Tracey Lindeman’s (she/her) experience with decades of period pain and the complicated, frustrating, and futile-feeling process of getting an endometriosis diagnosis led her to writing “Bleed: Destroying the Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care.” Tracey and Sophia share their own unique experiences of moving through the medical system’s anti-fat bias and misogyny, and Tracey offers two suggestions for how we can better advocate for ourselves in any medical situation.

Tracey Lindeman is a longtime freelance journalist and the author of the bestselling book, “BLEED: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care” (ECW Press, 2023). She is from Montreal and currently lives in western Quebec with her partner and her cat, Toast. Mentioned in this episode: therebelliousuterus and “What we don’t talk about when we talk about fat” by Aubrey Gordon.

Please connect with Tracey through Instagram (http://instagram.com/bleed_thebook) and her website (http://bleedthebook.com/).

This episode’s poem is called “From the First Water is the Body” by Natalie Diaz.

Read the Fat Joy book review for Tracey Lindeman's book “Bleed: Destroying the Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care.”

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