Jason Kae-Smith

Hello and thanks for checking out my blog! I am (and continue to become) a Narrative Sex Therapist, a musician and a daddy. Among many others, I am interested in poststructuralist understandings of human social processes, relational ethics, cultural anthropology and epistemology. I want to get better at writing and thinking of ways I can shape conversations to help people get the upper hand over problems and difficulties.

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For John Scofield, Everything Old Is New Again — Even The Hard Parts

The jazz guitarist has a new record out with an old quartet, playing music that deals, in part, with the death of Scofield's son.

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Photographs of Everyday Life in 1950s New-York City

Ces photographies insolites ont récemment été découvertes dans une boîte en carton remplie de pellicules restée fermée pendant 45 ans. Carole Lanson, la

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Santa Pictures Not Picked Up picked up by The New Yorker(!): http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/santa-pictures-not-picked-up. And in real life at Newspace Center for Photography through January 2nd 2016.    

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I love this “time capsule” kind of stuff!

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Night and Day: Sex therapist by day, drummer by night

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- By day, Jason Kae-Smith helps individuals and couples as a psychotherapist and licensed sex therapist. By night, he is a drummer who plays gigs around West Michigan. Jason K...

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Why Sex That’s Consensual Can Still Be Bad. And Why We’re Not Talking About It. nymag.com

Sex on Campus

The

Game

Is

Rigged

Why sex that’s consensual can still be bad. And why we’re not talking about it.

Photograph by Andrew Lyman SCAD class of 2016

Last winter, Reina Gattuso was a Harvard senior …

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Photos Of Matriarchal Societies Show What Gender Equality Looks Like Across The Globe Maddie Crum, huffingtonpost.com

In these Southeast Asian tribes, women share the power.

A girl poses confidently, hands on hips. She wears a delicate flower in her hair, and stands in the photo's background, but there's something commanding about her presence. For her age, she…

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Bassist Gary Peacock Is At The Soloist's Service Karen Michel, npr.org

Gary Peacock has played bass with nearly everyone who is or was anyone in jazz — including Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett, to name just a few. He's covered a lot of territory, both musically and geographically. Peacock's journey has tak…

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Watch Middle School Kids Play A Led Zeppelin Medley ... On Xylophones Robin Hilton, npr.org

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, a phenomenal double album that included, among other songs "Houses Of The Holy," "In The Light" and, of course, the monumental "Kashmir." Tomorrow we'll have an…

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'Amen Break' Creator Getting Donations for Iconic Sample By Daniel Kreps, rollingstone.com

The Winstons' Richard L. Spencer, who helped craft the "Amen, Brother" beat sampled countless times in music, is finally being repaid for his contribution

The "Amen break" is one of music's most beloved and essential samples, ranking up there wi…

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Stunning NASA video shows aurora borealis meeting the sunrise Joanna Rothkopf, salon.com

"All we need now are angels singing"

A new video depicts the Northern Lights (also known as the aurora borealis) colliding with the sunrise earlier this week. The video was shot by NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore from aboard the Internation…

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Alanna Vagianos, huffingtonpost.com

Sexism can be hard to point out when it's so engrained in our everyday lives. Clementine Ford, however, found an awesome way to highlight casual sexism with a simple hashtag.

Ford, a columnist for Daily Life Australian, took to Twitter on Feb. 2…

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When Pop Broke Up With Jazz NPR Staff, npr.org

Writer Ben Yagoda has set out to explain a shift in American popular culture, one that happened in the early 1950s. Before then, songwriters like Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern wrote popular songs that achieved a notable…

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Milo, Transgender Teen, Shares Transition Through Birthday Pancake Photos James Nichols, huffingtonpost.com

One family's yearly birthday tradition has suddenly taken on a whole new meaning.

Milo is a 15-year-old transgender teen whose family makes him a special pancake every birthday to mark the occasion of turning one year older.

Milo recently shar…

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Trapped In His Body For 12 Years, A Man Breaks Free Lulu Miller, npr.org

What would you do if you were locked in your body, your brain intact but with no way to communicate? How do you survive emotionally when you are invisible to everyone you know and love?

That's the first question asked by NPR's new prog…

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'Gender Equality Isn't Just A Women's Issue': Interview With Elizabeth Nyamayaro, UN HeForShe Founder Ravishly, huffingtonpost.com

This interview is part of a special series on men's role in feminism at Ravishly.com, a community for women that strives to foster a dialogue between disparate voices and experiences. To read other perspectives, click here.

It's been…

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Hubble revisits 'Pillars of Creation' in gorgeous high-def image Amanda Kooser, cnet.com

NASA pulls out all the Hubble stops with a fresh look at the unreal columns of gas surrounded by sparkling stars found in the Eagle Nebula.

The Hubble Space Telescope's greatest-hits images would easily fill a coffee-table book with spiraling…

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Setting The Record Straight For Alan Turing Adam Frank, npr.org

Imagine, for a moment, that Albert Einstein's greatest contributions were kept secret at the highest levels of government. Imagine, for a moment, that while still relatively young, Einstein was prosecuted, shamed and driven to suicide for the…