Tierney Talks - Paula Kahn - Running For Office

Paula Kahn - Running For Office

11/27/19 • 120 min

New episode of Tierney Talks with @paulakahn2020. Paula Graciela Kahn is a congressional candidate currently running to represent Californiaâs 30th District â the San Fernando Valley. Celebrate this âholidayâ by listening to a femme against fascism. We talk about the just transition - as in a shift âfrom an exploitative, extractive, global war economy to a cooperative, regenerative network for local peace economies.â
Paula tells me about how volunteering in Tijuana & observing atrocities at the border & in detention centers inspired her to run for office. She calls to shut down the Adelanto Detention Center in San Bernardino & describes her experiences advocating for detained friends in ICE centers. Paula wonders why ICE budgets are increasing when people are dying in ICE facilities, explains the immigration detention & deportation industry & shares how 9/11 & the Iraq War activated ICE.
We explore her non-profit Cosmovisiones Ancestrales & the notion of using drugs to support people who are victims of state violence through demobilization, disarmament & reintegration. We discuss the first scholarly article about âcult mushroomâ ceremonies, how it fueled psychedelic tourism & the present need to create ecological preserves to protect plant medicine. Paula also imagines the recodification of psychedelics & other indigenous plant medicine by white venture capitalists & Western companies patenting indigenous medicine (a la the legal marijuana industry).
We also discuss the deficit of Latinx femmes in Congress & healing as nonlinear. We talk about the housing crisis in the San Fernando Valley & inclusionary zoning. The incumbent candidate, Congressman Brad Sherman, hasnât done enough in regards to these issues. Heâs been in office since 2013 :( Sheâs sick of trusting strangers to protect her community â please support Paula at the ballot in March! Raise your expectations for who your local rep could be! Send this to someone who votes in the Valley & donate to her campaign via the link in the bio. $5 helps!! More if youâre rich!!! Paula is the most PLUR congressional candidate of all time, promise. Follow her too <3
This episode contains original music by our sound engineer and audio producer Margot Padilla.
https://www.paulakahn2020.com/
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New episode of the podcast featuring @theaprilflores out now! April is a porn performer, model and artist from Los Angeles. Sheâs the star of Fat Girl, a fine art book that documents 12 years of her erotic art practice with the photographer Carlos Batts. In 2005, she got her start performing in porn with Belladonna and in 2014, she became the first performer to win the AVN Award for BBW Performer of the Year. Sheâs won a Feminist Porn Award for her work in âLesbian Curves 3: Soft Girls and Strap Onsâ and wrote about beauty and embodiment in Tristan Taorminoâs The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. We talk about learning the term âzaftigâ and she clears up my misunderstanding of what a FUPA actually is.

Sheâs the first Tierney Talks guest to have her own masturbator toy and tells us all about the molding process (sheâs the first BBW to be molded for such a toy & the Amazon reviews are worth reading!) We talk about entering the porn industry as a hobbyist, weed and body dysmorphia and the plus-size amount of work left to do in the fat acceptance movement! We also talk about fat representation in porn vs mainstream fashion and entertainment, enjoying her exhibitionism and her female fan base. April describes the way making porn fulfills her interests in filmmaking and says her main career motivation is to be visibly naked, fat, fucking, having fun and getting paid for it. And weâre smoking weed and wearing lingerie the whole time! Available on Apple, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, etc
Credit and thanks to our engineer and audio producer Margot Padilla, whose band Dis Fantasy made the music you hear at the beginning and end of this episode ("Let Me Love You" and "She Magical." Check out Dis Fantasy's LP, streaming now!

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Beth Pickens helps artists. She invented her own job, combining counseling and arts management, and now works as a consultant for artists and arts organizations in L.A. She is also the author of "Your Art Will Save Your Life" and the host of Getting Real About Money workshops.
Beth is a Capricorn, like me, and we meet on the first day of Capricorn season for a powerful conversation about working from home, working with other people and working on our relationship to money.
LISTEN TO HEAR HOW YOU CAN MAKE MORE MONEY IN 2020.

Beth describes how family is the foundation of group psychology and the way workplaces often mirror the family dynamics of each employee.

We also discuss coming from families who didnât self-describe as artistic or feminist and who werenât highly educated or rich. We talk about Bethâs childhood in the deep Rust Belt, the way attending the opening of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh impacted her adolescence and growing up adoring Andy Warhol before the mass commercialization of his imagery.

I realize I grew up in the aftermath of a âboom and bustâ generation and about different kinds of money damage (and getting over the idea that nothing about money can be positive). Beth says rich people have crazy money damage too!

We talk about growing up in financially homogeneous neighborhoods (like Bethâs, where the richest family around was comprised of two teachers) and financially dissimilar hometowns (like mine in LA, where heiresses and low-income people could all end up in the backseat together).

Beth shares one of her own most transformational financial habits and reflects on gauging whether your romantic partner is making you a better artist or not.

We also touch on blue ocean strategy and The Babysitterâs Club!

Follow Beth - http://www.bethpickens.com/, read her book and consider attending one of her Getting Real with Money workshops later this year!

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