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Dixie Delator (0:00)
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Sarah Newsome (0:43)
All of my life I've never fit But I won't complain and I won't quit I am enormous.
Watski (0:53)
Get used to it.
Sarah Newsome (0:58)
Everyone tells me I'm too much maybe it's just your not enough for me can't you see I'm the kind of.
Watski (1:09)
Woman I'm supposed to be? Hey, my vagina is eight miles wide. Absolutely everyone can come inside. If you're ever frightened, just run and hide.
Sarah Newsome (1:25)
My vagina is eight miles. Why?
Dixie Delator (1:40)
Hi there and welcome to the Bodi Storytelling Podcast. I am sexual folklorist Dixie Delator, and this is the birthday episode, also known as episode 74. I'm recording this podcast on my birthday, and rather than my usual Patreon ad, I want to ask for help for someone else. And I can't do this without you, so please listen. I have a friend that I met almost 10 years ago. Her name is Nancy Donoval, and Nancy is one of the most incredible story coaches I've ever met. I met her in the traditional storytelling world. My first time venturing out to a place that I thought would be full of prairie huts and people who treated me like a whore in church. And they kind of did. Except for Nancy. She treated me different. She was so interested in my stories, and she told me her own. She had been raped when she was 19 years old, and she had become a storyteller. She has a company called Stories to Stop Rape. She won a national storytelling award for her story Unicorn, and I will make a link to that in the show notes so you can hear it. And we've been friends all this time. The freak wedding story that I told a few months ago, that was on the Risk Body collaboration show. Nancy and I worked on that for hours and hours because she knows that territory, the sexual assault territory, so well. She helped me work on what was okay to talk about, what I felt like I could talk about. And she works in colleges. She works with young people who are going through sexual assault, learning about consent. But it's very hard for her to work, because. So here's her history. Way back when, many, many years ago, she lived in an apartment and there was a gas leak. And the gas leak should have killed her. When they came in to repair it, they were like, you should be dead. You should be dead. But she wasn't. But she started getting sick. She started having respiratory problems, she developed asthma. A few years after that, she's renting an apartment near Chicago and they're lacquering the floors downstairs. They didn't open the window. It's an old building. The fumes come up through the floor. And that's when she really got sick. Nancy has had chemical sensitivity and sickness for many, many years. It's affected her ability to work full time. And she's been working part time teaching storytelling in the Twin Cities area for the best she could do. But that's not enough to live on. She couldn't afford a place to live. So she was reliant on the kindness of friends to put her up in a guest room. But she's had to be very careful with who she stays with because of the chemical sensitivity. Nancy and I work together on Zoom, which is like Skype when we work on story coaching because I wash my hair, because shampoo makes her sick. She'll be in bed for days if you use anything. I use hair color. I use things that would make her sick. So we always communicate via the phone or Zoom when we work together. That makes it really hard to live. Four or five months ago, she told me about this job, this storytelling job that was coming up and she wanted to apply for it. She lives near Minneapolis. The job was in Tennessee at East Tennessee State University. And I said, why don't you apply? You have nothing to lose. Then they wanted her to fly in and do job interviews and she was afraid she was going to get sick. But she did it and pretty soon they offered her the job in Tennessee and they said, we'll work with you on your chemical sensitivity. That's life changing for her to finally have a full time income. But she didn't have enough money. They could only give her a small amount for her moving costs. And it's very expensive to move. This weekend, Nancy, Hope Against Hope, borrowed some money and she went to Tennessee and she went to look for an apartment. She didn't think she could find anything that would be okay, that she wouldn't be sick all the time because she's very, very sensitive. And she found an apartment in a house and the woman that she's renting from has Chemical sensitivity, same thing. So she knows her home is going to be safe. She took the money she borrowed, she signed a lease. Everything has come together. She's moving in six weeks to Tennessee. She's got a place that she knows will be safe, but she doesn't have the money to move. So I and another friend have started a GoFundMe for her. I've never done a GoFundMe before. I just want to help my friend. So I'm going to put a link to the GoFundMe in the show notes. Best birthday gift you could give me is help Nancy start her new life. Every single thing is pointing toward her being able to finally work a full time job. To finally do what she's eminently qualified to do. Oh, the part I forgot to tell you is the National Storytelling Network gives lifetime achievement awards and they've just awarded the Circle of Excellence award to Nancy Doneville. It happens to be in the Bay Area. So for the first time in many, many, many, many years, Nancy and I are going to be in the same place in July her to receive a lifetime achievement award. And I'll be performing and teaching event producing at the conference. Help us get her there to receive the award on stage. She deserves the recognition. She deserves this award. Help her get from Minneapolis to Tennessee to start this new job that is perfect for her. The job she was made to have. Everything points to. Yes. She just doesn't have the money. She's got to pay back the loan for the deposits and she doesn't have anything for the moving costs and it's pretty expensive to move that far. She's on a plane right now. I just checked in with her. She's flying back. She's starting to pack. She's not very healthy. She's going to need a professional mover. She's going to need a lot of help. She's got it all lined up. It's just a matter of the money to do it. Go to the show notes, go to the GoFundMe. I'm also going to post it on Facebook and Instagram and other places so you can find the link. I'm the one who told Nancy this is possible. I've told her just try. Just try. And now it's all there. She's so close. Help me get her there, will you? Thanks for listening. It's time for this week's story. The storyteller that you're about to hear came to her very first body storytelling recently. And as I like to do at a certain point I told the audience, you can get on this stage and you can tell your own story. I announced the theme for the next show in San Francisco, which was Gateway Drug. And a day or two later, I got this email. Attached to it was a voice memo of her telling me the story. And when I looked at the name on the voice memo file, I stopped. The name of the story. You'll be able to figure it out when you listen to the name of the camp that she went to in this story. Kind of gave me pause. Then I listened to it and laughed so hard. She is a boy storyteller. She was terrified. She got on stage, she rocked the house. Listen to all the laughter you're gonna hear in this room. First time storyteller. This one is from Sarah Newsome.