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I Know It When I See It

I Know It When I See It

Skye Novaya and Carta Monir

Join artist/former dominatrix Novaya and writer/pornstar Carta Monir for a podcast which lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. (Content Warning: This podcast is intended for adults over 18 years of age. Please do not listen if you are upset by frank conversations about sex, pornography, fetish, bdsm, consent, or queerness.)

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I Know It When I See It - Episode 05: Cruising, Confidence, Piss
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06/20/22 • 51 min

Topics Discussed:
Answering a listener question about IRL cruising
The importance of being confident
Carta speaks for all trans women
Piss drinking and Skye's feelings around scat play
Links:
Carta's twitter clip with Derek Racks
Skye's Playboy Centerfold page
Sophie Ladder's content restrictions spreadsheet

Our crushes:
Ravyn Alexa
Pandora aka luxusinleather
Podcast Music
KING by ESPer 99
Wishlists:

  • Skye needs a sponsor to pay for some custom equipment commissions and an international trip. Is this you? Contact them here!
  • Carta needs someone to pay for a new laptop, as well as debt incurred by legal fees fro setting up her new websites. Send money through venmo, cashapp, or paypal! She also has a wishlist now!
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If you love our podcast and want to hear it more frequently and with better sound quality, please contribute towards our goal of raising $1500 so that we can hire a Trans audio engineer to edit our next ten episodes! Send to $studionovaya via Cashapp with "Podcast," in the note. Or, email for alternative payment options [email protected]

This episode is half of a discussion which is being split into two because we ran out of time.

In this episode we go into detail about the experience of the performance which was the culmination of Carta's residency at the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles. It is, as usual, a raw and frank account of our queer sex lives and queer sex work hustles.

Topics Discussed:

-Performance vs Private BDSM

-Safety, fear, Carta passing out from both perspectives

-Intention & planning BTS of the performance

-*All* porn is queer

-Honoring and respecting elders without worshipping them

-New friends

Podcast Music

KING by ESPer 99

Carta Monir:

www.onlyfans.com/carta

www.cartamonir.com

Skye Novaya:

www.playboy.com/skyenovaya

www.studio-novaya.com

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Topics Discussed:
Carta has trouble getting hard when she's bottoming
How do we plan for porn shoots?
Skye has a big military fetish, and Carta really doesn't
We want more listener questions!
Links:
North Korean Traffic Police
Libya's Amazonian Guard
Our crushes:
Boarlord
Greyhound
Podcast Music
KING by ESPer 99
Wishlists:

  • Skye needs a sponsor to pay for some custom equipment commissions and an international trip. Is this you? Contact them here!
  • Carta needs someone to pay for a new laptop, as well as debt incurred by legal fees fro setting up her new websites. Send money through venmo, cashapp, or paypal! She also has a wishlist now! Buy her a dashcam to make her car safer?? Is that sexy??
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I Know It When I See It - Episode 15: Grief and Waterboarding
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05/08/23 • 83 min

There's a little cutout at the beginning of the audio for some reason! Not sure why!
Topics Discussed:
Grieving trans friends lost to suicide
Novaya's trans lawyer friend and former lover who is helping them through their grieving process
Teenage Novaya had the same forwardness as adult Novaya does now
Remembering Novaya's friend, Lee
The importance of trans people having spaces to be themselves
Novaya's beloved sissy maid
"A kill room, but for pies."
Transphobia kink
Wanting to be Carta's pantyboy
Carta's scene in Chicago with Testimony
Carta, getting fucked with her own blood
Carta, on getting waterboarded and how fraught it feels
"One stupid thing at a time"
Novaya's waterboarding instructor
Carta's deep discomfort with military shit
Kink is based in really hard to deal with, often evil stuff
Revisiting and rewriting traumatic memories using kink
Carta's doctor got mad at her for not using fake blood
Branding tips
Novaya book update
Carta is mad at people who are charging for pirated versions of her porn
Novaya's name change
Carta reveals Novaya's off-camera name
Hiiiiii Maggieeeeeeeeee
What's gonna happen????
Please consider becoming a sustaining sponsor for either/both of us!
Events:
May 12 - Novaya @ International Center of Photography in the evening
May 13 - Novaya @ International Center of Photography 3-4 PM with appearance by Sissy Maid
May 13 - Novaya (and Sissy) @ Lucky on Ave. B, Happy Hour 4-6 PM
Links:
Ffausten, fisting lube
Our crushes:
Studio dé Manné
Miss CoupleKyle QuinnTestimony (twitter // instagram)
Nightmare Vex
Podcast Music
KING by ESPer 99
Wishlists:

