Queer Circle Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome back to the Queer Circle where Queer Healers step up to the mic to share their journeys and what they'd tell their younger selves. Today's guest is Patrick Fox W. (he/him), a White, Trans, Queer Survivor and practicing psychotherapist in Philadelphia, committed to anti-racism, feminism and the idea that men can have feelings. Patrick has a Bachelors in Child Development and a Master's in Clinical Social Work as well as attended a graduate level Americorps program to help fund his education. Patrick has been a practicing psychotherapist for 13 years. He lives in Philadelphia and runs a remote practice. He is licensed in both Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. If you'd like to learn more about Patrick's practice, you can contact him at PatrickWaldenTherapy.com. Music by Purple Fluorite (Bandcamp // or all the streaming platforms) QueerCirclePodcast.com

Welcome back to the Queer Circle Podcast where Queer healers come to the mic to share their journeys and what they’d tell their younger selves. Today’s guest is Reggie Brice (he/him), a Gay African American Therapist specializing in the QTBIPOC community as well as a Clinical Case Manager and Mental Health therapist with a Master’s in Social Work based in Oakland, CA/Occupied Ohlone lands. Reggie provides 1:1 case management for criminal justice involved persons that have severe mental health issues and other comorbid issues. Welcome to the Queer Circle, Reggie. To learn more about Reggie’s work, visit his website reginaldbrice.com.

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Welcome back to the Queer Circle Podcast, where Queer Healers come to the mic to share their journeys and what they'd tell their younger selves. Today's guest is Reverend Dr. David William Parry FRSA FRAS (he/him), a gay man based in Greater London, UK/Occupied Celt land. David has an extensive education: BA Religious Studies at King's College London; MA Pastoral Theology at Heythrop College, University of London; Honorary Doctor of Divinity from the Holy See of Antioch and the Apostolic Old Catholic Church. He has received mentorship from Mr. Jesse Thompson (esotericist and personal mentor) and served for over 30 years as a Minister of Religion. David is the Founder and Minister of Religion at Valentine's Hall (Metropolitan Community Church Oasis) based in Balham, South London, UK. 

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Welcome back to the Queer Circle Podcast, where Queer Healers come to the mic to share their journeys and what they'd tell their younger selves. Today's guest is Gia Love (she/her), a Black Transwoman, Model, Advocate, Public Speaker, Community Organizer and Creator of The Celebration of Black Trans Women Cookout, an annual community gathering centering Black Trans Joy in New York City/Occupied Lenape land. You can learn more about Gia by checking her out on Instagram @Love.Gia. Music by Purple Fluorite (Bandcamp // or all the streaming platforms) QueerCirclePodcast.com

Welcome back to the Queer Circle Podcast, where Queer Healers come to the mic to share their journeys and what they'd tell their younger selves. Today's guest is Pakalana Lokahi Li-Sun (they/them/theirs), an Asian Hawiian Asexual Andro-romantic Māhū Wahine and Trans Non-Binary Queer Femme Therapist in Seattle Washington/Occupied Duwamish lands. Pakalana has a BS in Nuclear Medicine, M.Ed. Learning Disabilities and a MA in Counseling Psychology.  CW: Mentions of Childhood Sexual Abuse as well as Physical and Emotional Abuse. Music by Purple Fluorite (Bandcamp // or all the streaming platforms) QueerCirclePodcast.com

Welcome back to the Queer Circle where Queer healers come to the mic to share their journeys and what they tell their younger selves. Today’s guest is Yana Tallon-Hicks (she/her), a Queer Bisexual Cisgender Woman in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Yana is both a licensed marriage and family therapist, specializing in sex and relationships, and a sex educator/writer for over a decade. 

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Welcome back to the Queer Circle, where Queer Healers come to the mic to share their journeys and what they’d tell their younger selves. Today’s guest is a collective, SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally) Revival in Oakland, CA/Occupied Ohlone lands, composed of members Laya BOMBSNAXX (they/them), Hannah Mayree (she/her) and Avé-Ameenah Long (she/her). SOL is a newly formed collective of Black healers, artists, farmers, organizers and dreamers prioritizing Black Existence and Joy and reimagining the non-profit and community building formerly known as Oakland SOL. Soon, SOL Revival programming will include: community garden work day, art+music studio rental and youth internships. Contact them via email: oaklandsolrevival@gmail.com, Follow them on Instagram: @oakland_sol_revival or visit QueerCirclePodcast.com to learn how to donate to the non-profit. 

