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AGECRAFT After Dark

AGECRAFT After Dark is what happens when the 3 a.m. thoughts stop being ignored and start being followed.Formerly Circling the Drain, this next iteration expands the conversation beyond menopause and midlife into something wider, weirder, and more alive—aging, identity, and reinvention for women, queer, and gender-expansive people who know there’s no neat box to fit into and no final version waiting on the other side.The “ghosts” here aren’t paranormal (usually). They’re inherited patterns, past

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43:34

I Was Definitely a Witch with Dr. Rachel Pope

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2026/10/06

Send us Fan Mail October is Menopause Awareness Month, so we’re celebrating the AGECRAFT way: by talking openly about the things nobody bothered to tell us about our changing bodies. This week, Julia sits down with Dr. Rachel Pope, a board-certified OB-GYN and sexual health specialist, for a candid conversation about the gaps that still exist in women’s and sexual healthcare. They talk about cancer survivorship and surgical menopause, genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM), changing sexual...

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29:35

Plot Twists, Space Pirates & the Power of Tenacity...

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2026/09/22

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you stop waiting to have everything figured out before letting yourself be the hero of the story? Julia sits down with author Briana McDonald to talk about writing queer kids into the center of mystery and adventure stories, why girls deserve to do all the cool shit, and what rejection, grief, identity, and uncertainty have taught her about letting go of control. Briana is the author of the middle-grade novels Pepper’s Rules for Secret Sleuthing, The Secrets...

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49:50

Oldsters, Young Dudes & Dead People at 3:33 AM with...

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2026/09/08

Send us Fan Mail What if your career doesn’t peak at 30, 40, or even 50? What if shit really starts popping off at 60? Writer, editor, and Oldster Magazine founder Sari Botton joins me to talk about aging, ambition, gendered ageism, and what happens when the doors stop opening and you decide to build your own damn thing. We get into why every age is worth talking about, the surprising power of intergenerational conversations, making independent creative work financially sustainable, getting h...

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60:28

Spiritual Work Is WORK With Aly Kravetz (Bronx Witch)

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2026/08/25

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you stop treating spiritual work like a calling you’re supposed to suffer for—and start treating it like actual work? This week on AGECRAFT After Dark, I’m talking with Aly Kravetz, AKA Bronx Witch, founder of Witch Work and Better Witch Coaching. Aly has built her work around a message I can very much get behind: spiritual work is WORK, and you should be getting PAID. We talk about why spiritual and wellness practitioners—especially women—struggle to charge...

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28:34

SURPRISE EPISODE: Finding Real Perimenopause Care

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2026/08/18

Send us Fan Mail A little surprise in your AGECRAFT After Dark feed. This time, I’m not asking the questions. I recently joined Dr. Rachel Pope on Our Womanity to talk about what it’s actually like to navigate perimenopause when the healthcare system isn’t particularly good at recognizing—or treating—it. We get into my own perimenopause story (including the grocery-store hot flash that made me think I was dying), being repeatedly told I was “fine,” why regular periods don’t mean you’re not in...

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63:45

Leaving the Light On -Grief, ghosts, animal...

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2026/08/11

Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m joined by death doula Grey Liefer for a deeply compassionate conversation about grief, dementia, end-of-life care, and what it means to help someone feel safe when the world no longer does. Grey shares how early loss shaped their understanding of mortality, why grief asks us to stop striving for “better” and aim for neutrality instead, and how improvisation can become an unexpectedly powerful tool for caring for someone with dementia. We also discuss the unique...

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62:25

Break Your Face, Build an Empire – Seizures and...

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2026/07/28

Send us Fan Mail Bestselling author. Brand strategist. Publisher. Founder of Empress Editions. Survivor of 14 facial surgeries and one extremely rude grocery store floor. Alisa Kennedy Jones does not do anything halfway, and in this episode she explains why midlife women — who control 85% of household spending and keep being told their voices are "old" — are the most underestimated force in publishing and this economy, if we’re being honest. We cover: postmenopausal bliss (yes, really),...

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59:44

Zero Ukuleles to Three Ukuleles with Jen Kwok

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2026/07/14

Send us Fan Mail What if midlife isn’t about reinventing yourself? What if it’s about finally becoming the person you were all along? In this episode, I sit down with writer, musician, actor, comedian, and multi-hyphenate Jen Kwok to talk about creativity, caregiving, intuition, visibility, and the strange process of reclaiming the parts of ourselves we were taught to tone down. We explore why sensitivity might actually be a superpower, how to hold the mundane and the magical at the same time...

