Body Liberation for All

Dr. Sand Chang (they/them/their) is a Chinese American nonbinary clinical psychologist, DEI consultant, and somatic psychotherapist with more than 20 years of experience providing training and mental health services in a variety of settings, including the corporate sphere, startups, community mental health, university counseling, public schools, nonprofits, and medical centers. As a DEI trainer/educator and consultant, Dr. Sand strives to bring an intersectional, trauma-informed perspective to help workplaces create inclusive and psychologically safe(r) environments.

This episode we discuss

🌈Understanding the value of lived experience

🌈Trans-masc and non-binary body image and acceptance barriers

🌈Misgendering and other sources of minority stress

Episode Resources

www.sandchang.com

www.daliakinsey.com

Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation

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Have you ever wondered why almost all the health and wellness information you see out there is so white, cis able-bodied and het? I know I have. And as a queer black registered dietitian, I gotta tell you, I'm not into it. I believe health and happiness should be accessible to everyone. That is precisely why I wrote Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation and why I host Body Liberation for All.

The road to health and happiness has a couple of extra steps for chronically stressed people, like queer folks and folks of color. But don't worry, my guests and I have got you covered. If you're ready to live the most fierce, liberated, and joyful version of your life, you are in the right place.

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Dalia: I'm so happy to have you here. I am always looking for people who are focusing on serving LGBTQIA plus people, preferably BIPOC but it's sometimes really hard to find, I don't know if this happens as much for other folks of color, but among Black folks, the homophobia is next level and the transphobia is like - it just makes you wanna gouge your eyes out. And so, you may struggle just to find a BIPOC person who offers the healing services that you need, but then finding one that's not gonna be transphobic intentionally or unintentionally, cuz that's just not their focus, it's not their interest, it really is a whole nother layer.

It's so exciting to see that you're out here leading with your marginalized identities. How did you get to this point? Because I know for me it wasn't overnight. How do you feel like being a Chinese American person and a non-binary person influenced your worldview?

Dr. Sand: Oh gosh. I mean, that's a big question. I kind of wanna go back cuz what you, something you just said was so real. Like just, you know, within our own communities facing these different aspects of white supremacy, colonialism, oppression, and yeah, you don't have to be white to enact white supremacy. You don't have to, you know, it's like all this stuff is in the air and we're indoctrinated into these systems.

And so, it's sometimes so hard to find like a truly intersectional liberation space and you know, to go to your question, I don't know that I, like ever thought to myself, oh, I wanna do this kind of work. I, I think I just like, as a young person, was really interested in people and trying to understand people and trying to understand dysfunction, to be honest.

you know, the dysfunction that was around me. And I don't even wanna use that language, you know, I kind of feel like that's, in some ways amidst lan...

After graduation from Prairie View A & M University, Britni D. Andrews became a queer counselor intern based in Houston, TX.
Britni has utilized an artistic medium of language and an eclectic approach to wellness to sculpt their role as Creative Director of @TheKIDDORG, a community initiative. They have produced creative workshops in collaboration with Covenant House California (CHC), Covenant House Texas and Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (HCJPD). @THEKIDDORG has a mission to push the state of change forward in conversations about mental health, community engagement, criminal justice reform and LGBTQ+ community support.
Recently named as an Idea Fund Round 12 Grantee, Britni is producing “The Session: LGBTQ+ Mental Health feat. QPOC”- a short film composed of private unscripted dialogues with Queer People of Color (QPOC) reflecting on their unique identities within their cultures, the LGBTQ+ community and the challenges faced in expression of their gender, sexuality and development of affirming and inclusive relationships.

This episode we discuss

🌈 Being called to create resources that we once needed

🌈Destigmatizing mental health

🌈Connecting to the wisdom of our Black Queer History

🌈Managing the stress of holding multiple marginalized identities

🌈How and when to tap in to therapy as a healing tool

Resources

Connect with Britni

www.thekiddorg.com

instagram.com/@TheSessionQPOC

Queer Black History

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program

Mike Iamele is a Life Purpose Expert + Brand Strategist and the author of Enough Already: Create Success on Your Own Terms. For nearly a decade, his Sacred Branding® system has helped hundreds of celebrities, artists, entrepreneurs, influencers, and spiritual seekers to map their experiences and discover their subconscious motivations, unique brand, and life purpose. People use this work for all kinds of things — from branding and building a business, to exploring identity and sexuality, to finding their artistic voice, to even re-discovering themselves after a life-altering event, like divorce or retirement.

