Collected Item: “Molly Adler Oral History, 2022/07/05”
Title
Molly Adler
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Molly Adler
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#ableism, #Albuquerque, #anxiety, #dating, #exercise, #Jewish, #Medicaid, #music, #NewMexico, #partnership, #queer, #sexuality, #socialworker, #therapy, #trauma
What is the format of your recording?
Audio
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tiwa Land
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
cis femme, she/her pronouns
What is the age of the interviewee?
35 to 44
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
white Jewish
Describe the oral history.
- Working as a social worker and as a sex therapist serving LGBTQI2S+ and BIPOC people.
- Experiencing collective trauma while helping clients through it: 2016 election and the pandemic.
- Medical bureaucracy; lack of pricing transparency in healthcare.
- Being self-employed and thus not having employer based healthcare; shifting between being eligible for Medicaid and then ineligible; not being able to afford health insurance.
- Transitioning from working in an office space to providing Telehealth from home.
- Ergonomics in the home office, nerve pain.
- Ongoing routine healthcare needs during the pandemic.
- Clients having different access to the technology for Telehealth and different contact desires.
- Recognizing limitations of what one can do and not being able to fix things for others; being there for clients to share emotions.
- Having a backyard contrasted against cramped urban environments; making the home a more habitable environment.
- Going through a break up; challenges negotiating COVID boundaries with a partner.
- Having a live-in partner on unemployment and fronting costs before government subsidies.
- Discussions about boundaries, consent, and safety as a sex therapist.
- Government and the anti-science movement.
- Ableism and eugenics and the impact on immunocompromised people.
- The safety precautions people took at the beginning of the pandemic before risk was understood.
- Returning to outdoor events: first concert and an art show.
- White supremacy and professionalism.
Cultural references: The Moth, Angela Davis, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, BLM, Miriame Kaba, Ring Theory, Belle And Sebastian, Ani DiFranco, Roe V. Wade, adrienne maree brown, Alok Vaid-Menon, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel’s book Inflamed (2021)
See also: https://www.sextherapynm.com/about/
- Experiencing collective trauma while helping clients through it: 2016 election and the pandemic.
- Medical bureaucracy; lack of pricing transparency in healthcare.
- Being self-employed and thus not having employer based healthcare; shifting between being eligible for Medicaid and then ineligible; not being able to afford health insurance.
- Transitioning from working in an office space to providing Telehealth from home.
- Ergonomics in the home office, nerve pain.
- Ongoing routine healthcare needs during the pandemic.
- Clients having different access to the technology for Telehealth and different contact desires.
- Recognizing limitations of what one can do and not being able to fix things for others; being there for clients to share emotions.
- Having a backyard contrasted against cramped urban environments; making the home a more habitable environment.
- Going through a break up; challenges negotiating COVID boundaries with a partner.
- Having a live-in partner on unemployment and fronting costs before government subsidies.
- Discussions about boundaries, consent, and safety as a sex therapist.
- Government and the anti-science movement.
- Ableism and eugenics and the impact on immunocompromised people.
- The safety precautions people took at the beginning of the pandemic before risk was understood.
- Returning to outdoor events: first concert and an art show.
- White supremacy and professionalism.
Cultural references: The Moth, Angela Davis, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, BLM, Miriame Kaba, Ring Theory, Belle And Sebastian, Ani DiFranco, Roe V. Wade, adrienne maree brown, Alok Vaid-Menon, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel’s book Inflamed (2021)
See also: https://www.sextherapynm.com/about/
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-07-05T09:33