Avril Heals: The Podcast
Avril Heals is a community-based organization that provides accessible creative healing spaces for trauma survivors. They teamed up with host, Minnie Scarlet, to bring you a sex-positive, educational, entertaining podcast centering sexuality, mental health, healing, recovery - and much more! (content warning: death, substance use, mental health issues, suicide, and sex.) Find out more at AvrilHeals.org!
Episodes
10 episodes
Avril Heals: THE GAY AGENDA!
TRIGGER WARNING:mention of SA, misogyny, and homophobiaFor Pride month, three queer femmes down to talk a a little bit about their journey with gender and sexual orientation. Minnie and Jae of Avril Heals appear in this episod...
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Ep. 8: Puerto Rico, Mental Health, & Tatyana Nieves Brown
In this episode, Minnie and Jae of Avril Heals talk to activist, artist, and Gen Z-er, Tatyana Nieves Brown. They cover preserving your mental health while doing work within social movements, cultural context, Puerto Rico, and much more!
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Ep. 7: "Normalize Being Ran Thru" -Sex Educator Tara Michaela
Tara Michaela is a an educator who has just made an organization dedicated to providing proper sex ed to youth so they can become educated in their own bodies. Tara joins Min...
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Ep. 6: Cam Girl & Gamer Sasha Raee part 1
In part one of our episode with Sasha Raee, sex worker and cam girl extraordinaire, we talk growing up in California, what sex education was like in Sasha's household growing up, and why she almost had an identity crisis as a teenager.&nb...
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Introduction to Avril Heals: The Podcast
On this podcast we talk about culture, mental health, society in a sex-positive, and entertaining way, in hopes of educating and destigmatizing our audience’s ideas of sex workers, other marginalized communities, and taboo concepts.We th...
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Ep. 5: Halloween & Update with Jae & Minnie!
Founders update! Jae is in costume and Minnie is doing her makeup to be a sad last minute mime for Halloween (which you can't see here, so check out the visual episode on our youtube!) This is obviously a late upload but here we talk Halloween,...
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Ep. 4: Losing a Loved One w/ AMF the Prophet part 1
Content warning: discussions of death, sexual assaultOn this episode of Avril Heals: The Podcast, we have a story time with a great friend of mine. AMF, shares the story of what it was like growing up in Compton, losing his older brothe...
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Ep. 3: The Internet's Most Relatable Wh0re, Addis Fouche!
Today Addis Fouche, aka the Internet's Most Relatable Whore, comes on the podcast to tell us about what it's like to be the child of Caribbean immigrants, learning Mandarin as a kindergartener, going to boarding school, and how her addiction wa...
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Ep. 2: Mind and Body Connection with Asian P0rnstar, Leo Vice
NSFW! On this episode, Minnie talks to adult industry star, Leo Vice, about how being Asian-American has impacted mental health, what the secret to having a balanced life is, and the connection between mental state to sexual performance.
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