What started as a monthly Instagram Live conversation has become…
Open Dialogue, a podcast by Passport 2 Pleasure!
Each episode I sit down with a friend or colleague, each sexperts of various specialties, to discuss all things sex, love, and all relationships.
You can expect these first 10 podcast episodes once a week for now. If enough people upgrade their subscriptions to support my work for $8/month or $80/year, I’ll be able to relaunch the podcast (aka continue making it) but with a proper studio to start producing high level video content including special product giveaways for you!
This episode’s special guest was award-winning artist and author, Ruby Roth.
Ruby Roth’s work is defined by the female form and depicts the inner lives of women through emotionally visceral representations of the bodies they inhabit.
For the past several years, amidst a radical transition from a decade of familial life as a best-selling children’s book author-illustrator to self-determined independence as a single female artist, Roth has explored the deep end of the feminine spectrum and its archetypes.
Roth’s work often features solitary women navigating inner and outer wildernesses. In vast emptiness, surrounded by hints of nature, her wild women and “girl gods” find their way through physical and spiritual dimensions of darkness and light, bondage and freedom, apocalypse and utopia, life and death, transmuting nourishing or toxic forces into usable means.
Roth has been a keen observer of the body since childhood, having been diagnosed with scoliosis, which required 13 years of aggressive and painful treatment. Rooted in academic anatomy and pop surrealism, her artwork——often created in live-model sessions——exaggerates and distorts female forms to reflect them as vessels of powerful, feminine processing.
In this episode — originally recorded on 13 April 2024 — Ruby and I talk boundaries (not the walls we’re told they are), how providing structure sets us free, and how vetting our sources of wisdom and expanding our capacity for discomfort is integral to our potential for growth. Let’s dance on the edges of our comfort zone!
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