Podcast
Artgasm
Hosted by Allison Moon · EN
Artgasm is about the intersections of art, media, and sex.
Episodes feature interviews with working artists, sex professionals, and cultural critics. We talk about your favorite movies, shows, artists and artworks that move the needle around the way we discuss and perceive sex.
Is the MCU all cheesecake and no sauce? What's unique about indigenous sexuality? How can porn change the way normies understand sex?
Host Allison Moon is the author of Girl Sex 101, Bad Dyke, and a bunch of other things you've never read or seen. She teaches workshops on polyamory, sexual pleasure, and all sorts of other things you wish you learned about when you were younger.
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Safe Sex with Tina Horn
Aug 26, 202001:35:03Tap to summarizeWriter Tina Horn has created one of the most sex positive and sex worker positive pieces of media with her new comic SFSX (aka Safe Sex). We talk about how sex work informed her take on a dystopian San Francisco, and about the business of moving from nonfiction writing to journalism to comics.
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Adipositivity with Substantia Jones
Aug 12, 202000:48:52Tap to summarizePhotographer Substantia Jones joins Allison to discuss fat visibility. We discuss the challenges and joys of working with amateur models, the barriers fat people face when trying to exist let alone thrive in a world that wants them to disappear, and the utter joy of watching people embrace their bodies on camera.
Transcribe →Naked Athena and Portland's Protest Symbols
Jul 29, 202000:31:32Tap to summarizeNaked Athena and the Wall of Moms have been getting a lot of mainstream news coverage in response to Federal agents' hostile occupation of Portland, Oregon. Is this a show of allyship or appropriation? For more, read Mitchell S. Jackson's "Who Gets to Be Naked Athena?" in the New York Times Op-Ed section.
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Rope and Sweet Grass with Midori
Jul 15, 202001:11:21Tap to summarizeInstallation artist and Shibari educator Midori joins me for an exploration of some of her most evocative installation pieces and how her work as a bondage educator intersects with her artistic practice. Midori ( 美登里 ) is a multidisciplinary, social practice artist and activist. A Tokyo native and long-time San Franciscan, she's known for her durational and interactive performances and engaged installations. She's shown at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay Lesbian Art, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Open Society Foundations NYC, Root Division San Francisco, Das Arts Amsterdam, Gorilla Gallery Oaxaca Mexico, VN Jaeger & Schwarzwald in Vienna, among others.
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Reluctant Sexpertise with Stephen Penta
Jul 1, 202000:46:41Tap to summarizeSex podcaster Stephen Penta talks with Allison about gender, being a dude in the sex-ed world, RomComs as "pornography of the heart" and talking love with people who just want to learn about bjs.
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Creative Partnerships with Kevin Patterson and Alana Phelan
Jun 10, 202001:03:16Tap to summarizeCo-writers Alana Phelan and Kevin Patterson discuss navigating metamour-ship and friendship while writing books, making private lives public, and bridging the gap between relationship education and narrative fiction. Find their books here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732872805
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Neurodiversity and Superpowers with Rachel Gold
May 27, 202000:44:02Tap to summarizeAllison is joined by old friend and splendid writer Rachel Gold to discuss queer representation in lit, sex in YA, neurodiversity as a superpower. From lesbian werewolves to Wolverine doing dusting, we cover a lot of ground! Learn more about Rachel at rachelgold.com
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Hidden Queer Histories with Booksellers Charlotte and Fi
May 13, 202000:43:37Tap to summarizeBooksellers Charlotte and Fi of Category Is in Glasgow, Scotland, join Allison to discuss the politics of queer visibility and the ongoing need for social spaces for sexual minorities. Come for the vampires and stay for the Gore Vidal.
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American Gothic and the Fear of Being Wrong
May 5, 202000:19:11Tap to summarizeA writer shared an interesting fact about American Gothic and got odd blowback from people who refused to acknowledge the truth. When our opinions are so tied to our emotions, how can we ever hope to have our minds changed?
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Prevention Meets Fashion with Nhakia Outland
Apr 28, 202000:46:39Tap to summarizeFashion designer and social worker Nhakia Outland uses fashion to teach young audiences in Philadelphia about empowerment, sex education, and healthy relationships. Plus: A short tribute to fetish artist Namio Harukawa
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