In this fifteenth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB gets to know Adiba Khan. Adiba is a reproductive justice activist and a recent Sociology & Public Health graduate of UC Berkeley. As a student at Berkeley, Adiba spearheaded a student movement called Campus Action for Reproductive Equity (aka justCARE), in support of California legislation she co-authored to implement medication abortion in all California public university student health centers. Her bill became law in 2019. --- Sex E...
Aug 12, 2020•57 min
In this fourteenth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB interviews her gorgeous mom, Dr. Rebecca Levy-Gantt, about Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, or HSDD. Dr. Levy-Gantt is a Board Certified ObGyn and a certified menopause practitioner who has been practicing for the last 10 years in Napa, California. Her special interests are menopause management, including hormones and alternative management strategies, as well as vaginal and vulvar pain syndromes. She owns a solo private practice which...
Aug 05, 2020•59 min
In this thirteenth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB learns from Nina Kossoff, the creator of ThemsHealth. ThemsHealth was born to promote health and wellness information beyond the traditional "men's" and "women's" binary. After identifying bodily health, mental health, sexuality, fitness, nutrition, and identity as key areas to focus on, ThemsHealth has become an Instagram-centric resource of suggestions, advice, methods, affirmations, ways of thinking, practices, and broadly information...
Jul 29, 2020•36 min
In this twelfth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB speaks with Daniel Walker. Daniel is an engineer, YouTuber, and asexual activist. He identifies as homoromantic asexual, which means that he feels romantic attraction to other men, but sexual attraction to no one. Through his YouTube channel, Slice of Ace , and work with the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) , Daniel works to educate others about this lesser-known facet of the LGBTQIA community. --- Sex Ed with DB, Season 4 Te...
Jul 22, 2020•38 min
In this second bonus episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB speaks with Cecile Gasnault of Smile Makers, a femtech brand dedicated to the pleasure of people with vulvas. Smile Makers was created with the ambition to bring female sexuality out in the open and pleasure products to the shelves of mainstream retail. Use promo code “ SEXEDDB ” to get a free bottle of Generous Gel with any purchase above $50 US at https://smilemakerscollection.com/. --- Sex Ed with DB, Season 4 Team: Creator, Co-Prod...
Jul 17, 2020•32 min
In this eleventh episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB has on the wonderful Mistress Velvet! Mistress Velvet is a communist social worker, a sex & pleasure educator, and Chicago’s premier African dominatrix. She is best known for her BDSM practice where she teaches her clients about white supremacy, Black liberation, and the importance of reparations. Velvet has been a sex worker and an organizer for 10 years. Her work has spanned reproductive justice, gender-based violence, and LGBTQ+ inc...
Jul 15, 2020•42 min
In this tenth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB gets to know Dr. Jess O’Reilly and Marla Stewart, co-authors of the new book “The Ultimate Guide to Seduction and Foreplay: Techniques and Strategies for Mind-Blowing Sex.” Dr. Jess is a best-selling author, television host, and top-rated international speaker. She has worked with thousands of couples to improve communication, heighten intimacy, and deepen connection before they encounter struggles in their relationships. Follow her on all so...
Jul 08, 2020•46 min
In this ninth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB speaks with Jessica Diggs . Jessica is an LA-based midwife, doula, and educator for Doula Trainings International (DTI). She began her journey as a birth worker in 2012. The trainings, her mentors, and ultimately, her first birth as a doula honed her interest in reproductive justice through doula trainings, childbirth education and holistic practices. Jessica is honored to be a Black midwife and to join other reproductive health advocates wit...
Jul 01, 2020•42 min
In this eighth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB talks with Tanya Turner. Tanya is an artist, organizer, and creator of the Appalachian sexual health project, Sexy Sex Ed . As co-host of political podcast, Trillbilly Workers Party , she reaches 50,000 listeners a month and is creating an animated comedy series about rural leftist organizing with MeansTV and Appalshop . You can connect with her on Twitter and Instagram . --- Sex Ed with DB, Season 4 Team: Creator, Co-Producer, Sound Enginee...
Jun 29, 2020•43 min
In this seventh episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB is in conversation with Anne Louise Burdett. Anne is a certified Western Constitutional Herbalist with 15+ years of training and 9 years of experience as a Primary Care Clinician with a dual focus on sexual health and trauma. She is also a certified Sexual Health Educator and medicinal herb farmer. As CEO of TOCA , her newest project, she is creating pleasure products and educational materials combining botanical extracts with high potency ...
