Hourgasm

When Gaia Morrissette decided to get married, it was to game the system. But she discovered that people didn't like it when she told them that. Instead, she slowly realized that everyone around her was a member of the Cult of Marriage! So she undertook a grand experiment: Getting married to see how the rest of the world would react. And the results have been stunning. From high-pitched squeals to lovers getting squeamish to finding that clients find her more "trustworthy," the experience of marriage has shown  her that Western culture still clings to the way women were treated in the past. And that's not even to mention all the weirdness about "consummation"!

We welcome Amanda Barr—ceramicist, teacher, and disability advocate—to the show to talk about the experience of disability in a colonial society. A society that often seems as though it would prefer if people with disabilities would vanish from public life. We touch on the impact of being disabled in everything from education to parking to work to dating and sex education, making connections between the colonialist state and disabled folks’ lives every step of the way.

We’re joined by the incandescent dancer, poet, spiritual abolitionist Nikki Darling to talk about how sex work both is and is sometimes not a force for healing and decolonization. From porn to private sex work to stripping and beyond, we break down the systems that oppress people, and how to divest your own energy from them. Along the way, we visit adult time outs, energy exchanges, roots, floaters, and the mothership.

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. MOON TIME. GOOD OL’ AUNT FLO. CALL THEM WHAT YOU WILL. PERIODS ARE A PART OF LIFE. A VERY BIG PART OF IT FOR PEOPLE WHO MENSTRUATE, IN FACT. BUT IT’S NOT HELPING ANYONE IF WE PRETEND THEY DON’T HAPPEN JUST TO MAKE PEOPLE WHO DON’T MENSTRUATE MORE COMFORTABLE. LENNY AND LYNSEY TALK ABOUT WHY IT’S IN EVERYONE’S BEST INTEREST TO NORMALIZE PERIODS, AND SHARE THEIR FAVORITE SNACKS WHEN THEY’RE SURFING THE CRIMSON WAVE.

The rules are all made up, so let’s make everyone valid—especially the elderly. Thus spoke Lenny and Lynsey in this episode all about aging. Your favorite decolonizers talk about issues faced by the elderly in the dominant culture: silencing, media invisibility, medical discrimination, and unacceptable sexuality. Plus side quests into MILFs, cougars, Blanche Devereaux, J-Lo, and more!