Can I Borrow Your Skin
Can I Borrow Your Skin is a conversational culture and lifestyle podcast exploring self-support, fetish identity, and relationships through the lens of people of color. Blending personal stories with insights from expert guests, the show dives into the complexities of intimacy, body autonomy, and emotional growth. Real, unfiltered, and thought-provoking, it’s a space for listeners to connect, reflect, and embrace their full selves
Episodes
39 episodes
Urban Gardening Week One
Welcome to Detroit....my garden in Detroit, that is.Run down of the basics:Things to consider with planting, basic pest control, and (sadly) if you listen close enough I crush a watermelon (his name was Citrus).
AI from a novice - Bonus week
Is it real or fake...do you care? Entertainment or education...do you care?
Give yourself grace
We tend to forgive and be gracious to everyone but ourselves. It is time to extend those attributes to the most important figure in our lives - us
Who are you chosing?
We dive into the Stephanie Bennett-Henry quote deeply - ask yourself would you put your love for someone before your love for yourself?
Not all long friendships are good friends
Things that you thought were drowning you, were they teaching you how to swim? Is it better to cut your losses and move forward alone? Can the one comforting you also be stabbing you when you hug? There is not failure it is either success of a ...
Strong Black Woman
Does the archetype Strong Black Woman a help or a hindrance?
Male Mental Health Month
Interview about male mental health: the good, the bad, the ugly and how to get over ourselves and move forward
Interview with Donny Dobson
A new approach to caring for mental health from a man's perspective
Pride, Mental Health, and What Support Looks Like
At the intersection of Pride and Male Mental Health Month, there is a trans-man telling his story. The love and insight shared gives me hope for our world because the next generation is BRIGHT
TRIGGER WARNING - Interview with Rape Academy Survivor Amanda Willett Complete Interview
62 million visit and so few victims know or come forward. Sex trafficking and how hard to be believed when you escape. Why must you fight to be heard? Discussing her journey to become a forensic nurse after not being believed.
TRIGGER WARNING - Interview with Rape Academy Survivor Amanda Willett Part 3 of 3
TRIGGER WARNING62 million visit and so few victims know or come forward. Sex trafficking and how hard to be believed when you escape. Why must you fight to be heard? Discussing her journey to become a forensic nurse after not being belie...
TRIGGER WARNING - Interview with Rape Academy Survivor Amanda Willett Part 2 of 3
TRIGGER WARNING62 million visit and so few victims know or come forward. Sex trafficking and how hard to be believed when you escape. Why must you fight to be heard? Discussing her journey to become a forensic nurse after not being beli...
TRIGGER WARNING - Interview with Rape Academy Survivor Amanda Willett Part 1 of 3
TRIGGER WARNING62 million visit and so few victims know or come forward. Sex trafficking and how hard to be believed when you escape. Why must you fight to be heard? Discussing her journey to become a forensic nurse after not being belie...
Sexual Maturity
Maturity is not just contraception. What about not being able to communicate wants? Needs? Desires? Why exploring what you love in sex is bad? What about one-sided sex shaming where being community dick is ok, but having multiple pa...
Black love: fact or fiction?
There is this glorious construct of Black love – a Black man finding a Black woman and pair bond and raise a family. It was always something that I saw growing up around my family and the foundation of my childhood. A theme in my bo...
Sexual Evolution
Is your sex evolving over time? If not, you may be cheating yourself out of a great time
Can good sex be currency?
Even for those not in the sex industry, Good Sex is a currency and peopel are naïve to think that it is not .Sex is transactional. Why not turn that orgasm into an opportunity?
Representation matters
In the medical field, we need to foster equity of a diverse group of identities including race especially in leadership, and education. It is crucial for validation, belonging, and breaking stereotypes. For the next generations to seek medicine...
Look out for yourself - testing can be off the record
Real threat for health care is how insurance companies define pre-existing conditions now. There are many ways to protect yourself while also getting the needed information.
Why are we letting history repeat itself?
The old stereotypes about minorities in medicine still have not been dispelled. When we are not participating in the system, then how is the system going to get better care?
Broken Record - Here we go, AGAIN
April is National Minority Health Month. I started this podcast, this year with encouraging people to go to the Damn Doctor. I understand that there is a lot of mistrust in the health care system. And for good reason. As a minority, we do...
Grief as a punch in the face
There are those deaths that remove the rose colored glasses. I experienced that with my parents. I was in my 40s and I felt that I was an adult, but I learned very quickly that many of things that I thought that grief and life in general was ve...