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May 2020
38m 22s

Ovee Health with Maddy Siriouthay

Danielle Bezalel, MPH: Sex Educator | Pleasure Expert | Rom-Com Critic
About this episode

In this first episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, we chat about Ovee, a hub for folks with vaginas, with Maddy Siriouthay. Maddy (she/her) is a writer, designer and creative technologist dedicated to social good, education and community. She is the CCO and Co-founder of Ovee, a sexual and reproductive health hub for women (and people with vaginas), which is committed to the re-education and the destigmatization of the body. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Lao/tian American National Alliance (LANA), a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing, uplifting, and uniting the Lao/tian American community, with recent efforts being addressing recent deportation orders and the 2020 Census.

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Sex Ed with DB, Season 4 Team:

Creator, Co-Producer, Sound Engineer and Host: Danielle Bezalel (DB)

Co-Producer and Communications Lead: Cathren Cohen

Graphic Illustrator: Andrea Forgacs

Website: Alex Morton 

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Sex Ed with DB, Season 4 is Sponsored by:

Clone-A-Willy, Aisle, FemmeFunn, Sweet Vibrations, ioba.toys, and Smile Makers Collection

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About the podcast:

Sex Ed with DB is a feminist podcast bringing you all the sex ed you never got through unique and entertaining storytelling, centering LGBTQ+ voices and people of color. We discuss topics such as intersex rights, abortion, dominatrixes, sex toys, queer sex ed, sex and disabilities, HIV, sex in entertainment, and more.

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