual well being and even good sex. Learn more on the episode details page on our website.In Season 2, we've explored ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- in our dating relationships, within our own voice and body, and now, in our sexual practice, too. The pandemic and shutdown interrupted our plans for Season 2, and this episode will be the last in the series on Relationships. Join us on July 6, 2020 and throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we premiere Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now. Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for new episodes resuming July 6. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Audio Direction by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenOpening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Learn about the powerful work of The Angel Band Project and the unique relationship we have with own own voice—including a playful exercise you can join in from home. Guests include music therapist Katie Down, back again after her appearance in Episodes 1 & 2 of this season, and Rachel Ebeling, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Angel Band Project, as well as Amber, a survivor who just recorded her Song of Survival with Katie and Rachel, for the Angel Band Project’s upcoming cd release. In this episode you’ll hear:Rachel on the experience of healing through music that launched The Angel Band Project, Katie on the ways music and playful, curious collaboration can help open up the heart to heal,Amber on the details of her story navigating, leaving, and starting to heal from a harmful relationship, and how the process of writing and recording a song that has helped her step forward to be heard. Samples of songs by all the survivors on The Angel Band Project’s original Songs of Survival album, including:Time To Be Free by Dawn Mason, Lead Vocals Dawn Mason, Vocals: Courtney ArndtRise Up by Hannah Tombley, Vocals and Piano: Hannah TombleyI’m Not Silent Anymore by Deb Busch, Vocals Deb Busch, Piano: Rocky TuckerJust Keep Running by Tess Sundhausen, Lead Vocals: Tess Sundhausen, Vocals: Courtney Arndt, Guitar: Chris Helmick and Courtney Arndt, Ukelele/Vocals: Devon CahillStart Living by Erin Rieke, Lead Vocals: Erin Rieke, Accompanying Vocals: Heather Lawyer, Piano: Dave Drebes Home by Judy Rosen, Tibetan Singing Bowls and Melody: Judy Rosen, Violin: Judy Lindquist, Cello: Caitlin Hawkins, Double Bass: Courtney Arndt, Vocal: Judy RosenBuy The Angel Band Project’s original Songs of Survival album, sampled during this episode, on Amazon and cdbaby. For guest bios and related links, visit the episode details page at healmetoopodcast.com.Throughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. The recording facilities and engineer for this episode were provided through the generous support of Fr. James Hauver, Pastor of St. Columba Church, and Fr. Walter Niebrzydowski of The Fr. Walter Outreach, inc., a nonprofit organization working to repair the effects of sexual violence and gender oppression. You can learn more about their mission to promote the true, the good, and the beautiful through spirituality, media, and technology at fatherwaltersparish.org.Recorded & Engineered by Corey KaupEdited by Hope SingsenOpening & closing music: "LSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Hear dancer, choreographer, educator, playwright, and trained natural healer, Jinah Parker explore the ways and reasons that telling our story through movement can be a powerful resource for healing. Jinah is the creator of “SHE” which explores intersections of racial injustice with sexual violence, which The Root describes as “a choreoplay that fiercely tackles sexual, physical, emotional and state violence, along with self-care and healing.” Throughout the episode, Jinah shares insights and creative healing tools that we can use from home to sit with whatever we’re feeling, connect with those around us, foster dynamic conversations with our communities, build a more positive relationship with our bodies, and use movement and music to spark some better feelings in our body and self, when we’re feeling stuck. See Jinah's bio, photos and more details about the episode on the episode detail page. Throughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Audio Direction by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenOpening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Before A LOVE THING (shared in Episodes 1&2 of Season 2), host Hope Singsen read a few Community Agreements, as we do at every #HealMeToo Festival show that includes audience conversations. Hope referred to these agreements briefly during the panel discussion in last week’s episode, and thought now would be a great time to share them in full.Our language is largely based on the Community Agreements used at the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York. You can read the text of the agreements used at #HealMeToo Festival events here or at healmetoopodcast.com.About #HealMeToo Podcast Season 2: RelationshipsThroughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.A LOVE THING Audio Direction: Delaney HafenerPodcast host & editor: Hope SingsenOpening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Part 2 of a live recording of the first #HealMeToo Festival Popup event of 2020 -- A LOVE THING, featuring teen and young adult musicians, performers and advocates talking about ways to have more healthy relationships and handle harmful ones. A LOVE THING was co sponsored by The NYC Mayor’s Office to ENDGBV, The Angel Band Project, and The Tank theater. Artists and advocates heard in this episode include:A panel discussion led by host Hope Singsen with Daniella Love Misyuk & Maisie Breit from the NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV), and