I'm Chelsea Cruz and I like to sew. Give me a sewing machine and some fabric and I'll be happy for hours. I can't imagine anything better than spending my day alone in my sewing room, stitching away at my latest project. And I don't even care if I make anything gorgeous; it's all about the process for me. One of my favorite things to do is to take a poem from my favorite author and then stitch it on a dress. I put my own spin on the poem, and it's one of my favorite creative projects.
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Chelsea Bee talks with fellow adult content creators, poly folk, kinksters, swingers, and all the lovely humans in-between to discuss the world of personal & sexual relationships, adult content, and advice.
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Into The Fire. An biweekly show featuring burner profiles and how burners participate in the burner culture of Burning Man.
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Internet Popular with Chels and Clay: Bringing you the real talk about living the internet life. If you've ever tried to explain a meme to your mom, this show is for you. Shame, cringe, and the quest for more likes.
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Adult content creator Kaiden Bailey brought his big bag of thoughts! He's not a fan of how black men are portrayed in the adult content world, particularly how "BBC" content is marketed and how it perpetuates stereotypes about black men with non-black women. He dives into the nuances of how this kind of content could be shot and/or marketed to furt…
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"Coming Out" can mean more than coming out as queer. In Ep. 18 we explore what it means to come out as polyamorous, pansexual, a pornstar, a sex worker, and HSV (Herpes) positive. This week we feature writer/model/content creator Cassie Black and producer/director/actor Emily Battles whom share a baseline for what it means to perform in front of an…
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Burning Man Hive
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: An Online Learning Space by Burners, for Burners Created by the nonprofit Burning Man Project, Burning Man Hive is a digital space for Burners and Burner-curious folks to learn, share, and connect. Anyone is invited to explore, learn, and contribute to Hive. We all create Burner culture together when we do. Engage in online, digital conversations…
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Jazmine & JR Cruz are swingers & NSFW content creators from the great state of Georgia. They also host their own podcast "Just Cruz'n" where they share their own stories about life on the road, being sexy, and making content. In this collaboration episode Jazmine and JR take turns asking Chelsea and Matt questions, and vice versa. They all discuss …
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Renewables for Artists Team aka RAT
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Have you wondered if your BRC or regional camp/Village/HUBS or art installation can transition from fossil fuels to solar? Then meet the Renewables for Artists Team - RAT. Bruce Cooper and Ken Rehor from the team share about how RAT has helped dozens of artists on playa exchange their generators for renewable power. The same concepts can be used in…
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Snarklefarker’s Nightclub at unSCruz, Santa Cruz Regional
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Meet Baron Snarklefarker, aka Brian, and Jim from Snarklefarker’s Nightclub, a Burning Man Regional Theme Camp at unSCruz near Santa Cruz, CA. Heavy on the swanky decoration themed in black, red, and marble, it’s the type of club vampires might hang out. It’s meant to be sexy, sensual, dark and stylish. And is it ever! Think old timey playground th…
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Ep 16: "Play Party" Tips, Advice, & Games with Professional Party Host JJ
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You asked for a play party episode and here it is! JJ works for NYC's largest play party, as well as running his own private events & freelances for other parties throughout New York. JJ's tips include how to function as both a guest and a host at a play party. Although the party he works for often draws in cis gendered couples, his advice is perfe…
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Iris Eclipse dives into the world of digital content and interacting with her fans. She talks about the nuances of being a switch, the love but also mental work of performing different personas, authenticity, and the biological complexities of performing on camera. Iris also touches on fan expectations, straight men who secretly love trans content,…
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We meet up with Monica Wu, co-founder of Magic Lantern Society, a wonderfully curated, old-timey space inside a beautiful, big tent. It’s where many burners find enchantment and tell stories, share experiences and co-mingle. We talk about the many places and events that their lovely, intimate space has participated in over the years since they were…
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Now that Chelsea is back in the U.S. she recounts the moments leading up to her being forced to leave her NYC apartment last year, the plans she made traveling the world, and how those plans didn't quite come to fruition. She also details the complications of trying to date abroad, making content, and just meeting new people in general that may or …