This episode we discuss:

🌈Why some of us shy away from clarity on our purpose

🌈What comes after finding your purpose

🌈Coming to terms with or overcoming feelings of being too much or not enough

🌈Recognizing your lived experience as the ultimate authority

🌈Learning to decipher your true self vs your conditioning and social programing

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program

Connect with Mike

mikeiamele.com/map for a free 36-minute training + worksheet to map your sensitivities

instagram.com/mikeiamele

facebook.com/mikeiamelewrites

Nhakia Outland (she/her/hers) is the founder of Prevention Meets Fashion Inc. She is a Black, queer, single mother of three. She is a social worker, sex educator, sex therapist in training and professor at Temple University with an extensive background in advocacy, consulting and community organizing who is passionate about finding creative ways to engage Black, LGBTIA+ communities. Nhakia’s work focuses on addressing stigma and inequalities in sexual health and reproductive health (SRH) through fashion, advocacy, community and education (F.A.C.E).This episode we explore

The impact affirming clothing can have on mental health

Finding and celebrating your aesthetic

The connection between sexual health and fashion

Episode Resources

https://www.preventionmeetsfashion.org/

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/prevention-meets-fashion

https://www.thecrownact.com/

www.daliakinsey.com

Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation

Bali Retreat March 19-25 2023

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Body Liberation for All. I'm your host, Dalia Kinsey holistic registered dietitian and author of Decolonizing Wellness.

This show and my work overall is dedicated to amplifying the health and happiness of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people.

Today we're joined by Nhakia Outland. The founder of Prevention Meets Fashion. She's a black queer, single mother of three. She's a social worker, sex educator, sex therapist in training, and a professor at Temple University with an extensive background in advocacy consulting and community organizing. She's passionate about finding creative ways to engage Black, LGBTQ+ communities.

Nhakia's work focuses on addressing stigma and inequalities in sexual health and reproductive health through fashion advocacy, community, and education.

Nhakia and I had this conversation quite a while ago, so I'm excited to be able to bring it to you today. At the time of the episode was recorded the website for Prevention Meets Fashion wasn’t up but now it is. So you can see that in the show notes and check out the events calendar. I love that the condom streetwear fashion show is an annual event.

Nhakia has a lot of fabulous things going on through this nonprofit. And it was really interesting to hear about her creative process and what brought her to form the nonprofit.

Before we jump into that conversation. I want to remind you that I will be hosting my first in-person retreat in Bali next March, that's March 2023. If you're hearing this and it's pre March, 2023, there may still be space. So be sure check out daliakinsey.com/retreat to see the details.

It’s going to be an amazing event. As always it will be centered on LGBTQIA+ BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). However, if you are not an LGBTQIA+ BIPOC person, that doesn't mean that you can't come to the retreat.

There will be a couple of healing circle events. That'll be sacred spaces for QTBIPOC folks. So those will not be events where everybody can come in and take up space. However, there will be plenty of other events that are for everyone. So if you were interested in taking a more liberatory approach to your wellness and you've done a lot of work on your own and you feel like this could be a catalyst for your growth then definitely check it out.

It isn't going to be a beginner oriented event as far as healing work goes. If you've never done therapy, if you've never, read a self-help book, if you've never been in any sort of coaching situation and you're kind of new to the concept of systemic oppression having an impact on your wellness, then it's probably not the place for you to start.

The retreat really is designed for people who already have an awareness of these things and are wanting to dig deeper and really wanting to be in a space where they can totally unwind and focus on the physical experience of comfort and freedom in their body. So that it's something we'll be able to re-create with ease when we get back home.

The facilities are gorgeous. We'll have a chef cooking for us three meals a day. There are lots of excursions planned. We’ll have one-on-one time with a Balinese healer. There w...

Ian Kumamoto (he/they) is a journalist, a queer person and a Chinese-Mexican who is active on social media sharin what's actually going on in his part of the world and serving us truth. Ian was born and raised in Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish and moved to the US and spent some time in their childhood in Spain. He graduated BA. in Print Journalism and Globral Liberal Studies from NYU in 2019 and shortly after, co-founded, Chaos+Comrades, a magazine by and for queer people of color.
In addition to their freelance work, they are current a writer for Mic, covering health, identity, sex, drugs, money, career, and travel.

This episode we discuss:

🌈 Finding your own unique way to get through educational systems that don't support you

🌈Writing in English as multilingual person

🌈 Love-hate relationship with social media platforms

🌈Reclaiming your identity outside of racialized sexual objectification as a queer man of color

🌈Healing race based body dysmorphia

Episode Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness and grab exclusive access to my author lead bookclub https://www.daliakinsey.com/book

Connect with Ian Kumamoto

TikTok: @chino_cholo

https://instagram.com/ian.kuma

https://www.jikumamoto.com/

https://chaosandcomrades.com/