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Recorded live at the Poetry Open-Mic at Walls of Books in Washington, DC on Friday, December 8th, 2017. aois21 Creative Bianca Palmisano reads her poem Future. This is the fourth of several episodes from the evening presentation, part of aois21's #GiveABook campaign. This podcast is brought to you by Audible. Visit audibletrial.com/aois21 and receive one month free on the world’s largest audiobook service. Get your free audiobook today from their library of 180,000 titles! We issued the challenge, now we need your support! Rekindle the Passion by supporting this podcast on Patreon at Patreon.com/aois21. If we can get $8 pledged per month, this podcast can continue into next year. aois21 audio would like your help! Yes, you! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we would like to thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you in a drawing for a chance to win a $25 Visa Gift Card. So visit surveys.aois21.com today and let your voice be heard! Subscribe to the podcast on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Tune In, and audio.aois21.com.
Recorded live at the Poetry Open-Mic at Walls of Books in Washington, DC on Friday, December 8th, 2017. aois21 Creative Bianca Palmisano reads her poem Dateable. This is the third of several episodes from the evening presentation, part of aois21's #GiveABook campaign. This podcast is brought to you by Audible. Visit audibletrial.com/aois21 and receive one month free on the world’s largest audiobook service. Get your free audiobook today from their library of 180,000 titles! We issued the challenge, now we need your support! Rekindle the Passion by supporting this podcast on Patreon at Patreon.com/aois21. If we can get $8 pledged per month, this podcast can continue into next year. aois21 audio would like your help! Yes, you! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we would like to thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you in a drawing for a chance to win a $45 Visa Gift Card. So visit surveys.aois21.com today and let your voice be heard! Subscribe to the podcast on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Tune In, and audio.aois21.com.
Don't forget to grab your seat for the LIVE taping of Sex Gets Real to celebrate our 200th episode. Enter to join us here. This week, I am joined by the incredible Bianca Palmisano from Intimate Health Consulting. Bianca specializes in training medical doctors, nurses, and staff to be more inclusive when treating marginalized folks, especially around sexuality and gender. So, we go there. We talk about all the ways doctors fail us and the emotional labor we often have to do to train doctors on how to treat us well. We also talk about how Bianca gets into their offices in the first place and how she's received. Then we geek out over the medical conferences we've both attended because good god, is there a problem with the research being done. Ugh. And of course big pharma spends loads of money at medical conferences attracting doctors. There's NO MONEY in giving people better communication tools. We field two listeners questions. One on when to disclose that you have a kidney draining pouch and the other on how to live with yourself after you've sexually abused someone. You'll also want to check out our bonus chat on Patreon all about the orgasm gap and how much variance there is in our orgasms. Because orgasms are at the top of everyone's minds when they feel like there's a problem. Patreon supporters at the $3 level and above get access, so head over and listen now. patreon.com/sgrpodcast If you want to grab my latest workshops, head to dawnserra.com/courses. Follow Sex Gets Real on Twitter and Facebook. It's true. Oh! And Dawn is on Instagram. About Bianca Palmisano: Bianca Palmisano is a sex educator, medical consultant, and the owner of Intimate Health Consulting. She specializes in training healthcare providers around issues of sexual health, as well as LGBT, sex worker, and sexual assault survivor competency. Palmisano is the primary author of "Safer Sex for Trans Bodies," an outreach and education guide for the trans community sponsored by Whitman Walker Health and the Human Rights Campaign. She has been a guest lecturer at George Washington University, Johns Hopkins, and University of Chicago. Stay in touch with Bianca on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @fun_size_SexEd. Listen and subscribe to Sex Gets Real Listen and subscribe on iTunes Check us out on Stitcher Don't forget about I Heart Radio's Spreaker Pop over to Google Play Use the player at the top of this page. Now available on Spotify. Search for "sex gets real". Find the Sex Gets Real channel on IHeartRadio. Hearing from you is the best Contact form: Click here (and it's anonymous)
Recorded live at the Poetry Open-Mic at Walls of Books in Washington, DC on Friday, December 8th. Emcee Bianca Palmisano reads one of her poems to kick off the evening. This is the first of several episodes from the evening presentation, part of aois21's #GiveABook campaign.