Cassity Yeye of the Early Relationship Abuse Prevention Program (RAPP) from STEPS to End Family Violence, about their work helping youth and adults learn ways to create healthier relationships and prevent harmful ones. Followed by Audience Q&A.Writer, activist, motivational speaker and Early RAPP community educator, Jovan Martinez, performed her original spoken word piece.A choral improvisation with the audience, led by Music Therapist Katie Down and her friends Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie and Vanessa Marie. See pics, read participant bios and find links to resources at bit.ly/hm2love.Throughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.A LOVE THING Audio Direction: Delaney HafenerPodcast host & editor: Hope SingsenOpening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Part 1 of a live recording of the first #HealMeToo Festival Popup event of 2020 -- A LOVE THING, featuring teen and young adult musicians, performers and advocates talking about ways to have more healthy relationships and handle harmful ones. A LOVE THING was co sponsored by The NYC Mayor’s Office to ENDGBV, The Angel Band Project, and The Tank theater. Artists heard in this episode include:Singer/songwriter Vanessa Marie sharing work created with The Angel Band Project, accompanied by Katie Down and Jessica Lurie, and talking about her experience with Music Therapy, with Angel Band Board Member Natasha Repass Five talented teens from the Smash Arts Productions troupe of NYC’s JKO High School under the direction of their teacher Elisa DeGragorio, performing their moving original works as well as a monologues from SKIN by Hope Singsen and Now That We're Men by Katie Cappiello (creator of NETFLIX's upcoming series, Grand Army) (additional direction by Charlotte Arnoux) An amazing choral improvisation created by Angel Band Project Music Therapist Katie Down and her friends Bonita Oliver and Jessica Lurie. See pics, read participant bios & get resources at bit.ly/hm2love.Throughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.A LOVE THING Audio Direction: Delaney HafenerPodcast host & editor: Hope SingsenOpening music: "If I Can" by Hope Singsen, arranged by Dillon Kondor, performed by Micah BurgessSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Tune in on Valentine’s Day for the first episode of #HealMeToo Podcast’s brand new season of insights, art and activism to change our culture. You’ll hear the live recording of the first #HealMeToo Festival Popup event of 2020 -- A LOVE THING, featuring teen and young adult musicians, performers and advocates talking about ways to have healthier relationships and handle harmful ones. A LOVE THING was co sponsored by The NYC Mayor’s Office to ENDGBV, The Angel Band Project, and The Tank theater. Our program featured the artists heard in this trailer, Vanessa Marie singing her beautiful songs, including Love is Rising, plus spoken word artist Jovan Martinez from the City’s Relationship Abuse Prevention Program and the talented teens in the Smash Arts Productions troupe of NYC’s JKO High School, performing original works as well as a monologue from Now That We're Men by Katie Cappiello (creator of NETFLIX's upcoming Grand Army) -- plus so many other exciting performers and panelists. Check out their photos and bios at bit.ly/hm2love.Every episode in Season 2 will explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then tune in Friday February 14th for the Season 2 Premiere and the first installment of A LOVE THING. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and healmetoopodcast.com.A LOVE THING Audio Direction: Delaney HafenerPodcast host & editor: Hope SingsenMusic: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (follow her @vanessamariemusic)Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

FREE! A Love Thing: Live Show & #HealMeToo Podcast TapingEnjoy music, performance and conversation about some ways teens -- and we all -- can create healthier relationships & get out of harmful ones.One night only. FREE. 85 minutes. Appropriate for ages 16+. Reserve seats now.Featuring inspiring performances, original songs and a choral improvisation led by Music Therapist Katie Down of The Angel Band Project (angelbandproject.org). At the heart of this unique event in honor of Teen Dating Violence Prevention Month: a panel discussion with staff from the Mayor's Office to ENDGBV's Healthy Relationship Training Academy and the City’s Relationship Abuse Prevention Program.Co-sponsored by the #HealMeToo Podcast, The Mayor's Office to ENDGBV, The Angel Band Project, and The Tank. This event will be recorded live and released on Valentine’s Day as the Premiere Episode of #HealMeToo Podcast Season 2, which focuses on ways survivors and our allies can enjoy Healthier Relationships – at work, in our communities, with ourselves, and in our intimate lives. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod or via healmetoopodcast.com.Audience members can stay anonymous on the podcast.Content may include: relationship and family abuse, teen sexuality, explicit language.If you or someone you know is experiencing relationship abuse, you can find information and resources at nyc.gov/nychope.FREE Tickets link:https://red.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=342cf6fb8ef788a7af01a09fd0e41ae6Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

