The Queer Spirit podcast has conversations with artists, healers and activists who enliven, heal and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Queer+ communities. Each episode we'll be interviewing a different guest who does work in the world to nourish the Queer Spirit in us all - authors, coaches, teachers, body workers, mystics, creatives, ritualists, diviners and MORE. We'll dive deep into sexuality, spirituality, yoga, energy work, shamanism, healing trauma, relationships, ...
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Welcome to The Queer Body! We are redefining the edges of queer identity and healing. The show is hosted by Dr. Laura Polak, Somatic Healer and Chiropractor.Join us as we talk about how we define what Queer means and shapes the healing work we do for ourselves, our community, and as part of social justice." 'Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with ( that can be a dimension of it), but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to inven ...
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Healing the Queer Spirit with Jonathan Koe
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Jonathan Koe is a queer astrologer, diviner, and alchemist of the subtle realm. Their work aims to empower fellow shapeshifters, visionaries and intuitives in remembering their essence, cultivating skills in being present with the ever-changing nature of reality, and weaving sincere, loving kinships with the world - even when the world has broken o…
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Sharing Magic on Our Hearts with Madre Jaguar
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Madre Jaguar (she/they) is a Queer, Non-Binary Birth Doula, Oracle and Curandera of Mayan, Pipil, Nahual and Garifuna descent. Born in Los Angeles, CA to Salvadoran immigrants and raised in Mexico. Their practice is rooted in their ancestral heritage and indigenous traditions of Mexico and Central America. Episode Highlights We learn about Madre Ja…
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Queer Books Save Lives with J.P. Der Boghossian
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J.P. DerBoghossian (he/they) is the founder of the Queer Armenian Library - the world's first library devoted to literature, film, and television by, about, and for Queer Armenians. He serves on the Board of the International Armenian Literary Alliance and is a past President of the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota. He hosts the podcast …
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Just the Queer of Us with TanyaMarck Oviedo & Nick Venegoni
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Join us for our season finale: Nick (he>they) + TanyaMarck (they/them) share about their queer story and connection. Episode Highlights We flow into and explore the potency of cultivating queer connections. We take a dip into queer spirituality. And finally we are honored to share and announce upcoming queer spirit offerings in 2024. Web links Foll…
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Exploring Queerness, Akashic Records + Tarot with Ruth Camillia
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Ruth Camillia (they/she/ella) is a bilingual, bicultural, healing arts practitioner, reiki master, akashic records practitioner, and tarot reader. With maternal Indigenous roots from Los Altos de Jalisco, México, they integrate curanderismo and other ancestral practices into their daily life and work. As an intuitive and trauma-informed practitione…
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The Green Wisdom of Herbalism with Rekara Gage
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*Audio Note: Volume and clarity varies during some parts of this interview. Rekara Gage (she/her) is an herbalist who focuses on the importance of ritual, safety and community when it comes to personal healing and growth. Her approach to wellness is based in food medicine and spirituality, emphasizing new ways to add plant medicine to the routines …
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Creating Dreams out of Chaos with Crystal Mason & Jason Wyman
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Crystal Mason (they/them) is an artist, activist, dreamer, consultant and coach. They believe in the power of community and necessity of hope. Jason Wyman (they/them) is Queerly Complex. Using appreciative inquiry, deep listening, and creative conjuring, Wyman taps the Cosmic Mysteries in all to reveal moments of Chaos Poetry. They live, love, and …
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Queering Dreams with Crystal Mason and Jason Wyman
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Crystal and Jason walk the walk and teach us through word and modeling how to be a collective. Explore with us the topic of creating a community and chosen family moving beyond the carceral state and seeding dreams of abolitionism. We then talk about how to be in the system and break it at the same time. Learn about the creed of commons and a frank…
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The Magic of Gender Exploration with Rae McDaniel
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Rae McDaniel (they/them) is a non-binary speaker, author, therapist, Certified Sex Therapist, coach and Transgender Diversity & Inclusion Educator. Rae helps audiences gain the sheer audacity to be themselves in the world through play, pleasure, and possibility. Their book Gender Magic is a first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender free…
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Celebrating Difference! Nick Venegoni on being Queer, Therapy and Shamanism
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Join us today as Nick explains his journey as a gay man who did not feel he fit in the gay male culture, his work life, and his family and embraced his weirdness through the exploration of his being a queer human. He explains that on this journey he realized that many of the things that others were doing did not appeal to him, clubs and partying, m…
