S3 Ep3: Monkeypox, What’s The Hype?

This special episode features Dr. Ina Park discussing monkeypox: what it is, what’s the hype, and how worried (hint: not very) she is about the spread.

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Resources:

CDC

Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs.

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Dr. Ina Park, MS, is the medical director at the California Prevention Training Center. She is a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and a medical consultant in the Division of STD Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

S3 Ep2: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Harm Reduction Strategies with Jen Jackson

Jen Jackson, Disease Intervention Specialist and Harm Reductionist, walks us through the history of harm reduction, the principles that guide the movement, and gives us some personal examples of disease intervention and harm reduction values in action. Listen in to learn how theories of harm reduction apply in myriad settings, and how a foundation in these theories is essential to providing effective sexual healthcare.

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Resources from Jen Jackson:

Resources From the CAPTC:

Drugs 101 Training Series from the CAPTC and National Harm Reduction Coalition
Harm reduction resources from the CAPTC
Virtual Syringe Services Workshop from the CAPTC

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S3 Ep1: Disability and Sexual Health

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CW: Ableism

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Resources:

Disability After Dark

Hot, Wet, and Shaking: How I Learned to Talk about Sex by Kaleigh Trace

Purchase or financially support The Joystick: The World’s First Accessible Sex Toy by Get Bump’n

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Andrew Gurza is an award-winning Disability Awareness Consultant and the Chief Disability Officer and Co-founder ofBump’n, a sex toy company for and by disabled people. Their work has been featured on BBC, CBC, Daily Xtra, Gay Times UK, Huffington Post, The Advocate, Everyday Feminism, Mashable, Out.com, and several anthologies. They were the subject of an award-winning National Film Board of Canada Documentary “Picture This.” Andrew has guested on a number of podcasts including Dan Savage’s Savage Love and Cameron Esposito’s Queery. They have spoken all over the world on sex, disability and what it means to be a Queer Cripple. They are also the host of Disability After Dark: The Podcast Shining a Bright Light on Disability Stories which won a Canadian Podcast Award in 2021, a Queerty Award, and was chosen as an Honoree at the 2020 Webby Awards. The show is available on all platforms. Andrew is also the creator of the viral hashtag #DisabledPeopleAreHot.

S2 Speaking Frankly Bonus Episode! Asking for a Friend w/ Dr Rosalyn Plotzker

Speaking Frankly Bonus Episode! Asking for a Friend w/ Dr Rosalyn Plotzker

If you work in sexual health, you have probably had the experience of becoming the “sexpert” for your friends and family. In this special episode we have gathered some (but by no means all!) of the questions Dr. Rosalyn Plotzker has received from her various circles to try and demystify at least some of these aspects of sexual health.

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S2 Ep7 Speaking Frankly: Dr. Paul Nash on the intersections of aging, discrimination, and sexual health Pt 2

We continue our conversation with Dr. Paul Nash, Associate Professor in Gerontology at USC.

In Part 2 of this discussion about ageism, host Duran Rutledge and Paul dive into the harmful stigma surrounding sex and aging, particularly for people at the intersections of various identities and life experiences.

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S2 Ep6 Speaking Frankly: Dr. Paul Nash on the intersections of aging, discrimination, and sexual health Pt 1

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Paul Nash, Associate Professor in Gerontology at USC. His research spans over a decade and focuses on ageism, discrimination, sexual health, and the built environment.

He partners with several non-profit organizations on his research into HIV and aging as well as ageism and intergenerational communication. Paul currently serves as a Commissioner on the Los Angeles County Commission on HIV, and he consults with the World Health Organization on ageism. He is active in teaching and recently published the book, Critical Questions for Ageing Societies.

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S2 Ep5 Speaking Frankly: Confronting structural racism in healthcare with Dante King

We talk with anti-racist activist, Dante King. He’s worked with organizations like the San Francisco Metropolitan transportation agency and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to cultivate environments that are anti-racist and inclusive.

He discusses how capitalism reinforces racism, the creation of anti-blackness through policy, and the systems and structures that have led to white supremacist ideology.

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CAPTC Podcast—Coming Together for Sexual Health

We speak with a diversity of voices about the vast dimensions to what it means to have and create good sexual health.

Join us, and let’s come together for sexual health!

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S2 Ep4 Speaking Frankly: Why sex positivity can transform healthcare with JaDawn Wright

“Sex positivity” has become quite a buzzy phrase in sexual health and advocacy spaces in the last decade. But what does that actually mean in practice? Today we will talk with JaDawn Wright of the Pacific Aids Education training Center, about just that.

JaDawn is the Deputy Director of the organization and a long-term trainer in the world of sexual health. She tells us why creating healthcare experiences that are welcoming, nonjudgmental, and unbiased can go so far in helping us realize positive health outcomes.

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S2 Ep3 Speaking Frankly: Examining structural racism in healthcare with Ana Delgado, CNM

Ana Delgado, CNM, is a Clinical Professor in the UC San Francisco Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco General Hospital Division. Ana acts as the Assistant Director of Inpatient Obstetrics and Co-Director for Anti-Racism, Equity, Inclusion and Structural Change. Ana talks with us about racial inequities in healthcare, how structural racism permeates every facet of life, and why “race is always an issue for folks who are racialized.”

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