

Modern Anarchy
Dr. Nicole Thompson
Modern Anarchy is your weekly invitation to reclaim pleasure, sex, and desire as radical acts of liberation. Hosted by queer psychotherapist and researcher Dr. Nicole, an academic voice on non-monogamy and embodied pleasure trained in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, the show explores intimacy, erotic sovereignty, and healing through raw conversations with pleasure activists, artists, therapists, and rebels from around the world. Are you ready to dive in?
Learn more: www.modernanarchypodcast.com
Learn more: www.modernanarchypodcast.com
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Jan 25, 2023 • 1h 14min
92. Platonic Intimacy, Forced Birth, and Sexism with Asia Dorsey
On today's episode, podcaster and herbalist Asia Dorsey (She/They) joins us for a conversation all about a critical analysis of contemporary sexism. Together we talk about love as a conduit of oppression, reclaiming with fourth wave feminism, and how the personal is binary but the political is queer.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
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The Petty Herbalist Podcast
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Resources to Learn More:
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
The Velvet Glove
The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Bernie Sanders explains Democratic Socialism
Cornel West on Democratic socialism
Dr. Cornel West on Socialism | Joe Rogan
Kindred
Relational-Cultural Theory: Fostering Healthy Coexistence Through a Relational Lens

Jan 18, 2023 • 59min
91. What Is The Most Pleasurable Sex You've Experienced? with Annie Philpott
On today's episode, we have the founder of The Pleasure Project, Anne Philpott (She/Her), join us for a conversation all about the liberation of pleasure. Together we talk about the declaration on sexual pleasure, the seven pleasure principles, and changing the paradigm of sex education.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
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The Pleasure Project
Resources to Learn more
Declaration on Sexual Pleasure
10 Surprising Health Benefits of Sex
The Ethical Slut
Women who have fewer orgasms expect and desire less during sex with their partners
What Is The Orgasm Gap?
When Spousal Rape First Became a Crime in the U.S.

Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 17min
90. How About Swinging? Pegging, Prostate Orgasms, and the Bisexual Man with Cooper Beckett
On today's episode, we have sex educator and writer Cooper Beckett (he/him) join us for a conversation all about transformative sexual experiences. Together we talk about the spectrum of non-monogamy, sitting with the scary questions, and having the license to be ourselves.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
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Resources to Learn More:
Open Relationships Are More Popular Than You Might Think
What to Know About Rising STD Rates Among Seniors
NAUGHTY N'AWLINS
Shortbus

Jan 4, 2023 • 58min
89. Burning The Holy Mormon Underwear: Kink, Community, and the God Complex with Madazon
On today's episode, performing artist and dominatrix Madazon (They/Them) joins us for a conversation about a different understanding of community. Together we talk about the fear of expansive love, being a sacred interrupter, and deconstructing the god complex.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Ex Mormon Domme Website
Madazon Can Can Website
Resources to Learn More:
What is subspace?
How common is BDSM?
Polygamy in Christianity

Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 25min
88. The Revolution is Now: Are We Ready to Flip The Board of Capitalism? with Kori Doty
On today's episode, Kori Doty (They/Them/Theirs) joins us for a conversation about how the system keeps us disconnected. Together we talk about having a full relationship with our body, time-traveler trouble, and noticing the costs of capitalism.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
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Imagination Revolution
Resources to Learn More:
What is Harm Reduction?
The Link Between Dopamine and ADHD
Tada Hozumi
The Body Keeps the Score
TikTok's algorithm is promoting homophobia and anti-trans violence on For You Pages, experiment finds
These TikTok Creators Say They’re Still Being Suppressed for Posting Black Lives Matter Content
TikTok Admits It Suppressed Videos by Disabled, Queer, and Fat Creators

Dec 14, 2022 • 1h 2min
87. Stop Waiting for Others to Validate Your Shine: A New Paradigm of Healing and Spirituality with Eduardo Viezca
On today's episode, love and relationship coach and psychotherapist, Eduardo Viezca (He/They/King) joins us for a conversation about a new paradigm of healing and spirituality. Together we talk about integrating the transpersonal within western modalities of therapy, following spiritual bread crumbs, and leaning into the beauty of our imperfection.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Resources to Learn More:
Understand Your Dreams by Using Jung's “Active Imagination”
The Mestizo perspective
How the mixed-race mestizo myth warped science in Latin America
The Wounded Healer as Cultural Archetype
Jung and the Archetype of the Wounded Healer
Eliminating Microaggressions: The Next Level of Inclusion | Tiffany Alvoid | TEDxOakland
Everything you need to know about Reiki
What is Reiki?
Qigong: What You Need To Know

Dec 7, 2022 • 1h 21min
86. Am I Cutting Off My Identity By Only Having Sex with One Person? with Chris K
On today's episode, Chris K (any pronouns) joins us for a vulnerable conversation about their journey into the liberation of polyamory and unfolding the matrix. Together we talk about the expansiveness of connection, the surrender and trust needed to find security in change, and how our identity shifts through relationships.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
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Can’t Help but Fly (feat. Be Steadwell & Luqman Frank)

Nov 30, 2022 • 1h 12min
85. Embracing Your Sluthood and Geeking Out About Relationship Anarchy with Brian Gibney
On today's episode, we have surrogate partner and intimacy coach Brian Gibney (He\Him) join us for a conversation all about fully embracing your sluthood through relationship anarchy. Together we talk about reinventing yourself with radical vulnerability, waving your freak flag, and finding security in the gift that you are in your relationships.
RELATIONSHIP ANARCHY RESEARCH : https://www.modernanarchypodcast.com/relationshipanarchy
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Brian's Community:
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Resources to Learn More:
The Ethical Slut
Can You Be Asexual, but Also Enjoy Kink?
Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life
Central Relational Paradox
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

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Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 19min
84. Relationship Anarchy: The Romance Myth and Navigating Jealousy with Dean Spade
On today's episode, writer and activist Dean Spade (He\Him) joins us for a conversation all about liberating our relationships from patriarchal and capitalist understandings of connection. Together we talk about building community outside of the nuclear model, choosing to be uncomfortable in order to live more, and feeling powerless to jealousy.
RELATIONSHIP ANARCHY RESEARCH : https://www.modernanarchypodcast.com/relationshipanarchy
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Dean Spade's Community
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Resources to Learn More:
Fireweed Collective
Dismantling the Romance Myth
Falling In Love Hits The Brain Like Cocaine Does
The Brain Looks The Same When We're In Love Or High On Cocaine
What is the Relationship Escalator?
Loneliness at epidemic levels in America
Angela Davis likens abolishing the prison system to end of slavery
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Between monogamy and polyamory
Relationship anarchy could be about so much more than the freedom to fuck
Of relationship anarchy, accessibility and sitting shiva— Part 1: The anarchism of “relationship anarchy

Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 11min
83. Everyone is Alone Together: Celibacy, People Pleasing, and Self-Love with Ally McDowell
On today's episode, Ally McDowell (She\Her) opens up vulnerably about her mental health journey and reconnecting with her body. Together we talk about itching the wound in mental spirals, giving people the opportunity to love us, and the beauty of smoking a bowl and stretching it out.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Facebook
Patreon
Resources To Learn More:
Grumpy Cat
Schitt's Creek
Generational Trauma
Cannabis for the Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Report of 3 Cases
“I Use Weed for My ADHD”: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Forum Discussions on Cannabis Use and ADHD
Maggie Rogers - Back In My Body (Audio)