MNDFCK Podcast

We close out Pride 2019 with a conversation about diversity, representation, and mainstreaming in America's queer communities. Our guest? Desiree Dik, one of DC's punkiest, fiercest, and most progressive minded drag queens! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

This edition of the podcast highlights the history and evolution of queer literature. It's Pride month, so Marcus K. Dowling and Domina Vontana are joined by Meg Metcalf, the Women's, Gender, and LGBTQ+/Sexuality Studies Specialist and Recommending Officer at the Library of Congress! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

On this episode, our hosts peruse and discuss Washington City Paper's "Best of DC" for 2019! Thoughts on who's who, what's what, and some overall notes on #newDC's excellence and space for service improvement? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Overwhelmed by the idea that it feels like EVERYTHING is happening simultaneously and there's no end to the motion and insanity of things right now? Marcus K. Dowling brings the news and Domina Vontana brings the cosmos, and between the two they solve for staying sane, sustainable, and focused. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

From The Washington Post and New York Times, to the Centers for Disease Control, plus Time, The Atlantic, Politico, The National Review, and more...EVERYONE is discussing why teenagers aren't having sex anymore. Now, your favorite sex educator and sex worker (Domina Vontana) and journalist (Marcus K. Dowling) are on the case! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Co-host Marcus K. Dowling flies solo and offers a slew of thoughts on a month where he travelled 3,500 miles and discovered how to break his own creative glass ceiling via observing the Atlantic Ocean. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Domina Vontana flies solo with friends and offers listeners an exciting and practical view into the world of kink. What makes the current era so unique and dynamic? Who is a dominatrix these days and how many are there? Deeper reflections as well! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

From Haight Ashbury to the Nation's Capital, Shahid Buttar is uniquely aligned with the goals and principles of Mndfck Podcast. Domina Vontana and Marcus Dowling welcomed the 2020 US House of Representatives candidate representing San Francisco to the podcast for an enlightening conversation about progressive American politics in the modern era. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

This week's episode of MNDFCK opens with a discussion on the rise of Amazon's social and cultural global domination. By the close? They were discussing how society must improve comfort and joy in real-time experiences in the wake of Amazon's digital ubiquity. Take a listen! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

This discussion between Domina Vontana and Marcus K. Downing addresses coping with burnout, as well as Marcus discussing working through the recent passing of his mother, plus a deep dive on selflessness and local community activation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

All things the forthcoming Wammie Awards and Conference, DC music industry advocacy and sustainability witb TheMusicianShip's director, Jeff Tribble, Jr. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Domina Vontana, Marcus K. Dowling, and oncology nurse Mary Buffington, kick off season two of MNDFCK Podcast with a fun and sexy talk about vaginas, vaginal education, and vaginal health! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

All The Fly Kids co-host and DC area native Geronimo Collins with Marcus K Dowling & Domina Vontana discussing gentrification & the future of socioeconomic development in the Nation's Capital. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Not but two weeks after Marcus K. Dowling and Domina Vontana discussed the state of "white excellence" in America, this week's MNDFCK Podcast addresses one of the strangest weeks ever for black men and black people in recent American history. From Jussie Smollett and R. Kelly to Green Book and Spike Lee, it was a sad, confusing, bittersweet, and (potentially) awkwardly angry week. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Women's combat sports are poised for an increase in mainstream appeal in 2019. Domina Vontana and Marcus K. Dowling -- both fight aficionados -- discuss the who, what, how, why, and long-lasting appeal of the boom from a plethora of perspectives. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Is unassailable white American excellence in the face of minority political surges, Black Lives Matter, Black Girl Magic, and progressive socialism, deplorable? Co-hosts Marcus K. Dowling and Domina Vontana unpack the week that was and the future that seemingly lies ahead for America. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

This week's edition of MNDFCK dives into the incredible world of professional wrestling -- via co-host Marcus K. Dowling's NYC-area based independent promotion Capitol Wrestling. Living through and excelling past the current era, via controlled escapism and unique storytelling tropes, is discussed! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

This week, Vontana and Marcus are NOT at Full Service Radio at The LINE Hotel. Weather instead has the duo recording this conversation from their respective homes. Their guest? Black Girl Ventures founder, award-winning entrepreneur, Google Digital Coach, plus computer scientist, storyteller, and all around superstar Shelly Bell. An exciting conversation worth hearing that involves tech and sex, learning, innovation, and more was had. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

This week's episode finds Marcus and Vontana having a six-week spiritual check-in regarding staying creatively motivated during the Shutdown, plus answers some listener questions about the show's unique origins. Furthermore, award-winning designer Kenton Johnston of Funkit Toys calls in and offers some behind the scenes know-how and Valentine's Day gift-giving advice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

World-traveled and soulful singer/songwriter Aaron Abernathy joins Marcus K. Dowling and Domina Vontana to discuss Ab's forthcoming album "Epilogue," as well as have some candid discussion about love, spiritual restoration, and emotional connectivity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

The latest episode of MNDFCK finds Domina Vontana and Marcus K. Dowling sitting with HIPS' (http://hips.org) Executive Director Cyndee Clay and discussing the future of work, sex work, being informed and using information to improve the future for humanity at-large. If you didn't listen live, shame on you, lol. From harm reduction and politics to academia and being kind to each other, this is a heartwarming and comprehensive conversation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

MNDFCK Podcast co-host Marcus K. Dowling discusses the #survivingrkelly documentary and offers thoughts and feedback regarding R. Kelly's career, his allegations, and the nature of how we proceed with this man and his legacy moving forward. As well, co-host Domina Vontana breaks down the saga of R. Kelly from a BDSM perspective regarding his relationship with that community's contextual norms surrounding consent, protocol, and harm. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Marcus K. Dowling flies solo for the fourth installment of MNDFCK live from yes, his bedroom in Washington, DC. The topic, an open and frank conversation regarding mansplaining in his life, your life, the podcast, and more. He offers tips for moving forward like humbling oneself to the power of listening, learning the strength of being a good listener, and moreover potentially using yoga as a practice to balance and center one's mindset moving forward. SHOW NOTES: More information about Author and Linguist Deborah Tannen: http://www.deborahtannen.com/ Rebecca Solnit's TomDispatch article that gave birth to the term mansplaining: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/17558... Lily Rothman's The Atlantic piece, "A Cultural History of Mansplaining: https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/arc... Jim Cornette on the art and importance of listening in pro wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJHBz... Diamond Dallas Page's DDPYoga, "The Most Complete Fitness System on the Planet": https://ddpyoga.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Marcus K. Dowling (@marcuskdowling) and Domina Vontana (@dominavontana) discuss 2018's hubbub surrounding Christmas songs, and as well, unbox some mind-blowing adult toys from our friends at Sugar The Shop in Baltimore, MD. If looking for some intelligent conversation with a heaping side of sensuality, this is the talk for you! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

This week's recording is a comprehensive conversation discussing America's collective anxiety, gender anarchy and punk-inspired art, plus a deep dive on the function of religion and spirituality in the modern age. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support

Marcus and Vontana finally kicked off Mndfck Podcast. The discussions of self-care and protest culture, harm reduction and heroin addiction, plus the commercialization of sensation and sensuality were quite wonderful. Tune in next week! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mndfckpodcast/support