We often focus--rightly--on the needs of victims and survivors. But "Secondary Survivors" are the supporters and loved ones of any victim of sexual violence, who may themselves become traumatized. In this episode, we focus on the healing needs of everyone around the victim, to recognize and understand how sexual violence impacts #FamiliesToo. #HealMeToo Festival hit show Growing Wild, created and performed by Broadway's Shona Tucker, tells the story of a family's inter-generational quest to heal from the trauma of a mysterious sex crime. Hear Shona share in-depth with expert family therapist Fiona True of the Ackerman Institute for the Family, about different ways the members of her family have been impacted by the murder of her older sister, a victim of organized crime, while employed in sex work. Fiona shares insights about the work families can do to heal, foster resilience, and become a resource for each other.Learn more about Growing Wild, and read Shona and Fiona's bios, on the details page for this episode at healmetoopodcast.com. The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. You can watch excerpted work from the Festival on the #HealMeToo Festival performance video page, and sign up on our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Find the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms.The recording facilities and engineer for this episode were provided through the generous support of Fr. James Hauver, Pastor of St. Columba Church, and Fr. Walter Niebrzydowski of The Fr. Walter Outreach, inc., a nonprofit organization working to repair the effects of sexual violence and gender oppression. You can learn more about their mission to promote the true, the good, and the beautiful through spirituality, media, and technology at fatherwaltersparish.org.Recorded & Engineered by Corey KaupEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess:If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeous Fire by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

As we get ready for an exciting #HealMeToo Festival Popup Event this weekend -- the World Premiere of Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins' Truth And Reconciliation of Womyn this Saturday at 3 PM in NYC at The Tank theater, we hope enjoy these excerpts from the #HealMeToo Festival presentation last March and April, 2019 at the IRT Theater. Then join us if you're in town! You can get $20 tickets to the Saturday matinee (or any of their performances) at https://thetanknyc.org/tonyapinkinstr.In this #HealMeToo Podcast Extra, you'll hear selections from the following plays and songs (in order of appearance):Traditional Native American chant performed by Tonya Pinkins, Julie Brown, Amanda Rodriguez, Lina Sarrello & Sarah TeedTill Hell Freezes Over, by Tonya Pinkins directed by Lili StiefelWith Annie McGreevey & Rachael HolmesTilling the Soil, by Michelle Tyrene Johnson, directed by Tonya PinkinsFeaturing Carmen LoBueWomyn, a song written and performed by Julie BrownLaw 136 by Carmen Rivera, directed by Tonya PinkinsWith Amanda Rodriguez, Lina Sarrello & Mary ArchboldThe Grandmothers, by Kristine M Reyes, directed by Kat YenFeaturing Ako Dachs and Akiko Hiroshima You can also watch video from Truth And Reconciliation on the Festival Video page. While there, be sure join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events as well.Closing music credit: Hope Singsen & Dillon Kondor, performed by Micah Burgess.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

6 gorgeously interesectional artists share honestly (and humorously) about the beauty and challenges of working together to create art that heals our lives and cultureThese artists (together with about 6 more who couldn't join us!) helped make the #HealMeToo Festival's Self/Worth Variety Show a moving, sumptuous and transformative event: Raquel Almazan, Maybe Burke, Yvette Heyliger, Micaela Mamede & Krishna Christine Washburn.Reviewing the list of keywords for this episode tells the whole story:Intersectional, Immigrant, Undocumented, Racial Justice, Race, Disability, Blindness, Gender, Transgender, GNC, Nonbinary, Whiteness, Privilege, Sex Work, Stripper Shoes, Healing, MeToo, Cancel Culture, Feminist, Sexual Violence, Workplace Harassment, Coercion, Assault, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Vulnerability, Rage, Mental Health, Trauma, Victim, Survivor, Honesty, Healing, Creating, Creativity, Dance, Performing Arts, Storytelling, Spoken Word, Culture. Interested to learn more about Intersectionality? Read a recent VOX interview of Kimberle Crenshaw, who coined the term in the late ‘80s, building on the work of other leaders for racial justice, including bell hooks.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. You can watch excerpted work from the Festival on the episode details page. That's where you'll also find our guests' full bios and photos, and while there, can link to other #HealMeToo Festival performance videos, and sign up on our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Find the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms.The recording facilities and engineer for this episode were provided through the generous support of Fr. James Hauver, Pastor of St. Columba Church, and Fr. Walter Niebrzydowski of The Fr. Walter Outreach, inc., a nonprofit organization working to repair the effects of sexual violence and gender oppression. You can learn more about their mission to promote the true, the good, and the beautiful through spirituality, media, and technology at fatherwaltersparish.org.Recorded & Engineered by Corey KaupEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess:If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeous Fire by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

