

Modern Anarchy
Dr. Nicole Thompson
Modern Anarchy is your weekly invitation to reclaim pleasure, sex, and desire as radical acts of collective liberation. Hosted by Queer Sex and Relationship Psychotherapist and Researcher trained in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy, Dr. Nicole. She is the leading academic voice on non-monogamy and embodied pleasure. Modern Anarchy explores intimacy, erotic sovereignty, and healing through raw conversations with pleasure activists, artists, therapists, and rebels from around the world. Are you ready to dive in?
Learn more: www.modernanarchypodcast.com
Learn more: www.modernanarchypodcast.com
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Jan 4, 2023 • 58min
89. Burning The Holy Mormon Underwear: Kink, Community, and the God Complex with Madazon
On today's episode, performing artist and dominatrix Madazon (They/Them) joins us for a conversation about a different understanding of community. Together we talk about the fear of expansive love, being a sacred interrupter, and deconstructing the god complex.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Madazon's Community:
Ex Mormon Domme Website
Madazon Can Can Website
Resources to Learn More:
What is subspace?
How common is BDSM?
Polygamy in Christianity

Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 25min
88. The Revolution is Now: Are We Ready to Flip The Board of Capitalism? with Kori Doty
On today's episode, Kori Doty (They/Them/Theirs) joins us for a conversation about how the system keeps us disconnected. Together we talk about having a full relationship with our body, time-traveler trouble, and noticing the costs of capitalism.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Kori's Community:
Website
Imagination Revolution
Resources to Learn More:
What is Harm Reduction?
The Link Between Dopamine and ADHD
Tada Hozumi
The Body Keeps the Score
TikTok's algorithm is promoting homophobia and anti-trans violence on For You Pages, experiment finds
These TikTok Creators Say They’re Still Being Suppressed for Posting Black Lives Matter Content
TikTok Admits It Suppressed Videos by Disabled, Queer, and Fat Creators

Dec 14, 2022 • 1h 2min
87. Stop Waiting for Others to Validate Your Shine: A New Paradigm of Healing and Spirituality with Eduardo Viezca
On today's episode, love and relationship coach and psychotherapist, Eduardo Viezca (He/They/King) joins us for a conversation about a new paradigm of healing and spirituality. Together we talk about integrating the transpersonal within western modalities of therapy, following spiritual bread crumbs, and leaning into the beauty of our imperfection.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Eduardo's Community:
Website
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Resources to Learn More:
Understand Your Dreams by Using Jung's “Active Imagination”
The Mestizo perspective
How the mixed-race mestizo myth warped science in Latin America
The Wounded Healer as Cultural Archetype
Jung and the Archetype of the Wounded Healer
Eliminating Microaggressions: The Next Level of Inclusion | Tiffany Alvoid | TEDxOakland
Everything you need to know about Reiki
What is Reiki?
Qigong: What You Need To Know

Dec 7, 2022 • 1h 21min
86. Am I Cutting Off My Identity By Only Having Sex with One Person? with Chris K
On today's episode, Chris K (any pronouns) joins us for a vulnerable conversation about their journey into the liberation of polyamory and unfolding the matrix. Together we talk about the expansiveness of connection, the surrender and trust needed to find security in change, and how our identity shifts through relationships.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
Instagram
Facebook
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Can’t Help but Fly (feat. Be Steadwell & Luqman Frank)

Nov 30, 2022 • 1h 12min
85. Embracing Your Sluthood and Geeking Out About Relationship Anarchy with Brian Gibney
On today's episode, we have surrogate partner and intimacy coach Brian Gibney (He\Him) join us for a conversation all about fully embracing your sluthood through relationship anarchy. Together we talk about reinventing yourself with radical vulnerability, waving your freak flag, and finding security in the gift that you are in your relationships.
RELATIONSHIP ANARCHY RESEARCH : https://www.modernanarchypodcast.com/relationshipanarchy
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Facebook
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Brian's Community:
Instagram
Website
Resources to Learn More:
The Ethical Slut
Can You Be Asexual, but Also Enjoy Kink?
Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life
Central Relational Paradox
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

