| Ĭreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported L’envol Du Papillon by Patchworker f.k.a. Even $10 would be great to add to our production fees. Currently for this year, we have only reached $540 out of our $8,000 goal! If you like what you hear, please consider donating. They are the host of The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse, programming made by and for QPoC and GNC individuals and Communication for Diverse Intersection is a not-for-profit project made by and for queer people of color and gender non-conforming and trans people that relies on donations. Special Guest Pharrell Shaymar, check out his social media:Įverywhere else Shannon Wong Lerner (she/they) is a cross-continental scholar, thought leader, keynote speaker, and DEI & communication skills trainer whose work spans across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Pharrell Shaymar: Keynote Speaker □️□ Sports Advocate □️□ Mental Health Advocate □️□ Professional Boxing Coach □️□ "I may never be a biological male, but I am a gentleman" We confront stereotypes about boxing and toxic masculinity and describe how by queering boxing, trans and queer boxers are redefining the sport in and beyond the ring. We talk about how queer people belong everywhere, including in sports. With growing violence and hate crimes directed at LGBTQ people in the US and elsewhere in the world, queering boxing has a positive effect on queer and trans folx's self-image, safe spaces, and community. We are releasing this podcast in anticipation of the first World Gay Boxing Championship held in Sydney, Australia Feb 18–22 2023! We have special guest, Pharrell Shaymar, boxing coach and LGBTQ speaker. Our title is, We're Not Gonna Take It: Queering Boxing For Self-Growth and Life Strategies. The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse is a podcast made by and for queer people of color, gender nonconforming, and trans people. ***CORRECTION, Beth Stephens is from Earth Lab not Eco Lab Their book is Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover published by the University of Minnesota Press (2022). In 2021 Stephens was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship with Annie Sprinkle for their new film, Playing with Fire. Stephens and Sprinkle have screened at Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany and then went on to screen at MoMA, the British Film Institute and the Berlin Festspiele. Her first film was Goodbye Gauley Mountain with Annie Sprinkle. She developed and gained administrative approval for a new MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice. Stephens earned a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Davis in 2015, systemic settler colonial practices, racism and poverty are deeply intertwined with environmental justice. Stephens grew up in the heart of rural West Virginia’s coalfields where she forged deep bonds with the Appalachian Mountains, as well as with miners, labor activists, environmentalists, and other mountaineers. Stephens is a filmmaker, artist, and professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since, then they have written a book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position (University of Minnesota, 2022), and produced two films about their work, Goodbye Gauly Mountain and Water Makes Us Wet, with one on the way, Playing With Fire.Įlizabeth M. I hope you enjoy.īeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle founded the ecosexual art movement from their weddings to each other and the earth starting in 2008. Their great love and relationship is something we discuss in this podcast and talking about a new way to queer the environmental movement. It is a new sexual identity, much like you might think of pansexual as a newer sexual identity.Īn ecosexual is a person who imagines the earth as their lover, and it's a term used in dating that describes a person interested in environmentalism.įor Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, they have used this term ecosexuality within performance art to blur the boundaries between life and art. Join us for this thought-provoking conversation with founder Beth Stephens to learn more about ecosexuality for EARTH DAY.Įcosexuality is a person that finds nature romantic, sensual and sexy.
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