An audio drama extra featuring: "Do You Want Me To Stop?" from Love Letters to Nobody by Maybe Burke, as presented on thefemaleplaywrightproject.com with sound design by Natalie Johnsonius Neubert. An excerpt of Ianne Fields Stewart's live performance of their original work "On the Train to Nowhere in Particpular" and Other Poems, recorded at the Musical Theater Factory.Content warning: frank descriptions of sexuality and sexual assault.You can also watch videos of both excerpts on the Episode Details Page. You can also hear #HealMeToo Podcast Episode 9, where Ianne and Maybe discuss transgender, GNC and nonbinary perspectives on #MeToo and ideas for healing. While there, be sure join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events as well.Closing music credit: Hope Singsen & Dillon Kondor, performed by Micah Burgess.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Two phenomenal artist-activists for social justice and the human rights of trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming (GNC) folks, Ianne Fields Stewart and Maybe Burke, join us to talk about the pervasive experiences of sexual violence and gender oppression within their communities, and ideas that help support healing. Ianne Fields Stewart is a Black queer nonbinary transfeminine New York-based storyteller working at the intersection of theatre and activism. Their work and she are dedicated to interrupting the exclusivity of luxury by making things like entertainment, nourishment, and self care accessible to the most marginalized in their community. In a world that is constantly traumatizing Black bodies she believes that Black queer and trans people should have the space and time to center collective emotional, physical, and sensual pleasure. Ianne is also the founder of The Okra Project which hires Black Trans chefs to cook healthy and culturally specific meals for Black Trans People in their homes or community centers if they’re experiencing homelessness. Most recently, Ianne was named by Gay Star News as one of the 21 non-binary artists including Ezra Miller and Indya Moore who are redefining gender.Maybe Burke s a New York based actor, writer, and human rights advocate interested in telling the stories that haven't been told. Their work has been seen at Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center, Cherry Lane Theatre, Ars Nova, New Dramatists, HERE Arts Center, The NYC LGBTQ Center, and more. Their solo show, Love Letters to Nobody, received the 2017 Fresh Fruit Spirit Award for Fostering Pride, Survival, History, and Progress and earned them a nomination for the 2018 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. Maybe and Ianne are co-founders of the Topics Include Podcast, available on Apple and everywhere.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. You can watch Maybe Burke's work from the Festival on the episode details page. While there, you can also link to other #HealMeToo Festival performance videos, and sign up on our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Find the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms.The recording facilities and engineer for this episode were provided through the generous support of Fr. James Hauver, Pastor of St. Columba Church, and Fr. Walter Niebrzydowski of The Fr. Walter Outreach, inc., a nonprofit organization working to repair the effects of sexual violence and gender oppression. You can learn more about their mission to promote the true, the good, and the beautiful through spirituality, media, and technology at fatherwaltersparish.org.Recorded & Engineered by Corey KaupEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess:If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeoSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Artist and Chief-of-Staff at The Moth, Sarah Jane Johnson, and Patrice Miller, director, joined Hope Singsen to discuss their project, Devil In A Box, which was presented to sold out houses at The #HealMeToo Festival.Equal parts poetic theater and feminist stand-up, Devil in a Box follows the journey of a young American woman from sexual assault, through the French justice system and into life after trauma. A frightening yet joyous tale, Sarah Jane chronicles the complexities of it all with disarming honesty, beaucoup d’humour, and a 24 oz. can of Miller Lite.By turns frank, hilarious, and inspiring, Sarah Jane and Patrice share with Podcast listeners about:The story of how Devil in a Box started as a performance art piece and evolved over years in tandem with Sarah Jane's court case and recovery processWays that working on the piece both were and weren't always healing for Sarah JaneHow the Devil in a Box team has developed a method of collaboration that engages them all in a healing process Patrice's insights as a self-declared “lazy witch” on the magic of imagination and the healing similarities between making magic and making artThe “go to” skills that help Sarah Jane, Patrice & Hope in moments of challenge, like:Finding friends you can really talk to, “Trying on” ideas for yourself to act “as if” you were already “healed”, Stretching yourself by taking a “contrary action,” Learning ways to step back from dark thoughts that might otherwise spiral and seem larger than they areHow to honor your own ways of surviving and start seeing the next things you could do to have a fuller life, even while healingComing to accept that being a survivor will always be in one’s life, but it doesn’t have to control things, as you figure out how you want to dialogue with itObserving tricky moments “in neutral” in order to avoid making things worse, and come back to it later The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. On the episode details page for this interview, you'll find many testimonials about Devil in A Box, as well as a video teaser for the show. While you're there, you can also link to other #HealMeToo Festival performance videos, and sign up on our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Find the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. Interview recorded & prepped by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess: If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeous Fire by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

