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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Guest: Shalimar (Leatherperson, Mental Health Professional, Therapist)

Shalimar (leatherperson, mental health professional, therapist) joins Auntie Vice to chat about their journey in kink and in mental health. They apply their skills from social work to building healthy, welcoming spaces for queer kink community. We discuss gender, trauma, sober spaces, learning, compassion and more!

Sites and Socials:

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

Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/kalishali

Fetlife: KaliShali

Guest: Tamara Winfrey-Harris

Tamara Winfrey-Harris is a writer, speaker and dedicated champion for all women and girls. She serves as president of Women’s Fund of Central Indiana, a special interest fund of Central Indiana Community Foundation that convenes, invests and advocates so all who identify as women or girls in Central Indiana have an equitable opportunity to reach their full potential no matter their place, race or identity.

Tamara is the author of the award-winning The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2015); Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters On Stepping Into Your Power (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2021); and A Black Woman’s Guide to Getting Free (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2024).

Tamara is co-founder of Black Women’s Writing Society, a monthly virtual space for Black femme creatives in Indianapolis. She is also a registered yoga teacher and reiki master, who focuses her work on the healing and well-being of her sisters.

Sites and Socials:

https://www.tamarawinfreyharris.com/

Other Links for this Episode:

Women’s Fund of Central Indianna: https://www.womensfund.org/

Rolf Gates Yoga: https://www.rolfgates.com/pages/training/2019-COMMUNITIES%20RIZING-200-hour-vinyasa-yoga-teacher-training/

Bookshops

LoudMouth Books https://loudmouthindy.com/

Indy Reads: https://indyreads.org/

Charis Books: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/

Bookshop.org: https://www.bookshop.org

Bluestockings Book Collective: https://bluestockings.com/

Red Emma’s: https://redemmas.org/

The Strand: https://www.strandbooks.com/

Guest: Shedao (leatherperson, kink educator)

Shedao, bootblack and kink educator, joins Auntie Vice to talk about their journey into kink, polyamory, and becoming a kink educator. We chat about finding a kink identity and builing Black kink community. We chat about moving from hierarchichal relationships to solo polyamory.

Sites & Socials

Instagram @Shedao_tkyo

Fetlife

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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=251195734658250&set=pb.100093034767665.-2207520000&type=3

Guest: Mx. Pucks A'Plenty (burlesque performer, creator of FatCon and FatLesque conferences)

Ms. Pucks A'Plenty, founder of FatCon and ranked the 17th most influential burleque performer in the world, joins Auntie Vice to talk about their gender journey, fat joy, and community. We talk about being a queer, high-femme, nonbinary, diabled, and Black burlesque performer. How they came to understand their intersecting identities and find community.

We discuss the creation of FatCon and how fat community brings strength, joy, and power. We discuss the fat tax, fashion, and how body size shapes the experience in the kink world.

Sites and Socials:

LinkTree

Instagram

Fatlesque

FatCon

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Pontoon Take-Over June 1, Rollins Lake, Colfax, CA

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Guest: Dr. Nick McGlynn

Dr. Nick McGlynn, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Brighton University, is a geographer with a focus on LGBTQ spaces. His new book Boundaries and Bodies in UK Bear Spaces looks at how the bear community creates spaces, how their corporeal geography aligns with ideas of desirability and community, and how fatness in GBQ men shapes narratives and representation.

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Brighton University Site

Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces

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Lost Spaces Podcast re: Wicked Grounds

Let's Get Wet! event link and info

DomCon

London Alternative Market Retreat

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