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NSFW Creators Nova Rae (Twitter Nova_Ra3), Heath Avery (heathavery.com) Uptown Bunny (uptownbunny.com), and TheUglyCouch producer Johnnyizz (Fetlife jonnyizz) discuss the work/life balance in terms of vanilla vs adult content work, but also scheduling, managing workload, using an agency, and self-care. They conclude by giving their younger selves a…
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Meet Chelsea Bronson aka Catalyst
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Meet Chelsea Bronson, aka Catalyst. Founder of the Tea Carp, volunteer for Burning Man for over ten years, and seasonal staff member at Burning Man. For the past 4 years she has been the Leave No Trace Compliance Special Ops and for the past 3 has been a MOOP Scribe for Playa Restoration; DPW. Before going to Burning Man, Catalyst created an accred…
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Miss Conception, aka Sara Nicole Glass
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Miss Conception, aka Sara Nicole Glass Musician, Performer, Volunteer, BWB Burner! With Kate Robinson from Tenderloin Community Benefit District, San Francisco Meet MissConception aka Sara Nicole Glass who is an amazing musician, performer, and volunteer for Burners Without Borders. Miss Conception produced a community-empowering event supporting l…
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Adult content creator Goddess Bats (they/she) unpacks their experience transitioning through different adult content projects over the years, and shares anecdotes for new creators. Bats is joined by Heath Avery (they/them) and they revisit some of the FAQs that have been flooding their inboxes. There are also tips for solo male creators and a sideb…
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In part III of our sit-down with dating and relationship coach Steve Dean, we unpack all things non-monogamy. A lot of the tools used in exploring non-monogamy can be used in monogamous relationships as well. Love languages usually evolve, and sometimes new love languages can be experienced through ethical non-monogamy. Steve goes over how to make …
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Dylan Hogan, aka Major Trouble! DJ and Producer
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My guest is Dylan Hogan, aka Major Trouble - The founder of BRC Snow Club, resident DJ for Disco Donutz (Heavy Petting Zoo), and former board member of Airpusher and Sextant Camp. I talked with him in March, 2024. To introduce him to you, I am using the words of Joel Kristopher, Zookeeper at Heavy Petting Zoo, who recently posted about his friend, …
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Meet Blondie
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Meet Blondie! She’s an avid volunteer at Black Rock City, owns an art car, and volunteers to help produce Burnal Equinox and Decompression in San Francisco. She camps with Dustfish at BRC and always comes to the party looking blingtastic! Suz and Blondie both volunteer with San Francisco Community Events Team for Burning Man and want to encourage b…
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In part II of our conversation with date coach and dating industry consultant Steve Dean, we get back to the basics of dating advice for both online and offline (IRL) dating. How do you open up conversations? How do you get a second date? What are some creative first date ideas? These are gender neutral ideas for both monogamous and non-monogamous …
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Meet Megan Wood Burner, Volunteer, Publisher and Author of Children’s Books Megan Wood is the author of Farm Day Adventures, a children's book series. She was inspired by her experiences working with children and volunteering as a burner and working with farm animals. Passionate about children, big art & animals (currently goats), we talk about her…
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A Visit with Lysa Joy, aka Dazzle! How to feed 700 artists/builders in 4 days
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A Visit with Lysa Joy, aka Dazzle! How to feed 700 artists/builders in 4 days Dazzle was a guest of the podcast in 2017 when she talked about BRC Wheels on Meals. 2024 will be her 11th year since she first started this project delivering hot meals to art build crews of Black Rock City during build week. Armed with a generator and a microwave on a f…
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You're not crazy, dating apps suck now, and date coach and dating industry consultant Steve Dean breaks down why. Steve takes Chelsea Bee down a wild rabbit hole of updated information on the world of dating apps. Steve's main assessment is that Tinder had a fantastic opportunity to lead the dating industry until they stopped prioritizing compatibi…
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Playa Weddings - a Talk with Ranger Beauty
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Playa Weddings - a Talk with Ranger Beauty Learn about the variety of BRC wedding options Meet Ranger Beauty, an ordained minister who has been providing wedding officiant services to couples at Black Rock City and other Regionals for many years. We talked about the many types of playa weddings for couples, and even individuals. We included informa…
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Comedian David Piccolomini (Instagram @dpiccomedy) and actor/model Emily Battles (Instagram @embattz) discuss how polyamory has influenced their art, writing, and performance style. Also discussed is the world of LARPing (Live Action Role Play) also known as "gateway poly." Why is it that so many "nerds" transition into ethical non-monogamy as adul…
