Laura Levinson, a movement artist and healer, speaks about the erotic, the ungovernability of pleasure and of our raucously alive bodies, death, and grief.

Michelle Embree, a professional Tarot card reader and teacher, speaks about Tarot reading and the connection between storytelling and healing.

Mars Gradiva, an ancient interstellar traveller, idea vessel and a professional enthusiast making queer liberatory astrology, tackles the meaning of life, the Zodiacs and the consequences of vulnerability and our safety.

Jezmina Von Thiele, a Romani and Sinti writer, dancer, art model, healer, academic, activist, and educator, speaks about taking back the power of her heritage by modelling and using it for a way to empower one’s self.

Ayana Omilade Flewellen, a Black Feminist, an archaeologist, a storyteller, and an artist, talks about archaeology and the enslavement and sexual exploitation of black women.

Katie Spataro, a full-spectrum doula, a somatic sex educator and a holistic pelvic care provider speaks about her healing practices, ancestral lineage, the intersections of birth work and sex work, and the intimate connection of grief and pleasure.

Ra Malika Imhotep, an open-hearted collaborator on a number of projects at the intersections of creative expression and Black liberation shares her experiences and talks about what it means to play with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist.

Marisa Taborga Byrne, a survivor of incest, shares her experience about the magic of healing from sexual trauma. She also speaks about holistic sexuality, the Global Sexual Healing Revolution and how restorative justice helped her heal the trauma.

Darcy Ottey of Youth Passageways to how genuine rites of passage that allow young adults to "sit at the big kids table" once they make it through, as well as how to discern effective rites that welcome youth into adult community through offering identity, belonging and sense of purpose. 

brontë velez goes deep: going underground, psychedelics, blackness, sex, remembering and demanding healing. What happens when you start with where you want to end and work your way back. 

Sean Saifa Wall, a somatic practitioner and an intersex activist, speaks about dreaming, celebrating life and death, loving and letting go, and feeling at home.

Artist and Medium Kook Teflon lives a life of connection with spirit. In this interview, she speaks on working in good ways with the spirit of Alcohol, dolls and living altars, & rewriting family stories.

Billed as "Your guide to the night sky and friendly neighborhood time traveler, queer elder Stargazer Li writes:

"Stargazing isn’t about feeling small in the face of such vastness. It’s about seeing and experiencing our story as part of the tapestry of a much bigger story. It’s about dancing with the spiraling currents of time, rather than trying to direct the flow. It’s about coming IN to our bodies and IN to the moment. It’s about vastly expanding our experience of NOW."

In this episode, we go deep into place magick, time travel, positions, and the alchemy of stardust. 

In this episode, Pavini ritually reads the names of the trans dead of violence in 2019. 

Ylva Radziszewski and Kiki Robinson of the Living Altar discuss ritual art as magical activism, queer self-initiation, and accessing ancestors (especially transcestors and queer ancestors) thru the trauma of Roma diaspora and assimilation.

Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief riffs on the necessity of grief fluency and it can help you feel a sense of belonging. 

Murphy Robinson of Mountainsong Expeditions shares of her journey on the Appalachian trail led her from life-long vegetarian to practicing the ancestral skill of the sacred hunt.  

Activist and witch Colleen Cook speaks about her terminal cancer, her experiences with dying, sexuality and community. Colleen provides a gorgeous example of how to die as you live, and how to live as you die. 

This is the season finale. Bespoken Bones returns Oct. 13, 2019. 

Make sure to watch for our new show "The Well-Pleasured Podcast" an erotic liberation gameshow, launching September, 2019. 

Join Dr. Alex Iantaffi, gender radical, ancestral reverence practitioner and host of Gender Stories Podcast as we discuss liminality, the intersection of patriarchy and liberation, and praying through queer sex. 

In this episode, So & Pinar of Queer Nature share about queer love and learning to belong through weaving webs of accountability with other beings and the land-based practice of cultivating resilience. 

Intro music in Quechua by Renata Flores Rivera.

What if we can work with ancestors to create art that inspires and liberates? Seth Eisen speaks about his approach that marries notions of community-driven, often overlooked history with an interdisciplinary performance celebrating the legacies of queer ancestors.

Ifetayo Harvey, Founder of the POC Psychedelic Collective, speaks about drug use, slavery, vulnerability, depression, and the epidemic of untreated trauma that people are trying to address and self-medicate.

In this episode, Starhawk discusses how to stay nourished in our fight for justice. 

Animal communicator Claudia Hehr discusses the special relationship between animals and humans, how to connect with animal ancestors, and dealing with grief and loss of animal companions. 

