Please note: This episode contains slightly more adult content than usual. Listeners should also be advised of an inordinate amount of puns, giggles, and wisdom about human relationships.

As a sex worker, community organizer, and public health researcher, Danielle Blunt thinks a lot about community, consent and comfort. She discusses the ways she brings ritual into her work as a professional dominatrix and as someone who practices tarot, and what it means to work outside of capitalist structures while making time for rest. We close with a discussion of the power dynamics in a few tarot cards, including an interpretation of the Four of Pentacles that we’ll never forget. Also: the best way to make a comfortable bed.

Season 3 is all about rest. In a time of extended crisis, permacrisis and polycrisis, taking time to decompress is not just a benefit but a necessity. Learning to slow down, reflect and make space for expansive thinking is part of what makes rest so sweet but also so elusive. Grab a blanket, turn down the lights, and turn up Five and Nine this season to hear new perspectives on the age old practices of reflection, rejuvenation and recovery.

About Our Guest

* Danielle Blunt

* Hacking//Hustling

Tarot Cards Discussed

* The Lovers

* The Devil

* Four of Pentacles

* The Fool

Media

* Sex Work as Work and Sex Work as Anti-Work

* Black Innovation Alliance

* Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia, by Avgi Saketopoulou

Music

* Episode: Golden Dreams (Mazurka), performed by Chris Chapman, 1907.

* Outro: I'm a 12 o'clock fellow in a 9 o'clock town, composed by Harry Von Tilzer and performed by Byron G. Harlan, 1917.

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