Sssh! Periods

It's been 365-ish days since Sssh! Periods received the phone call that would change our lives. One year since winning NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, where are we now? Raizel and Litzy, our two out-...

25 Mai 20206min

At the time of this recording, we were in Day 23 of quarantine. We chat with Raizel Febles, calling all the way from Bergen, New Jersey, to chat about life in the time of COVID-19. How's our mental he...

18 Mai 20205min

In December of 2019, we heard about the first reported case of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Two months later it came to New York. Within weeks towns went into lockdown, schools shifted to remote learning...

11 Mai 20205min

This episode was recorded in January, 2020, months before New York went into lockdown. Our school has moved to remote learning for the rest of the school year; all field trips, college visits, and pro...

4 Mai 20206min

We're a self-proclaimed bunch of nerds here at Sssh! Periods, so we sat down to talk about what life has been like as a nerd. Do glasses make you smart? Do you get bullied because people think you're ...

27 Apr 20207min

It's a spring Wednesday and Amir, Sheslianny, Madison (the silent support sister), Randolph and Ms. Huq like the bird sit in the 3rd floor hallway of Bronx Prep Middle School to talk clothes. Are we s...

20 Apr 20207min

What do periods have to do with religion? More than you'd think. We spent the past year looking into how period stigma alienates us from our peers, but there are other forces in our lives that also ma...

13 Apr 20204min

A month ago we started recording our Valentine’s Day episode, but the episode ended up being more of a reflection on how we express love. Some of us, we found out, express love through actions. Some o...

23 Mar 20204min