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In this episode, I interview two dyke soccer players, Yael Malka and Adele Jackson-Gibson, who talk about what it has been like to find community and confidence in their bodies.
Dyke Soccer is a community of amateur athletes that meets twice a week for free pickup soccer games in local gyms + parks. Dyke Soccer divines pop-up pickups that encourage queer cruising, promote physical and mental health, and provide a network for queers to find each other. @dykesoccer
Yael Malka (b.1990) graduated in 2012 from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Photography and minor in Art History. Solo shows include Almost Touching, at The Rubber Factory and Where’s the Invitation at The Leslie-Lohman Museum and group exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum Library, The Rubber Factory, Bruce High Quality, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Sikkema Jenkins, ArtBridge and Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, among others. She is currently working on her third book with a series of photos made in Kibbutz Kinneret, Israel. She is a co-founder of the artist initiative Memory Foam which curates exhibitions and live events with artists, produces an artist interview video series and publishes zines. Yael is from the Bronx, NY and currently resides in Brooklyn. @yael_malka
Adele Jackson-Gibson is a storyteller and fitness coach who writes about women’s sports, wellness and spirituality. @adelejackson26
LITQB Podcast This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience. Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast (support) can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.
Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody.
The Host Asher Pandjiris Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator
SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody
Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris Audio Production: ganym3d3.com and https://talkbox.studio/
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