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Susan Cain: Longing for The Beautiful World Aug 10, 2022

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Amanda sits down to discuss art, life, why goth matters, and the process behind star TED speaker and author Susan Cain's new #1 Bestseller, "Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole".

She is the author of the NYT bestselling 2012 non-fiction book “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.”

Check out 32 Bittersweet Flavors: Amanda Palmer’s Most Bittersweet Playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VHmXJkysFpy5IHCWMWapK?si=9b0534a0a76e4f39

Buy her books at https://SusanCain.net

And watch her TED Talks at https://www.ted.com/speakers/susan_cain

Follow Susan on Twitter @SusanCain

Listen to Susan’s latest TED Talk on TED Talks Daily with Elise Hu

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ted-talks-daily/id160904630

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Highlights of The First Season or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Podcast Apr 21, 2021

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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:
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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

Pussy Riot

https://www.patreon.com/pussyriot

KT Tunstall

https://www.patreon.com/KTTunstall

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Sherry Turkle: Is Technology Killing Our Hearts? Apr 14, 2021

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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
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Dr. Rola Hallam: The Fuckery of Philanthropy Mar 15, 2021

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Dr. Rola Hallam is a punk rock doctor. She is the founder of CanDo; a crowdfunding platform that puts resources in the hands of the frontline healthcare workers in war-affected communities.

In 2011, when war first broke out in her home country Syria, Hallam became involved in the humanitarian response. Working with various Syrian-led NGOs, she played an integral part in building 7 hospitals in Syria including the first ever crowdfunded hospital.

To address the issues she had found within the aid system, she established CanDo, a not-for-profit social enterprise and crowdfunding platform for local humanitarian organizations. She ran a crowdfunding campaign in 2016 called People's Convoy, which raised money to build a Hope Hospital for children after the last children's hospital in Aleppo was destroyed having been bombed for the 6th time. She and the Convoy drove the entire provision of medical equipment for the hospital from London to the Turkey-Syria border in December 2016. She says, “Hope Hospital was built because thousands of people came together from around the world and said: It is not acceptable to bomb hospitals, it is not ok to bomb children. And we will rebuild.”

March 15, 2021 is the 10-year anniversary of the ongoing war in Syria. Hallam is now fundraising to help protect children who are being targeted in schools. Go to SaveSyriasSchools.org to help purchase early-warning systems for 150 schools.

DONATE NOW - Save Syria's Schools

SaveSyriasSchools.org

‘Saving Syria’s Children’ documentary

https://vimeo.com/140567469

TED Talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/rola_hallam_the_doctors_nurses_and_aid_workers_rebuilding_syria/up-next

‘Open Letter: Let us Treat Patients in Syria’

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61938-8/fulltext

The People’s Caravan

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-38528360

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Clare Bowditch: Putting Hope into The World Feb 09, 2021

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Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Clare Bowditch, recorded March 6th, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia.
Clare Bowditch is an Australian actor, radio presenter, and entrepreneur. She started performing in the Melbourne pub circuit at seventeen years old.
In 1998, she formed the band Red Raku and recorded two albums along with producer and drummer Marty Brown—who is now her husband, producer and music manager.
Her memoir, Your Own Kind of Girl, is an exploration into her own inner critic that pulls no punches.
In this interview we talk about the power of naming your doubts, searching for a higher power in order to stay alive, the importance of how books get into our lives, the most useful experience of Clare’s life, the need to pass on little acts of kindness, how truth is the most important gift we have to offer, dealing with death at a young age, and the cost of telling a story.
Twitter:
@ClareBowditch
Website:
https://clarebowditch.com/
Big Hearted Business:
https://www.facebook.com/bigheartedbusiness/
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Madison Young: Can Porn Be Feminist? (Spoiler alert: Yes it can) Feb 02, 2021

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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

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Rachel Jayson: I Want The Thing Jan 26, 2021

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Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Rachel Jayson, recorded September 10, 2019 in Woodstock, NY.

Rachel Jayson is musician, educator and fashion designer. She is the violist in two bands: Jaggery and Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOys. She also teaches music and conducts two award-winning orchestras at Lexington High School outside of Boston. Rachel has also designed footwear for John Fluevog Shoes and makes her own clothing.

In this episode we talk about what it means to be Dapper Q, being a proxy for African Americans to her mostly white students, teaching children to use music as a tool, finding music that is as angry as you are, overcoming postpartum anxiety, and Rachel’s notoriously independent mentor.

Twitter + Instagram:

@musykchyk

Website:

www.jaggery.org

www.armyoftoys.com

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Wayne Muller: A Chat with my Therapist Jan 19, 2021

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Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Wayne Muller, recorded July 15, 2019 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.

Wayne Muller is a minister, therapist, and leadership mentor, and best-selling author.

Wayne’s many books include, “A Life of Being: Having and Doing Enough,” “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal and Delight in our Busy Lives,” and, “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood.”

A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has spent the last thirty-five years working with people suffering abuse, alcoholism, poverty, illness and loss.

In this episode we talk about the fictions we tell ourselves, how humans are slow learners, remembering the spaciousness of your container, holding true to your first fidelity, finding what the next right thing is, and how we all have the power to console someone who is lonely.

Twitter:

@realwaynemuller

Website:

https://www.waynemuller.com/

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Fred Leone: Song Man Jan 12, 2021

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Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Fred Leone, recorded March 6, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia.

Fred Leone is a musician with Australian Aboriginal, Tongan, and South-Sea Islander heritage. One of the few Butchulla song men, he is a cultural custodian preserving their language through music. He the front man for the hip hop group Impossible Odds. Fred is also a passionate community activist and a First Nations advocate. He is committed to passing down the cultural knowledge of his ancestors by passing on traditional songs and dances to younger generations via his work as a song man.

In this episode we talk about Fred’s surprise hit song, growing up with a Robin Hood mentality, what it means to be a “song man” in his culture, saving his dying native language, the importance of passing on knowledge, the politics of land rights, the sterility of anthropology, how to be a better ally, and traditional burning methods that can prevent brush fires.

Twitter:

@impossible_odds

Music:

https://www.impossibleoddsmusic.com

https://amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/track/solid-rock-with-fred-leone

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Masarat Daud: I Am Not Responsible for your Ignorance Jan 05, 2021

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Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Masarat Daud, recorded October 29, 2019 in London, England.

Masarat Daud is an alumnus of Cambridge International School, Dubai. She later studied at the American University of Dubai and also completed a certificate course in Tech Tools and Skills in Emergency Management through TechChange.

Masarat is the Founder of 8 Day Academy, a global education movement with a mission to make education accessible and relevant to all communities. She has also worked as a columnist for the Khaleej Times and as Deputy News Editor for CPI Dubai.

She is the curator of TEDx Shekhavati; a conference that takes place in rural Rajasthan. In her TEDx talks, she discusses how to break stereotypes and how she learned to love her burka.

In this episode we talk about the importance of stoking your curiosity about people different from you, the power of core values to bring people together, keeping a world view of abundance, Masarat’s dinners with Twitter friends, the cult of feminism, the importance of visibility and taking up space, nudity, and not taking responsibility for other people’s ignorance.

Twitter:

@masarat

TED:

https://blog.ted.com/why-i-wear-the-burka-masarat-daud-at-ted2014/

8 Day Academy:

https://www.facebook.com/8dayacademy/timeline

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