Dying for Sex: Liz Meriwether, Kim Rosenstock, and Emily Nagoski on Cancer, Caregiving, and Women’s Sexuality
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Through their authentic and nonjudgmental depictions of death, women’s sexuality, intimacy and caregiving across one woman’s journey to find sexual pleasure after a terminal cancer diagnosis, the Peabody Award-winning FX on Hulu series Dying for Sex asks the question, “What does it look like to heal?”
Episode Description
Join us as we get hot and bothered for women’s autonomy through the Peabody Award-winning series Dying for Sex. In this episode, We Disrupt This Broadcast’s own resident expert, media scholar, professor, and Executive Director of Center for Media & Social Impact Caty Borum speaks with the creators, producers, and showrunners of the 9x Emmy Award-nominated series, Kim Rosenstock and Liz Meriwether. Together, they unpack the ways Dying for Sex breaks every taboo around sex, death, cancer, caregiving, intimacy and women’s pleasure. After their conversation, Caty breaks down the radical depictions of women’s pleasure in this pathbreaking series with Emily Nagoski, sex researcher, educator, and bestselling author of the groundbreaking book Come as You Are.
Content information: The second half of this episode contains discussion of sexual abuse and trauma. For survivor resources please visit RAINN.