Ep 243: Menstruation, Period Poverty and More with Nayanka Paul from Bloody Btches
The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy
Elizabeth Presta
4.2 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Nayanka Paul From Bloody Btches is on this episode sharing about the disparities menstruating people in our country face. She has started a grass roots in her local community and an online communal space curated for Black menstruators to engage freely in conversations about menstruation, sexual health, pleasure, & liberation. We dive into period poverty, access to feminine hygene products and how change has to start with us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to Miraculous Mamas. I'm your host Elizabeth Joy and I'm so |
| 0:11.7 | excited you are here today. If you listened to last week's episode, you know that we are |
| 0:17.4 | talking about dark thoughts and pregnancy and I was partnering with Twill to help spread |
| 0:20.8 | awareness on that. And I'm so glad that it's being talked about. We have shed so much light |
| 0:26.3 | on postpartum, not that the work is done there, but there still needs to be so much more |
| 0:32.6 | advocacy for that season of life for matrescence, right? And being pregnant is part of that. |
| 0:39.5 | And a lot can incur your mental health is so important, even conception to pregnancy. |
| 0:45.4 | And so I was really grateful to partner with them on that and to hear the stories that |
| 0:49.0 | were shared. I hope you were able to check out the other episodes that were a part of that |
| 0:54.0 | series as well. Today I have on Nayanka Paul from Bloody Bitches and she is doing so much. |
| 1:03.0 | This girl's killing it. They are spreading awareness on period poverty, on period poverty and just really |
| 1:15.4 | really fighting for change. And I'm going to have her explain all of that to you guys, everything |
| 1:20.5 | that they're doing. But it made me look into some things too. And I first of all, I would have |
| 1:29.6 | been nursing to Lasso. I hadn't gotten my period back in a really long time. But I just had my |
| 1:33.8 | second cycle since having her. And it came like exactly right at 28 days. And I'm like, all right, |
| 1:42.5 | I'm just going to use my period underwear, whatever. And then I was googling something on them |
| 1:47.1 | because I've worn things for, I think since before I had Jovi. Because I remember wearing them |
| 1:54.2 | postpartum after her. And I was googling something about them and I found all these articles about |
| 2:00.1 | how they had high levels of PFA's in them, which are forever chemicals that affect our |
| 2:07.2 | menstruation, our fertility can cause cancer. PFA's are what was found in Teflon and why they |
| 2:14.3 | outlawed it. Like any even nonstick pans, like if you've been listening to the podcast for a while, |
| 2:20.5 | you know that maybe they outlawed Teflon, but they just replaced it with another chemical that's |
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