Breakthrough bleed - Illness Stigma and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Well, we were going to talk menstrual stigma, but then the pandemic happened. Join me and Drs. Amber Wutich and Alex Brewis as we talk about stigma - what it is, how it affects people, and its repercu...
8 Touko 202034min
Breakthrough bleed - menstrual pads as masks?
Return guests Drs. Jodi Flaws and Jessica Brinkworth help us understand why disposable menstrual pads as masks should NOT be a thing (see example here)... but that some cloth masks may do at least a l...
14 Huhti 202029min
Breakthrough bleed - my kid's review of Go With the Flow
Go With the Flow is a new graphic novel about friendship and periods, written by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. My kid has read it about twenty times, so I thought you should hear all about it to...
31 Maalis 202012min
S3 Episode 35 Living with endo
This week we put aside the scholarly tone this podcast usually takes in order to speak to a patient living with endometriosis. I've known Chris, and her experiences with endo, for over a decade. Chris...
21 Loka 201958min
S3 Episode 34 Is it that hard to study female mice?
Dr. Christian studies how epilepsy's effects on the brain have consequences beyond that organ, like on reproductive hormones and the menstrual cycle. We had a wide-ranging and really interesting discu...
14 Loka 201947min
S3 Episode 33 Menstruapps know a lot about you
I talk to information security doctoral candidate Laura Shipp about her recent work to understand the privacy policies of the most popular menstruapps out there. We tell these apps our moods, our peri...
7 Loka 201927min
S3 Episode 32 Pinoe and Periods
Join me as I chat with Dr. Meredith Reiches of the University of Massachusetts-Boston about periods and athletic performance. Trainers for the US Women's National Team claim they harnessed their knowl...
30 Syys 201955min
S3 Episode 31 Menstrual hygiene, whatever that means
This is PERIOD Podcast, episode 31. I am so pleased to bring you this week's episode with guest Dr. Julie Hennegan. Dr. Julie Hennegan is a Research Associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Publ...
23 Syys 201949min
