Sex

Truth Be Told Presents: She Has A Name

American Public Media

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What does sexual freedom really look like? This week we interrogate the messages we’ve internalized about sex and we ask ourselves: Can we decolonize our sex lives to aid in the larger quest towards liberation for us all?
To help us unpack some of the layers we called on Ev’Yan Whitney – a sexuality doula, author, and sensualist – who helps people better understand their core desires, needs, and how to put into action what they feel.
The hosts of the Inner Hoe Uprising podcast also help us explore this topic by providing a few burning questions they’ve been sitting with. Author, essayist, and digital activist Sherronda J. Brown rounds out our convo by bringing deep clarity to the identity of asexuality and pushes back on the idea that the act of sex is what makes us human.
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0:00.0	One of my friends recently put me on to this podcast that's basically like the sex in the city I needed when I was in my 20s.
0:08.0	The show is called Inner Ho Uprising.
0:14.5	Okay. That refers to the horniness that one would get after like several margaritas,
0:20.1	so the tequila kicks in and one experiences the inner row of rising.
0:23.4	That's Sam.
0:24.3	She's one of four black 20-somethings from New York City
0:27.8	in the thick of dating and exploring her sexuality.
0:31.8	But the hosts made up of Sam, Rob, Akua, and Rebecca, they're doing more than just
0:36.8	hooking up. They're putting language to what they like, how they like it, and what their
0:42.0	motivations are for doing it.
0:44.0	Like I say, no matter where I threw my kuchy, it wasn't gonna stick.
0:48.0	Like...
0:51.0	That's a kuwa.
0:52.0	She identifies as demisexual, which means for the most part she only feels
0:56.2	sexual attraction to someone she's emotionally connected with. A kuwa realized she was
1:01.4	demi after working through her feelings on the podcast.
1:04.9	Same for her co-host Rebecca, who identifies as pansexual, which means she's attracted to people
1:11.0	regardless of their gender.
1:12.7	It's funny to be where we're at now in comparison
1:15.1	to where I started, especially growing up
1:18.0	in a Caribbean household.
1:19.3	There was a lot of shame around sexuality.
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