An audio drama excerpt from the solo play with music, SKIN, created and performed by Hope Singsen, the artist, survivor/activist, and founder of the #HealMeToo Festival. Director: Jessi D. Hill, Stage Manager: Yve Carruthers.In SKIN, two things threaten a grad student’s dissertation on Virginia Woolf: her hot new girlfriend and her own dark past. Frank and funny, this queer love story with music explores some of the ways art helps us heal, tracking a woman’s road back toward intimacy and wholeness after sexual violence. Racing to write herself into a happier future, both work and sex get more inventive as she strives for a love greater than any she’s known before. But after you learn to guard against life, can you open up again? Directed by Jessi D. Hill. Music by Hope Singsen, Bob Parins, Micah Burgess and Dillon Kondor. Content warning: early life sexual violence.Includes text from Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork, by Deane Juhan, as well as excerpts from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.You can also watch video of this excerpt at the top of the Episode Details Page. While there, you can also hear #HealMeToo Podcast Episode 7, where Hope and two sex & relationship experts explore why healing can be so confusing, as well as ideas that help, Plus, another Podcast Extra, a recording of a talk Hope gave on "How Live Arts Impact Audiences," where you can learn surprising facts about the neuroscience of trauma and ways the arts can help.While you're there, join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Closing music credit: Hope Singsen & Dillon Kondor, performed by Micah Burgess.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Listen to a recording of a talk Hope gave at the national conference of the Alliance for Arts in Research Universities (A2RU) in November 2018, about the ways she is using her solo play with music, SKIN, to hopefully impact and even help audiences to heal, and how she is demonstrating those impacts through audience research.Watch a video excerpt from SKIN on the Episode Details page on our website healmetoopodcast.com. You can also read the text of Hope's talk at the A2RU conference on Hope's Blog. While you're there, join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Closing music credit: Hope Singsen & Dillon Kondor, performed by Micah Burgess.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Sex educator, relationship advisor & co-founder of iOS advice app, okayso.app, Elise Schuster, and Valeria Koutmina of The Art Therapy Project use the Festival performance of Hope Singsen's solo play with music, SKIN, as a jumping off point to consider common questions about the healing process.Along the way, Elise and Val share professional perspectives as Hope offers examples from personal life as well as within her play, SKIN, to illuminate: Why it takes so dang long to recover from impacts of sexual violenceWhy it can be confusing to recognize these impacts Why it's often hard to know how "healed" we really are, and what to expect from the healing processWhy it takes time to change behaviors after they’re set, and how our assumptions about the process can make it more difficult Ways that sexual trauma can create challenges around identity, shame, safety, trust, sex itself, learned helplessness, self-doubt, and an impression our bodies are vehicles for pain How our cultural ideas about sexuality can get in the way for survivors and non-survivors alikeHow practicing saying no can lead us to feel more empowered and safe to say yesHow we work hard to be ok, but feel as if we are “broken” and needing to be "fixed," which contributes to a feeling of helplessness -- even as we feel we have to present ourselves as unharmedHow nonverbal art-making within a therapeutic relationship can help because it works in the same parts of the brain where trauma was originally storedThe grief and loss that needs to be acknowledged as we learn to tolerate the feelings -- taking breaks and bringing humor into itWhy relapse is part of recovery and can help you practice changing your perspective from “I am this” to understanding “I do this,” which gives us more space to change what Brenee Brown calls “the story we are telling ourselves” Ideas to help practice new ways of healing, like:Cultivating self-compassion instead of self-blame and helplessnessRecognizing that the healing process doesn’t make rational sense, and celebrating strengths that emerge, like the ability to reach out for helpTaking breaks to put aside the work and feelings sometimes to get some distanceThe #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. On the episode details page for this interview, you'll find Elise and Val's biographies and links to okayso and The Art Therapy Project. You'll also find a page with videos of many performances at the Festival, and can join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Soon, we'll also drop audio and video excerpts from Hope's performance of SKIN in the #HealMeToo Festival.