Sssh! Periods

The instructional staff at Bronx Prep Middle School is over 80% female, and many of the female teachers have families with young children. How do they manage to spend 12+ hours a day at work, then find the energy to go home and raise their own families? Guest interviewer Elijah speaks with Mrs. Dunja Varciana, Vice Principal of Bronx Prep Middle School, about the challenges she faces as a working mom.

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From teachers to moms, partners to coaches, the ladies of Sssh! Periods have been loved and supported from Day 1 to keep doing what they're doing. We bring Part 2 of our favorite episode, Advocates, because the love for our tribe does not end. 

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It takes a village to go from a 7-person operation to a nationally recognized student podcast. On this episode each of us pays tribute to the advocates whose support us took us from the bottom to the top. 

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Summer is almost over, but teachers have been back at school for the past three weeks. What do teachers talk about when they're putting up the first bulletin boards of the year? How do you make your way through a crowded airplane to get to the bathroom before you bleed through your pants? The summer is full of adventures, but sometimes they're not the fun kind. 

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Producer Raizel takes questions from Instagram about birth control. How young is too young to be on birth control? Would your parents let you get on birth control? What is birth control good for, anyway? 

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On August 3, 2019 a gunman opened fire in an El Paso Walmart and killed 20 people. Less than 13 hours later, a separate gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio and killed 9 individuals outside of the Ned Peppers Bar. Instances of mass gun violence have become a recurring story in the U.S. news cycle. Producer Litzy Encarnacion has some thoughts. 

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East Coast meets West Coast (again)! Our conversation with the ladies of Vicious Cycle was such a hoot that we had to upload it in two parts. We ask the ladies how they cope with period stigma, their experiences of menstruating in middle school, and what has changed about the culture of period shame (if anything).

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Our podcast has reached the Mobjap Girls' School in Kenya! Today we take questions from 7th and 8th grade girls in Nairobi. We may be separated by an ocean but we still have similar anxieties about dating, boys, the awkwardness around periods, and so much more. 

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East Coast meets West Coast! On this episode the ladies of Sssh! Periods share a long-awaited conference call with Vicious Cycle, three women across the country who are also fighting the good fight to make Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) visible. 

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The girls are weeks away from graduating eighth grade, and they're frustrated by how little progress they see for women. Reproductive rights. Access to healthcare. Ending the stigma around menstruation. How do we change the narrative? 

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