Amanda Palmer

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  1. Dan Savage: Sex Rules Us

    12/15/2020

    Dan Savage: Sex Rules Us

    Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Dan Savage, recorded June 4, 2019 in Seattle, WA. Dan Savage is an author, media pundit, journalist, and LGBT community activist. He is the long-time writer of Savage Love, an internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column and the author of books such as, “The Commitment,” “The Kid,” and, “American Savage.”   Dan is also the host of his own hit podcast, The Savage Lovecast, and also serves as the editorial director of the weekly Seattle newspaper, The Stranger.   In 2010, Dan and his husband, Terry Miller, began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth.  Dan also coordinates the annual Hump Pornography Festival, which is made up of clips on any pornographic topic, submitted by viewers. In this interview we talk about the power of the mute button and marijuana, weeding out toxic critics, how open relationships need to constantly be renegotiated, lessons from monogamous hospice care, the problems with compartmentalizing feelings and sex, the complications of being polyamorous, and the logistics of being openly married with children.  Twitter @fakedansavage Instagram @dansavage Savage Love Podcast: https://www.savagelovecast.com Web: https://www.thestranger.com/authors/259/dan-savage https://humpfilmfest.com No ads. No sponsors. No censorship. We are the media. Exclusive content is available to Patrons only. Go to Patreon. Become a member.  Get extra stuff. Join the community at amandapalmer.net/podcast

    59 min
  2. Laura Jane Grace: Punk Guilt

    10/20/2020

    Laura Jane Grace: Punk Guilt

    Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Laura Jane Grace. Recorded March 15, 2019 in Austin, TX.   Laura Jane Grace is the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me!They’ve come out with 7 studio albums. Grace is one of the first highly visible punk rock musicians to come out as transgender and has become an outspoken advocate for transgender awareness. Her column Mandatory Happinesswas published by Vice for years.    Her autobiography is entitled, "Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout."   Her debut solo album “Bought to Rot” was released in 2018. Her new album “Stay Alive” is out now on Polyvinyl Records.   We talk about enjoying music as an individual, musicians working in cycles, the relationship between speed and creativity, and punk guilt.   @LauraJaneGrace    www.laurajanegracemusic.com   Stay Alive: https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/product/stay_alive   Bought to Rot: https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/bought-rot   Against Me!: https://www.againstme.net   Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout: https://againstme.myshopify.com/collections/everything/products/laura-jane-grace-tranny-hardcover-book       No ads. No sponsors. No censorship. We are the media.   Exclusive content is available to Patrons only.   Go to Patreon. Become a member.  Get extra stuff.   Join the community at amandapalmer.net/podcast

    43 min
  3. Nadya Tolokonnikova: Pussy Rioting Now

    11/10/2020

    Nadya Tolokonnikova: Pussy Rioting Now

    Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Nadya Tolokonnikova. Recorded October 4th, 2020. Nadya Tolokonnikova is a Russian conceptual artist, political activist, and co-founder of Vladimir Putin’s least favorite band, Pussy Riot. In 2012, she was convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after a performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and served two years in prison. She is the author of “How to Start a Revolution” and “Read & Riot: A P***y Riot Guide to Activism.” Her prison correspondence with philosopher Slavoj  Žižek was compiled into the book, “Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj.” In this interview we talked about coping with a pandemic, Putin’s never-ending reign, storming the Russian Parliament, the influence of riot grrrls, female empowerment, the advantages of being a multimedia artist, building an institution as a statement of punk, creating your own rules, rebelling against expectations, reuniting with your parents, and the importance of reading books when you have lost your freedom. @tolokno on Twitter @nadyariot on Instagram. Check out everything from music videos to anti-surveillance makeup tutorials on Pussy Riot’s YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UCQYcCfKYfYMcuCsem8z5CyQ Read & Riot: A P***y Riot Guide to Activism www.harpercollins.com/products/read-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova? Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20819758-comradely-greetings Get your Destroy the Patriarchy merchandise at pussyriot.store Support Nadya and Pussy Riot on Patreon: Patreon.com/pussyriot No ads. No sponsors. No censorship. We are the media. Exclusive content is available to Patrons only. Go to Patreon. Become a member. Get extra stuff. Join the community at amandapalmer.net/podcast

    1h 26m
  4. Madison Young: Can Porn Be Feminist? (Spoiler alert: Yes it can)

    02/02/2021

    Madison Young: Can Porn Be Feminist? (Spoiler alert: Yes it can)

    Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Madison Young, recorded June 11, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. Madison Young is an erotic artist, filmmaker, and performer. She entered the world of erotic filmmaking first as a performer in 2002 and later started directing films in 2005. She is a noted expert on sex, BDSM, and sexual power dynamics. Madison has taught workshops, given lectures, and acted as a panelist on the topics of sexuality, feminist porn studies, and the politics of BDSM at institutions such as Yale University, UC Berkeley, and the Berlin Porn Film Festival. She is the founder of the Erotic Film School, a three-day erotic filmmaking training program held in San Francisco, CA, that introduces students to the pre-production, production, and post-production process of making erotic film. She is also the founder of the now-closed Femina Potens Art Gallery, a nonprofit art gallery and performance space in San Francisco that served the LGBTQ and Kink communities. Along with Moorea Malatt, she hosts the podcast, Wash Your Mouth Out. Madison published her memoir Daddy in 2014. In this interview we talk about Madison’s life as a sex worker, being a bondage model, transitioning to director, the body as an artistic medium, creating a queer performance space in San Francisco, our fandom of Annie Sprinkle, black box theaters, and the importance of being a pleasure activist. Website: https://iammadisonyoung.wordpress.com Podcast: http://www.washyourmouthoutpodcast.com Instagram: @therealmadisonyoung Book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17341771-daddy No ads. No sponsors. No censorship. We are the media. Exclusive content is available to Patrons only. Go to Patreon. Become a member. Get extra stuff. Join the community at amandapalmer.net/podcast

    53 min
  5. Highlights of The First Season or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Podcast

    04/21/2021

    Highlights of The First Season or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Podcast

    A crowdsourced episode! You asked, we answered with this episode: A collage of the best moments so far. From New Zealand to Portland, London to Austin, and Edinburgh to Melbourne; this podcast was recorded all over the world while I toured There Will Be No Intermission. The podcast premiered in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. What a year it’s been.  With the help of my Patrons calling in and writing to me, I’ve assembled this episode of your favorite moments and reflections on how we’ve all managed to stay connected throughout a year of isolation.  We laughed, we cried, we sang songs. And I learned how to podcast. Hear my reflections on the first season, insights from listeners, and what’s coming up later this year.  Playlist of music from my amazing guests: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Rujpb8gyMKxNaAucbYXgQ?si=4SnK2MlsRD2FR6vXRjzBpQ Get all our Team AFP book recommendations: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47078444   Watch the Crowdcasts: https://www.crowdcast.io/afp #FreePussyRiot: https://youtu.be/ZUiU8QamHi0 Please fill out our listener survey: https://forms.gle/vaXtDVctgYYwFMi68 And check out the merch sale: http://linktr.ee/AFPxDolls   Support my guests on Patreon: Storm Large https://www.patreon.com/stormlarge Madison Young  https://www.patreon.com/MadisonYoung P***y Riot  https://www.patreon.com/pussyriot KT Tunstall  https://www.patreon.com/KTTunstall No ads. No sponsors. No censorship. We are the media. Exclusive content is available to Patrons only. Go to Patreon. Become a member. Get extra stuff. Join the community at  amandapalmer.net/podcast

    1h 10m
  6. Leslie Salmon Jones: The Heart Doesn’t Lie

    11/03/2020

    Leslie Salmon Jones: The Heart Doesn’t Lie

    Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Leslie Salmon Jones, recorded July 5, 2019 at The Omega Institute.   Leslie Salmon Jones is a professional dancer, yoga instructor, wellness coach, public speaker, and community activist. Along with her husband, Jeff W. Jones, she is the cofounder of Afro Flow Yoga.   The pair work with community organizations to help develop mastery over their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-beings. AFY offers weekly classes, monthly workshops, teacher trainings and outreach programs to promote diversity and inclusion in Boston, New York, and worldwide. AFY workshops and retreats are also offered at The Omega Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Festivals, Schools, Colleges and Universities, private events and at studios worldwide including Hawaii, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Bali, and Canada. Leslie’s work has been featured in Yoga Journal, Black Enterprise, Essence and Oprah Magazines, NPR, NBC, and ABC News.   In this conversation, we talk about Leslie’s amazing family, growing up Black in an affluent Toronto neighborhood, learning how to speak your truth, The Cloud Club, how one’s body remembers trauma, the importance of self-compassion, finding your light in the darkest of times, and why the best way to mend your mind and body is through your breath.   @AfroFlowYoga   lesliesalmonjones.com afroflowyoga.com   No ads. No sponsors. No censorship. We are the media.   Exclusive content is available to Patrons only.   Go to Patreon. Become a member. Get extra stuff.   Join the community at amandapalmer.net/podcast

