Queerly Forward is a delicious deep dive into the intersections of queerness, holistic healing, pleasure, and collective liberation co-hosted by Bex Lipps (they/she) and Morgan Vanderpool (they/them)two neurospicy, nonbinary therapists, facilitators, creatives, and community builders.
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Morgan Vanderpool Podcasts

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Mycelial Movement Network and the Wood Wide Web
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59:33In Episode 10, we explore the deep wisdom of mycelium (the largest organism on earth), and how we can mirror our embodied collective healing from its brilliant networks. You’ll receive delightful and insightful downloads about how we can move with the authentic pace of our nervous systems, and co-create an embodied relationship with our mycelial po…
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Take It Off! Burlesque as Liberation with Mx Pucks A’Plenty
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1:40:01In Episode 9, we are graced by the incomparable burlesque icon Mx Pucks A’Plenty. We begin by musing on the queer history of burlesque, including evolutions in body diversity on burlesque stages that more inclusively represent BIPOC & queer/trans folks (who have always been here). We also share about each of our own burlesque journeys, the vulnerab…
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In Episode 8, Bex & Morgan explore the practical magic of breath and song as foundational tools for embodied awareness and liberation. Drop into the wisdom of your body with a guided breath practice from Morgan and an original song from Bex.By Bex Lipps and Morgan Vanderpool
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Holistically Resist with Every Breath: An Interview with Aaron Johnson
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1:06:45In Episode 7, we have the joy of interviewing Aaron Johnson, one of the co-founders of Holistic Resistance. Together we co-weave a conversation of lineage, disrupting oppression at every level, land-based trauma healing/grief work, nutritional & life-saving connection through touch activism, the ancestral healing technology of song, & relationship …
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Welcome Homo! An Interview with Grace Towers
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1:04:58In Episode 6 we have the honor of interviewing Grace Towers, a powerful Chicanx dragtivist, creatrix, community builder and long time chosen fam of Morgan, who is based in San Francisco. We explore coming home to our queerness, radical family healing, investing in intergenerational relationships & so much more. Happy Pride month y’all & welcome hom…
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The Tapestry of Collective Liberation
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1:00:18In episode 5, we weave a thread in the tapestry of collective liberation, one of the foundational topics of this podcast. We consider some big questions: How do we opt out of individualism and centering comfort? How do we opt into our inherent belonging to the earth and to each other? Entwining together brilliant wisdom from some of our most inspir…
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In episode 4, we dive headfirst into the pleasure pool! We go deep into the waters of pleasure & eroticism as a path to liberation (thank you, adrienne maree brown & Audre Lorde), what holds us back from being in our fully embodied pleasure, undoing internalized shame around sex and sexuality, differentiating between pleasure and sex, the relations…
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In episode 3, we begin to explore one of the foundational questions of the podcast: what does it mean to queer our healing? We start by mapping the terrain of what we’re healing from, digging deeper into neurotypicality & neurodivergence, and sharing our own journeys through chaotic systems in search of healing for ourselves and others. We also dis…
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In episode 2, Bex & Morgan share about the origin stories of their names, (some of) the teachers who have helped shape their lives, and the unique magic they each bring to the podcast and their work in the world. A few of the teachers named in this episode: Aaron Johnson adrienne maree brown Joanna Macy Dolores Huerta Pema Chodron Thich Nhat Hanh W…
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In the first episode of Queerly Forward, co-hosts Bex Lipps (they/she) and Morgan Vanderpool (they/them) muse on the origins of the podcast and discuss the endless possibilities for how to move queerly forward towards healing and collective liberation. There’s also gay mushrooms and lots of laughter. Teachers mentioned in this episode: adrienne mar…
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