Voices
Season 8 Featured Voices:
Ev’Yan Whitney is a sexuality doula®, sex educator, and sensualist. Since 2011, their work has focused on decolonizing, unshaming, and liberating sexuality at the intersection of identity, trauma healing, pleasure, and embodiment. Ev'Yan is the author of Sensual Self: Prompts and Practices for Getting in Touch With Your Body, a self-guided journal that will help you prioritize your pleasure and come home to yourself through your senses. They also host a beloved podcast of the same name. For more about Ev'Yan work, go to evyanwhitney.com and follow her on Instagram @evyan.whitney.
Nadine Jane is an Astrologer, using her background as a digital designer to make astrology accessible, relatable, and beautiful. Through her platform, she works to share the tools of self-discovery and self-knowledge that her astrology practice has given her.
F**ks Given, hosted by Come Curious duo Reed Amber and Florence Barkway, is on a mission to break taboos and destigmatize conversations about sex. The pair talk about porn, dating apps, non-monogamy, sex toys and everything between – alongside big name guests who will be sharing their sexual histories.
F**ks Given has over 3 million total downloads, and won Best Sex & Relationships Podcast at the 2022 British Podcast Awards and Best Sex & Relationships Creators at the 2022 Blogosphere Awards.
Dr. Cassandre Dunbar is the creator/host of the award-winning wellness podcast called Be Well, Sis. In her personal quest to achieve holistic wellness, she noted that Black women are often underrepresented or alienated in Wellness spaces despite suffering the worst medical outcomes compared to their peers. Cassandre began her podcasting journey in order to address this lack of inclusion.
Alex Hall is the Chief Bottom Officer in this kitchen. The Bottom’s Digest is his World of Wonder WOWIE nominated cooking show where I share delicious, bottom-friendly recipes in a sex-positive environment.
He wants to empower all you beautiful bottoms to put yourselves first and erase the idea that you can’t eat before sex. Food and sex are my greatest pleasures and he wants you to have lots and lots of both. Stimulate your senses, live a little, and have some fun!
He was born and raised in Houston where he grew up cooking Mexican dishes with my friends and Cajun dinners with his family. His recipes are influenced by my favorite chefs, many of whom are southern women, like his mom and his queer godmothers. They taught him how to literally impress the pants off someone with my food, and he’ll be forever grateful for that.
Goody Howard is your favorite sex educator's favorite sex educator. She shifts the culture forward by expanding society's understanding of sexuality & health. Goody has been connecting people to pleasure with confidence for over 17 years. When she's not teaching RIDEology, or another one of her sexual skill building class, Goody walks the walk that DEI talks. She takes an intentional approach to sex, gender, orientation, and equity in collegiate and corporate spaces. Get to know Goody Howard by connecting on social media (@askgoody) or joining the FREE Goody Gang email list at askgoody.com.
Ambreen Molitor (she/hers) is the Senior Director of Product at Planned Parenthood's CoLab, where she oversees the teams that run their period and birth control tracking app, Spot On, as well as Roo, a sex ed chat bot for teens. The purpose of her team is to expand sex education and sexual & reproductive health care to Gen Z and millennial audiences, particular those in the Black, Latinx and trans/nonbinary communities, at scale, and in a personalized fashion.
Jennifer Mullan, PsyD, is a major disruptor in the mental health industrial complex. Her work is an urgent call to dive to the root of global and generational trauma to unlock the wisdom of our sacred rage.
Dr. Jennifer Mullan birthed Decolonizing Therapy - a psychological evolution that weaves together political, ancestral, therapeutic and global well-being. She is also the creator of the popular Instagram account @decolonizingtherapy and recipient of Essence magazine’s 2020 Essential Hero Award in the category of mental health.
Elle Deran (they/she) is an actor/singer/content creator committed to creating entertaining, educational, queer-affirming content. Elle’s journey back to the self, catalyzed by the pandemic, has led them to use their voice to encourage all folks to see themselves beyond society’s rules and expectations by honoring their voice of intuition. You can follow them on instagram and tiktok @elle.deran.