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Find the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. Interview recorded & prepped by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess: If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen,Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Artists and audiences alike describe feeling changed by visual, narrative, musical, and performance works of art. The shift can be slight, but it can be profound, too. What's happening in our minds and bodies when we engage with the arts, to allow that transformation to occur? Are there special ways art-making can help address the neurobiological effects of trauma, in particular? And might engaging with art, individually and as a culture, help inspire the changes we wish to bring about?Hear Tony-winning performer & playwright Tonya Pinkins and Lindsay Lederman, the Clinical Director of The Art Therapy Project, discussing Tonya's project from the #HealMeToo Festival, Truth And Reconciliation of Womyn, while exploring the neuroscience of trauma and the process of healing through the arts.A few of the topics they discuss:The neuroscience of trauma and of healingWhy Tonya asserts we have the ability to “change the past”What art therapy is, how it works, and why it lets you work through past trauma at “a step away” so it may be less overwhelming--and sometimes more effective than addressing things “head on”How imagination and being creative in many aspects of life can open the locked parts of the brainHow our neurons start to fire in new ways while we experience art, like putting footsteps down in a new pathHow art can help us recover our sense of joy after traumaWhy artistic activities access feelings and memories through the body, to help us address experiences that were not captured in language at the time Why trauma of many kinds leaves survivors with a sense of shame, and how witnessing art and performance can help address that shameHow and why creating or viewing art that presents new and different ways of imagining the future may help change the way we respond to things that trigger or frighten us, even when we disagree with the artwork we’re responding toThe #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. On the episode details page for this interview, you'll find Tonya and Lindsay's biographies and links to Art Therapy resources. You'll also find a page with videos of many performances at the Festival, and can join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Soon, we'll also drop an audio and video montage of work from Tonya Pinkins' amazing project in the #HealMeToo Festival -- http://tinyurl.com/hm2trwTruth And Reconciliation of Womyn. Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Find the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. Interview recorded & prepped by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess: If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeous Fire by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Part 2 continues the #TheatreToo conversation, as 5 industry leaders answer audience Q&A and:Recount their personal stories of empowerment through whisper networksDescribe ways LIT, ART/NY and even the Calisto app are working to organize the information in offline "whisper" networks and increase accountabilityShare a story of trauma getting triggered during the creative process, and finding support through sharing stories Explore some of the obstacles that prevent people from taking advantage of complaint processes Address ways economic exploitation of labor in theatre dovetails with harassmentOffer resources to help artists and arts organizations create culture change in their rehearsal rooms Panel Moderators:Rachel Dart, Stage Director and Co-Founder, Let Us WorkStephanie Swirsky, Playwright and Co-Founder, Let Us WorkPanelists:Hope Chavez, Creative Producer + Programs Manager at A.R.T./New YorkYvette Heyliger, Playwright, Producing Artist and ActivistAimee Todoroff of League of Independent Theater & Artistic Director, Elephant Run DistrictSubscribe today. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On the episode details page for this interview, you'll find additional details or can link to our page with videos of many performances at the Festival, plus join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Audio recorded and prepped by Delaney HafenerEpisode edited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess: If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeous Fire by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

How are theatre artists organizing to take the "whisper" out of the network? In Part 1, five knowledgable leaders discuss their work to address and prevent sexual harassment and assault within the theatre industry:Programs that support independent artists to shift our culture and practices, especially in freelance and nonunion contextsThe advantages and disadvantages of a whisper network compared to traditional HR channels, and new ways of bringing our "whispers" forwardUpstander/bystander techniques that bring issues into the open in productive and transformative ways to help create safer spacesThe tiny yet impactful culture shifts we all can create in our creative spaces, regardless of what "top-down" approaches are implemented by arts administrators and organizations Panel Moderators:Rachel Dart, Stage Director and Co-Founder, Let Us WorkStephanie Swirsky, Playwright and Co-Founder, Let Us WorkPanelists:Hope Chavez, Creative Producer + Programs Manager at A.R.T./New YorkYvette Heyliger, Playwright, Producing Artist and ActivistAimee Todoroff of League of Independent Theater & Artistic Director, Elephant Run DistrictSubscribe today. