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The podcast you're about to listen to is adult in nature. If you are below the age of consent, wherever you live, please go put on some Sesame Street. And don't listen to this, because there's going to be the use of the word butthole at least one time, probably more. So thanks for taking care of yourself and let's go.
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All of my life I've never fit.
C (0:31)
But I won't complain and I won't quit I am enormous get used to it. Everyone tells me I'm too much maybe it's just you're not enough for me can't you see I'm the kind of 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. My vagina is eight miles.
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Hi there, and welcome to the Body Storytelling Podcast. I am sexual folklorist Dixie de La Tour, and this is episode 75 of the Body Storytelling Podcast. How's your week going? I hope everything is going swimmingly for you this week. I am still recovering from last week's Unicorn Fest show. That one had a lot of moving pieces. I had another producer come to the show and go, you are a pro. I can't believe you're keeping all these balls in the air. There's so many moving pieces to this show. That's true. Night of it looked like I had my shit together, but I can tell you, I barely moved for the rest of the weekend. Right now I'm working on podcasting, getting stuff up on the next shows, starting to do story coaching, But I'm moving a bit slow because Unicorn Fest was a blowout. It was exactly what I wanted for my birthday. It was weird. It was like the kind of weird I love. I had so many new people who came to the show. At one point, I had a young woman come up to me to tell me she'd never been to the show before. She'd heard that we were going to be making use of unicorns as part of our fundraising to go on tour. And she was like, I want to be a unicorn. I want to be a unicorn. And almost an angry tone of voice, like, it was like, oh, oh, oh, okay, don't hurt me. Hang on. Let's make that happen. It's just curious to me. What's that about? The whole auctioning thing? The whole. Is that about control? Is that about fetish? Is what is that about? I'd love to know what you think it's about. If you've had any experience in the slave relationship, like a slave auction or if you have thoughts on that, I'd love to know what you think because I know it's a personal decision. I'd like to know what your personal decision is about maybe being auctioned off or being handed over to someone you know. I am fascinated by that. Let me know what you think. Dixiebodystorytelling.com I'd also like to thank the people who gave to The Nancy Donoval GoFundMe that I started. If you didn't hear the episode last week, Nancy Donoval is a dear friend of mine and a story coach who has the opportunity of a lifetime. She is someone who has had chemical sensitivities for so many years, been unable to work, been on the verge. In fact, she's packed her car to live in her car and was rescued at the last moment. Just last year people came together to buy her food. Somebody had a guest room that she could handle with her chemical sensitivities. And that's been the constant day to day of her life for so many years. She recently applied for the dream job for a storyteller at East Tennessee State University, got the job. She lives in Minneapolis and now she has to get herself and all her belongings there. We are raising money for Nancy to cover all the moving costs. She's not the healthiest person in the world. She's going to need a moving company to physically do that. And here's my part of the dream. My dream is that in July when the National Storytelling Summit happens here in the Bay Area, that Nancy can fly out here and be on that stage to accept the Circle of Excellence award that the National Storytelling Conference is giving her. It's a lifetime honor. It says she's a master storyteller who has advanced to the craft and I'd like to be there in the audience when she's on that stage. You can help make that happen. There's a link to the GoFundMe in the show notes and thank you in advance for any help you can offer. That's a little bit of a catch up on what's been going on this week other than recovering from Unicorn Fest. I am ramping up for my June shows. I'll tell you more about them later on in the episode, but it's probably time to start thinking about stories by now, isn't it? Oh, before I move on, two things about Unicorn Fest that I need to tell you about. One, do you know about the Sibian? It's spelled S Y B I A N and it is incredible. We had a Sibian photo booth that was designed like it was a unicorn. It was a saddle. We created Unicorn's head. People hung onto it for dear life while we dialed that thing up to 11. The photos are gonna be awesome by the way. Go to sibian.com to see it in use. It's yeah, it will break your brain in the best possible way. S Y-B-I-A-N.com the other thing is, if you had photos taken at Unicorn Fest, there's a slight delay on getting those to you because the photographer went off roading. My partner Bent is off roading right now and that means that Marty, my podcast producer and I are playing catch up on that. So please be patient with us. We will have photos to you soon. And thanks in advance for playing your part in the show in San Francisco on Friday night. Thanks for dressing up like a unicorn, thanks for riding the Sibian, and thanks for being part of Body going on tour this fall. Everything you did is going to make a difference. I hope you feel good about that. Are you feeling stressed out? Doctors say that we're experiencing stress and anxiety at record levels these days. Stress can make many people feel exhausted during the day and then wide awake when it's time to go to sleep. I know that's true for me and that's why I'm partnering with the Calm app, the number one app to help you reduce anxiety and stress and to help you sleep better. More than 40 million people have already downloaded it. Calm.com offers guided meditations on issues like anxiety, stress and focus and includes a brand new meditation each day. They have soothing music and they even have sleep stories, bedtime stories for adults designed to help you relax. I like to listen to calm stories or meditations when it's time to wind down at bedtime. The Calm app is right there when I need it and it helps me stress less. And now Body storytelling listeners get 25% off a Calm Premium subscription. So go to calm.comdixie d I x I e right now to get 25% off unlimited access to Calm Premium and start your journey to a less stressed out life. Our story on this episode is from a creator who makes transformative narrative art. She creates graphic novels that relate to sexuality, body image and community. She's been on the body storytelling stage a number of times and this is her first time on the podcast. This story is from Elizabeth Barlow.
