This is a BONUS episode focused on labor, delivery and the first weeks postpartum. Full show notes. I talked to Kaela two days before her son, Finn, was born and then again six weeks post-delivery. She generously shares details of her bodily experiences of labor, delivery and postpartum. Get all the information usually not discussed until you are in the proverbial mom's club. If you want to listen to Kaela’s first episode, jump back to Episode 11: Too late to be asking dumb questions.FREE Men...

Kaela and I discuss going through menarche later than your friends, her attempts to get on the same team as her body and learning how to support friends through hard times. We have lots of laugh at our own expense, which we hope you will enjoy.FREE Menstruation ReWritten greeting card! Purchase Menstruation ReWritten greeting cards!This episode is menstruation/period focused, but this conversation was recorded 2 days before Kaela had her first child. I checked in 6-weeks post delivery too and...

Katy and I discuss her experiences learning about menstruation with a single dad, how she handles menstruation as a burlesque performer and how menstrual products are delivered in COVID-19 shelters. Join us to chat and laugh about things you’ve probably never even contemplated. FREE Menstruation ReWritten greeting card!Purchase Menstruation ReWritten greeting cards!Topics covered: - menarche with a single dad - menstruating as a burlesque performer - how menstrual products are distributed at ...

In this episode, Neema and I chat about gynecology, getting medical professionals to believe your sexually inactive and menstruating around men. Join us for some anger and some laughter as we discuss the miseducation around menstruation and more. FREE Menstruation ReWritten greeting card!Purchase Menstruation ReWritten greeting cards!Topics covered: GynecologistsBeing sexually inactive in a medical system that doesn't believe youThe "horror story" of a date where a woman wanted to have p...

Neema and I discuss her menarche (first period) story, what happens when you bleed through your pad in an Uber and the Neema way to dispose of your menstrual products. This is Part 1 of a two part conversation. Be sure to tune in to Part 2 next month for lots more on period sex, interactions with medical professionals, how to (or how not to) talk to men about our periods and more!FREE Menstruation ReWritten greeting card! Purchase Menstruation ReWritten greeting cards!Topics Covered:&nb...

In this episode I talk with Tara (and Kathy) about the cycle of getting on and off birth control, the use of sea sponges as a period product and the glory of the bum gun. Tara's medical concerns and how they intersect with menstrual regulation is discussed. We also talk about light flows, the mystery of a year-long missing period and shame around general "gooeyness". Come join us to learn, in Tara's own words, the "most intimate details of my vagina".FREE Menstruation ReWritten greeting card!...

In this episode, I speak with Takanori about his experiences of putting together the puzzle pieces of menstruation and menstrual products, menstruation when thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail and the debate of having puberty education as a class united or separated. We also touch on some interesting experiences that allow non-menstruators to build empathy for menstruators- and we have lots of laughs along the way!FREE Menstruation ReWritten greeting card! Purchase Menstruation ReWritten greeti...

In this episode, we speak to June, the mother of Kathryn (our guest from the "Sleeping on the bathroom floor" episode)! If this is your first episode, we suggest going back that episode for a listen first. We get an "adult in the room's" perspective on Kathryn's journey through Mosaic Turner's syndrome. We discuss June's own menarche story and she and Kathryn's medical experiences. June shares her experience with IVF 30 years ago, her diagnosis with endometriosis, her hysterectomy and the rec...

In this episode, we speak with Kathryn about her menstrual experiences from being diagnosed before birth with Mosaic Turner's syndrome through her being thrilled to start menstruating at 13 to her current struggles with debilitating menstrual migraines and navigating with whom periods can be discussed. FREE Menstruation ReWritten greeting card!Purchase Menstruation ReWritten greeting cards!Topics Covered:The confusion of being diagnosed with Mosaic Turner Syndrome, but receiving unclear resul...

In this episode, Eduardo and I talk about menstruation from a non-menstruators perspective. We discuss Eduardo's early introduction to periods which was interpreted as "girls are gunna go crazy and you just have to accept that" through his own reassessment of ceremonies around menarche for young women.FREE Menstruation ReWritten greeting card! Purchase Menstruation ReWritten greeting cards!Topics covered:What is menstruation? The impacts of early education on periods at schoolWhat menstr...