Sensuality, Coming Out as Non-Binary and Re-Evaluating Our Relationships with Ev'Yan Whitney

09/29/21 • 53 min

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Ev'Yan Whitney, who is a sexuality doula and sex educator. Hannah and Ev'Yan jump around so many interesting topics this week, including sensuality: what is it? How do you incorporate it into your sex life and life in general? Why do we often neglect our sensuality? They talk about Ev'Yon's a new book, Sensual Self, which comes out later this year, and the relaunch of their podcast also called Sensual Self. Hannah and Ev'Yan also talk about breath and working on the relationship that you have with your body, and Ev'Yan talks about her experience of living apart together with her partner, and how to nourish individuality in a relationship. Finally, Hannah and Ev'Yan chat about about gender and Ev'Yan's experience of coming out as non binary and exploring their gender during lockdown.
MORE ABOUT EV'YAN WHITNEY
Ev’Yan Whitney (they/she) is a Sexuality doula, somatic practitioner, and sensualist. Since 2011, Ev'Yan has been dedicated to sex education and sexual activism for women and non-binary folks, helping individuals reclaim their unique sexual expressions and reconnect to their sensual bodies. Ev'Yan's work focuses on decolonizing, unshaming, and liberating sexuality at the intersection of identity, pleasure, and embodiment. Ev'Yan is the author of Sensual Self, a forthcoming self-guided journal that will help you come home to yourself through your senses. She also hosts a podcast of the same name. For more about her work go to [evyanwhitney.com](http://evyanwhitney.com/) and follow her on Instagram @evyan.whitney.
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In this episode, Hannah is joined by Laura Shipp, who is a doctoral researcher in cybersecurity and FemTech. Hannah and Laura talk about the FemTech industry, capitalism and healthcare, our thoughts on period tracking apps, what it means for our privacy and data when it comes to sensitive information, gender inclusivity with some of these apps and services, as well as who ultimately has access to them, and who is being left behind.
CW: brief mention of sexual assault
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LAURA SHIPP is a doctoral researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on period-tracking apps, Femtech and the ways people are using these emerging technologies. It is based in the disciplines of cyber security and geography and asks questions about what a feminist version of cyber security could look like. She is a self-proclaimed period nerd and likes cycling and hunting for sea glass.
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In this episode, Hannah is joined by Justine Ang Fonte, who is an intersectional sex educator. Justine talks about the recent backlash she experienced from conservative parents and the media about her sex education classes. She and Hannah talk about porn literacy, and how to talk about porn with young people. They also talk about the present state of lots of mainstream porn being incredibly misogynistic and racialized, healthy relationships and embracing awkwardness and vulnerability, and Justine shares some of her favourite TV shows that depict more realistic sex and relationships!
MORE ABOUT JUSTINE ANG FONTE
Justine Ang Fonte is a proud Filipina, health education consultant, and speaker on intersectional sexuality topics for for institutions across the United States on topics such as pornography literacy, consent, gender, and beauty standards. She received her Master's in Education in Teaching from the University of Hawai'i and her Master's in Public Health in Sexuality from Columbia University. You can learn more about her career on her website (justinefonte.com) or follow her at @ImJustineAF and @_good.byes_
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