Ezra Michel (he/they) is a Los Angeles based multidisciplinary trans masculine artist and public figure. Ezra has released 9 singles over the last 3 years and was featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 for the 2023 Musicians category. He is also the creator of the trans masculine empowering clothing brand, 'Pussyboy Apparel', for which he screen prints each design by hand at a local trans-owned print shop. You can buy Pussyboy Apparel at Pussyboyapparel.com, follow Ezra on TikTok and Instagram, and get updates from his mailing list by signing up at ezramichelmusic.com
Garnet Henderson is the Senior Multiplatform Reporter at Rewire News Group. Her award-winning reporting on the intersections of health and culture, with a focus on reproductive health and abortion access, has also been published in Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Scientific American, Marie Claire, VICE, Guardian US, WIRED, Glamour, Quartz, The Atlantic, and more. She is the creator, host, and producer of ACCESS: A Podcast About Abortion.
Arielle Greenberg is a poet and nonfiction who writes frequently about sex, parenting, gender, popular culture. Her most recent book is Superfreaks: Kink, Pleasure and the Pursuit of Happiness. She can be found on Instagram at arielle_greenberg.
Dr. Candice Nicole Hargons (www.drcandicenicole.com) is an award-winning associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Kentucky, where she studies sexual wellness and liberation. She has published over 50 research articles and has been featured in the Huffington Post, Essence, Women's Health, Blavity, Cosmopolitan, and the New York Times. Her debut book, Good Sex, will be published by Row House February 2025.
Alayna Joy is an outdoor-loving, vegan eating, LGBTQ+ content creator who brings her frank and funny perspective to a wide range of topics, such as mental health and sexuality, with a focus on the queer community. Across social media, Alayna shares her love for all things sexuality, climbing and outdoor fitness with a positive community of like-minded women and LGBTQ+ folks. No matter the type of content she’s creating, Alayna’s goal is always to keep laughter and education at the forefront.
Dr. Rebecca Levy-Gantt is an ObGyn in private practice in Napa California who focuses on menopause but at the current time, takes care of girls and women at all ages, 14-94. She is on Linked In, and her practice website is Premierobgynnapa.com
Zachary Zane is a Brooklyn-based columnist, author, and sex expert whose work focuses on sexuality, lifestyle, and culture. He's ecstatic to share that my book Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto is out now! Through the lens of his bisexuality and self-described sluttiness, he breaks down exactly how sexual shame negatively impacts our lives, and how we can unlearn the harmful, entrenched messages that society imparts to us.
Pidgeon Pagonis, M.A. (Chicago, IL) has worked for over a decade as an intersex advocate, speaker, consultant, photographer and filmmaker to shed light on the human rights violations endured by intersex people. Their goal is to help end the non-consensual irreversible medical procedures meant to discipline unruly intersex bodies. Pidgeon’s accessible advocacy helps people complicate their preconceived binary notions about “biological differences”. Their work has been essential for those who want to show up for intersex people in their lives, but aren’t sure where to start.
Dr. Lexx Brown-James, LMFT, CSE, CSES is the premiere sexologist leading the field of sexuality with #shamefreesexed and innovative sex therapy skills. Dr. Lexx provides education and therapy from womb-to-tomb through her practice, The Institute for Sexuality & Intimacy, LLC . As a multiple time Amazon best seller and creator of Dr. Lexx’s Relationship Tune Up Cards and The Black Girls' Guide to Couple's Intimacy, Dr. Lexx is an international sexologist featured in Essence, The New York Times, Vice, multiple journal publications and books.
Winnie is the Community Outreach and Training Chair for Stand With Abortion Now (SWAN). SWAN exists to preserve access to abortion in central Florida and beyond by defending the Center of Orlando for Women, Orlando's sole independent clinic, which provides services to people locally as well as in other states that have enforced restrictions. Help SWAN reach its fundraising goal here.
Sean Saifa Wall is an intersex activist and rising scholar. When he is not working or traveling, you can find him at home with his dog, Justice. Learn more about him at seansaifa.com!