    1h 11m
  7. BJ Miller: An Expert on Death Talks About Life

    10/13/2020

    BJ Miller: An Expert on Death Talks About Life

    Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with BJ Miller. Recorded May 9th, 2019 in Marin, CA.   BJ currently sees patients and families via telehealth through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability.   At the age of 19, BJ was electrocuted and lost 3 of his limbs. This accident led him down a path of studying art history and eventually towards his career of palliative care.   His 2015 TED Talk, entitled “What Really Matters at the End of Life” presented BJ’s perspective on death.   BJ is also the subject of the 2018 Netflix documentary, “End Game.”   His book, “A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death,” was released last year. The Washington Post called it, “a gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share.”   We talked about art history as therapy, living life as an art composition, the relationship between limitations and creativity, making the best of your situation and the allusion of independence.   @bjmillermd    @Mettle_Health   TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_the_end_of_life?language=nb   A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death:   www.abgtte.com   http://www.mettlehealth.com/   www.thecenterforyingandliving.org   No ads. No sponsors. No censorship. We are the media.   Exclusive content is available to Patrons only.   Go to Patreon. Become a member. Get extra stuff.

    1h 12m
  8. Eli Pariser: How We Can Actually Use the Internet for Good Things

    10/27/2020

    Eli Pariser: How We Can Actually Use the Internet for Good Things

    Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Eli Pariser, recorded July 24, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland.   Eli Pariser wants to make technology and media serve democracy, instead of the other way around. He is an author, activist, and entrepreneur who became executive director of MoveOn.org in 2004, where he helped pioneer the practice of online citizen engagement. Eli is also the co-founder of Upworthy, a website for meaningful viral content, and Avaaz, a global citizen's organization. His book, “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You” not only introduced the term “filter bubble” to the world, but also kicked off a conversation about online discourse that has only become more pressing. He is the author of two TED Talks that focus on social media’s responsibility to the greater good. He currently co-directs, with Talia Stroud, the Civic Signals Project, which aims to support the creation of more flourishing digital public spaces. Check out his recent piece in Wired about how to create public spaces online.   In this episode we talk about how we should attribute people’s actions to their situation instead of their character, controlling your environment to change your behavior for the good, applying urban planning theories to The Internet, inviting in the things you want in your life, why it is so hard to be an artist in America, having empathy for people you don’t agree with, the struggle to raise children with the right amount of determination and grit, and how shame is a cultural tool to create conformity.   @elipariser   https://www.elipariser.org   TED: https://www.ted.com/speakers/eli_pariser   Civic Signals: http://civicsignals.io/   Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/to-mend-a-broken-internet-create-online-parks/     No ads. No sponsors. No censorship. We are the media.   Exclusive content is available to Patrons only.   Go to Patreon. Become a member. Get extra stuff.   Join the community at amandapalmer.net/podcast

    49 min
  9. Sherry Turkle: Is Technology Killing Our Hearts?

    04/14/2021

    Sherry Turkle: Is Technology Killing Our Hearts?

    Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Sherry studies psychoanalysis and human-technology interaction. In books such as, “The Second Self,” “Life on the Screen,” and “Alone Together,” Sherry focuses on the psychology of human relationships with technology. Sherry’s 2012 TED Talk is entitled, “Connected, but alone?” Her latest book is an autobiography called, "The Empathy Diaries." In it, Sherry reflects on growing up in Brooklyn and Rockaway, New York, navigating academia as a woman in the 1960’s and 70’s, and reconnecting with her estranged father as an adult. We talked about being difficult women, how Marvin Minsky hates Bambi, defiance in thought, vulnerability in tech, how brilliant ideas launder bad behavior, and radical humility. Buy "The Empathy Diaries" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/585731/the-empathy-diaries-by-sherry-turkle/ Watch her TED Talk, “Connected, but alone?” https://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_connected_but_alone Follow Sherry on Twitter and IG @STurkle For more visit sherryturkle.mit.edu No ads. No sponsors. No censorship. We are the media. Exclusive content is available to Patrons only. Go to Patreon. Become a member. Get extra stuff. Join the community at amandapalmer.net/podcast Amanda Palmer and Dresden Dolls merch sale on now! https://linktr.ee/AFPxDolls

    1h 17m