SOL REVIVAL MEMBER BIOS:

Laya (They/Them) 
BOMBSNAXX; a musical project created by Laya Wig that promotes Black Femme liberation, DIY skill acquisition, and empowerment through collaboration. Through this journey of self-teaching, Laya seeks to establish a production style informed by the Black diaspora and inspired by the ingenuity and innovation of Black and Indigenous peoples. Instagram: @bombsnaxx

Hannah Mayree (She/Her)
Hannah Mayree is a  creative facilitator and musician who’s work and art lends itself as a tool for redesigning and reconnecting to our roots as humans on this planet. A banjoist, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Hannah shares harmonies through acoustic live vocal looping and reminds us of the empowerment found in our relationship to the earth, music and community. She is the co-founder and a director of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project. The Black Banjo Reclamation Project is a cultural and land- based revival project that centers the Black community by reclaiming ancestral wisdom and moving forward with innovations through perspectives of Afro-futurism. Through our extensive network across the country, our work promotes conversation and action in healing the ancestral, historical, cultural and racially dividing wounds in this country and the world. Instagram: @hannah_mayree and @black.banjo.reclamation

Avé-Ameenah (She/Her)
Multidisciplinary artist Avé-Ameenah Long uses her art as a way to inspire Black people, across the diaspora. Centering photography and cinematography, Avé-Ameenah prioritizes these skills to document not only her local Black community, but also to engage with Black folks in her travels around the world. The creator of the Keep it Diasporic project, her first photographic journey brought her to the African rooted city of Cartagena, Colombia and the island of Bastimentos, Panamá. There, she was influenced to document her experience and return the knowledge she gained, back to her hometown community of Oakland. Avé-Ameenah hopes that her continued art practices can excite Black people everywhere to creatively explore their identity and bring better awareness to our collective ancestral journey. Instagram: @keep_it_diasporic.

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Welcome back to the Queer Circle Season 2 where Queer Healers come to the mic to share their journeys and what they’d tell their younger selves. Today’s guest is Carlos Campos Haycock, a Queer Trans Mexican American. Carlos has been practicing these last 15 years as a registered nurse and is currently nursing on an acute care floor of a San Francisco hospital. Carlos is also a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in California.  CW: Mention of rape and abuse. Music by Purple Fluorite (Bandcamp // or all the streaming platforms) QueerCirclePodcast.com

Welcome Back to the Queer Circle Podcast, where USUALLY, Queer healers come to the mic to share their journey and what they’d tell their younger selves. Today, we’re going to do something a little different. In this podcast, we focus on the circle and what is contained by it. Within the Circle we explore the lived experience of Queerness. But there’s something outside that circle that I wanted to take an episode to talk about. For those who are outside the circle who are wondering what they can do to support Black Trans Queer marginalzed lives, we are highlighting Allyship in action as a possibility model. I’m happy to invite both personal friends Kaylie and Kelly here today to talk about their allyship through the non-profit Inclusively Well and what allyship looks like in real actionable ways. Inclusively Well is a non-profit sponsorship program, currently in Los Angeles, that pairs underserved populations with 6 free acupuncture sessions with practitioners with anti-racist, anti-queerphobia training. Kaylie, the founder, is joined by board members: Kelly, a Black Queer Woman (and guest of the podcast) and Sanae, a Japanese-American Woman. Their goal is to not only expand the accessibility of East Asian Medicine, but to also bring into Allyship other practitioners in the field. Visit Queercirclepocast.com to learn more.

Welcome back to the Queer Circle. Today’s guest is Maxwell (Max) Pearl (he/him), a Black Trans Man in Sonoma County, CA/Occupied Coastal Miwok lands. Max has a Ph.D in Neuroscience from Case Western Reserve University, and a Certificate of Theological Studies from Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley. Max was an HIV/AIDS educator and advocate from 1985-1995. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1990, and done numerous meditation retreats. He has also taken numerous trainings by Gay and Katie Hendricks, Body Trust, and Body Electric School, and has done multiple retreats in varied embodiment modalities including Authentic Movement. Max has been teaching contemplative practices since 2005. Prior to transitioning, Max co-founded Conscious Girlfriend, where he coached individuals and couples, and taught numerous courses and workshops on emotional awareness, self-love, communication, and relationships. Max is also a multi-genre writer and blogger. To learn more about Max’s work, check out his website: transresilience.com or email him at max@transresilience.com CW: mentions of Emotional abuse. Music by Purple Fluorite (Bandcamp // or all the streaming platforms) QueerCirclePocast.com