Jun 24, 2020•47 min
In this sixth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB is super lucky to be speaking with Kimberly Huggins and Brittany Brathwaite, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Kimbritive: an organization that offers real, empowering conversations and sexual wellness workshops for Black women and girls. Kimberly is a sexual wellness educator and Social Worker who is passionate about reproductive health and the emotional well-being for people living with HIV and other stigmatized health conditions. Brittany is a re...
Jun 17, 2020•49 min
In this fifth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB has Sam Brinton on to talk about conversion therapy. Sam is one of the world’s leading advocates for LGBTQ youth. They are the founder of the 50 Bills 50 States campaign at The Trevor Project to end the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy, first in the United States and then around the globe. As a survivor of conversion therapy, Sam has spearheaded efforts to submit legislation and promote public education in the hopes of...
Jun 10, 2020•47 min
In this bonus episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB speaks with Da'Shaun Harrison of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaP Co). Da’Shaun is a nonbinary abolitionist and community organizer based out of Atlanta, GA. They work as the Lead Organizer of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative aka SNaP Co. SNaP Co is a Black trans and queer-led collaborative that builds the power of Black trans and queer people to wage and win campaigns that force systematic divestment from the prison industr...
Jun 08, 2020•27 min
In this fourth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB chats with Daniela Gilsanz. Daniela is a designer, activist, and co-creator of The Period Game - a board game designed to teach menstruation in a fun, engaging way (with spinning ovaries)! She uses her design skills to advocate for comprehensive sex ed, menstrual equity, and ending toxic masculinity through her personal work and her work on campaigns for brands including Trojan Condoms, Axe and Seventh Generation. --- Sex Ed with DB, Season ...
May 27, 2020•40 min
In this third episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB has a convo with Hans Lindahl, Sean Saifa Wall, and Pidgeon Pagonis about intersex rights. Hans is an artist, writer, and YouTuber. They currently serve as Communications Director for interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth. Saifa is an intersex activist and public health researcher. He is co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project (IJP), a project whose mission is to end intersex surgery. Pidgeon has slowly, oftentimes not so quietly risen to...
May 20, 2020•1 hr 37 min
In this second episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, DB has a convo with Eva Sweeney about sex and disability. Eva (she/her) is a 37-year-old genderqueer disabled female who works primarily as a sex educator and freelance writer. Eva wrote the book “Queers on Wheels” and has traveled the country giving workshops about sex and disability. She continues to give workshops online and in-person through “Cripping Up Sex with Eva." --- Sex Ed with DB, Season 4 Team: Creator, Co-Producer, Sound Engineer ...
May 13, 2020•40 min
In this first episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, we chat about Ovee, a hub for folks with vaginas, with Maddy Siriouthay. Maddy (she/her) is a writer, designer and creative technologist dedicated to social good, education and community. She is the CCO and Co-founder of Ovee, a sexual and reproductive health hub for women (and people with vaginas), which is committed to the re-education and the destigmatization of the body. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Lao/tian American Natio...
May 06, 2020•38 min
In this tenth episode (part 2) of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we chat about sex ed on stage with the wonderful Una Aya Osato. Una aka exHOTic other aka Norms is a performer, writer and educator from NYC, who dynamically merges her art and politics. She is a co-founder of the renowned troupe brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque, who have a queer POC monthly show called "Compost Bin!" in Brooklyn. Una and her sister Michi Ilona Osato's written work can be found in adrienne maree brown's NY Times Bestse...
Nov 04, 2019•36 min•Season 3Ep. 10
In this tenth episode (part 1) of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we chat about sex ed in the media with distinguished pun queen, Alix Fox. Alix is a multi award-winning broadcaster / journalist / sex educator. She's a script consultant on hit Netflix series Sex Education; co-host of BBC Radio 1's comedy podcast Unexpected Fluids; and has answered listeners' most intimate questions as an X-rated Agony Aunt on The Modern Mann show for almost half a decade. She’s funny, goofy, and an all around wonderfu...
Oct 16, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 10
In this ninth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we chat about sex toys in New York City with the incredible Sid Azmi and Janet Lieberman-Lu. Sid is the owner of and the head educator at the beloved Brooklyn-based educated pleasure shop Please. Please is the epicenter of Sid’s mission to change the way people think and talk about sex, and bring it to the mainstream as a daily indulgence for everyone, and anyone, at various stages of life. Janet is Chief Technology and Product Officer at Dame P...
