Show Notes
Episode | Title | Date | Guests | Show Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ep. 228 | Demi Wylde: Embraces Life | Sept. 19, 2022 | Demi Wylde | Demi Wylde, podcaster and poet, joins FCOT to talk about pursuing the arts, hook-up horror stories, and much more! |
ep. 227 | Spencer Bishins: SSDI Demystified | Sept. 12, 2022 | Spencer Bishins | Spencer Bishins, lawyer and former SSDI employee, chats about the SSDI process, where it goes wrong, and how to access the benefits you have paid into. |
ep. 226 | ReGina Smithwick: On Adoption | Sept. 9, 2022 | ReGina Smithwick | ReGina Smithwick, life coach, joins FCOT to talk about her adoption story. She hid the fact she was adopted for 50 years from everyone, including her husband. She talks about what happen when she came out about being adopted, adopting her own daughter, and more! |
ep. 225 | Lori Sweetman: Comes Into Themselves | Aug. 29, 2022 | Lori Sweetman | Lori Sweetman, former k12 educator and current LGBTQ activist, joins FCOT to talk about advocating for queer youth, coming out later in life, opening up their marriage, and more! |
Ep. 224 | Aug. 22, 2022 | Ayzad | Ayzad, former Italian Journalist turned kink writer and educator, shares what he has learned from a lifetime of kink in the EU. | |
Ep. 223 | Powerful Badass | Aug. 15, 2022 | Nika Cherrelle | Nika Cherrelle is a fine art sculptor, host of The "It" Cast, empowerment coach, and all-arouind badass. She talke about going up in MO as a Black woman, what education taught her about her position in society, and how she has come to love herself. |
ep. 222 | Finding Your Voice | Aug. 8, 2022 | Tallulah Breslin | Tallulah Breslin is gender-affirming voice coach. She shares the art and science of creating the voice you want. |
ep. 221 | This Wasn't Covered in the Book | Aug. 1, 2022 | Mistress Schari | Mistress Schari has been a professional Dominatrix for over two decades. She shares what she has learned working as a Domme and a stripper. |
ep. 220 | July 25, 2022 | Boss Boar | Boss Boar (kink educator) joins Fat Chicks to talk the psychology of kink, fear play, humiliation/degredation, advanced consent, and more! | |
ep. 219 | July 18, 2022 | Mir Green | Mir Green (owner, Wicked Grounds) joins Auntie Vice to talk politics, revolution, queeness, and keeping Starbucks out of the San Fancisco Leather District. | |
ep.218 | Dr. Liz Powell: Invites You In | June 11, 2022 | Dr. Liz Powell | Dr. Liz Powell joins Fat Chicks to talk about nonbinary identites, queerness, therapy, healing, and community trauma. |
ep. 217 | Jimanekia Eborn: Tending Her Garden | June 27, 2022 | Jimanekia Eborn | Jimanekia Eborn, sexaul healing expert, talks about healing trauma, informed sexuality, and bisexuality. |
ep. 216 | Dulcinea Pitagora: Kink Doctor | June 20, 2022 | Dulcinea Pitagora | Dr. Dulcinea Pitagora joins Fat Chicks on Top to talk about the academic and spiritual understanding of kink. From early work as a pro-Domme in NYC to their academic work on sub-space, the heteronormativity of ano-receptive men in kink, and more!
Auntie Vice gets to geek-out in conversation with another Ph.D. delving into the nuances of kink, trust, and connection. So. Much. Fun.
Dr. Pitagora now works as a therapist and academic in NYC. They talk about a journey of gender affirmation, healing and kink, and much more. We also touch on their great kink reading list! Check out the links below. |
ep. 215 | Terry Dornak: Swashbuckling Bisexual | June 13, 2022 | Terry Dornak | Jet Noir joins Fat Chicks on Top to talk about burlesque, inspiration, living in iconic cities, and being raised in a sex-positive family in Detroit in the 1980s.
As a Black, cis-male dancer, Jet has a different journey and experience with the art form that the other artists featured in the Erotic Performer series.