Modern sexuality is … complicated. And talking about our sexual health, even with a doctor, can be awkward – awkward enough that many of us will avoid it, even when we have a problem that needs solving. Enter consultants like Bianca Palmisano, owner of Intimate Health Consulting, who’s helping doctors, nurses, and other medical and health care professionals speak openly and non-judgmentally to their patients about issues of sexuality. genneve CEO Jill Angelo talked with Bianca about sex, sexuality, and why it's so darn hard to have those important conversations. 1:50 “Sex positivity” means understanding sex and sexuality as a normal, healthy part of life with a wide range of modes of expression. We asked Bianca if the notion of sex as a positive part of life is gaining some traction in a culture that has an often unhealthy approach to sex. 3:25 What are the trends out there when it comes to sex positivity and women in midlife? Bianca has good news for us – one, the medical profession is innovating on give women “more options in the toolkit” for treating menopause symptoms that impact intimacy, and two, more sex educators are talking about sex at midlife and helping women understand the physical and emotional changes at menopause. 6:27 So, if it’s a good idea to talk about these things with your doctor, how do we start the conversation? Bianca talks about how she provides both medical professionals and patients with strategies for starting, continuing, and finishing the conversation satisfactorily. 9:16 How can women get educated about healthy sexuality? The problem with a taboo subject is that …well, it’s taboo. So, not much info. Except there is. Bianca says you can look beyond your doc if that person isn’t someone you can go to, and she gives some ideas on places to look for answers. 11:22 So what is “sexual health competency” and why do medical professionals need it? “Knowing how to have conversations in a way that puts your baggage on a back shelf,” says Bianca. We all have ideas and opinions on sexuality and what we feel is “right” or even “normal” – how and why should you shelve those when talking with patients? 13:25 Why is good sex so important? Bianca talks about the dynamic between sex and relationships. But relationships can get thorny in midlife, given all the life-stage stresses and physical changes, so how do we stay intimately connected to one another? 15:00 How do women initiate conversations about sex with their partners? Probably not when pulling out the condoms in the 10 minutes before Johnny comes home from soccer practice, Bianca says. Hear her ideas on a better way to bring it up. 16:30 Women in midlife often experience some profound changes in their sexuality. Careers are solid, kids are grown, the house is settled on its foundations … are you? Bianca addresses how some women make important decisions and have major revelations about themselves, their lives, and their sexuality. Want to learn more about sexual health? Visit Bianca’s website, Intimate Health Consulting, and these other sexuality experts: Walker Thornton, Joan Price, Melanie Davis, PhD, and Dr. Myrtle. Bianca Palmisano is a sex educator and medical consultant serving the DC community since 2012. As the owner of Intimate Health Consulting, she specializes in training healthcare providers around issues of sexual health, as well as LGBT, sex worker, and sexual assault survivor competency. She also serves as the Community Outreach Chair for the Metro DC PFLAG Board of Directors. Palmisano is the primary author of "Safer Sex for Trans Bodies," an outreach and education guide for the trans community sponsored by Whitman Walker Health and the Human Rights Campaign. She has been a guest lecturer at George Washington University, Johns Hopkins, and University of Chicago. --- This podcast originally appeared on genneve, the solution for women in midlife and menopause. Join us for more great conversations, information, and answers.
aois21 Creative Bianca Palmisano returns with a poem from her new collection, Will This be on the Final?, soon to be available in paperback from Lulu.com. If you’re interested in being a guest poet, visit media.aois21.com. We issued the challenge, now we need your support! Rekindle the Passion by supporting this podcast on Patreon at Patreon.com/aois21. If we can get $8 pledged per month, this podcast can continue through the Summer. Subscribe to the podcast on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Tune In, and media.aois21.com.
This week: The new Harry Potter script book is setting records, but it’s disappointing fans, Patton Oswalt is completing his wife’s work, one lucky unpublished author may be going to the UK’s Festival of Writing, bookstores in Moscow have a problem with the new Harry Potter for a different reason, do you live longer if you read more?, and a Patrick Ness YA series is coming to theatres. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week. This episode is sponsored by The Empty Spaces by Bianca Palmisano, available for free with a special discount code from aois21 publishing. Available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Podomatic, and media.aois21.com. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.
It’s time again to check with Keith and Paul and the finish line is in sight! The crew welcome aois21 Creative and poet Bianca Palmisano to swap stories of print on demand services as Paul begins to review his options for a print release. The discussion ranges from services big and small as well as the intricacies of the various systems. This episode is brought to you by Intimate Health Consulting, Happy. Sexy. Healthy. www.intimatehealthconsulting.com Remember to follow us on Twitter @PublishPodcast, check us out on Facebook, Facebook.com/PublishPodcast, email us at publishpodcast@aois21.com, or visit our home on the web, media.aois21.com. Publish Me! is part of the aois21 podcast network, it is hosted by Podomatic and available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and Google Play.
In Bianca's final contribution to the podcast, she shares a new piece about her time studying in Kenya. This piece does not appear in her debut collection, The Empty Spaces.