Psych and the City

Sarah speaks to consent educator and founder of Comprehensive Consent, Sarah Casper @comprehensiveconsent, about the missing pieces from today's conversations regarding consent. Sarah tells us about how she developed her framework, her workshops, and why it matters. She also explains why blocking sites from your children is the wrong approach, ways to handle rejection, and that consent is a practice not a one-time thing.

CW: Fundamentalism, Evangelicalism, Spirituality, Religion, Spiritual and Religious Abuse and Trauma, Adverse Religious Experiences Sarah speaks with Kayla Felten, LICSW and Kendra Snyder, LMFT, NCC about their experiences growing up in fundamentalist evangelical communities. Now, their work as therapists includes holding space for folks navigating Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse, and Adverse Religious Experiences. In this episode, (it's one of my favorites), Kendra and Kayla share how they're reclaiming their bodies, intuitions, and whole selves through deconstruction and reclamation.  Resources: Spiritual Power Inventory  What is Purity Culture? https://lindakayklein.com/what-is-purity-culture/ Website: Reclamation Collective Instagram: @reclamationcollective  Kendra Snyder www.kendrasnydertherapy.com To find out more about Kayla's psychedelic assisted psychotherapy work, please visit iit-mn.com

Sarah speaks with Adrie Rose, @adrierising, about the legal approaches currently applied to sex work. Adrie is a sociology graduate student, freelance writer, photographer, and former sex worker, sidelined by the pandemic whose research focuses on the ways that financial institutions, online communities, and social media platforms respond to the criminalization of sex work. Adrie and Sarah discuss criminalization, the Nordic model, legalization, and finally, decriminalization - the approach that sex workers are fighting for. If you care about human rights, labor rights, feminism, stopping gendered violence, transphobia, misogyny, and racism - listening to sex workers is a great place to start.  Correction** I stated that France operates under partial criminalization. However, France adopted the Nordic Model in 2016. More learning and resources: @adrierising (Twitter and Instagram) adrierose.link Revolting Prostitutes The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights By: Molly Smith and Juno Mac TedTalk: The laws that sex workers really want by Juno Mac Hackinghustling.org Support: Whose Corner is it Anyway?

CW: This episode speaks about drug use, mentions of self-harm, and eating disorder behaviors. Sarah speaks to Jessica Lamb, 1/2 of the team behind the incredibly informative Instagram @harm.reduction.saves.lives and the East Kootenay Network of People Who Use Drugs (EKNPUD). Jessica and Patrick spend their time advocating and creating peer supports to help dismantle the stigma and the drug war. Jessica is a harm reduction advocate who believes that a harm reduction approach is not only the solution to the war on drugs but saves countless lives, hers included. Resources and more learning: @harm.reduction.saves.lives National Harm Reduction Coalition: harmreduction.org

What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? Sarah and Angela Chen, author of one of the first books about asexuality - ACE What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex - discuss the ace worlds.  Resources: http://www.angelachen.org/ www.asexuality.org/ https://asexualagenda.wordpress.com/ www.soundsfakepod.com www.aokpod.com

Sarah and Lea Salonganisa breakdown Section 230, FOSTA-SESTA, The EARN-IT Act, and the newer proposed bill SISEA. Lea teaches us that bills never really die, how these bills infringe on the rights and safety of all, and are detrimental to the lives and safety of sex workers. If you care about human rights and cyber safety, you care about this.  The Petition: https://www.change.org/p/jeff-merkley-stop-sisea-stop-internet-exploitation-act-from-passing READING AND RESOURCES @lea_salonganisa https://hackinghustling.org/ (FOSTA/SESTA AND EARN-IT, plus a ton of information in general) https://twitter.com/acvalens/status/1340338322326106112 Section 230: https://www.theverge.com/21273768/section-230-explained-internet-speech-law-definition-guide-free-moderation ORGANIZATIONS: https://swopusa.org/ https://www.stjamesinfirmary.org/

Sarah speaks with Chara, @theblackbisexual, who centers the Black, Bisexual, and Disabled narrative on intersectionality. Chara shares her journey with bisexuality, language, sex education, and sitting with self. Chara discusses common bisexual myths and examines how our identities impact the way we move through the world and discover our sexual selves. Find Chara @theblackbisexual

Fellow podcast host and comedian, Honey Leavitt, shares their journey with clinical depression and what comes up navigating an open marriage. She shares about rejection, recovery, and what she’s learned.

Sarah and Jozey Moon - performer and Soldiers of Pole board member - discuss labor movements, unions, the impact of COVID-19 on clubs, and Instagram's updated terms of service. How is this related to sex and psychology? Workplace civility impacts our mental and physical health and everybody deserves a safe and sane work environment.  Resources: @soldiers_of_pole @juicy.jozey Twitter: juicyjozeyy Instagram, Stop Unfairly Censoring Nudity and Sexuality Petition - Sign!  This link is the petition mentioned in the episode regarding Instagram's updated Terms of Service. Please sign and share. 

Michelle Hammer, @schizophrenic.nyc, is a Schizophrenia activist and the creator and founder of the company Schizophrenic.NYC. Michelle was diagnosed with Schizophrenia at 22, after a misdiagnosis of Bipolar Disorder at age 18. Michelle's company mission is to reduce stigma by starting conversations about mental health. Michelle and Sarah discuss common symptoms, misconceptions surrounding a schizophrenia diagnosis, sex and medications, and Michelle shares her thoughts on schizophrenia-related semantics and language choices.  More information about Michelle and her work can be found at: https://www.schizophrenic.nyc/