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Alex Ricci Queering Pilates and Unboxing Queer Identity
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Join us as we discuss how different communities influence our queer identity. Being a partner of a trans man things are not always what the appear to be. Straight communities assume we are straight, queer communities can question our right to be in queer spaces. There are so many assumptions about other identities and really, it's nobody's business…
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The Science, Magic & Folklore of Crystals with Nicholas Pearson
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Welcome to Season 6 of the show! Nicholas Pearson (he/him) has been immersed in all aspects of the mineral kingdom for nearly 30 years. As one of the leading voices in crystal healing today, he offers a unique blend of science and spirituality alongside a grounded, practical approach to working with crystals. The author of several books, including …
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Season 6 of the podcast will launch next week on Monday, March 27th, 2023. We're excited and grateful to share this season with TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) as a co-host on the show. You may remember them from the last episode of season 5 last year. We want to share about some of our online offerings… First Saturdays Online Meditation + Breath Wor…
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The Queering of Masculine and Feminine Energies
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Join us as Trinity describes how her spiritual practice has helped her to examine the fluidity of masculine and feminine energies. By stepping out of the dominant paradigms understanding of Masculine and feminine she talks about how we can create ourselves with just the right blend in each situation. In the second half, we explore her work as a Kun…
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Willi Queer identity and dominant culture. How we are sculpted. Looking at where we are shaped in a dominant culture and how do we unhook from it in Western culture and society, there are boxes where we can check off how people are supposed to be: male/female, straight/gay, and the praxis is moving into the variety and breadth the queer community h…
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Aurveyda and the exploration of queer and gay.
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Join us as we explore these definitions and the broadness of the queer term and its interconnectedness to nature. " Nature has been one of SJ biggest allies in learning about sexuality and their queerness. They would observe the features and shapes and characteristics of nature and realized the dynamic characteristics reflected their dynamics and o…
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Joy, Beauty and disolving of barriers of difference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ursula Goulet Ursula Goulet is a somatic coach, bodyworker, ceremonial cacao facilitator, and ritual herbalist on a mission of liberation and healing through erotic awakening. In this episode, we explore the power of reclaiming our pleasure just for the joy of it as well as a transformational process to liberate life force and unwind cultural myths…
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Butch Lesbian Identity and the Queer Umbrella
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In this episode, Dr. Sasha T. Goldberg explores what being queer and butch identity means. Over the years her relationship has evolved from the militant stage, which felt more like a response to the world to be more centered on self in the world. In the past 15 years, she has come to the place of not using the term queer as it feels more potent to …
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Staci Haines- Part 2 ,Practices for Resilience
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In this follow-up episode, Staci and I discuss the definition of Somatics and Embodiment and move right into 20 minutes of practice. Please note we originally planned three practices but decided that for this interview to do a deep dive on the body scan and centering practices. After doing the deeper dive we invite you to modify the practice and jo…
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TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) identifies as a non binary, queer, native indigenous person of color who resides on Tongva + Kizh + Chumash land (colonially known as Long Beach, Ca). They currently are of service to their communities as a mentor + wellness facilitator. They are creator of Vamonos a healing arts practice rooted in and with well + bein…
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Bridging the Binaries with Brandi Stanley
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Brandi Stanley (she/her) makes a living out of making connections—science and art, fermenting and theology, permaculture and social movements, neuroscience and dance. If creativity is the ability to connect the seemingly un-connectable, that’s the art she practices. In love with the space between things—the intersections and the paradoxes—she's con…
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Creating Change & Finding Ease with Kenji Oshima
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Kenji Oshima is an Intrerfaith Spiritual Director, Community Dharma Teacher and Life Coach specializing in high functioning adults with ADHD. When not geeking out over Sci-Fi you’ll find him volunteering for QTAPI groups, reading at the beach, or finding ease in alternative health care. Episode Highlights Kenji shares how his diagnosis of adult ADH…
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Preserving Queer History with David Weissman
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David Weissman is a documentary filmmaker, public speaker and longtime activist. He is best known as producer of the films THE COCKETTES, WE WERE HERE, and CONVERSATIONS WITH GAY ELDERS. David was also co-founder of QDoc—The Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival. Episode Highlights David shares about how he became an accidental filmmaker while h…
