My guest this week is Kim Ye. Kim Ye is a visual artist, a performance artist, a pro domme and a mother of two whose work exists within the intersection of sex work, domestic labor, motherhood and the relationship between dominance, and submission, caretaking and autonomy, rebellion and acquiescence.

Before this podcast found its voice and I decided I wanted specifically to feature women who have been stigmatized or shamed for being quote unquote bad girls (my favorite kind) I had the idea to feature people who were in transition. So. I put a call out on Instagram for stories. Hundreds responded. It was so overwhelming it took me weeks to go through every email. I ultimately decided to go in a slightly different direction but Shannon, who responded to my original call for stories of...

My guest today is Suzanne Scanlon. She's the author of the book Committed: Of Meaning and Mad Women, a book that details Suzanne's experience being institutionalized in New York City in the nineties. Her book explores the nature of madness with such elegance and precise insight, and it made me want to know her and love her. Today on the show we talk about mental health, the hysterical woman archetype, and what it's been like to be called crazy.

I am thrilled to be hosting the one and only Accidental Icon. Lyn Slater, author of the book, How to Be Old. She's an artist, a designer, a writer, a model, a former professor, a mother and grandmother. She is queen of the rebels and an influencer in the truest sense of the word. And I'm honored to talk to her today about beauty and age and rebellion and how they intersect today on the podcast.

There are a handful of writers whose voices I believe are so central to where we are culturally, whose voices truly define a moment by validating not only what is happening politically but also what is happening within the interior lives of women. And Lyz Lenz is one of them. She is the author of the book This American Ex Wife and the substack Men Yell At Me.

Diablo Cody is a stripper, an Oscar winner and a woman who influences all of America. Today, on the show I talk to my friend Diablo Cody about working the pole, getting online hate, refusing to be domestic and living her goddamn life on her own terms.

My first guest is one of my best friends. She's also the most unabashedly, unapologetically, fearlessly herself, person I know. She's a poet, she's a teacher, a mother, a genius, and her name is Chelsie Diane. Chelsie Diane is the founder of Poems and Peonies, where she travels all over the world and teaches about famous maligned from their homes. On our first episode of No Shame we talk about divorce, sexual and spiritual awakenings, and trusting your inner knowing.

Hi, I'm Rebecca Woolf and this is No Shame. I’m an author, a mother, a widow, a sex columnist and a lover of complicated women and their human stories. For more than two decades, I’ve devoted my work to exploring nuanced themes that include death, sex, aging, autonomy and single motherhood without shame. And that's what I will continue to do on No Shame. Each week on this show I will interview a different woman who has been told she should be ashamed of something but chooses not to be.