Oct 02, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 9
In this eighth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we discuss all things HIV and PrEP with three amazing guests: Ashwini Hardikar, Less McCullars, and Thandi Harris. Ashwini is Director of Grants Administration at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. She is an advocate for relevant sexual health education and access to resources across the lifespan. Less is an HIV case manager at The LGBTQ Center in Manhattan. His work is centered around HIV prevention as well as advocating for people living w...
Sep 30, 2019•1 hr 38 min•Season 3Ep. 8
In this seventh episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we talk about the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships. First up, we have Tracy MacNeal. Tracy is an engineer, a healthcare innovator, a mother, and a champion for women’s health. Fueled by two decades in medical innovation, as CEO of Materna Medical, she maintains a focus that is both personal and universal. We then have One Love's Engagement Coordinator, Sam Hanson, and Executive Director of the New York Tri-State Region, ...
Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In this sixth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we address how to be inclusive of queer identities and experiences in sex ed curriculum. First up we have the amazing Andy Duran. Andy is a Bay Area native sexual health educator and the Education Director for Good Vibrations. As a trainer for over 15 years, this California bear cub and proud blue collar dandy loves providing accurate and accessible sex information with hopes to arouse curiosity and spread truth. We then have the wonderfully wis...
Sep 11, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In this fifth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we talk about consent and what it could and should look like in different environments. First on the podcast we have Jaclyn Freidman. Jaclyn is a writer, educator and activist, and creator of four books including Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and her latest, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All. We also have on Daniel Saynt. Daniel is the Chief Conspirator of the mo...
Sep 04, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 5
In this fourth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we chat about the intersections of sex and mental health (and trust us, there are quite a few). First, we have on the lovely Mia Davis. Mia is the Founder & CEO of tabú, a revitalized approach to sexual and mental health care. We then talk unintentional celibacy and other dating stories with the hilarious Olive Persimmon, author of The Coitus Chronicles and Unintentionally Celibate. —— Sex Ed with DB, Season 3 Team: Creator, Producer, and H...
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 4
In this bonus episode of Sex Ed with DB (Vote For Pleasure: Part 2), Season 3, I get shwasty with my bestie Safeena Mecklai, NYU second year Law Student and all around genius/role model/real model. We talk politics, why voting matters, and who out of the dem candidates actually cares about sex ed. —— Sex Ed with DB, Season 3 Team: Creator, Producer, and Host: Danielle Bezalel (DB) Assistant Producer: Cathren Cohen Graphic Illustrator: Alanna Rance Sound Engineer: Oliver Divone Fundraising Co-Coo...
Aug 23, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 4
In this third episode of Sex Ed with DB (Part 1), Season 3, we discuss the intersection of sex ed and politics with Senti Sojwal, Julie Ae Kim, and Zoe Ridolfi-Starr. Senti and Julie are two of the co-founders of the Asian American Feminist Collective. The AAFC engages in intersectional feminist politics grounded within their communities. Through public events and resources, they seek to provide spaces for identity exploration, political education, community building, and advocacy in NYC. Zoe is...
Aug 21, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 3
In this second episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we talk about abortion laws, abortion access, and how people can self-manage their own abortions in the US. First up we have Robin Marty. Robin is a freelance reporter and the author of the new book "Handbook for a Post-Roe America," a guide for what to do if and when Roe is overturned and states make abortion illegal. We also have on Yveka Pierre. Yveka is the litigation counsel for If/When/How where she litigates civil and criminal defense ca...
Aug 14, 2019•1 hr 38 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In this first episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 3, we discuss the importance of being pro-birth control while still highlighting the side effects we don't really talk about. Returning for the third time on the podcast, we have DB's mom, Dr. Rebecca Levy-Gantt (the ultimate badass). Dr. Levy-Gantt is an OBGYN and a certified menopause practitioner who has been practicing for the last 10 years in Napa, California. We also have on the awesome Alice Pelton. Alice created The Lowdown after she realiz...
Aug 07, 2019•56 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In this tenth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 2, we discuss porn as well as its impact on young people with Era Steinfeld and legend Cindy Gallop. Era Steinfeld is a queer and trans facilitator and student, passionately studying and practicing ways of talking to young people about healthy sexuality. Cindy Gallop is the founder of Make Love Not Porn, launched at TED 2009 – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’ - and in 2013 launched social sex video sharing platform https://www.makelo...
Jul 20, 2018•46 min•Season 2Ep. 10