One of my most interesting interviews! |
214 | Rahim Thawer: Gay, Muslim, and Fabulous! | June 6, 2022 | Rahim Thawer | Rahim Thawer is a therapist focusing on LGBTQ folks witha sub-specialty in shame. He has lived in several countries and joins Fat Chicks to talk about queerness, shame, envy, and community. He provides insight into the role circut parties play in gay life around the world. He talks about the intersecting identities of being Muslim and gay. |
Ep. 213 | 05/30/2022 | Jet Noir | Jet Noir, burlesque dancer, joins the show to talk performing, burlesque, growing up in a sex-positive family, living around the U.S., and much more. | |
Ep. 211 | Rae Luna: I'm Hot and I Know It! | May 16, 2022 | Rae Luna | Rae Luna, nonbinary, brown, bigger-bodied burlseque dancer joins Fat Chicks to talk about getting comfortable with your own body, finding identity as a mixed-race person, and connecting with community. Find them at _Omoonrae_ on twitter and IG. Upcoming shows include July 8 with Om Nom Nom Nonbinary burlesque and July 22nd with No Cover Caberet in San Francisco, CA. |
Ep. 210 | Rain De Grey: Creating All the Things | Rain De Grey: Creating All the Things | Rain De Grey | Rain De Grey (author, podcaster, film star) joins Fat Chicks to talk about neurodivergence, kink, and creativity. Rain discusses how autism has shaped her approach to the world and allows her to be incredibly creative. We chat kink community, performance, and much more! |
Ep. 209 | Gretchen Felker Martin: Divine Filth | April 25, 2022 | Gretchen Felker-Martin | Gretchen Felker-Martin (author) joins Fat Chicks to talk about her novel Manhunt. We discuss transness, fatness, creativity, and problematic TERFs. |
Ep. 208 | Imani Barbarin: Black, Disabled, Joy! | April 17, 2022 | Imani Barbarin | Imani Barbarin (disabilities activist) discusses what it is like to be fat, Black, and disabled. We chat about the difference between American and French healthcare, the impending hiring crisis, COVID, and much more! |
Ep. 207 | April 11, 2022 | Meg Elison | Meg Elison, Author (Road to Nowhere series, Big Girl), join Auntie Vice to talk writing, lesbian post-apocalyptic literature, bisexuality and more! | |
Ep. 206 | Devyn Stone: Striving and Thriving | April 4, 2022 | Devyn Stone | Devyn Stone, kink educator and writer, joins Fat Chicks to chat about becoming a kink educator, learning about the psychology of kink, being neurodivergent, the fawn response and their upcoming Thrive Conference. |
Ep. 205 | Jesse Rivera Finds His Tribe | March 27, 2022 | Jesse Rivera | Comic and podcaster, Jesse Rivera, chats aging, turning 50, stand-up comedy, and podcasting. He sends love out to Sacramento comics and his favorite spots to perform and eat tacos. |
Ep. 204 | Comedy & Sex | March 20, 2022 | Dani Deluca and Paul Spock | Danielle Deluca joins Auntie Vice and Erica Ambrin to chat working as a phone sex operator, dating, hoot-ups, weed and sex toys. Paul Spock joins Auntie Vice and Wendy Lewis to talk stand-up comedy, Type I diabetes, and DJing strip clubs. |
Ep. 203 | Alex Yarde and All Things Geek | Mar. 13, 2022 | Alex Yarde, CharRon Smith | The Batman (2022) discussed with no spoilers, MCU Avengers, X-Men and Spiderman and representation, Power Rangers, Archer, Lovecraft County, RoboTech, Star Trek and more discussed in relationship to representation and writing. |
Ep. 202 | Xavier Bettencourt: So Gay | March 6, 2022 | Xavier Bettencourt | Xavier Bettencourt is a sketch & improve comic and alter ego to Dolly Poppers. First interview recorded in 2019; Second interview recorded in 2022. Cover stage looks, developing personas, drag and body acceptance; corsets and body image; getting paid as a entertainer; transparency in paying performers; creating Queer Space; and surviving lockdown.
