To find out more about Kirsten and some of the topics we discuss, check out
- Kirsten’s web site at https://www.kirstenbaity.com/
- Their Instagram account at https://www.instagram.com/ky_inpublic/
- Consent-Based Memes at https://www.instagram.com/consentbased.memes/
- Intimacy Coordinators of Color at https://www.intimacycoordinatorsofcolor.com/
… and if you’re interested in learning more about intimacy direction, here are some resources:
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Quinn welcomes friends (of theirs and of each other) Jenn Grossi and Dr. Trish Derocher to the podcast. Like Quinn, Jenn and Trish both use she pronouns and they pronouns, but they each experience their gender differently.
Both Trish and Jenn are often assumed to be cis women. What works and doesn’t work about that, and how does being nonbinary affect their lives and their relationships?
You’ll also hear about Jen’s experiences as a nonbinary actor and musician, Trish’s somatic coaching work, trans and nonbinary children (Quinn and both guests, in addition to being nonbinary themselves, also all have trans and/or nonbinary kids), and much more.
Jenn and their husband Don organize and host the Summer Street Music Series in Bradford, Vermont.
See below for more about Trish’s work and podcast.
Transformative Consciousness is a blending of mindfulness, somatic experiencing, and social justice philosophies. It understands individual transformation as the gateway to collective social healing. To carry out this vision, Transformative Consciousness provides an array of individual, group, and institutional offerings to meet people where they are at in their healing journeys, and to honor the inherent interconnectedness between the microcosm and the macrocosm. Trish’s offerings include somatic coaching, vibrational healing, and DEI consulting work rooted in a racial healing ethos.
Instagram: @transformativeconsciousness
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Heart. Change. Consciousness: Inspired Activism as a Spiritual Path
Motivation and inspiration are powerful tools that change and influence perspectives, voices, and projects that shape the world. With all the negativity in the world, it can be hard to find those rare and beautiful stories that tell of inspired spiritual activism and individual healing journeys. On Heart. Change. Consciousness. we inspire listeners to take action towards a more JUST world by hearing from authors, change-makers, influencers, activists, poets, filmmakers, and cultural workers who practice inspired spiritual activism and transform vulnerabilities into sources of strength.
Heart. Change. Consciousness. is for anyone who wants to learn about other ways of looking at and being in the world, hear from contemporary visionaries and cultural workers who are already doing the work, and who feel inspired to step into their power and do their part to bring in a more just world.
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This week’s guest, Ring, talks with Quinn about growing up fundamentalist, evangelical, and queer; Schroedinger’s Gender; nonbinary elves; and Freddie Mercury as a spirit guardian. Quinn tries and fails to pronounce “funvangelical.”
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Sam is a nonbinary trans man, a nursing student, a visual artist, and Quinn’s younger son. His partner, Lane, is a nonbinary writer and student. In this episode, they talk with Quinn about finding gender, being trans and nonbinary in the Deep South, the need for better awareness of trans and nonbinary issues in medical education, and much more.
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Gustavo Mercado Muñiz is a joyful nonbinary person who was born and raised in Puerto Rico and who is the Transgender Program Coordinator at the Vermont Pride Center. In this inaugural episode of the podcast, they talk with Quinn about the importance of their family (both birth and found), magic, navigating the Spanish language as a nonbinary person, what it was like to grow up nonbinary without knowing there was such a thing as being nonbinary, and the They Gun. Also, we decide whether or not it’s OK to swear on the podcast.
illustration by the marvelous Sam St. John