What is Menstrual Leave and Who Has It?
Can you imagine waking up with death cramps, and instead of dragging yourself to work with your heating pad and a bucket of ibuprofen or using up one of your sick days, you could just...use a PAID men...
3 Mars 11min
The Surgical Adventures of Max and Kate
Comedian Max Gross is back on CRAMPED for an update on his adventures with endometriosis, hysterectomies, and rebellious ovaries! Max and Kate try to figure out how big their internal organs actually ...
17 Feb 40min
The Kids Are Alright: Menstrual Education & Advocacy in High School
What's it like to get period pain in middle or high school today? It's been 20 YEARS since my own pretty abysmal menstrual health education, and I wondered - has it gotten better? Has the internet hel...
11 Feb 36min
Sasheer Zamata Doesn't Want To Ride a Horse on her Period
Sasheer Zamata (SNL, Agatha All Along, Ghosts) hangs out for a little 2 person "clam bake" to tell the story of her period pain and fibroids, how she changed her approach to healthcare, and what it's ...
3 Feb 36min
Diet, Exercise, and Period Pain: What You Might Be Missing
Have you ever sought help for your period pain and been told "just lose some weight", or "exercise more", or "just cut out [insert any food group here]"? We know that diet and exercise is important, a...
27 Jan 44min
Is Period Pain All In Our Heads? Subscriber-only Episode Teaser
Dr. Laura Payne, the best-named clinical & research psychologist studying menstrual pain, joins us to talk about how our brains process the sensations of pain. Are there psychological interventions th...
13 Jan 15min
Are Crampers Better Off in 2025?
In our last episode of 2025, Kate looks back on 2025 and attempts to answer the question "Are crampers better off in 2025?" We take a tour through SUPER FUN stuff that impacts people with period pain ...
11 Dec 202521min
Using Period Blood to Diagnose Disease - Subscriber only episode teaser
You know how many diseases are diagnosed or monitored by drawing blood from a vein in your arm and running tests on it? Would those tests still work if you ran them on menstrual blood? It's not THAT c...
4 Nov 202511min