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Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 19min
84. Relationship Anarchy: The Romance Myth and Navigating Jealousy with Dean Spade
On today's episode, writer and activist Dean Spade (He\Him) joins us for a conversation all about liberating our relationships from patriarchal and capitalist understandings of connection. Together we talk about building community outside of the nuclear model, choosing to be uncomfortable in order to live more, and feeling powerless to jealousy.
RELATIONSHIP ANARCHY RESEARCH : https://www.modernanarchypodcast.com/relationshipanarchy
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
Instagram
Facebook
Patreon
Dean Spade's Community
Website
Instagram
Resources to Learn More:
Fireweed Collective
Dismantling the Romance Myth
Falling In Love Hits The Brain Like Cocaine Does
The Brain Looks The Same When We're In Love Or High On Cocaine
What is the Relationship Escalator?
Loneliness at epidemic levels in America
Angela Davis likens abolishing the prison system to end of slavery
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Between monogamy and polyamory
Relationship anarchy could be about so much more than the freedom to fuck
Of relationship anarchy, accessibility and sitting shiva— Part 1: The anarchism of “relationship anarchy

Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 11min
83. Everyone is Alone Together: Celibacy, People Pleasing, and Self-Love with Ally McDowell
On today's episode, Ally McDowell (She\Her) opens up vulnerably about her mental health journey and reconnecting with her body. Together we talk about itching the wound in mental spirals, giving people the opportunity to love us, and the beauty of smoking a bowl and stretching it out.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
Instagram
Facebook
Patreon
Resources To Learn More:
Grumpy Cat
Schitt's Creek
Generational Trauma
Cannabis for the Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Report of 3 Cases
“I Use Weed for My ADHD”: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Forum Discussions on Cannabis Use and ADHD
Maggie Rogers - Back In My Body (Audio)

Nov 9, 2022 • 1h 10min
82. What Is Tantra? with Yoli Maya Yeh
On today's episode, we have educator Yoli Maya Yeh (She\Her) join us for a discussion about the indigenous tradition and enlightenment practice of tantra. Together we talk about how the goddess became a tool of the patriarchy, the warped and reductionist notion of tantra under capitalism, and reaching every moment an orgasm.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
Instagram
Facebook
Patreon
Yoli's Community:
Instagram
Website

Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 14min
81. Masturbation: It's Amazing and I Can't Tell Anyone About It with Jess DeVries
Activation Warning: Spiritual Trauma
On today's episode, Jess DeVries (She\Her) shares her powerful journey from shameful masturbation to relationship anarchy liberation and queering love. Together we talk about the ontological shift of leaving religion, the divine intervention of dating a kinky person, losing your virginity twice, and ABCD... Anal.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith
Modern Anarchy Community:
Instagram
Facebook
Patreon
Jess's Community:
Instagram
Beloved Coaching
Resources to Learn More:
'I Kissed Dating Goodbye' author: How and why I've rethought dating and purity culture
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion
How Does Purity Culture Trauma Impact Sexuality?
What It’s Like Being a Relationship Anarchist
A Beginner's Guide To Relationship Anarchy: Examples & How To Practice

Oct 26, 2022 • 60min
80. Are You Carrying Trauma From a Past Life? with Cai Carvalhaes
On today's episode, PhD candidate Cai Carvalhaes (She\Her) joins us for a conversation all about past life regression. Together we talk about awakening archetypes, fractals and the quantum dimension, and expanding beyond our minds.
If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!
And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384
50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
Modern Anarchy Community:
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Facebook
Patreon
Resources to Learn More:
Is Hypnotherapy FAKE therapy?
Researchers Create World's First Quantum Fractals
The Collective Unconscious – What is It, and Why Should You Care?
Who is Carl Jung?
The Archetypes of the Anima and Animus
Narrative Therapy
Water Codes: The Science of Health, Consciousness, and Enlightenment
Sean Carroll - What are Observers?
Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?
Fear of a smell can be passed down several generations
False Memories


