Season 7 Featured Voices:
Dr. Laurie Mintz is a Professor at the University of Florida where she teaches Human Sexuality to hundreds of undergraduates yearly. She has published over 55 academic works. She is the author of two popular press books—both with published studies demonstrating their effectiveness: Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters and How to Get It and A Tired Woman’s Guide to Passionate Sex. Mintz has a private practice, working with clients on general and sexual issues. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, indicating that her work has had a positive national influence on the field of psychology.
Dr. Laurie Mintz
Poppy Noor is a Senior Staff Writer at the Guardian, where she has been for the best part of a decade. https://twitter.com/PoppyNoor
Poppy Noor
Whitni is a sex educator, pleasure coach, queer, mom of 1 kick ass lil dude (9y), and yoga facilitator. She specializes in desire discrepancy, relational communication, and pleasure based sex. Fine her on TikTok (bdemoves), Instagram (bde.moves), Patreon (patreon.com/bdemoves)
Whitni Miller
Dr. Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett are the hosts of the Puberty Podcast, where they dish out scientific research, parenting strategies, and hilarious stories to help guide the adults who are raising kids through puberty. Each episode takes on one piece of this messy journey, landing on practical, actionable advice.
Vanessa Kroll-Bennett and Cara Natterson
Sophie Hyde is a director and producer based on Kaurna Land in Adelaide, South Australia. She is one of the founders of film Collective Closer Productions and makes provocative and intimate films and television. Her feature films include Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated Good Luck To You, Leo Grande starring Emma Thompson, Sundance Award winning 52 Tuesdays, Irish-Australian comedy Animals and limited series The Hunting.
Sophie Hyde
Bow down to your father’s god!! Madame Namio is a dominatrix and stand-up comedian—a dommedian—as well as an artist, writer, model, speaker, and licensed esthetician. From her sharp-tongued takedowns of social media misogynoir to her various speaking engagements around the east coast, this proud pansexual has worked to amplify the voices of Queer, Black, and Brown survivors and sex workers alike.
Madame Namio
Jimanekia Eborn is a Queer, Sexual Assault & Trauma Expert, Trauma Media Consultant, and Comprehensive Sex Educator, who has worked in mental health for the past 13 years in sex education and sexual trauma support. Jimanekia is the Founder of Tending the Garden, a non-profit for sexual assault survivors of different marginalized identities and Co-founder of Centaury Co., bringing increased representation to the field of Intimacy Coordination in the film industry.
Jimanekia Eborn
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
Dr. Rebecca Levy-Gantt
Kimberly Huggins LCSW, MPH, MEd and Brittany Brathwaite, MSW, MPH are the co-founders of KIMBRITIVE, the unapologetic sexual wellness platform reimagining the health and wellbeing of Black women and girls. As public health social workers and sexual wellness practitioners with over a decade of experience in sex education and reproductive justice activism, they are innovating and disrupting the health and wellness industry by placing Black women and girls at the center.
Kimberly Huggins and Brittany Brathwaite
Behavioral scientist turned dating coach Logan Ury is the author of the bestselling book, "How to Not Die Alone." She works as the Director of Relationship Science at the dating app Hinge, where she conducts research to help people find love. After studying psychology at Harvard, she ran Google’s behavioral science team—the Irrational Lab. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband Scott.
Twitter
Photographer: Rachael Wright
Logan Ury
Nancy Cárdenas Peña is a policy expert and an organizer at heart advocating at the
intersection of im/migration and reproductive healthcare with a desire to see communities
exercise their full bodily autonomy. She currently works at the National Latina Institute for
Reproductive Justice (Latina Institute) as the Texas State Director for Policy and
Advocacy.
Nancy is a board member of the Frontera Fund, an abortion fund that exclusively serves the Rio Grande Valley with practical support and abortion needs. She is also a part of the Texas We Testify cohort, a group of abortion storytellers seeking to advance narratives around abortion access.
Nancy Cárdenas Peña
Helen Hoang is that shy person who never talks. Until she does. And then the worst things fly out of her mouth. She read her first romance novel in eighth grade and has been addicted ever since. In 2016, she was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in line with what was previously known as Asperger’s syndrome. Her journey inspired THE KISS QUOTIENT. She currently lives in San Diego, California, with her family.
Helen Hoang
Melissa Strype is a director performer and sexual health educator based in Los Angeles creating at the intersection of comedy and empowerment.
Melissa Strype
Dr. Fenwa Milhouse is board-certified, fellowship-trained urologist and specialist in Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery (also known as Urogynecology). She enjoys using social media to destigmatize pelvic floor & sexual conditions. She is known by the world as "Your Favorite Urologist" and has been featured on media outlets including Yahoo Style, HuffPost, Essence magazine, Rickey Smiley Morning Show, Insider, MDNewsline, and Blackdoctor.org.
Dr. Fenwa Milhouse
New York City stand up comedian and podcast host of How C*m and Diet Starts Tomorro
@remykassimir on all socials remykassimir.com for show dates and merch
Remy Kassimir
Steph Herold, MPH is an award-winning researcher with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), where she studies the portrayal of abortion on television and in film in the Abortion Onscreen program (abortiononscreen.org). She is on the Board of Directors of All-Options (https://www.all-options.org/) and lives in Queens, NY with her husband and two kids.
Steph Herold
Faye Keegan is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer and Gina Gutierrez is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Dipsea, the tech company and story studio behind what The New Yorker called "the audio app transforming erotica." Previously, Faye was a technical product manager and a macroeconomic researcher and Gina was a brand and design strategist. Together they've built a category-defining company, and are proud to support millions of listeners in realizing that their desires, needs, boundaries and fantasies are completely normal—and that pleasure is important.
Gina Gutierrez and Faye Keegan
Dr. Blair Peters (He/They) is an Assistant Professor in both the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Department of Urology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He is a plastic surgeon with Dual Fellowship training. In practice he performs facial, chest and genital gender affirming surgery and complex peripheral nerve surgery. A large part of his practice focuses on phalloplasty and vaginoplasty surgery. Outside of clinical practice, he is both a member and a strong advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community. He strives to continue to be a strong queer voice in medicine and surgery.
Dr. Blair Peters
Cindy Cruz (she/ella) is a passionate advocate for reproductive justice, racial justice, and LGBTQ liberation. She is currently the Director for the Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth (RHEP) at the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL), where she works to end inequitable reproductive health outcomes for youth in foster care and support the healthy sexual development and bodily autonomy of young people.
Cindy Cruz
