Episode 39: Your trans ancestors and elders hold your activist tender heart

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Episode 39: Your trans ancestors and elders hold your activist tender heart

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Nov 20, 2018

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Scholar and filmmaker Dr. Susan Stryker celebrates the continuum of trans history, and speaks to queering time through her relationships with both elders and ancestors in the trans community. This episode is in honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance.

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Nov 20, 2018

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Bespoken Bones supports the development of radiant erotic wellness in past, present and future generations! The intention of this podcast is to create a rich, multi-disciplinary archive of research around the topics of ancestors, sexuality, trauma, and ecology.

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Episode 005: Time travel, erotic states and trauma healing: Dr. Jenny Wade, author of Transcendent Sex, speaks on how erotic states of being are altered states, and can be used to create change and healing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 008: Feeling pleasure and aliveness around sex: Somatic Sex Educator Caffyn Jesse speaks on self-regulation of the nervous system, ancestral trauma renegotiation and deep somatic pleasure. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 006: Breathing with our Ancestors: Renegade Sexual Mystic M'kali-Hashiki speaks on developing ancestral consciousness, and the integration of our erotic lives through breathwork practice. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 003 : Accessing the Realm of the Ancestors: Rashani Chandra Alexandre speaks on the role of ancestors in tantric Hinduism, and practicing ancestral consciousness. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 18: Shamanism, sexual wounds and healing: Listen as shamanic healer and teacher Christina Pratt, host of the Why Shamanism Now podcast and founder of the Last Mask Center speaks on holistic sexuality, the spiritual consequences of sexual violation, and the retrieval of soul... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 001: Pathways for the Blessings: Dr. Daniel Foor speaks on embodying the goodness of our older, bright well ancestors and how developing ancestral relationships can benefit our lives. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 009: Plants are our ancestors: Atava Garcia Swiecicki of Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine speaks on connecting with our indigenous medicine, developing relationships with plants that support the healing of transgenerational trauma and plants... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 39: Your trans ancestors and elders hold your activist tender heart: Scholar and filmmaker Dr. Susan Stryker celebrates the continuum of trans history, and speaks to queering time through her relationships with both elders and ancestors in the trans community. This episode is in honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
47 min listen
Episode 15: Language is a spell: Chinese medicine, encoded ancestral wisdom and ephemeral dreams: Listen as acupuncturist and herbalist Erin Langley of Ancestral Acupuncture speaks truth on the intersection of ancestors and healing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 16: Trauma as call to prayer: Taya Shere waxes poetic on healing Jewish ancestral healing, participating in an embodied, holy life, and bliss as the prayer. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 26: Healing our relationship with Death: Listen as death doula and ritualist Sarah Kerr of Soul Passages discusses how to prepare to be a good ancestor, have a good death, and face the truth that life is finite. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 27: Mental health crisis as ancestral initiation: Sangoma Gogo Ekhaya Esima of Sangoma Healing speaks on her initiation through mental health crisis and the importance of being humble on our knees before our ancestors. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 23: Art, queer ancestors and healing sex: Listen as Artistic Director Seth Eisen discusses how art can bring queer ancestors OUT of the shadows and into the light in his new San Francisco collaboration OUT of SITE, and the multigenerational healing that can happen from diving deep into our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 32: Unspelling White Supremacy through Ancestral Storytelling: UK storyteller and activist Elinor Predota discusses the importance of multiplicity of perspectives when learning the stories of our ancestors, who lived rich, multi-faceted lives. Storytelling can be a healing practice that allows the humanity and... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 40: The place for our wounding is the dirt under our feet: Disability justice, embodied activism and taking care of each other: In this episode, artist, poet, writer and facilitator Naomi Ortiz speaks to the intersection of place, ancestors, activism embodiment and disability justice. Naomi is a Disabled, Mestiza (Latina/Indigenous/White), raised in Latinx culture, living... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 30: Breaking the spell of dis-belonging: on land, bones and ancestral boners: Cultural geographer Christos Galanis speaks on ecosexuality as ancestral sexuality, and embodying the priniciples of sacred reciprocity, integrity and consent. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 24: The past is present: Jung, ancestors and healing transgenerational sexual trauma: Jungian therapist and author Dr. Sandra Easter discusses her work and book "Jung and the Ancestors Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web" on how we can heal generations of suffering by opening our hearts to feeling what is present in our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 25: Astrology, Ancestors and the queerness of Uranus: Archetypal Astrologer Rebecca Farrar speaks in plain English on ancestral connections within astrological birth charts, and the power of viewing your life through an astrological lens. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 45: Re-Membering our ancestral knowings with our plantcestors: Layla Feghali of River Rose Apothecary speaks here of how to regather ancestral memory and access our embodied memory. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 39: Your trans ancestors and elders hold your activist tender heart

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