  • Novaya needs a sponsor to pay for some custom equipment commissions and an international trip. Is this you? Contact them here!
  • Carta's wishlist is always a good way to support her! Maybe you want to buy her a book, or a leather jacket, or some new luggage??

Special thanks:
Thank you everyone for listening to fifteen episodes of I Know It When I See It! We love you and we're so grateful for you <3

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I Know It When I See It - We're Back! Coming to you live from L.A. & NYC
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12/20/22 • 68 min

In this episode we forget to give you a content warning: warning, this episode may be upsetting to you. We talk about sex, art, bdsm, sexy art, pornography, sex work, nuance, pee play, fisting, the usual.
We catch up on Skye's Berlin shoot with heavybondage4life and Mistress Trinity- at the recently closed Residenz Avalon. And we talk about Carta's recent performance with Mistress Odette at the Tom of Finland House.
People, places, things that we talk about in this episode:
Residenz Avalon
Lady Mercedes
Heavy
Mistress Trinity
Mistress Odette
Betony Vernon
Jesse Pony
Sheree Rose
Tom of Finland Foundation
Our crushes this week include:
Angelo Madsen
Danny Wylde aka Christopher Zeischegg
Podcast Music
KING by ESPer 99
PAY U/us:

  • Skye is finishing their bondage studio and needs all kinds of gear; cashapp $studionovaya and wishlist here
  • Carta's wishlist! Send her money to buy erotic art or kink equipment! Or just send her money for whatever!

More about Skye: www.studio-novaya.com
More about Carta: www.cartamonir.com

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I Know It When I See It - Episode 11: Butthole Barber

Episode 11: Butthole Barber

I Know It When I See It

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09/12/22 • 66 min

Topics Discussed:
The butthole barber
Instant photography
Having dedicated assistance on set
Thorns by the water
Carta loved the water tank
The decision to cut when Carta was too cold
More details about our one-on-one shoots!
Abandoned swimming pool
Straitjacket and bondage hood
Balancing "being on camera" with "having a real BDSM experience"
Incorporating Carta's braces into bondage
It (was) Carta's birthday!!
Selling photography
Talking shit (credit our photos!)
Links:
Polaroid dot com
Carta's recommended starter Polaroid
Clejuso handcuffs
StraitJacketShop on Etsy
Our crushes:
Bee Vanian
Hal Schrieve (prounced "Shreev" lol)
Podcast Music
KING by ESPer 99
Wishlists:

  • Skye needs more sexy boots and a shopping trip for their birthday. Will you be the one to spoil them? Contact them here!
  • It was just Carta's birthday! She has a wishlist! Send her money to buy erotic art or kink equipment! Or just send her money for whatever!
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I Know It When I See It - Episode 10: Bad Hotline

Episode 10: Bad Hotline

I Know It When I See It

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08/22/22 • 63 min

Topics Discussed:
Visa and Mastercard pull out of PornHub
Skye's bad idea for a suicide hotline
What does it mean to have "experience" in kink?
Boot fetish basics
Vomit is "the commitment to the blowjob"
Nonconsensual hypnosis
How do we choose who we work with?
Do we have specific minimum ages for our collaborators?
Listener question: is there any porn of Skye fucking Carta with a strap-on?
Mainstream kink porn has the same approach as Guy Fieri
Managing depression
What should we do when we record in the same location?
Links:
Daisy Does Taxes' breakdown of the Visa/MC news
Fisting for Jesus
Tommy King
Against Memoir by Michelle Tea
Zepp Wellness
Our crushes:
Raquel Savage
Jamal Phoenix
Podcast Music
KING by ESPer 99
Wishlists:

