Bethany Stevens: Sex and Disability Expert and Activist
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06/30/21 • 47 min
"This is what love looks like for a wheelchair user, to travel across the world to climb some stairs for someone."
This time, we dive deep with Bethany Stevens, MA, JD. Bethany is a wheelchair using white cis (AFAB), pronouns (she/her), queer sexologist and sociology doctoral student in Sociology at Georgia State University. She’s writing her dissertation about the politics of pleasure within the history of the disability rights movement in the United States, particularly focusing on discourses of disability resistance and pleasure politics presented in the Netflix and Obama production teamed documentary Crip Camp (2020). Her other research and activism has centered on ableism impacting sexual and reproductive health of disabled people, prevention of sexual violence, transability, and the radical possibilities of sexual communication.
Episode highlights include:
Getting one's dicks in a row
Libra Bethany was (unsuccessfully) engineered to be a Scorpio by her Pisces parents (!?)
The importance of extending eroticism beyond the genital zone (for EVERYONE!)
A regrettable threesome with a law school ambassador
Reenacting the Odessa Steps scene from Battleship Potemkin as an act of love
Using bungee cords to make sex toys accessible
Relevant links:
Bethany's instagram, where you can view the Corona Look of the Day Project
Show email: [email protected]
Our theme music is "Euphoria" by Decek.
"This is what love looks like for a wheelchair user, to travel across the world to climb some stairs for someone."
This time, we dive deep with Bethany Stevens, MA, JD. Bethany is a wheelchair using white cis (AFAB), pronouns (she/her), queer sexologist and sociology doctoral student in Sociology at Georgia State University. She’s writing her dissertation about the politics of pleasure within the history of the disability rights movement in the United States, particularly focusing on discourses of disability resistance and pleasure politics presented in the Netflix and Obama production teamed documentary Crip Camp (2020). Her other research and activism has centered on ableism impacting sexual and reproductive health of disabled people, prevention of sexual violence, transability, and the radical possibilities of sexual communication.
Episode highlights include:
Getting one's dicks in a row
Libra Bethany was (unsuccessfully) engineered to be a Scorpio by her Pisces parents (!?)
The importance of extending eroticism beyond the genital zone (for EVERYONE!)
A regrettable threesome with a law school ambassador
Reenacting the Odessa Steps scene from Battleship Potemkin as an act of love
Using bungee cords to make sex toys accessible
Relevant links:
Bethany's instagram, where you can view the Corona Look of the Day Project
Show email: [email protected]
Our theme music is "Euphoria" by Decek.
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Episode Highlights Include:
-Lisa is accused of being a "Tourist of Love" by French men, who find her "thrilling"
-The time that Venus manifested a date with a sexy Osama Bin Laden lookalike in Iceland
-Lisa was catfished by a British man pretending to be French!
-The appeal of a man in a jaunty scarf
-A discussion of "Paris Syndrome," an psychosomatic condition in which visceral disillusionment with Paris may lead to paranoia, vomiting, and hallucination
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Elyse Elaine: Burlesque Performer, Radio Host, Model
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This week I am interviewing Burlesque Goddess Elyse Elaine!
Hailing from the bay area, Elyse Elaine came onto the scene in Oct. 2011 as a burlesque performer and Co-producer of Womanopoly SF. 9 years later she resides in Las Vegas as a radio host at Hot 702.5FM, a core member of burlesque troupe HAUS OF GLAMOUR, and a model/muse for local artists and photographers. Known for bringing raw sex appeal and GLAMOUR, Elyse is RAUNCH IN ITS FINEST FORM.
Episode highlights include:
-Burlesque as sex magick
-The problem with uneven accountability for sexual predators across racial lines
-Elyse's recipe for an E-40 Slurricane cocktail
-A dreamy bookstore date
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-What does it really mean when someone offers to buy you a drink?
Relevant links:
The Haunting on Hill House book
Show email: [email protected]
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