SCSG Podcast
Welcome to the SCSG Podcast! The Silberman Center for Sexuality and Gender supports sex positive and gender-affirming research, education, and advocacy for social workers in NYC and internationally. Our podcast is an extension of that, with interviews of practitioners and professionals in the field along with discourse about removing stigma from these topics within research and society as a whole. Examples of discussed topics include: sexual identity, LGBTQIA+, gender expansiveness, polyamory and ethnical non-monogamy, alt sex, intersectionality, and more.
Episode 7: Sex Therapy: Social Worker’s Potential as Sexuality Experts
In Episode 7 of the SCSG Podcast, SJ Dodd and Dr. George Turner discuss Chapter 26 of The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities, which is Sex Therapy: Social Worker’s Potential as Sexuality Experts
Transcript: https://silbermanscsg.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/George-Turner-Podcast-Transcript.pdf
Episode 6: Understanding Consent Among Emerging Adults
In Episode 6 of the SCSG Podcast, SJ Dodd, Adrienne Baldwin-White of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Candace Christensen of University of Texas San Antonio discuss Chapter 25 of The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities, which is Understanding Consent Among Emerging Adults: Wrestling with the Social Construction of Gender, Sexuality, and Salient Social Categories
Transcript: https://silbermanscsg.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ABW_CC-Transcript.pdf
Episode 5: Sexual Violence and Steps to Recovery with Poonam Melwani
In Episode 5 of the SCSG podcast, SJ Dodd, Founding Director, and Poonam Melwani, Silberman School of Social Work Alum, discuss Chapter 25, Sexual Violence and the Steps to Recovery: From Reporting to Healing of The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities.
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault
Transcript: silbermanscsg.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Poonam-Melwani-Podcast-Transcript.pdf
Episode 4: Asexuality with Anna Kurowicka
In the fourth episode of the SCSG Podcast, Founding Director SJ Dodd interviews Anna Kurowicka (she/her) of the University of Warsaw about Chapter 4: Asexuality of The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities.
Here is the transcript: silbermanscsg.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Asexuality-Podcast-Transcript.pdf
Episode 3: Cultivating Black Joy with Jonathan Lykes
In the third episode of the SCSG Podcast, intern ana rikki interviews Jonathan Lykes (he/she/they), an artist, activist, and social worker about the release of the freedom song and chant album, The Black Joy Experience Vol. 2: Comrade and how this album works towards collective liberation for all Black, Brown, queer and trans people.
Episode 2: Interview with Jenna Frasier
In the second episode of the SCSG Podcast, intern ana rikki interviews former intern and recipient of the Edie Windsor, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera LGBTQ Fellowship, Jenna Frasier (they/she). Jenna discusses their experience working under the Chief Diversity Officer, what it’s like to transition from grassroots organizing to legislation work, and how everybody has a role to play in collective change.
Episode 1: Meet the Team
In this introductory episode for the SCSG Podcast we learn more about the team behind SCSG and what topics they are passionate about within sexuality and gender.
You’ll meet: SJ Dodd (she/they), the Founding Director, Jama Shelton (they/them), the Associate Director, and the interns for the 2021 – 2022 academic year: Mark King (he/him), Leo O’Driscoll (he/him), and Ana Rikki Wilhelm (they/them).
Keep a look out for upcoming episodes!