Peri-Tales

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence. We are committed to creating space for people to share their experiences, including people who are currently incarcerated. Prisons are often sites of abuse, and you will hear our guest mention instances of sexual violence. We know that may be triggering for some people.

Danielle and Nicole are joined by Kwaneta Harris, a currently incarcerated journalist and health educator. She is a former nurse and uses her knowledge and experience to provide health information to other people incarcerated in the Texas women's prison. 

We discuss what health care looks like inside prison, how incarcerated people have to advocate for even basic levels of care, and how through peer education and support, they look out for each other. Kwaneta discusses her own experience with perimenopause and how she has navigated her symptoms while inside.

She has been published in numerous media outlets, which can accessed through her website: https://www.kwanetaharris.com/writing-clips

In this episode, Nicole and Danielle spoke with guest Kim Wilson about why it is important that we talk about community within the perimenopause world.

Kim is an artist, educator, organizer, and writer. She is the cohost of the Beyond Prisons, a podcast that explores incarceration from an abolitionist perspective. As a freelance consultant and facilitator, Kim has facilitated hundreds of workshops over the years. She works to raise awareness about the conditions in prisons, and organizes with others to build a world without prisons.

You can check out Beyond Prisons at https://www.beyond-prisons.com/

Kim's latest project, Planting Seeds Arts, can be found here: https://www.plantingseedsarts.com/

You can preorder her upcoming book, We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition from Haymarket Books: 

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-we-grow-the-world-together

Nicole and Danielle talk to Dr. Cat Brown from Philadelphia about her journey through perimenopause and how the platform Winona can help with people struggling with perimenopause symptoms.
You can follow Dr. Cat Brown at the following links:
Dr. Cat OBGYN links:
https://www.instagram.com/drcatobgyn/

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Danielle and Nicole talk to their guest Erin about their experiences with perimenopause and the things that worked and didn't work. 

Join Danielle and Nicole as they discuss how they were educated on reproductive health and their experiences in the healthcare system with perimenopause.

Introducing Nicole and Danielle, what Peri-tales is and why it is so important to talk about peri-menopause.