Ep. 8: Puerto Rico, Mental Health, & Tatyana Nieves Brown

TRIGGER WARNING:
mention of SA, misogyny, and homophobia

For Pride month,  three queer femmes down to talk a a little bit about their journey with gender and sexual orientation. Minnie and Jae of Avril Heals appear in this episode alongside special guest, Lani, who is Jae's parter. They are in love. Minnie tries poppers for the first time.

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In this episode, Minnie and Jae of Avril Heals talk to activist, artist, and Gen Z-er, Tatyana Nieves Brown. They cover preserving your mental health while doing work within social movements, cultural context, Puerto Rico, and much more!

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Tara Michaela is a an educator who has just made an organization dedicated to providing proper sex ed to youth so they can become educated in their own bodies. Tara joins Minnie and Jae in a conversation about the crossover in s3x work and sex education,  whether it matters if squirt is pee, and if it's possible to be a prude and sex positive at the same time.

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In part one of our episode with Sasha Raee,  sex worker and cam girl extraordinaire, we talk growing up in California, what sex education was like in Sasha's household growing up, and why she almost had an identity crisis as a teenager. 

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On this podcast we talk about culture, mental health, society in a sex-positive, and entertaining way, in hopes of educating and destigmatizing our audience’s ideas of sex workers, other marginalized communities, and taboo concepts.

We think it’s important to listen to professional, educators, but we need to listen to sex workers/marginalized peoples is because we are experts of our own experiences.

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Founders update! Jae is in costume and Minnie is doing her makeup to be a sad last minute mime for Halloween (which you can't see here, so check out the visual episode on our youtube!) This is obviously a late upload but here we talk Halloween, updates, & what we hope is in the future for Avril Heals! 



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Content warning: discussions of death, sexual assault

On this episode of Avril Heals: The Podcast, we have a story time with a great friend of mine. AMF, shares the story of what it was like growing up in Compton, losing his older brother while still in high school, and ultimately how it affected his relationship with his mother.  This is part 1, stay tuned for part 2! 

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Today Addis Fouche, aka the Internet's Most Relatable Whore, comes on the podcast to tell us about what it's like to be the child of Caribbean immigrants, learning Mandarin as a kindergartener, going to boarding school, and how her addiction was directly related to trauma and lack of community.

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NSFW! On this episode, Minnie talks to adult industry star, Leo Vice, about how being Asian-American has impacted mental health, what the secret to having a balanced life is, and the connection between mental state to sexual performance.

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Learn the story behind Avril Heals from the founders, Jae and Minnie. In this episode, they talk about the story behind their organization, why therapy doesn't work for some, and what they hope to accomplish in the near future.

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