Reproductive Left

We're wrapping up our Summer 2025 season with an interview with our very own Nurse Practitioner MaryAlice to discuss endometriosis! Join our host Aspen as they ask MaryAlice all of the questions you didn't know you had about endometriosis. What is it? How is it diagnosed and treated? Is there any hope of relief for those with endometriosis? What's the deal with the state of endometriosis research? Listen to this episode to answer these questions and more! We'll see you for our Fall 2025 season at the end of September.

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We're continuing our Summer 2025 season with a dive into Diet Culture! Join our host Aspen as they discuss the ways that diet culture harms us and how it intersects with a range of topics. Who is harmed by diet culture? What does racism have to do with it? Answer these questions and more in this month's episode of Reproductive Left!

Introductory resource into what diet culture is-> https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/nutrition-and-dietetics/diet-culture

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We're kicking off our Summer 2025 season with an interview with Dr. Meaghan, local pelvic floor physical therapy extraordinaire! What even is the pelvic floor? Who has one? (Hint: everyone who has a pelvis) Can anything be done about pelvic pain? Answer these questions and more in this episode of Reproductive Left!

Learn more about Dr. Meaghan and her services at her website -> https://www.refinephysicaltherapy.com/

Check out her screening tool to see if pelvic floor physical therapy might be a good idea for you here -> https://bit.ly/4kBUIIl

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For our final Winter 2025 episode, our host Aspen is joined by Mabel's provider Dr. Nicole to discuss menopause and perimenopause! What are they? How common is menopause? What can people do to manage it? Answer these questions and more in this episode of Reproductive Left! We'll see you again in May to kick off our Summer 2025 season.

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This episode continues our Winter 2025 season as our host Aspen explores PCOS! What is PCOS? Who's affected? Where do the ovarian cysts come in? Answer these questions and more in this episode of Reproductive Left!

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For our Winter season, we thought we'd focus on topics below the belt, and we're kicking things off by unpacking some common misconceptions around sex and genitalia! Join Aspen as they dive into the mysteries and misunderstandings of vulvas, penises, and more.

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In this episode, we wrap up our Fall Into Responsibility season with an interview with Jamie Beck of Dignity First! For those unfamiliar, Dignity First is an organization based in Bangor with a mission to, "cultivate a permanent supportive village for unhoused people and intentional neighbors." Together, we explore what responsibility means in relation to not just the work of Dignity First but of caring for our whole community, including our unhoused neighbors.

Learn more at the Dignity First website here-> https://www.dignityfirst.me/

In this episode, we continue our Fall Into Responsibility season with an interview with Lisa Sockabasin of Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness! Fun fact--we can thank Lisa for our season theme and the importance of looking at responsibility as something rooted in care rather than shame. In this episode, we explore her perspective of responsibility, particularly in relation to the work of Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness.

Learn more at the WPHW website here-> https://wabanakiphw.org/

Listen to the Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness podcast "Aunties on Air" here-> https://wabanakiphw.org/about/aunties-on-air/

Image via Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness FB of their logo

Join us for the first episode of our Fall Into Responsibility season! In this season, we'll be approaching the idea of responsibility not as something rooted in shame, but as something rooted in care. We're kicking off the season with an interview with Amy Roeder of the Together Place Peer Run Recovery Center in Bangor! Along with talking about the important work of Together Place, we'll be diving into questions like "what does it mean to be responsible to yourself?" and "what does it mean to be responsible to your community?"

Image via the Together Place FB page of the mural on their building

Thank you for joining us for the final episode of our "Hope is a Discipline" summer season! This month, we'll dig into one of our host Aspen's favorite topics--abortion advocacy. We know that anti-abortion sentiments certainly exist today, but have they always been around? How long have people been having abortions anyway? Why are there so many abortion rallies with people dressed in green?

Thanks for listening, and we'll see you in September for our fall season!

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