Meeting Our Desires

By: Jessamyn & Alyssa
  • Summary

  • Meeting Our Desires is a project about sexuality and intimacy during the Covid-19 pandemic. Join Alyssa Vera Ramos and Jessamyn Fitzpatrick, longtime creative collaborators, theatre artists and sexuality educators, as they curate and host conversations around this theme. Equal parts structured-interview-series and 3am-cocktail-chats, this audio miniseries will explore questions such as: How has our relationship to sex and intimacy been impacted by the ongoing pandemic? How can we attune to our desires and meet them differently in new and unprecedented circumstances? How can we be in transformed relationship with ourselves and others moving forward towards a more just, and pleasure-powered existence? Let's get deep. We hope you come along... Follow us on Instagram @MeetingOurDesires - we love DMs ;) - and please review & subscribe to be the first to hear about new episodes. You can also email us at MeetingOurDesires@gmail.com. With love and gratitude, A&J
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Episodes
  • Episode 4: Feeling Through It with Deanalís Resto
    Oct 16 2022

    We're back bbs! Coming at you with a sweet snuggle of an interview with the incredible, inimitable Deanalís Resto (they/she/he) - one of our favorite humans! Deanalís is a queer, Bouricua actor, teatristx, & campfire daddy extraordinaire.

    Alyssa and Deanalís sat down for a juicy convo about navigating the pandemic while polyamorous, the unique brand of codependency (dare they say COVID-depenency?) that blossomed during deep quarantine and how it felt to be revisited by old-traumas when we're in a space of rest and reset. 

    Full of poeticism, warmth and watery-Cancer wisdom, Deanalís invites us to expand our notions of the erotic, the self, and the journey towards healing.

    **please note that this interview touches on sexual trauma and what moving through triggers can look like, so take care and space as needed.**

    Also just to note that this interview was conducted last year, in 2021, but our reflections on it are from 2022 so we're in the time machine a bit, babes!

    Episode Transcript can be found at: bit.ly/MODTranscriptEp4

    Catch Deanalís onstage currently at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and follow them @chupacabrita

    Podcast created and Hosted by Alyssa Vera Ramos and Jessamyn Fitzpatrick. 
    Follow us at @meetingourdesires
    Podcast Art by Dionne Addai @deedeesuniverse
    Sound Editing and Music Composition by Mariana Green @banyanboii

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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • Special Announcement - Meeting Our Desires the Live Show Aug 5th + 6th
    Aug 2 2022

    Meeting Our Desires,  A roaming theatre piece exploring  sexuality & intimacy during COVID-19 is here! 
    For those of you cuties in the Chicago area,  join us  Aug 5th at 6pm + August 6th at 2pm or 6pm - three shows only - at Walking Stick Woods for an immersive theatre experience in the trees. 

    RSVP HERE

    Presented in Partnership with 

    Chicago Night Out in the Parks

    Devised by: Dionne Addai, Alex Alontaga, Quenna Lené Barrett, Kara Celeste, Jessamyn Fitzpatrick, Charlie Fuller, Alyssa Vera Ramos and Elliot Sagay

    Performed by: Chi Achebe, Alex Alontaga, Quenna Lené Barrett, Jessamyn Fitzpatrick, Charlie Fuller, and Elliot Sagay

    Directed by: Alyssa Vera Ramos

    Associate Direction & Image Artwork by: Dionne Addai

    Stage Management by: Cedar Larson

    Sound Design & Live Performance by: Mariana Green

    Intimacy Design by: Kirsten Baity 

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    7 mins
  • Episode 3: Claiming Yourself (& your selfies) with Michael Turrentine
    May 13 2022

    Welcome to Episode 3, Baby Bears! We’re back with another juicy convo with the fabulous Michael Turrentine!

    Michael (he/him/his) is an actor, writer, podcaster and social justice educator originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma and currently living in Chicago. 

    Michael and Jessamyn kiki about what it was like to be single, sexy (at times sexually frustrated) at the onset of the pandemic and how to navigate the loss of physical touch. They talk about uncovering the value of non-romantic touch, claiming your self with pride and learning to get your sexy selfie game on point! 

    Full of wit, wisdom and boundless compassion, Michael leaves us grinning from ear to ear while thinking deeply about the ways in which we can show up for ourselves, embrace new modes of sexual expression (nudes? kink? Platonic snuggles? We want it all!), and re-prioritize protecting our energy in a culture that likes to see us grind and hustle at all times. 

    Alyssa and Jessamyn reflect on the ways in which they’ve renegotiated their own boundaries and erotic practices and wonder about how this pandemic hits differently for folks not operating within monogamous, nuclear relationship structures - the polyamorous, the single, the slutty and beyond -  and what we can learn from that. 

     Follow Michael on all the things @mturrentine5 and listen to Michael’s Podcast How’s Your Heart for more Michael magic!!!

    Read the interview transcript at:

    bit.ly/MODTranscriptEp3


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    1 hr and 17 mins

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