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Bonnie Violet is a trans femme genderqueer spiritual drag artist, identity doula and digital chaplain; YouTuber, Twitcher & Host of A Queer Chaplain podcast with such series as Drag & Spirituality, TranSpirit & Faith Leaders. Co-host of Splintered Grace with her conservative christian aunt, and At the Castro Country Club recovery podcast. Director …
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Mordecai Cohen Ettinger - Understanding the Medical Industrial Complex
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The Health Justice Commons' Founding Director, Mordecai Cohen Ettinger (they/them), joins me on this podcast episode to discuss the meaning of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). The Health Justice Commons offers a biannual Political Education Series about the MIC so we can learn and build our community of visionary resistance together. The curri…
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Reviving the Legacy of Queer Ancestors with Seth Eisen
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Seth Eisen is a San Francisco-based artist, writer, director, dramaturg, archivist, and educator who engages LGBTQIA+ history as a living, breathing dialogue by researching lost legacies. His transdisciplinary aesthetic combines physical theater, dance, ritual, puppetry, drag, circus, installation, and video art. Blurring the edge between art, rese…
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Join us for an amazing conversation on how music heals. What it is like to traverse living in a world as a plus-sized femme and ssocial activism in her first album Enough. She then tackles mental divergency in her second album glimmer and is currently working on a third album where she discusses consent.. Please note this might be a difficult conve…
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For nearly a decade, Mike Iamele has helped hundreds of GBTQ+ men to integrate shame and figure out what they subconsciously do every time they’re successful –– through a process called Sacred Branding®. In 2014, Mike accidentally came out to millions when he wrote an article about falling in love with a man after identifying as straight––and 100,0…
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Staci Haines- Somatics/Climate Change/and Social Justice
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How do we keep healing and transforming and changing the social conditions? Staci and I discuss how Somatics is defined as a living organism of our wholeness and embodied transformation is knowing that transformation occurs when our visions and values align even under pressure. Staci continues to work in somatics because she notes that the soma pro…
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Soul Speaking & Spiritual Freedom with Coach K Josephs
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Kalyela J (she/her) is a Queer Spirituality Coach whose desire is to help the LGBTQ community experience love and peace with their spirituality and sexuality. She is considered a “Soulspeaker'' helping people heal their limiting beliefs so they can live into their purpose. Through first-hand experience she knows the journey and challenges that a Qu…
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KinFolkz: Queer Healing Arts for LGBTQ Community and Allies
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Join us as Kinfolxz in living time, models how to create community-based healing at the Queer Healing Arts Center in Oakland, CA. " Because self-care is a collective effort: we are not intended to be alone." She helps us see that one of the ways we can create this is by asking the right questions of the communities we serve. such as " What is it yo…
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Drama Therapy & Theatre as Activism with Anna Winget
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Anna Renée Winget (they/them - currently living on Tongva land) is an artist, activist, scholar and educator. They currently serve as Affiliated Scholar at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) where they are collaborating on Crossing Pride: a transnational digital healing storytelling project and archive by/ for/ with …
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Join us for a delightful conversation with Shauna about how to listen to your body and its wants and needs without worries about getting it right or embaressment. We talk about what somatic coaching is and what an individual somatic sex education appointment looks like. Shauna Farabaugh is a certified Somatic Sex Educator and Tension and Trauma Rel…
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Reconstructing Spiritual Practice with Mahrs Schoppman & Scott Sessions
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Mahrs Schoppman, born and raised in California, is a queer & trans somatic psychotherapist with a private practice based out of his home office in Occidental, California. He specializes in working with the queer community and with those who live with the embodied traumatic impacts of growing up in an oppressive religious environment. He is passiona…
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Luke Lintott talks about reprograming your mind and body so that you can be who you want to be and who you are becoming. He discusses his journey as a bisexual and bi-cultural man and finding the beauty and accepting his fluidity and moving out of the binary and embracing his whole being. "Be exactly who you are!" How are we treating our bodies and…
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The Dynamic Cosmos & Black Trans Liberation with Ni’Ja Whitson
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Ni’Ja Whitson is a multi award-winning Queer Trans NB artist and futurist, a wound and medicine worker, noted by Brooklyn Magazine as a culture influencer. They are a United States Artist Fellow, Creative Capital and two-time "Bessie" Awardee who engages transdisciplinarity through a critical intersection of the sacred and conceptual in Black, Quee…