45:00 Moment of Gratitude: Xavier Bettencourt
40:00 Ask Your Auntie: Kitchen cleaning techniques; crushing on someone to the exclusion of all other interested parties |
Ep. 1 | Pilot | June 24, 2018 | Wayne King; Renair Amin; ChaCha Burnadette | Wayne King discusses boylesque and La Croix; Renair Amin talks Pink Love, growing up in the Baptist church, healing, being non-binary and aggressive and Ms. Full Figure USA; ChaCha Burnadette talks bodies and burlesque. |
Ep. 2 | Healthy Bodies | June 25, 2018 | Bevyn (Fat Kids Dance Party); AndYes (poet); April Lauren | Bevin discusses the origin of Fat Kids Dance Party and its future; AndYes discusses immigrant identity and slam poetry; Amber Lauren chats living with an invisible disab;lity; navigating the health care system |
Ep. 3 | Dating | June 24, 2018 | Andrew Gurza; Melissa McMurray; Wendy Lewis | Andrew Gurza talks dating while disabled; managing personal care and dating; sex and pleasure for disabled folks; Melissa McMurray discusses kink, dating while fat, polyamory; Wendy Lewis chats weed, stand-up, and physical beauty |
Ep. 4 | Men | June 25, 2018 | Ngaio Bealum; Issac Torres; Sean MacKinney | Ngaio discusses new show Cooking on High on Netflix; weed seshes; changes in weed in past decade; Ike Torres talks being a play write and being fat; Sean Mackinney discusses chronic migranes, male body image; polyamory |
Ep. 5 | Occupying Space | June 18, 2018 | St. Francis AssEZ; Alice in Bondageland; Diana Hong | Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; Chunky Dunk events; Shooting fun porn; bondage in public; cross-dressing club; Diana Hong discusses going from pro golfer to stoner stand-up; |
Ep. 6 | Healthy Bodies | Aug 18, 2018 | Hetherbeth Woodford; Kelli Dunham | Importance of adult sex ed; teaching college students about sex; celebrating polyamory and kink; Kelli Dunham discusses going from nun to nurse to queer comic; trauma informed care; understanding yourself |
Ep. 7 | Sexy Bodies: 2 | Aug. 29, 2018 | Suz Ellis; Elle Chase | Suz Ellis talks being a curvy cam girl; dating in your 20s; dating apps; Elle Chase (Curvy Girl Sex) talks about aging, being bigger bodied; boudouir shots |
Ep. 8 | The Princess Kali & Body Political | Sept. 19, 2018 | Princess Kali; Andi and Laika (producers) from Body Political | Pro Domming; kink; objectification play; kink community; burlesque; political burlesque |
Ep. 9 | This is 40! | Nov. 12, 2018 | Evie Vane; Tina Hayes | Turning 40; freeing yourself of social expectations; sex after 40; changing bodies; eating disorders; kink; rope and bondage |
901: Bonus | Bonus with Alice in Bondageland | Jan 10, 2019 | Alice in Bondageland; Bevin from Fat Kids Dance Party | Eating out solo; self-care rituals; pet play |
Ep. 10 | Decolonizing Beauty | Jan. 29, 2019 | Mariana Mocossos; Stacey Gee | Guest Mariana Mocossos discusses the Decolonizing Beauty project; unlearning western standards of beauty; embracing all beauty; Slam poetry; growing up Asian in America |
Ep. 11 | Sex Toys! | Feb. 27, 2019 | Paul Imagine; Lindsey Hoppe | Paul Image- sex shop owner, discusses owning and running a sex shop and how to get the most out of your visit; Lindsey Hoppe discusses becoming a sex toy reviews, sex toys for bigger bodies. |
902: Bonus | Nonbinary People on Nonbinary People | Mar. 20, 2019 | Renair Amin; Koe Creation | Nonbinary people discuss what nonbinary means to them; how they figured out they were nonbinary; and coming to connect with other enby folks. |
Ep. 12 | Connections | Mar. 25, 2019 | Koe Creation; Amy Estes | Koe Creation discusses their book "The Heart Holds Many" and growing up as a second generation polyam kid; Amy Estes discusses fad diets, intuitive eating, and learning to love herself |
Ep. 13 | Invisible Disabilities | Apr. 1, 2019 | Erica Ambrin; Ali Yada; Amber Whitford | living with an invisible disability; navigating the healthcare system; Invisible Disabilities Comedy Show |
Ep. 14b | Disability, Healing & Star Trek | May 11, 2019 | Greyson Shultz; Katori Knight; Ashley Whitford | Living with C-PTSD; Learning to love a disabled body; nonbinary identities; Star Trek fans |
Ep. 201 | EARNIT Act & Rainbow Kiss | Feb. 27,2022 | Sept. 23, 2019 | EARNIT Act; Rainbow Kisses |
Ep. 16 | Queer Women | Sept. 23, 2018 | Amy Estes, Ret. Sgt. Sage Fox, Carly DuHain; Shahera Hyatt | Dating while trans; dating while bisexual; UHauling relationships; lupus; bi-erasure; homeless youth; hecklers |
Ep. 15 | What a Drag! | May 25, 2019 | Katori Knight; Eartha Tremors; Shahera Hyatt | Drag King vs. Drag Queens; RuPaul's Drag Race impact on current drag scene; finding a drag identity; San Francisco vs Sacramento drag scenes; community service |
Ep. 14a | May 25, 2019 | Ret. Sgt. Sage Fox; Carly DuHain; Shahera Hyatt; Amy Estes | Coming out in the military; fighting for trans service member's rights to serve; dating while trans; bi-erasure; dating as a bi woman; living with Lupus; UHauling |