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On the episode details page for this interview, you'll find additional details or can link to our page with videos of many performances at the Festival, plus join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Audio recorded and prepped by Delaney HafenerEpisode edited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess: If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeous Fire by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Hear 3 survivor advocates doing amazing work to help #HealMeToo in our culture:Offering bystander training with surprisingly simple techniques to intervene and deescalate harmful situations in the earliest stages.Working with men and boys to cultivate healthy masculinity.Illuminating the ways unconscious bias defines "who is worthy of help," leading to harm. Ways to support people as they process allegations of harassment and assault. Strategies to center trans and gender nonconforming people and concerns within single-sex identity groups.How Restorative Justice practices can offer communities a path to healing without going through the courts, while engaging all parties in true accountability and remediation.In a live taping at the #HealMeToo Festival, Festival Founder and Artistic Director Hope Singsen interviewed:Amanda Burden, a power-based personal violence interventionist and community educator who serves on the board of directors for okayso, a free app for iOS that connects users with personal questions to experts they can trust for quick, personalized support and advice. Eric McGriff, the Prevention Coordinator for the Crime Victims Treatment Center. Nastia Gorodilova, a practitioner of Restorative Justice and a Senior Coordinator of Systems and Training with the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On the episode details page for this interview, you'll find guest bios, and can link to our page with videos of many performances at the Festival, plus join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Interview recorded and prepped by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess: If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeous Fire by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Meet performers from the #HealMeToo Festival Opening Night, including teens from Katie Cappiello’s GoodCapp Arts Ensemble and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School’s Smash Arts Productions. On this Podcast Extra, you'll hear:Excerpts from a movement storytelling piece, titled Through the I’s, which was devised and performed by JKO's Smash Arts students under the direction of their teacher Elisa De Gregorio as part of a Roundabout Theatre Company residency with Teaching Artists Jason Jacobs, theater, and Nick Moore, sound design. Their text is from the transcript of survivor Emily Doe’s testimony in the Brock Turner case, and includes a description of her rape kit exam. The music is Lady Gaga’s anthemic Till It Happens To You. Full credits at tinyurl.com/hm2teens Then, GoodCapp Arts Ensemble shared a number of scenes from Katie Cappiello’s plays on Opening Night, including 16-year old performer, Lola, who performed Emma's Story, a monologue from Katie’s play The Naked Truth. This recording is from Equality Now's 2016 'Make Equality Reality' gala, where the piece was originally developed. Finally, you'll hear GoodCapp Arts performers Caleb, Alphonso, Rayshawn, Jordan and Fred, talking about how working on and performing Katie’s play Now That We’re Men helps them examine and change damaging ideas about masculinity. You can watch video of all these performers on the Episode Details page for Episode 2 with Katie Cappiello on our website healmetoopodcast.com. While you're there, join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Closing music credit: Hope Singsen & Dillon Kondor, performed by Micah Burgess.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

2 experts in the art of personal storytelling fielded questions from our live audience about how audience interactions with storytellers may contribute to healing -- for the audience, for the performers, and ultimately for the culture. In the process, they shared stories of encountering resistance, the value of empathy and the art of listening, and times that audience interactions could be guided toward transformational encounters.Sarah Austin Jenness, Executive Producer of The Moth -- a 21 year old arts organization and home of The Moth Radio Hour, The Moth Podcast, and over 600 live storytelling events worldwide each year, andPlaywright Katie Cappiello, whose plays about teen sexuality, based on their own first-hand accounts, have been widely toured and praised.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On the episode details page for this interview, you'll find Sarah and Katie's biographies, plus video of Katie Cappiello's teen actors discussing rape culture, masculinity, and what feminism means to them as young men and people of color. You'll also find a page with videos of many performances at the Festival, and can join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Interview recorded & prepped by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenClosing music performed by Micah Burgess: Rockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Hear two experts in the art of personal storytelling consider how telling and listening to our stories may be healing.With a live audience at the #HealMeToo Festival, Founder and Artistic Director Hope Singsen interviewed: Sarah Austin Jenness, Executive Producer of The Moth -- a 21 year old arts organization and home of The Moth Radio Hour, The Moth Podcast, and over 600 live storytelling events worldwide each year, andPlaywright Katie Cappiello, whose plays about teen sexuality, based on their own first-hand accounts, have been widely toured and praised.Together, Jenness and Cappiello have decades of experience working with people to tell brave personal stories, often for the first time. They share examples and observations about the process of expressing, crafting, and telling deeply personal stories, whether about sexual and gendered violence or other forms of trauma. As theater artists, Cappiello and host Singsen also share first-hand observations of the ways such stories can sometimes be transformative for artists and audiences alike.A few of the topics they discuss:What makes Moth stories successful for teller and audience alike?Challenges that can arise when telling stories of past traumas.How the vulnerability of "telling on yourself" and "speaking from the scar, not the wound" can