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Chelsea leads the discussion about how being kinky in front of the camera shapes your personal life behind the camera. When did we learn we weren't meant for monogamy and how have we applied our preferences to our personal and professional lives? Also discussed is the BDSM test (bdsmtest.org) and what some of the labels mean. Guests include: Jonnyi…
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Tod Johnson, Curator at BRC Playa Artifacts Museum
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We love to gift and receive swag! We love our pendants, stickers and patches swag collection! We love our pendants, stickers and patches swag collection! There are some really creative burners making small art that sometimes magically shows up in our hands as a gift.Meet Tod Johnson has made it his project to curate and collect beautiful, miniature…
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Chelsea and Matt unpack what it means to be non-monogamous and how this has been a long journey for the both of them. Alongside the many instances of trial-and-error, they have encountered fear and vulnerability, but with self-care and a lot of communication, they’ve been able to walk down a new and exciting path in life together. During their disc…
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Heath Avery and Uptown Bunny discuss the nuances of their poly lifestyle and balancing it with content creation. They also talk about what kind of saucy scenes they want to do next, both as a couple and separately. They also ask Chelsea what podcasting means to her, and how it helps her in laying a good foundation with another scene partner before …
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Chelsea talks about how she fast-tracked from dating exclusively monogamous women for ten years, to suddenly being in an open relationship with a man and creating adult content. She tells the story about how her ex hated that she was also attracted to men, and said "Maybe you want to be non-monogamous..." as an insult, only to realize months later …
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Kaiden tells the story about the time he first became an adult content creator when he was called by a friend and asked to "tap in" last minute to perform in an adult scene with his friend's wife - and his life hasn't been the same since. He also has a few words for other men reaching out to models for a "collab". They also discuss whether race sho…
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John Gordone (Twitter: @JohnGordoneNYC) flips the script and interviews Chelsea. What has it been like working as an adult content creator for an entire year? How has she managed balancing her NYC day job? How has it been balancing her personal life behind the camera? They dig into the highs, the lows, and where OnlyFans is going in the post-COVID …
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Uptown Bunny discusses the world of kink. What does it mean to be a good dominant (aka "dom")? What is her role as a submissive? How can being submissive also be considered empowering? What turns her on the most? Chelsea and Uptown also unpack what it takes to be adult content creators and how they approach their work as a true business. Growth is …
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Gearing Up for 2023, Setting Goals and Intentions for the New Year
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This was recorded live in January, 2023 on a live, Shouting Fire online radio show. Halcyon Styn is a social media pioneer who has been storytelling online for 20 years. His weekly podcast "Hug Nation" has been influential and motivational for thousands of listeners. Mr. Arash produces the longest running burner podcast on Burner Podcast. This is a…
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Meet Benjamin Langholz, interactive sculpture artist, who brought Beam to Black Rock City, 2022. Made of steam I Beams, the art installation called Beam spanned 150 feet long and was meant to be walked from start to point and then down to the other end while walking across its 14 inch-wide girth. Benjamin talks about his past art installations incl…
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Meet Black Rock Philharmonic Conductor, Maestro Eric
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The Black Rock Philharmonic is a group of professional and amateur musicians from different camps that performs classical music for the ever-growing Burning Man community. Meet Eric, or Dr FireTuba, conductor and organizer, who talks about their beginnings, their 2022 concert music program on the Playa, some wonderful shoutouts to other acoustic gr…
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Camp Kitchen Leads Tell Us Tips
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Camp Kitchen Leads Tell Us Tips Big or small camps and villages as well as pre-build crew care teams can learn from three kitchen leads sharing their knowledge and experience to make it easier for us to set up our own kitchens. If you have a camp that has a camp kitchen, if you are thinking about setting one up for the first time, if you cook at al…
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Last time Suz and Dave Keane talked, he and his crew were making The Folly in 2019 and Dave was lead builder of Temple, 2018. Most recently, his crew is ready for their next big-art build called Paradisium, aka the Folly Forest. We hear from crew member Paul Franke. With 20-26 iconic trees making up a forest at Black Rock City in 2022, it’s meant t…
