Bespoken Bones Podcast

Ancestors Song

A message from Pavini about Bespoken Bones

Episode 80: On feeling at home, loving, and letting go

Sean Saifa Wall , a somatic practitioner and an intersex activist, speaks about dreaming, celebrating life and death, loving and letting go, and feeling at home.

Episode 79: The stigma of drug use and blackness

Ifetayo Harvey , Founder of the POC Psychedelic Collective , speaks about drug use, slavery, vulnerability, depression, and the epidemic of untreated trauma that people are trying to address and self-medicate.

Episode 78: On oppression, justice, love, patience and what its like to receive the gift of music

Dia Luna , a California native painter, songwriter, and seer, speaks about what it’s like to receive the gift of music, its process and how it brings people together.

Episode 77: The relationship between the body, the nervous system work and the ancestor work

Clementine Morrigan , a writer, creator, and facilitator of the popular workshop Trauma-Informed Polyamory, speaks about spirituality, sexuality, love and relationship, and how it intersects with trauma.

Episode 76: The Practice of Slowing Down

Tai Fenix Kulystin , a white, queer, fat, trans genderqueer coach dedicated to building better relationships, releasing trauma, and exploring spirituality, speaks about the erotic and the practice of slowing down.

Episode 75: Healing the ancestral wounds

Oscar Pérez , a ritual leader, spiritual teacher, and mentor speaks about shamanic traditions, unintended grief and rage, and healing.

Episode 74: On eldership, ancestral work, blackness, and healing arts practice

Naya Jones , a geographer, healing arts practitioner, and ritual artist, speaks about eldership, ancestral work, justice, and the healing arts.

Episode 73: Decolonizing Aliveness

Sobey Wing , a multi-racial settler, President of Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Society, and Chair of the Cross Cultural Protocols Working Group of Youth Passageways organization, speaks about multi-racial identity, the rites of passage movement, decolonial love and what led him to his life towards various communities who shared a purpose

Episode 72: Using our bodies to liberate our bodies

Laura Levinson , a movement artist and healer, speaks about the erotic, the ungovernability of pleasure and of our raucously alive bodies, death, and grief.

Episode 71: Dwelling in the mystery of not knowing

Michelle Embree , a professional Tarot card reader and teacher, speaks about Tarot reading and the connection between storytelling and healing.

Episode 70: What is the meaning of life?

Mars Gradiva , an ancient interstellar traveller, idea vessel and a professional enthusiast making queer liberatory astrology, tackles the meaning of life, the Zodiacs and the consequences of vulnerability and our safety.

Episode 69: Magic, art modelling, tokenism, cultural restraints and the activism around gender and sexuality

Jezmina Von Thiele , a Romani and Sinti writer, dancer, art model, healer, academic, activist, and educator, speaks about taking back the power of her heritage by modelling and using it for a way to empower one’s self.

Episode 68: On weaving the threads of adornment, feminism, storytelling, archaeology, and blackness

Ayana Omilade Flewellen , a Black Feminist, an archaeologist, a storyteller, and an artist, talks about archaeology and the enslavement and sexual exploitation of black women.

Episode 67: On the connection of grief work, erotic embodiment and the intersection of birth and sex work

Katie Spataro , a full-spectrum doula, a somatic sex educator and a holistic pelvic care provider speaks about her healing practices, ancestral lineage, the intersections of birth work and sex work, and the intimate connection of grief and pleasure.

Episode 66: Playing with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist

Ra Malika Imhotep , an open-hearted collaborator on a number of projects at the intersections of creative expression and Black liberation shares her experiences and talks about what it means to play with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist.

Episode 65: "This harm can be held in a circle and I can address the person who caused this harm with support.": On sexual trauma, restorative justice and empowerment.

Marisa Taborga Byrne , a survivor of incest, shares her experience about the magic of healing from sexual trauma. She also speaks about holistic sexuality, the Global Sexual Healing Revolution and how restorative justice helped her heal the trauma.

Episode 64: Ancestral rites of passage with Darcy Ottey

Darcy Ottey of Youth Passageways to how genuine rites of passage that allow young adults to "sit at the big kids table" once they make it through, as well as how to discern effective rites that welcome youth into adult community through offering identity, belonging and sense of purpose.

Episode 63: What happens after you are buried alive? Art, ancestors and black erotic power

brontë velez goes deep: going underground, psychedelics, blackness, sex, remembering and demanding healing. What happens when you start with where you want to end and work your way back.

Episode 62: Doing the old time spirit work

Artist and Medium Kook Teflon lives a life of connection with spirit. In this interview, she speaks on working in good ways with the spirit of Alcohol, dolls and living altars, & rewriting family stories.

Episode 61: We are all made of stars: Time travel ancestry

Billed as "Your guide to the night sky and friendly neighborhood time traveler, queer elder Stargazer Li writes: "Stargazing isn’t about feeling small in the face of such vastness. It’s about seeing and experiencing our story as part of the tapestry of a much bigger story. It’s about dancing with the spiraling currents of time, rather than trying to direct the flow. It’s about coming IN to our bodies and IN to the moment. It’s about vastly expanding our experience of NOW." In this episode, we go...

Episode 59: Trans Day of Remembrance 2019

In this episode, Pavini ritually reads the names of the trans dead of violence in 2019.

Episode 58: Queer and Trans Ritual Magick as Living Art

Ylva Radziszewski and Kiki Robinson of the Living Altar discuss ritual art as magical activism, queer self-initiation, and accessing ancestors (especially transcestors and queer ancestors) thru the trauma of Roma diaspora and assimilation.

Episode 57: "Our grief does not need healing. Our healing needs our grief."

Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief riffs on the necessity of grief fluency and it can help you feel a sense of belonging.

Episode 56: Hunter's Moon with Murphy Robinson

Murphy Robinson of Mountainsong Expeditions shares of her journey on the Appalachian trail led her from life-long vegetarian to practicing the ancestral skill of the sacred hunt.

Episode 55: "I want to be an ancestor who makes mistakes." On dying consciously, fierce activism and tender learning to the end.

Activist and witch Colleen Cook speaks about her terminal cancer, her experiences with dying, sexuality and community. Colleen provides a gorgeous example of how to die as you live, and how to live as you die. This is the season finale. Bespoken Bones returns Oct. 13, 2019. Make sure to watch for our new show "The Well-Pleasured Podcast" an erotic liberation gameshow, launching September, 2019.

Episode 54: The gender revolution will be podcasted!

Join Dr. Alex Iantaffi, gender radical, ancestral reverence practitioner and host of Gender Stories Podcast as we discuss liminality, the intersection of patriarchy and liberation, and praying through queer sex.

Episode 53: Your Earthly Queer Nature Belongs Here

In this episode, So & Pinar of Queer Nature share about queer love and learning to belong through weaving webs of accountability with other beings and the land-based practice of cultivating resilience. Intro music in Quechua by Renata Flores Rivera .

Episode 52: Creating art with ancestors

What if we can work with ancestors to create art that inspires and liberates? Seth Eisen speaks about his approach that marries notions of community-driven, often overlooked history with an interdisciplinary performance celebrating the legacies of queer ancestors.