  • Skye needs more sexy boots and a shopping trip for their birthday. Will you be the one to spoil them? Contact them here!
  • Carta's birthday is coming up! She has a wishlist now! Buy her a dashcam to make her car safer?? Is that sexy?? Or just send her money other ways!
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I Know It When I See It - Episode 09: Earning From It

Episode 09: Earning From It

I Know It When I See It

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08/12/22 • 58 min

Topics Discussed:
Carta health and website update!
Carta's residency plans
Skye is monogamous now!
Skye is looking for journalists who are covering new models of media distribution
Do you want to hear more about Skye's plants??
There's going to be a movie version of Paying For It??
Why isn't there a Hothead Paisan HBO show??????
Skye makes threats (in Minecraft)
Skye hates Shortbus (2006)
Diane DiMassa, are you listening? We have a question
Skye loves being told to live their truth
Public playyyyy
Skye is looking for bodyguards for Folsom! Is that you??
Carta is prepping for her first on-camera bloodplay!
"Reply guy" is a gender-neutral term
Links:
Life Drawing at Heavy Manners Library in LA
Buy limited-edition art at Skye's website!
Play Odell Lake online
The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Our crushes:
Mistress Trinity
Emma Magnolia
Podcast Music
KING by ESPer 99
Wishlists:

  • Skye needs a sponsor to pay for some ambitious filming-related costs and international travel. Is this you? Contact them here!
  • Carta has a wishlist now! Buy her a dashcam to make her car safer?? Is that sexy?? Or just send her money other ways!
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I Know It When I See It - Episode 07: It's Pat!

Episode 07: It's Pat!

I Know It When I See It

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07/05/22 • 55 min

Note:
Sound quality in this episode is lower than usual because of temporary recording conditions, sorry about that! It's very listenable but a little scratchy in places.
Topics Discussed:
It's Pat!
Being a T4T chaser
Carta's t-dick tattoo
Is it rude to masturbate during the podcast?Leathersex + Skye's vow
D/s dynamics
D/s with disability
Taking pain as service
Avoiding interdependence in D/s
What it feels like to get railed by a fucksaw
Links:
Carta's It's Pat! fanfic
The Marketplace series by Laura Antoniou (Carta's problematic fave)
Mr. Benson (Skye's problematic fave)
Our crushes:
Dominique Rystan
Peach Emojy
Podcast Music
KING by ESPer 99
Wishlists:

  • Skye needs a sponsor to pay for some custom equipment commissions and an international trip. Is this you? Contact them here!
  • Carta needs someone to pay for a new laptop, as well as debt incurred by legal fees fro setting up her new websites. Send money through venmo, cashapp, or paypal! She also has a wishlist now! Buy her a dashcam to make her car safer?? Is that sexy?? Oh god she needs money
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I Know It When I See It - Episode 04: Incest, Art Funding, Switching
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06/13/22 • 61 min

Topics Discussed:
Twins + incest + family in BDSM and sex work
Art funding + the progress Carta is making on her websites
Is Skye a good bottom? (The answer will not surprise you)
Switching
Links:
https://twitter.com/gynarchygoddess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Virgin_Mary
Residenz Avalon in Berlin
Our crushes:
Mistress Odette
Mistress Amanda Wildefyre
Xenon Opal Universe
Podcast Music
KING by ESPer 99
Wishlists:

  • Skye needs a sponsor to pay for some custom equipment commissions and an international trip. Is this you? Contact them here!
  • Carta needs someone to pay for a new laptop, as well as debt incurred by legal fees fro setting up her new websites. Send money through venmo, cashapp, or paypal! She also has a wishlist now!
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How many episodes does I Know It When I See It have?

I Know It When I See It currently has 16 episodes available.

What topics does I Know It When I See It cover?

The podcast is about Culture, Porn, Society & Culture, Art, Podcasts, Gay and Queer.

What is the most popular episode on I Know It When I See It?

The episode title 'Episode 13 Part 1 : L.A. Recap Part 1: Carta's End of Residency Performance' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on I Know It When I See It?

The average episode length on I Know It When I See It is 62 minutes.

How often are episodes of I Know It When I See It released?

Episodes of I Know It When I See It are typically released every 16 days, 20 hours.

When was the first episode of I Know It When I See It?

The first episode of I Know It When I See It was released on May 18, 2022.

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