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What happens when a collection of Black Rock Juplaya camps decide to fund art by getting permits and selling tickets? Meet the board of Everywhen Project, 2022 is working towards a week-long event at Black Rock Desert, 2022. With over 2.5K members of their FB group, interest is growing and they are just getting started. The board and the event grew…
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Meet Tree Jay Lee from The Temple Builders Guild. It’s a new group of temple builders who got together and figured out a way to handle temple build tools and to keep a collection of tools for the next temple build. This involves transportation and even Airstream made into a kitchen that is ready to deploy meals to a large build crew for years to co…
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Caveat Magister Talks about Turning Your Life Into Art
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Super Suz talks with Caveat Magister, Burning Man’s philosopher laureate. He’s the author of The Scene That Became Cities: what Burning Man philosophy can teach us about building better communities, and Turn Your Life Into Art: lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground. His newest book is a synthesis of the San Francisco underground…
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Renegade Burn, 2021 All About the Art Car
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Some have said that 2021, besides being a virtual burn year, was all about the art cars. That’s debatable, I know. Instead of debating, we hear from two art car owners who called in to one of my Tuesday night shows on Shouting Fire online radio. We talked about their experience at the Renegade Burn with their art cars. This recording was made on Au…
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Meet Sunshine Daydream, CEO of Playatech
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Super Suz spoke with Sunshine Daydream in the spring of 2021. He’s the Chief Radical Instigator of Playatech. He’s one of the most prolific artists in Black Rock City that nobody knows about. He created Playatech in 2005 to spoof Decommodification, and it’s been used all these years in thousands of camps. Learn how you and your campmates can turn p…
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People seem to think that if you are on the same level, or lower than someone who has done something, then you cannot understand what they have gone through and the pain. But it is a fallacy. You don't need to be on the same level as someone else in order to empathize with them and know how they feel. https://5amily.com/mug/life-is-better-when-you-…
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It's a hot summer day, but the sky is blue and the sun is shining through the fluffy white clouds. The waves on the ocean act as a great distraction from my worries and the day's heat. https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/sew-on-and-sew-forth-2Por Chelsea Cruz
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What do you do when you're in love and you find out that the person you are in love with will never love you back? I find myself asking this question constantly, and the answer is always the same. One way or the other, it's always the same: I should just accept it. It's not like it's possible to change anything. https://5amily.com/hoodie-gildan/i-a…
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It is hard to believe that I have never seen a smile on his face. So what was going on with people that they never smiled? Would they have smiled if they had a different life? https://5amily.com/sewing/blog/how-to-make-fabric-stiffPor Chelsea Cruz
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It is hard to explain what falling in love for the first time feels like. It is an ache that continues to grow inside your chest. A feeling that something is terribly wrong, yet you feel so happy at the same time. A longing to never be away from that person. https://5amily.com/sewing/blog/how-to-sew-french-seams-tutorial…
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I used to think that darkness was my enemy and that it was something I should stay away from. But I've learned that darkness is my friend. Darkness is the best time to sleep your day away. The absence of light allows you to relax because there is no more distraction. https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/you-cant-scare-me-my-mom-is-a-sewist-2…
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The way home is a place everyone knows. It is hard to find your way back, as if the way back is a place you cannot find. I can't find my way back because I don't know where I am in this world. https://5amily.com/tote-bag/if-you-want-me-to-listen-to-you-talk-about-sewingPor Chelsea Cruz
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I’ve never met anyone like you who sings to me in the morning and makes me soup when I’m sick. I know that we both feel something, something that makes me want to be with you forever. And I want that too. But, something is holding us back. https://5amily.com/sewing/blogPor Chelsea Cruz
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I believe that the end is something that we should all strive for. We see it as a place where all the things we worried about go away and we can simply rest. It is not a place where we want to bring others, but it is a place that many of us crave. The end also allows for a new beginning. https://5amily.com/mug/save-the-world-its-the-only-planet-wit…
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