Formerly Left-Handed Journeys. Interviews with radical souls about their spiritual journeys, especially centering the stories of queer folks and sex workers. This podcast is part of the larger Radical Soul brand which centers justice, strives to help others heal from religious trauma, and rejects white and Christian supremacy. Want to be featured? Email jera@jerabrown.com. radicalsoul.substack.com
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Activist Bex Mui on Spiritual Health
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I hope you’re lucky enough to have a friend or friends who specifically check on your mental health. Folks who genuinely want to hear about your anxiety, depression, attempts to focus, regulate sleep, etc. It’s pretty wonderful to have permission to talk about these things. Spiritual activist Bex Mui is taking it one step further. She wants to talk…
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Goddess Erica on worship as a low bar
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When Goddess Erica and her husband opened up their marriage, her husband helped demonstrate how she deserved to be treated. “I don't want to say that he gave me the standards, but he helped me get to a point where I realized that l my low bar is worship,” she explained in our interview. But this realization wasn’t the only thing that led to Erica c…
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The Subconscious Made Conscious with Addie Hirschten
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A friend and artist Addie Hirschten recently released her first book, The Alchemy of Symbols: How to Use the Power of Images to Transform Your Life. The book is about living an intentional life filled with symbols: noticing how symbols affect you and paying attention to how the universe may be speaking to you through them, and/or how you also may b…
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Jera Brown and David Britton Discuss Their Spiritual Evolutions
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In a special episode of Radical Soul, my partner David Britton interviews me for a change! He asks me about growing up as a pastor’s kid and my move away from Christianity. For the past fifteen years, we’ve been there to witness each other’s spiritual evolutions. The result is a unique glimpse into the ways two people who love each other can impact…
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Janet Hardy On Aging in a Public Body
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Janet Hardy has a very public body. As a traveling kink educator and public player, it’s no leap to believe that thousands of people around the world have studied her body in public scenes or demonstrations. And as an author, much of Hardy’s work has centered around her own embodied experiences. As such, she has given us access to her body in a pro…
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Tristan Taormino on Cultivating Intuition
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Tristan Taormino’s new memoir A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten combines her relationship with her father who died from AIDS, coming into her own queer identity, and becoming the sex educator and porn creator that she is today. As her astrologer who read her birth chart explained, Tristan is living in her dharma. There’s a beautiful theme of learn…
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Kai Cheng Thom on the Inherent Worth of Cis Men and Trans Femmes
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Kai Cheng Thom’s most recent book, Falling Back in Love With Being Human, is a series of letters to people or groups of people who are hard to love. Which is everyone. She addresses trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and trans women. She writes to sex workers and their clients. She has letters to mass shooters and their victims. She write…
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Desire as Trickster Energy with Opulence Abundance
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“Healing our relationship to desire, and being able to acknowledge, verbalize, and celebrate our desires is key to living a life of joy, presence, and meaning,” explained conflict navigator and healer Opulence Abundance in a recent newsletter/blog post. We spoke about Opulence’s relationship with desire for the podcast, along with the relationship …
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Quick announcement about rebranding this podcast to the Radical Soul Podcast. Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, or Threads. And if a certain newsletter or episode of this podcast resonated for you, please share it with others. Thank you so much for your support, and expect new content soon! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this…
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spiritchild on Embracing Core Desires While Dismantling the System
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My latest guest for Left-Handed Journeys is spirit, also known as spiritchild. We talked about: * spirit’s spiritual roots as a Yaruba or Santerio priest. * Traveling as a freedom artist and giving back to communities he visits. * spirit’s work as a Somatica practitioner, helping people embrace their core desires. * What it means to be a spirituall…
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Felicity Azura On Loneliness and Professional Cuddling
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“I understand why self-care is important, but self-care cannot be a replacement for community care. You cannot ‘self-care’ your way out of horrible mistreatment, and mistreatment is often systemic,” explained Felicity Azura, my guest for this episode of the Left-Handed Journeys Podcast. Felicity is a writer, professional cuddler, sex worker, and ho…
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On the Sacredness of Casual Sex with Queer Theology’s Brian and Shay
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Queer Theology is the multi-faceted brand of Brian G. Murphy and Fr. Shay Kearns — two friends who believe in spreading a progressive message about the goodness of queerness, gender fluidity, and sexuality within Christian spaces. However, the community they’ve fostered, known as the Sanctuary Collective, is open to all “seekers, doubters, and used…
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Lenny Duncan: Daddy Dom and Priest of Oshun
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A big theme in Lenny Duncan’s story, as they told it to me for the podcast, is making space for themselves and breaking out of spaces that no longer fit. From a teen runaway who finds a home in alternative relationships in the 90s with other queer folks, to becoming ordained in the ELCA church, to becoming initiated into Ifa, an African spiritual t…
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Colin Bedell on Queering the Cosmos
