SEASON THREE IS HERE! What does it mean to be an eco-sexual? How are sex, ecology, and climate change interconnected? And why is laughter a key ingredient in both activism and performance art? The legendary duo Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens explain it all!
Life partners and collaborators since 2002, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens are the authors of the Ecosex manifesto (along with Guillermo Gomez Peña) and producers of the award winning films Goodbye Gauley mountain and Water Makes Us Wet, a documentary feature that premiered at Documentary 14 and screened at MOMA. Sprinkle, the old whore, is a former sex worker with a PhD in human sexuality, and Stephens, the hillbilly, holds a PhD in Performance Studies and is the founding director of Earth Lab at the university of California at Santa Cruz. In 2021, they received a Guggenheim fellowship for filmmaking. They have a new book out called Assuming the Ecosexual Position, which describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators, how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory. sprinklestephens.org
https://sprinklestephens.ucsc.edu | https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/assuming-the-ecosexual-position
*In honor of this episode on ecosexuality, we are holding a FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN to support the legal defense fund of the water protectors who have been on the front lines PROTESTING LINE 3, a proposed pipeline expansion that would transport nearly a million barrels of tar sands per day through the untouched wetlands and treaty territory of the Anishinaabe people, passing through the Mississippi River headwaters to the shore of Lake Superior. The pipeline is proposed by Enbridge, the company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the US. Join us in being devoted stewards, lovers, and protectors of the earth by donating here: https://www.stopline3bailfunds.org. To donate to mutual aid, click here: https://mn350.org/line3mutualaid