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.
By Pavini Moray
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Episode 80: On feeling at home, loving, and letting go
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Sean Saifa Wall, a somatic practitioner and an intersex activist, speaks about dreaming, celebrating life and death, loving and letting go, and feeling at home.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 79: The stigma of drug use and blackness
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Ifetayo Harvey, Founder of the POC Psychedelic Collective, speaks about drug use, slavery, vulnerability, depression, and the epidemic of untreated trauma that people are trying to address and self-medicate.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 78: On oppression, justice, love, patience and what its like to receive the gift of music
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Dia Luna, a California native painter, songwriter, and seer, speaks about what it’s like to receive the gift of music, its process and how it brings people together.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 77: The relationship between the body, the nervous system work and the ancestor work
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Clementine Morrigan, a writer, creator, and facilitator of the popular workshop Trauma-Informed Polyamory, speaks about spirituality, sexuality, love and relationship, and how it intersects with trauma.By Pavini Moray
Tai Fenix Kulystin, a white, queer, fat, trans genderqueer coach dedicated to building better relationships, releasing trauma, and exploring spirituality, speaks about the erotic and the practice of slowing down.By Pavini Moray
Oscar Pérez, a ritual leader, spiritual teacher, and mentor speaks about shamanic traditions, unintended grief and rage, and healing.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 74: On eldership, ancestral work, blackness, and healing arts practice
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Naya Jones, a geographer, healing arts practitioner, and ritual artist, speaks about eldership, ancestral work, justice, and the healing arts.By Pavini Moray
Sobey Wing, a multi-racial settler, President of Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Society, and Chair of the Cross Cultural Protocols Working Group of Youth Passageways organization, speaks about multi-racial identity, the rites of passage movement, decolonial love and what led him to his life towards various communities who shared a purpose…
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Episode 72: Using our bodies to liberate our bodies
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Laura Levinson, a movement artist and healer, speaks about the erotic, the ungovernability of pleasure and of our raucously alive bodies, death, and grief.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 71: Dwelling in the mystery of not knowing
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Michelle Embree, a professional Tarot card reader and teacher, speaks about Tarot reading and the connection between storytelling and healing.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 70: What is the meaning of life?
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Mars Gradiva, an ancient interstellar traveller, idea vessel and a professional enthusiast making queer liberatory astrology, tackles the meaning of life, the Zodiacs and the consequences of vulnerability and our safety.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 69: Magic, art modelling, tokenism, cultural restraints and the activism around gender and sexuality
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Jezmina Von Thiele, a Romani and Sinti writer, dancer, art model, healer, academic, activist, and educator, speaks about taking back the power of her heritage by modelling and using it for a way to empower one’s self.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 68: On weaving the threads of adornment, feminism, storytelling, archaeology, and blackness
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Ayana Omilade Flewellen, a Black Feminist, an archaeologist, a storyteller, and an artist, talks about archaeology and the enslavement and sexual exploitation of black women.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 67: On the connection of grief work, erotic embodiment and the intersection of birth and sex work
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Katie Spataro, a full-spectrum doula, a somatic sex educator and a holistic pelvic care provider speaks about her healing practices, ancestral lineage, the intersections of birth work and sex work, and the intimate connection of grief and pleasure.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 66: Playing with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist
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Ra Malika Imhotep, an open-hearted collaborator on a number of projects at the intersections of creative expression and Black liberation shares her experiences and talks about what it means to play with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 65: "This harm can be held in a circle and I can address the person who caused this harm with support.": On sexual trauma, restorative justice and empowerment.
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Marisa Taborga Byrne, a survivor of incest, shares her experience about the magic of healing from sexual trauma. She also speaks about holistic sexuality, the Global Sexual Healing Revolution and how restorative justice helped her heal the trauma.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 64: Ancestral rites of passage with Darcy Ottey
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Darcy Ottey of Youth Passageways to how genuine rites of passage that allow young adults to "sit at the big kids table" once they make it through, as well as how to discern effective rites that welcome youth into adult community through offering identity, belonging and sense of purpose.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 63: What happens after you are buried alive? Art, ancestors and black erotic power
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brontë velez goes deep: going underground, psychedelics, blackness, sex, remembering and demanding healing. What happens when you start with where you want to end and work your way back.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 62: Doing the old time spirit work
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Artist and Medium Kook Teflon lives a life of connection with spirit. In this interview, she speaks on working in good ways with the spirit of Alcohol, dolls and living altars, & rewriting family stories.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 61: We are all made of stars: Time travel ancestry
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Billed as "Your guide to the night sky and friendly neighborhood time traveler, queer elder Stargazer Li writes: "Stargazing isn’t about feeling small in the face of such vastness. It’s about seeing and experiencing our story as part of the tapestry of a much bigger story. It’s about dancing with the spiraling currents of time, rather than trying t…
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Episode 59: Trans Day of Remembrance 2019
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In this episode, Pavini ritually reads the names of the trans dead of violence in 2019.
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Episode 58: Queer and Trans Ritual Magick as Living Art
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Ylva Radziszewski and Kiki Robinson of the Living Altar discuss ritual art as magical activism, queer self-initiation, and accessing ancestors (especially transcestors and queer ancestors) thru the trauma of Roma diaspora and assimilation.By Pavini Moray
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Episode 57: "Our grief does not need healing. Our healing needs our grief."
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Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief riffs on the necessity of grief fluency and it can help you feel a sense of belonging.By Pavini Moray