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69:46

Hip Cat Fascist: The Best Band Name You'll Never Hear...

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2026/06/30

Send us Fan Mail This week I sat down with my oldest, most annoyingly-always-right friend, Mike Dressel — writer, plant dad, t-shirt auteur, and the reason I've seen approximately 400 things I wouldn't have otherwise seen. (He's almost always right. It's exhausting.) The man also accidentally coined what is objectively the greatest band name of all time, which you'll have to listen to find out — but I promise it involves a cat, a bad hip, and the creeping wave of fascism. So, ya know. R...

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54:38

Touch, Trans-Affirming Movement, and Pilates for the...

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2026/06/16

Send us Fan Mail You know that thing where a fitness instructor grabs your knee without asking? Yeah, we're done with that. Sofia Engelman — owner of Brooklyn's Queer Body Pilates and genuinely one of the most thoughtful humans working in movement today — joins me to talk about what consent actually looks like in a Pilates class, why the word "burn" is doing a lot of dirty work in so-called body-positive spaces, and how cueing into the posterior chain can quietly sidestep a whole lot of dysph...

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64:28

If You Can't Find It, Make It With Lasara Firefox Allen

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2026/06/02

Send us Fan Mail Surprise! The menopause industrial complex would like to pretend queer people don't go through menopause. So author, witch, activist, and certified gap-closer Lasara Firefox Allen did what any reasonable neurodivergent genderqueer person would do — if you can't find it, make it. They wrote the book, built the course, started the cohort, and showed up on this podcast to talk about all of it. In this episode, Lasara and I get into why your gyno's eyes glaze over the second you ...

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69:19

Get Some Bad B*tches With Genevieve Manion

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2026/05/19

Send us Fan Mail What do haunted linen, Victorian hair art, and the courage to blow up your entire life have in common? This episode, that's what. Julia is joined by Genevieve Manion — amateur Victorian historian, actual witch, host of My Victorian Nightmare, and we have extremely strong opinions about where dead people's hair does and does not belong. Spoiler: not in your sweater. Not in your cardigan. A locket is fine. A wreath on the wall is pushing it. We move on. What starts as a deep di...

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53:49

A Murder of Crows With Mark Price

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2026/05/05

Send us Fan Mail Mark Price is back, and we’re talking about everything from nervous system regulation to identity unraveling to why doing less might actually be the most radical thing you can do right now. We cover somatic work, Vedic meditation, the art of not spiraling during a stressful email exchange, and how to reclaim your time, attention, and sanity from systems that profit off your dysregulation. Plus: spontaneous joy, witchy-adjacent bird encounters, and a bibliomancy moment that de...

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68:17

Huzzah to All the Boyz

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2026/04/21

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, I’m joined by my dear friend and esthetician Jason Moyer for a conversation about midlife reinvention, non-binary identity, and what happens when your creative self kicks the door back open and says, “hi, remember me?” We get into turning 50 and somehow feeling more like yourself, the magical world of smut, good sleep, and nice d*cks, and why liberation makes some people deeply uncomfortable. And of course, we spiral (joyfully) into a deep dive on Heated Rivalry. To

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58:10

My Gender Identity is Overalls With Zoe Bean

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2026/04/07

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guest is Zoë Bean, tattooer, artist, and general curator of beautiful oddities in South Orange, New Jersey. She co-owns Keepsake Studios and Keepsake Collectables with her partner, Sweetie, blending tattoos, antiques, and pressed botanicals into something entirely her own. She’s also the artist behind my alligator-and-bird back piece. We talk about our Baba Yaga vibes, the pros and cons of overalls, the liminal space of pain, and ask the question, what exactly is girl...

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30:13

Bad Fish and Good Farts (pilot episode of our brand...

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2024/06/04

Send us a Text Message.It's the very first episode of our brand new podcast, Open Up and Say HA!: Stories from Underneath the Paper Gown. Have you ever had a bizarre encounter with a medical practitioner? An ER visit gone awry? A weird thing you found on your foot that turned out to be a rare species of parasitic insect? Welcome to Open Up and Say Ha! - Stories from Underneath the Paper Gown. Medical mishaps, misunderstandings, weird bodily functions... our guests are sharing it all. So get r...

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63:49

Life in the Pause with Monique Cupid and Dixie...

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2024/03/20

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59:02

The Ambassador of Fun with Robin Gelfenbien

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2024/03/06

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42:53

Age Out Loud with Katie Fogarty

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2024/02/21

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60:34

Life's Tough. Laugh More. with Kambri Crews

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2024/02/07

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