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We are taught early in our lives to not trust our bodies, to ignore their signals, and to turn away from pleasure. Dawn Serra (she/her), a therapist and coach, believes we can live more joyful and fulfilled lives by returning to our bodies by building body trust, embracing unconditional permission, and developing pleasure practices.Dawn Serra has dedicated her life to unraveling the cultural stories that impact our relationship to our pleasure, our bodies, and how we relate with each other. Dawn is considered a leader in the field of sexuality and relationships, with a focus on pleasure for people recovering from eating disorders and those in fat bodies. She is a counsellor in British Columbia, a sex & relationship coach working with clients from around the world, a Certified Body Trust® Provider, speaker, podcaster, facilitator, consultant, and entrepreneur. She is also the co-founder of Tend and Cultivate Counselling, Inc, which is the first group therapeutic practice in Canada specifically dedicated to providing non-stigmatizing mental health care to people in larger bodies.Mentioned in this episode: “Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls,” Body Trust, “The Art of Receiving and Giving,” Kai Cheng Thom, and “Pleasure Activism.”Please connect with Dawn on her website.This episode's poem is “Other Body Prayer” by Dominik Parisien.After recording the interview, Sophia asks each guest 10 unexpected, unrehearsed questions designed to go even deeper. Check it out by subscribing through Apple Podcast Subscriptions or Patreon for as little as $2.You can connect with Fat Joy on our website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share the fat love? Please rate this podcast and give it a joyful review.Our thanks to Chris Jones and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.
One of our most impactful episodes ever. Our guest, Dominik Parisien lives with constant pain and convulsive episodes and still he walked the entire Camino Santiago from St. Jean to Finisterre. Here are just a few of the themes you will experience as you listen: Doing this walk was never about overcoming my physical challenges and my disability, it was about doing it WITH them. Choosing to live beyond the fear Modulating other people's fear Chronic Illness. Constant Pain. Camino Compromise I'm in Pain Every Minute of Every Day An extremely adaptive journey Santiago meant nothing to me And a stunning marriage story Thank you Dominik for getting lost with us.
Here’s the second half of my two part interview with authors, C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez!In my last post for my paid subscribers, I talked about the common advice that creative people should choose one niche in which to specialize. In the first part of this interview, we explored how ignoring that advice can actually help creativity grow stronger, but in this second part we’re diving into the question of how to narrow your focus in order to finish projects, even when they’re really hard and you feel stuck. Image Description: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez and Jack O’ the Hills, How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes, Bone Swans, and Desdemona and the Deep by C. S. E. Cooney. Carlos’s Sal and Gabi Break the Universe won the Pura Belpré Medal for Latinx creators whose work portrays Latinx experiences well for young readers! Carlos also has a story in The Mythic Dream, an anthology edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien. You can find Carlos on Twitter as @WriteTeachPlay.Claire’s Bone Swans won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection! Her novella, Desdemona and the Deep is wonderful, too, and I am not just saying that because the title character was named after my late cat, Desdemona (but she really was! She is even called Desdemonster sometimes, which we also called my cat!) Claire has also narrated over 100 audiobooks, and has an alter ego as a rock star named Brimstone Rhine. Both of them will be at Boskone in February in Boston, Massachusetts, and so will I! In fact, we’ll all be performing together in one of Claire’s Brimstone Rhine concerts, AND we’ll be reading excerpts of our work together. I’ll post my full Boskone schedule soon, so you’ll know where to find us!Technical note: If you are reading these show notes in email or on the web, you don’t have to listen in a web browser! You can subscribe to this podcast in the podcatcher of your choice by clicking the “Listen in podcast app” link at the top of this message. It will send you an email, which will have a button in it that you can click while viewing the email on your phone, and that will generate a private RSS feed just for you. It will give you options to add it to one of several podcast apps by clicking a link, or to copy the RSS feed and add it to the podcast app you use. Once you add this feed to your app, future episodes should download to your phone automatically if you choose to autorefresh the feed. If you are a paid subscriber, you can use your private feed for both the paid and free episodes. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at omgjulia.substack.com/subscribe
It’s our Best of 2019 episode! Of course, these are not necessarily the best things published in 2019, but instead the best things we read for the podcast (including everything from Bizarro Fiction to True Crime) and the best of everything else we read. Join us! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Favourite Non-Fiction read in 2019: For the podcast: Anna: Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic by Emma Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction Matthew: The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements by Gord Hill The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill RJ: I’ll Be Gone In the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Episode 080 - True Crime Meghan: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Not for the podcast: Matthew: You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane AI Weirdness blog Twitter thread including neural net generated smut titles - Featuring “Sex Tongs” and “The Nutwoble Resort” RJ: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Meghan: How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell Anna: They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom Favourite Fiction read in 2019: For the podcast RJ: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Episode 086 - American Gothic Meghan: Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers Anna: Gutshot by Amelia Gray Episode 074 - Short Story Collections Matthew: Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe Not for the podcast Meghan: All Systems Red by Martha Wells Anna: Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition by Tsutomu Nihei Matthew: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee RJ: Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson Favourite other stuff from 2019: Meghan: Au-dela des limites: L'histoire des sports en fauteuil roulant by Judith Lussier and Donald Royer Les petits garcons by Sophie Bédard Matthew: Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni Lego Rewind Lego Rewind Ep.20- Halloween Special RJ: A Tour of My Plants by Jenna Marbles Anna: SciShow Safiya Nigard Jungle Chvrches Billie Eilish Lizzo Flume Sofi Tukker King Princess The Dø Like a Version (triple j) CHVRCHES cover Arctic Monkeys 'Do I Wanna Know?' for Like A Version CHVRCHES cover Kendrick Lamar 'LOVE.' for Like A Version Runner ups (not necessarily mentioned in the podcast): Meghan: The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus The Breakaway by Nicole Cooke Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch Anna: The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change by Raewyn Connell For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisely Beneath the Dead Oak Tree by Emily Carroll Matthew: Fiction Clade by James Bradley A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke Non-Fiction Thrill-Power Overload: The First Forty Years by David Bishop and Karl Stock Academia Obscura by Glen Wright 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph Comics Hex Vet, vol. 1: Witches in Training by Sam Davies Stonebreaker by Peter Wartman My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame Sugar & Spike: Metahuman Investigations by Keith Giffen and Bilquis Evely Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt (the first Canadian autobio comic) SP4RX by Wren McDonald (Cyberpunk!) Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore O Human Star, Volume One by Blue Delliquanti Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu Coda, Vol. 1 by Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama RJ Pokémon Cafe Ghibli Museum I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll Radishes by Carolyn Nowak (also published in Girl Town) Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings Santa’s Husband by Danielle Kibblesmith & AP Quach Links, Articles, and Things Visual novel (Wikipedia) Now Kiss — Love Thyself - A Horatio Story Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia) Top Visual Novel games - itch.io We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Ida B. Wells (Wikipedia) Hermitude cover Nirvana 'Heart-Shaped Box' for Like A Version Ft. Jaguar Jonze Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 7th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Art! Then on Tuesday, January 21st we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2020!
This episode we’re reading Short Story Collections! We talk about the differences between collections and anthologies, when a short story is too long, futurespeak, and how little Charles Dickens knows about writing. Plus: Accidentally buying Canadians. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…) All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe Gutshot by Amelia Gray The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by N.K. Jemisin Three Deaths by Josip Novakovich Fantastic Adventures How Long till Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville Her Bodies and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Hark! Episode 212: Strawberry Equinox (with the neck ribbon story) Gothic Tales of Haunted Love edited by Hope Nicholson and S.M. Beiko Other books Meghan read Useful Phrases for Immigration by May-lee Chai Wedding in Autumn and Other Stories by Chiung-Yu Shih Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories by Yukiko Motoya The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada A Manual for Cleaning Women: Collected Stories by Lucia Berlin Bad Endings by Carleigh Baker Can RJ Recommend a Book by a Trans Author in this Genre? A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett Maiden Mother Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction Other Media We Mention Hellboy Series Itty Bitty Hellboy by Art Baltazar and Franco Flight Series Beyond: the Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology Lightspeed Magazine Strange Horizons Borne by Jeff VanderMeer Zombies Vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (anthology with a story by RJ!) Links, Articles, and Things Nebula Rules Short Story: less than 7,500 words; Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less than 17,500 words; Novella: at least 17,500 words but less than 40,000 words Novel: 40,000 words or more. Game Writing: An interactive or playable story-driven work which conveys narrative, character, or story background. Picaresque novel January 1998 North American ice storm Suggest new genres! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 16th for our 75th episode when we’ll be discussing other books and media we've been imbibing! Then come back on Tuesday, May 7th when we’ll be talking about the genre of Fairy Tales/Fables/Legends/Myths/Folklore!
Brea and Mallory talk about how books get made and interview editor Navah Wolfe! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Navah Wolfe Saga Press https://twitter.com/sagasff Books Mentioned - Warcross by Marie Lu Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran The Power by Naomi Alderman Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik The Starlit Wood edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland Impostor Syndrome by Mishell Baker
In today's episode of Signal Boost, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien join Paul to talk about the Uncanny Magazine Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and Year Four Kickstarter. Elsa is the Non-Fiction Editor and Dominik is the Fiction Editor for the special edition of Uncanny Magazine focusing on disability representation in Science Fiction and Fantasy. […]
In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents poetry from the November issues of Strange Horizons. “Counterpart“ by Stefanie Maclin read by Julia Rios. You can read the full text of the poem, and more about Stefanie here. “What the Higgs Boson Means to Me“ by C. W. Johnson read by Anaea Lay. You can read the full text of the poem, and more about C. W. here. “Sand Bags“ by Dominik Parisien read by Anaea Lay. You can read the full text of the poem, and more about Dominik here. “Datafall“ by Richard Larson read by Julia Rios. You can read the full text of the poem, and more about Richard here.
In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents poetry from the 2013 Fund Drive and hosts a round table discussion with fellow podcast readers Julia Rios and Ciro Faienza. I Am Learning to Forget by Dominik Parisien, read by Ciro Faienza. You can read the text of the poem, and more about Dominik, here. Full Metal Hanuman, by Bryan Thao Worra, read by Julia Rios. You can read the text of the poem, and more about Bryan, here. This podcast has been published as part of our 2013 fund drive bonus issue! Read more about Strange Horizons' funding model, or donate, here.