Environmental Microbiologist and ancestral animist Siv Watkins discusses the power of our relationships with the smalls, and solving ecological crisis through evolution. 

Mary Mueller Shutan discusses how to make your own life more easeful through personal skillfulness with emotions and reactivity.

Lynn Breedlove, lead singer of queercore Tribe 8 and the Homobiles shares his secret punk sauce for making a place in the world for your weird self.

Annika Leonard of Priceless Incite discusses the intersection of sexualized violence and racial trauma through a personal and professional lens, and her strong commitment to surviving and supporting others in healing. 

Layla Feghali of River Rose Apothecary speaks here of how to regather ancestral memory and access our embodied memory. 

In this episode, amazing tenders of culture and ancestral healing M'kali-Hashiki, Langston Kahn, and Taya Shere discuss how race and racism intersect with the work of ancestral healing. 

Roger Kuhn is an enrolled member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and Chair of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS). Here we discuss dance, the upcoming BAAITS Powwow on Feb. 2, and the connection between sex and Earth. 

Tarotist, artist and prolific Author Rachel Pollack says "As soon as you allow the power of mystery, you go into another level of existence." In this episode, Rachel walks us through her scholarship of the tarot, and the intersections with ancestors, queer and trans elders, and allowing belief in the unseen to impact your life. 

Dia Luna, a California native painter, songwriter, and seer, speaks about what it’s like to receive the gift of music, its process and how it brings people together.

Maris Orelia of Living Voice Medicine sings, prays and trances in the Norse traditions of her ancestors. In this interview, she riffs on belonging, shares her ancient song medicine, and addresses the benefits of healing with ancestors. 

In this episode, artist, poet, writer and facilitator Naomi Ortiz speaks to the intersection of place, ancestors, activism embodiment and disability justice. Naomi is a Disabled, Mestiza (Latina/Indigenous/White), raised in Latinx culture, living in the U.S./Mexico borderlands.

For information on visit: www.NaomiOrtiz.com

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Scholar and filmmaker Dr. Susan Stryker celebrates the continuum of trans history, and speaks to queering time through her relationships with both elders and ancestors in the trans community. This episode is in honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance. 

In honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20) Bespoken Bones is showcasing Trans speakers and causes all month. In this episode, Anthony Easton discusses the act of deadnaming, and how the trans community might learn from the good death movement and vice-versa.

Spirit worker, medicine maker, priest and activist Lou Florez (Awo Ifadunsin Sangobiyi) speaks to being in community and in being conversation with our ancestors as we embody their blessings while disrupting colonizer culture as it lives inside of us. Join us on Oct. 28 in San Francisco at the Modern Witches Confluence!

Practitioner of wonder Lindsay Sudeikis exuberantly riffs on her former life as a nun, the biblical erotic, and what it is to be in love with life while holding a hard line against oppression. She basically smashes patriarchy with every word that falls from her mouth. 

Dr. G Love aka Geryll Robinson discusses the value of communal ancestral practice and ritual to heal transgenerational trauma in community. 

In this episode, Nick Venegoni of the Queer Spirit podcast interviews me. We discuss the importance of desire and pleasure, and how it gets complicated in the presence of trauma. I riff on how to know if you’re not living your body, and getting comfortable being uncomfortable. Lastly, we explore the transmission of trans-generational trauma and its effects on the body and sexual well-being.

Ancestral Movement practitioner Simon Thakur discusses the evolutionary role of empathy, the adaptive qualities of disembodiment, and how moving like our ancestors can heal our grieving hearts. 

UK storyteller and activist Elinor Predota discusses the importance of multiplicity of perspectives when learning the stories of our ancestors, who lived rich, multi-faceted lives. Storytelling can be a healing practice that allows the humanity and fullness of our ancestors to come into focus. 

Clementine Morrigan, a writer, creator, and facilitator of the popular workshop Trauma-Informed Polyamory, speaks about spirituality, sexuality, love and relationship, and how it intersects with trauma.

Bodyworker and ancestral healer Mika Banks speaks on how she had to learn boundaries to work effectively with the dead. 

Cultural geographer Christos Galanis speaks on ecosexuality as ancestral sexuality, and embodying the priniciples of sacred reciprocity, integrity and consent.

Plant and stone medicine healer Dori Midnight, speaks on ancestral and queer magic with the green bloods and rocks and crystals as allies in ancestral healing. 

LGBTQ Historian and genealogist Stewart Blandon Traimon speaks on finding our ancestors who had special relationships with gender and sexuality in our family trees. Genealogy is an important parallel to ancestral reverence, and it's a special treat to dive in through a queer lens.