Guest: Maria Pendolino (voice actress and entrepreneur)

Maria Pendolino is a successful voice, Broadway, and screen actor. She currently works as a full-time voice actor based in Buffalo, NY. We talk about her journey from child actor, to Broadway, to television (Army Wives), and then to creating a voice-based career after developing severe psoriatic arthritis. We discuss her disability journey and how that shaped her identity and how she restructured her career. We talk fashion, wearing bikinkis, and great second-hand stores for folks with bigger bodies.

Sites & Socials

Website: https://www.voicebymaria.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariapendo/

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mariapendo

Other sites mentioned in this episdoe:

The Plus Bus

Cake Plus Size Resale

Plus BKLYN

Shop.Fatties on Instagram

Pride Mobility

1800 Wheelchairs

Scoot Around

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Guest: Donnelle Jagerman (Founder of Philly Fat Con and Plus Swap)

Donnelle Jagerman (founder of both Philly Fat Con and the Philly Plus Swap) joins Auntie Vice to chat about the origins and purpose of fat con, fat community, and coming to understanding internalized fatphobia and how it impacts our lives.

Sites and Socials:

Philly Fat Con

Instagram

Plus Swap

Other Sites Mentioned in this episode:

Corrine Fay "Big Undies" substack newsletter

Virginia Sole-Smith substack

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Guest: Debby Herbernick, Ph.D.

Dr. Debby Herbenick is an internationally recognized sexual and reproductive health professor, researcher, and educator.

She is a Provost Professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health and director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion.

For more than 20 years, she has dedicated her efforts to understanding how people experience their bodies and sexual lives.

Among her 200+ peer-reviewed scientific publications, she has published on population-level sexual health issues (including Zika knowledge and adolescent/young adult sexuality education), college sexual health, and changing sexual behavior trends. Dr. Herbenick has also developed and validated measurement scales to assess genital self-image (which can be thought of as how people feel about their genitals and is relevant to people’s willingness to seek healthcare) as well as sexual pleasure.

Sites & Socials:

Center for Sexual Health Promotion

Yes, Your Kids

Because It Feels Good

The Coregasm Workout

Read My Lips

Sex Made Easy

Additional Sites:

AASECT

Sex Etc.

Dr. Candice Nicole

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