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Writer Tina Horn has created one of the most sex positive and sex worker positive pieces of media with her new comic SFSX (aka Safe Sex). We talk about how sex work informed her take on a dystopian San Francisco, and about the business of moving from nonfiction writing to journalism to comics.
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Photographer Substantia Jones joins Allison to discuss fat visibility. We discuss the challenges and joys of working with amateur models, the barriers fat people face when trying to exist let alone thrive in a world that wants them to disappear, and the utter joy of watching people embrace their bodies on camera.
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Naked Athena and the Wall of Moms have been getting a lot of mainstream news coverage in response to Federal agents' hostile occupation of Portland, Oregon. Is this a show of allyship or appropriation?
For more, read Mitchell S. Jackson's "Who Gets to Be Naked Athena?" in the New York Times Op-Ed section.
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Installation artist and Shibari educator Midori joins me for an exploration of some of her most evocative installation pieces and how her work as a bondage educator intersects with her artistic practice.
Midori ( 美登里 ) is a multidisciplinary, social practice artist and activist. A Tokyo native and long-time San Franciscan, she’s known for her durational and interactive performances and engaged installations. She’s shown at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay Lesbian Art, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Open Society Foundations NYC, Root Division San Francisco, Das Arts Amsterdam, Gorilla Gallery Oaxaca Mexico, VN Jaeger & Schwarzwald in Vienna, among others.
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Sex podcaster Stephen Penta talks with Allison about gender, being a dude in the sex-ed world, RomComs as "pornography of the heart" and talking love with people who just want to learn about bjs.
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Co-writers Alana Phelan and Kevin Patterson discuss navigating metamour-ship and friendship while writing books, making private lives public, and bridging the gap between relationship education and narrative fiction. Find their books here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732872805
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Allison is joined by old friend and splendid writer Rachel Gold to discuss queer representation in lit, sex in YA, neurodiversity as a superpower. From lesbian werewolves to Wolverine doing dusting, we cover a lot of ground! Learn more about Rachel at rachelgold.com
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Booksellers Charlotte and Fi of Category Is in Glasgow, Scotland, join Allison to discuss the politics of queer visibility and the ongoing need for social spaces for sexual minorities. Come for the vampires and stay for the Gore Vidal.
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A writer shared an interesting fact about American Gothic and got odd blowback from people who refused to acknowledge the truth. When our opinions are so tied to our emotions, how can we ever hope to have our minds changed?
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Fashion designer and social worker Nhakia Outland uses fashion to teach young audiences in Philadelphia about empowerment, sex education, and healthy relationships.
Plus: A short tribute to fetish artist Namio Harukawa
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Commonly used in sexual healing practices and ritual, what's the problem with sexual archetypes based on the 'universal' concepts of men and women? What's the opposite of depersonalizing sex? In this Artgasm Quickie, Allison discusses a concept and critique that opens Angela Carter's classic sexual philosophy text The Sadeian Woman.
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Burlesque performer and producer, Laika Fox digs into the the business and politics of burlesque and what it means to use stripping as a means of explorating the politicization of the body.
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Do you have to make stuff to matter? Do you have to provide value to deserve to live? Allison gets personal on this special productivity-focused solo episode of Artgasm.
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Illustrator Felix D'eon shares his love of storybook aesthetics, representing queer love through erotic and tender depictions, and his commitment to cultural and historical accuracy in representing LGBTQ stories around the globe.
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Malta has some of the most remarkable Neolithic artifacts including what many refer to as "goddess" figures. But what do these figures actually represent? What were they for? And how do our modern sensibilities skew understanding of ancient cultures?
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Artgasm is back! Kick of season 2 with erotica writer/editor Rachel Kramer Bussel. We talk about the power of listening to smut while shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers AND how filthy fiction can expand your mind.
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This Artgasm Quickie is inspired by a recent dust-up I had over on the book of faces. I talk about what sex positivity is, where it came from, what it's for, and why so many people misunderstand it.
As always, I welcome your thoughts in the comments!
Thank you for your support!** To get more content like this, support my Patreon at Patreon.com/artgasm where I post mini-solo episodes on a monthly basis. **
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Allison joins her partner of 12 years, Reid Mihalko, for an intimate conversation about their journeys through sex and kink, their philosophies on the erotica and the taboo, and how Reid discovered the transformative power of touch.
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Throwing orgies in 250 sq. Ft | The sexy secrets of old New York | Celebrity run-ins in the Meatpacking district | The gentrification of queerness | If BDSM dungeons were like Equinox gyms | Taboo and the erotic | Exploring kink | Being a service switch | Sanitization of the illicit | The power of the erotic mind | The sensuous vs the erotic | Sex as nourishment | Performative vulnerability | The modest origins of Cuddle Party | Psychedelics | Discovering your identity in a sea of writhing bodies
Worththejourney.com
Patreon.com/artgasm
Reidaboutsex.com
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We explore the interface between sex and technology with the co-founder of Lioness, Liz Klinger. Lioness is a smart vibrator that uses biofeedback to help map your orgasm and do super nifty stuff with the data. Listen to learn what experiments Allison ran with it!
Close In Munch Portland: https://www.facebook.com/events/1105896069597060/
A tribute to Carolee Schneemann:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/08/carolee-schneeman-performance-artist-taught-us-how-to-live?CMP=share_btn_tw&fbclid=IwAR266hHHimbjnaIw3oB0AKDk1caJOvHSE1xIxhwhODuv5HBao87J52VnQQQ
Lioness.io
Patreon.com/artgasm
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Dr. Carol Queen created the Center for Sex and Culture over 20 years ago with her partner Robert Lawrence. Together they amassed a HUGE amount of San Francisco sex culture history. We talk about the brilliant mystery of the secret sex lives of the people around us and dive deep into “Erotology” aka the study of eroticism.
In the intro: Men’s fashion and the way the Napoleonic Wars took away men’s cultural permission to be pretty.
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Betty Dodson “The Mother of Masturbation” | the Lusty Lady | San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI)| Jack and Jill Off Parties | Queen of Heaven Parties | Masturbate-A-Thon | Getting non-profit status as a sex-positive organization | The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality | Good Vibrations | 848 Community Space | The Silo-ing of Gay Communities | The Zine Revolution & On Our Backs Magazine | Perverts Put Out | The safety of being an audience member | Coming of age in Eugene, Oregon | The joy of small-town gay bars | Polyamory vs. Sex Positivity | The Individuality of Sexual Etiquette | HIV and surviving community crisis | Patrick Califia & Samois | Charles Gatewood | Larry Townsend & Drummer Magazine | The “Nomenclature Wars”
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Support Artgasm: https://patreon.com/artgasmUpcoming event: Close In Munch on March 18 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1105896069597060
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