CONTENT WARNING: We want to make sure that all of our viewers feel safe and comfortable so with this episode we’d like to include a warning for sexual assault and abuse, as well as police brutality, inmate abuse, and violence.

In the first of this week’s two-part episode on menstruation, Erin tells Steph about The 1980 Dirty Protests in Armagh Gaol in Northern Ireland, and how menstruation can be used as a weapon against women-- and also used by women against their oppressors.

The Irish History Podcast that Erin recommended: https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/

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Music:

Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=Hallway&Search=Search

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

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