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In this episode, I talk to the wonderful Colin Bedell whose work combines queer studies and astrology. We talked how to "queer" astrology through the act of questioning and how astrology can, in turn, deepen your self-identity . Colin explains how he came into his own as a queer individual through understanding his sign and his place in the univers…
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Filmmaker Alex Liu on Sex Education and Shame
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Growing up, Alex Liu didn't know it was okay to be queer. And although he's been out of the closet for decades, a shadow of shame around sex and sexual desires still follows him around.He turned his own story and questions into a documentary: A Sexplanation. The documentary takes us "from neuroscience labs to church pews, [featuring] provocative co…
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Jimanekia Eborn on the Spiritual Practice of a Bath
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We all get to define what spirituality is for us. Jimanekia Eborn, also known as the Trauma Queen, has done this for herself. One of her spiritual practices is a bath with different oils—something that connects her to her body. And on this episode of the podcast, she encourages listeners to figure out what unique spiritual practices work for them.W…
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Antonieta Paco on Sacred Sex Work
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Antonieta Paco, AKA Sonia Sass, views her sex work as priestess work. A part of the sacred lineage that extends back to temple priestesses. In this episode, we talk about how she became a mind/body/soul healer, how she explored her own indigenous roots and those of the communities, all around the country, that she found herself connected to. She al…
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Burlesque Artist Jenn Freeman/Po'Chop on the Erotic as a Divine Yes
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Chicago-based burlesque artist Jenn Freeman, also known as Po'Chop about burlesque as a spiritually healing tool, the erotic as the holy spirit, and Jenn/Po'Chop's work creating sacred spaces and art on the Chicago South Side. As their artist statement so beautifully explains, "Our work is a reimagining of Lord as (Audre) Lorde where worship is a s…
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Mistress Hecuba on Trauma Work and BDSM
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Mistress Hecuba explores intimacy through cathartic pain and alarming psychodrama. BDSM is a structure that holds the space for the bizarre, the uncomfortable, and any lustful perversions that are either raging to be seen or lying dormant in the depths of the psyche. Some of her favorite forms of play teach her new things and push against the bound…
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Wild & Sublime's Karen Yates on Rewiring Orgasms and Erotic Energy
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For over twenty years, Karen Yates worked in Chicago in the performing arts as a director, actor, writer and producer. Six years ago she left the arts and moved into a deep exploration of sexuality and energy - in Tantra and somatic sex education, and Biofield Tuning, a form of sound healing that addresses to issues in the electromagnetic field of …
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Fetish Model and Pro Cuddler Fiesty Feminista on Professional Erotic Work
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Fiesty Feminista thinks we should rename sex work to erotic work to truly encompass the work that providers do. In this episode, we talk about that and more.Fiesty is a fetish model, session wrestler, and professional cuddler who uses her public persona to spread feminist messages and the importance of a connection with nature.Fiesty tells her stor…
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Spiritual Drag Artist Bonnie Violet on Identity Doulaship
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In this episode, I talk to Bonnie Violet, a trans femme genderqueer spiritual drag artist and digital chaplain. She shares her story from being diagnosed with HIV at 19 and using drugs and alcohol to compensate for the loss of religious community to becoming a chaplain to learning to embrace her trans-ness through drag. Bonnie Violet is a YouTuber,…
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Artist Janet Chui on Spiritual Awakenings, Tarot, and Kink
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Janet Chui is an artist based in Singapore and creator of the Self-Love Oracle. Drawing fantastical subjects since childhood and holding a B.A. in Journalism, she's worked in tourism and publishing, and is currently studying Counseling Psychology. After her experiences with motherhood, divorce, Tibetan Buddhism, healing, and the supernatural, she p…
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Krista Wilson on Erotic Self-Care and Religious Trauma
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Krista Wilson, a licensed professional counselor working in Chicago, is currently developing an online community for the treatment of religious trauma syndrome and the effects of Purity Culture called Existence Therapy.We talked about how growing up in a conservative religious environment or a colonized culture can lead to religious trauma, as well…
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Fio Gede Parma on Erotic Possibilities
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Fio Gede Parma is a Balinese-Australian hereditary spirit-worker, seer, diviner, and initiated witch.Fio has been a dedicated, passionate, and purposeful mentor of witches and spirit-workers for 15 years and serves with love in Wildwood, Reclaiming, and Anderson Feri Traditions.They are the award-winning author of several books and anthologies incl…
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Venus Valentine on the Spiritual Power of Phone Sex Hotlines
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Venus Valentine is a genderfluid femme sexpert, BBW fetish model, and host of the Dirty Panties Podcast. S/he is a spiritual wanderer who has explored a number of esoteric paths to find what works for her. We talked about how easy it is to get disenchanted with various communities and spiritual teachers, such as the problematic tendencies of sex th…
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My Journey & Welcome to the Podcast
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Jera shares pieces of their own left-handed journey and why they started this podcast. Email: jera@jerabrown.com Twitter: @thejerabrown Instagram: @thejerabrown This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radicalsoul.substack.com…
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