This Is Probably A Really Weird Question...

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September 28, 2023 Season 2 - Episode 7: Could This Be Menopause? with Dr. Makeba Williams
Season 2, Episode 7: "Could This Be Menopause?"
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Show Notes:
Www.menopause.org, The North American Menopause Society
Jen Gunter, The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism (Citadel, 2021)
Judith A. Houk, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2006)

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September 15, 2023 Mini Episode: Spreading Queer Joy with Dr. Sami Schalk
Season 2 - September Mini Episode: Spreading Queer Joy with Dr. Sami Schalk

Show notes:
To learn more about Dr. Sami Schalk, visit her website: http://samischalk.com/
She gave shout-outs to…
Freedom, Inc., https://freedom-inc.org/
GSafe in Wisconsin, https://gsafewi.org/
Outreach Madison, https://www.outreachmadisonlgbt.org/
Dana Pellebon, director of the Rape Crisis Center in Madison, WI, https://www.thercc.org/staff-bios/dana-pellebon
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46min
June 29, 2023 Season 2 - Episode 6: What Are You Doing For Pride?
Season 2, Episode 6: "What Are You Doing For Pride?"
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Show Notes:
Documentary of the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march, from Gay and Proud, by Lilli Vincenz, 1970, Library of Congress
Video of Christopher Street Liberation Day participants debating the exclusion of Sylvia Rivera from speaking at the march in 1973. With Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970.

Stonewall:
David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution (2004)
Marc Stein, The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (2019)
Martin Duberman, Stonewall (1993)

Pride:
Library of Congress, History of Pride; Pride at 50
Organizational history of NYC Pride (NYC organization that organizes NYC’s Pride March)
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36min
June 15, 2023 Mini-Episode: Spreading Queer Joy with Susan Stryker
Special Mini-Episode: Spreading Queer Joy with Susan Stryker
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32min
June 01, 2023 Season 2 - Episode 5: I Keep Hearing About Ketamine Therapy. Should I Try It? With Special Guest: Susan Stryker,
Season 2, Episode 5: "I Keep Hearing About Ketamine Therapy. Should I Try It..." with special guest: Susan Stryker
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April 27, 2023Season 2 - Episode 4: Can Anyone Tell If I’m A Virgin?
Season 2, Episode 4: "Can Anyone Tell If I'm A Virgin..."
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Show Notes:
Huge shout out to Mercury Stardust (https://mercurystardust.com/merctree), Jory (@alluringskull), and Point of Pride (https://www.pointofpride.org/about) who raised over $2 MILLION during a 30hr live stream / Tik-Tok-A-Thon to support gender-affirming care at the end of March!
Historical Sources
Blank, Hanne. Virgin: The Untouched History. Bloomsbury Press, 2007.
Moslener, Sara. Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Reinarz, Jonathan. Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell. University of Illinois Press, 2014. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt7zw5zg.
Rodriguez, Sara. "Restoring 'Virginal Conditions' and Reinstating the 'Normal': Episiotomy in 1920," in Heterosexual Histories, Rebecca Davis and Michele Mitchell, eds. (New York University Press, 2021), 303-330.

Medical References
Rosa M. Laterza, Mario De Gennaro, Andrea Tubaro, Heinz Koelbl. Female pelvic congenital malformations. Part I: embryology, anatomy and surgical treatment. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Volume 159, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-34,
Scarleteen https://www.scarleteen.com/
Jen Gunter’s Twitter thread about hymens/virginity: https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter/status/1192143613947457537?s=20
Moussaoui, D., Abdulcadir, J. and Yaron, M. (2022), Hymen and virginity: What every paediatrician should know. J Paediatr Child Health, 58: 382-387. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1111/jpc.15887
https://www.who.int/news/item/17-10-2018-united-nations-agencies-call-for-ban-on-virginity-testing
Olson RM, García-Moreno C. Virginity testing: a systematic review. Reprod Health. 2017 May 18;14(1):61. doi: 10.1186/s12978-017-0319-0. PMID: 28521813; PMCID: PMC5437416.
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March 30, 2023Season 2 - Episode 3: What’s That Smell?
Season 2, Episode 3: "What's That Smell?"
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Medical References
Egan ME, Lipsky MS. Diagnosis of vaginitis. Am Fam Physician. 2000 Sep 1;62(5):1095-104. PMID: 10997533.
del Mármol, J., Yedlin, M.A. & Ruta, V. The structural basis of odorant recognition in insect olfactory receptors. Nature 597, 126–131 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03794-8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snJnO6OpjCs
Dr. Jen Gunter’s blog https://vajenda.substack.com/

Historical References
Farmer, Ashley D. Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Kettler, Andrew. “Race, Nose, Truth: Dystopian Odours of the Other in American Antebellum Consciousness.” Patterns of Prejudice 55, no. 1 (2021): 1–24. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2021.1898811.
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company. [Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and other remedies]. [Ephemera]. 11779.F. Available through: Adam Matthew, Marlborough. Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900, http://www.popularmedicine.amdigital.co.uk.udel.idm.oclc.org/Documents/Details/PM_11779_F_7 [Accessed January 31, 2023]. C. 1876
Reinarz, Jonathan. Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell. Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
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March 17, 2023 Mini-Episode with Mercury Stardust
Season 2, Episode 2.5: Mini-Episode with Mercury Stardust
Find the transcript here.

Join us for the first in a series of bonus mini-episodes where we chat with people sharing queer joy!
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39min
February 23, 2023 Season 2 - Episode 2: Am I Intersex? with Elizabeth Reis
Season 2, Episode 2: "Am I Intersex?" with special guest: Elizabeth Reis
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Show notes:
Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (John Hopkins Univ. Press, updated edition 2021)
Georgiann Davis, Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis (NYU Press, 2015)
Katrina Karkazis, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience (Duke Univ. Press, 2008)
Hida Viliora, Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hatchette Books, 2017)
Kimberly Zieselman, XOXY: A Memoir (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020)
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, 2nd ed.
Stephanie Lohman and Eric Lohman, Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018)
Sharon Preves, Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003)

Hans Lindahl (hanslindahl.com)
Pidgeon Pagonis (http://pid.ge/)
Sean Saifa Wall on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dJduGC3HyQ&t=127s and (https://www.seansaifa.com/)
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49min
January 26, 2023 Season 2 - Episode 1: Am I Asexual, Or Do I Have a Sexual Dysfunction?
Season 2, Episode 1: "Am I asexual, or do I have a sexual dysfunction..."
For transcripts, follow the link here:

Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN)
Corp, Isabel. “14 Asexual Anthems to Listen to on February 14.” Them.us, February 11, 2021.
Irvine, Janice M. Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Modern American Sexology. Rev. and Expanded ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005.
For complete show notes and resources, please head to our website.
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43min

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