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Join us as Skeeter truly lives and practices the art of allowing each human to come to terms with their own autonomy on the mat as a reflection of how they bring themselves to their lives. As a yoga teacher who did not fit in with her "butch/ MOC tattooed" white woman Skeeter has created a space that changes the White washed idea of a skinny white …
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Storytelling in Wobbly Times with Eli Ramer
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Eli Ramer, who writes under the name Andrew Ramer, is the author of several books of interest to gay/queer readers, including "Queering the Text" and "Two Flutes Playing," which author and journalist Mark Thompson (who interviewed Ramer in his book "Gay Soul") called "a gay classic." Ramer will be talking about his new book, "Two Hearts Dancing." H…
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Daily Magic for Peace offers a quick and simple way to focus your intentions, prayers, and actions toward healing the crisis in Ukraine. By gathering one or two items and joining the circle, you will help send positive energy to counterbalance injustice, anger, and fear. Music by Terry Hughes. https://ever-changing.net/daily-magic Listen here on Ap…
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Peg Capers: Being Queer and a Chiropractor
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Dr. Peg talks about creating safety in our bodies so that we can organically value and bring forward that safety in our relationships with others. She does this by, examining the nervous system and patterns that the nervous system chooses to protect. This can inform how we respond to life, express our emotions and un-consciously runs the patterns o…
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Creative Practices for Authenticity & Equity with Dianna Grayer & Sheridan Gold
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Sheridan Gold is a retired Special Ed teacher of at-risk youth, and is currently very involved with creating art, and playing and performing music. She enjoys her days with her wife Dianna, their dog Sweet Pea, and their 13 chickens, and teaching hand drumming to seniors. Dianna Grayer has been a Marriage Family Therapist for the last 25 years. She…
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Teresa Lau: Somatic Explorations for Transformation of Systems of Oppression
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Join as we explore what is somatic and embodiment practices and how they create changes in our daily life and create change in the larger world. What happens when we connect to places of ease in our body and how does that create repercussions in the world around us? Learned that the magic of body-based practice is that our bodies already know how t…
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Fresh Lev White: LGBTQIA /Anti Racism with Compassion and Love
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Lev helps us understand how and why we introduce ourselves with titles of privileges and or ways we are oppressed. We then discuss the power of naming our suffering so it can be acknowledged and given voice and care to. Next, we discuss how to be compassionate and loving with ourselves and others. Fresh explains how Queer is outside the box, and th…
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Join us as we explore what it means to be queer and how has the definition has changed from the late 80s to the present time. Sandi and I explore the queer femme identity and ideas of invisibility and erasure and how to create identities with power and choice. Next, we discuss how her calling as a homeopath helps people find out who they are as the…
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Dr. Laura Polak shares her intention with her podcast, The Queer Body, and what listeners can expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Dr. Laura Polak, D.C : LGBTQI, Healing
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Kung Fu as a Path of Liberation & Empowerment with Sifu DeVante Love
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Sifu DeVante Love is a Gay Olympic Martial Artist, QTBIPOC Counselor, Wellness Coach, and Spiritual Teacher who has over a decade of experience guiding thousands of folks across the world who have felt weighed down by their trauma, anxiety, stress, or cultural expectations. They are the Founder of Healing Kung Fu, an online queer and BIPOC friendly…
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Yoga, Dharma & Social Justice with Jacoby Ballard
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Jacoby Ballard is a yoga and Buddhism teacher with over 20 years of experience, working at the intersection of social justice, trauma and embodied practice. He has taught in prisons, schools, hospitals, recovery centers, offices, co-led a yoga teacher training, and co-founded a worker-owned cooperative healing justice center in Brooklyn. His first …
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Creating the Black Queer Tarot with Kendrick Daye
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Kendrick Daye is a multi-media collage artist and the creator of the Black Queer Tarot. Originally from Coconut Grove, Florida, he is now setting up art camp in Harlem, NY. His diverse approaches to making art include art direction, bespoke design, music, and most notably collage - both digital and analog. Kendrick aims to create work that imagines…
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The Religion of Love & Poetry with David Nazario
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First and foremost, David Nazario is a human, spirit, brother, lover and friend. Secondly, he is a writer, speaker, and educator. David released his first book, "Make Love Your Religion: How To Put Love First & Succeed at Doing What You Love" in 2018, and his second book, "Poems Written In The Bathtub While Cumming Out" released Winter 2021. Episod…
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