open doors to healing.What it's like to help teens get empowered and activated, finding their voice.Ways that survivors also find healing by letting others perform their stories.And much more. The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Find the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On the episode details page for this interview, you'll find Sarah and Katie's biographies, plus video of Katie Cappiello's teen actors discussing rape culture, masculinity, and what feminism means to them as young men and people of color. You'll also find a page with videos of many performances at the Festival, and can join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Interview recorded & prepped by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess: If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeous Fire by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Answering a question from a French audience member who followed their Mattress Performance protest throughout 2014-15, Emma shares stories about two of the most surprising, authentic and positive interactions with strangers while carrying the mattress at Columbia University. Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On our site, you can find detailed episode notes, including Emma's bio and video of Emma accepting the first #HealMeToo Trailblazer Award at the #HealMeToo Festival! Plus you'll find videos of performances at the Festival, and can join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Interview recorded & prepped by Delaney HafenerClosing music performed by Micah Burgess:Rockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

World-famous artist and activist Emma Sulkowicz debunks misconceptions about their protest work "Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)" in which they carried a mattress from 2014 to 2015 at Columbia University, sparking a movement against rape on campuses worldwide -- and shares personal stories and insights about the healing process they experienced while creating that work. The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Find the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On our site, you can find detailed episode notes, including Emma's bio and video of Emma accepting the first #HealMeToo Trailblazer Award at the #HealMeToo Festival! Plus you can watch videos of performances at the Festival, and join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Interview recorded & prepped by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess: If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorRockabye by Hope Singsen, Dillon Kondor & Micah BurgessGorgeous Fire by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Subscribe now to get #HealMeToo Podcast Extras throughout Season One with longer excerpts of the plays, monologues, poems, songs and more heard at the #HealMeToo Festival. In order of appearance, this episode features the following excerpts: ****Scaffolding, with music by Thomas Jacobsen and lyrics by Dana Aber, from the soloshow Dana Aber’s Baggage at the Door, presented in the variety show Self / Worth, curated by Hope Singsen. ****Through the I's, devised and performed by the students of Smash Arts Productions at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School, based on the text of Emily Doe's testimony in the Brock Turner case, and presented as part of Opening Night: NYC Teens. ****Till Hell Freezes Over by Tonya Pinkins, directed by Lili Stiefel, featuring Rachael Holmes & Annie McGreevey as part of Truth & Reconciliation of Womyn, curated by Tonya Pinkins. ****An Act of Love, written and performed by Zainab Mabizari in Self / Worth. ****Do You Want Me To Stop? written and performed by Maybe Burke, presented in Self / Worth. ****The Grandmothers by Kristine M. Reyes, directed by Kat Yen, featuring Akiko Hiroshima as part of Truth & Reconciliation of Womyn. ****The Dues That Must Be Paid, written and performed by Yvette Heyligger and directed by John Scutchins in Self / Worth. ****SKIN written and performed by Hope Singsen.****Scarcity Freezer, written and performed by Glenn Marla, presented in Self / Worth.Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On our site, you can find detailed episode notes, watch videos of performances at the Festival, and join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)

Hear from the 50+ artists, experts and activists who performed in the first-ever #HealMeToo Festival or joined panels and participatory workshops to empower survivors and help inspire change. In this preview of the Podcast, you'll hear (in order of appearance): -Tony-winning actor, playwright, producer & activist Tonya Pinkins. -Lindsay Lederman, Clinical Director of The Art Therapy Project. -The Moth's Executive Producer Sarah Austin Jenness. -Celebrated playwright Katie Cappiello of the highly-acclaimed teen shows "Slut" and "Now That We're Men." -Survivor advocate and prevention educator Eric McGriff of NYC's Crime Victims Treatment Center. -World-famous artist and activist Emma Sulkowicz, renowned for their protest work "Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)" in which they carried a mattress from 2014 to 2015 at Columbia University, sparking a movement against rape on campuses around the globe. The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Find the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On our site, you'll also find detailed episode notes, can watch videos of performances at the Festival, and join our email list to hear about future pop-up #HealMeToo Festival events.Interviews recorded & prepped by Delaney HafenerEdited by Hope SingsenMusic performed by Micah Burgess: If I Can by Hope Singsen & Dillon KondorSupport the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/healmetoo-festival)