KC Short: Break the Cycle
Kerning Cultures
Kerning Cultures Network
4.9 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We asked women to tell us about their first periods and how it set a tone for how they view their bodies today. A tribute to International Women's Day.
Produced by Shahd Bani Odeh and Darah Ghanem. With editorial support by Dana Ballout, Hebah Fisher, Bella Ibrahim, and Alex Atack. Sound design by Alex Atack. Kerning Cultures is a Kerning Cultures Network production.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, my name is Dana Balut and I'm editor and producer at Kernan Cultures. |
| 0:05.5 | I'll be standing in for Hibba this week. |
| 0:07.5 | Our episode today is about this one thing that happens to every young girl, |
| 0:12.5 | that in some cases, and especially in the Arab world, sets the tone for how you feel about your body for the rest of your life. |
| 0:20.5 | And in honor of International Women's Day, we're doing this a little bit more. the tone for how you feel about your body for the rest of your life. |
| 0:26.0 | And in honor of International Women's Day, we're doing this a little differently than our usual episodes. Hi. Okay. So let's get started. I'm sorry I'm sending this since I'm so late. |
| 0:30.9 | Okay. Our producers, Dara and Shaheds, who you'll meet later in this episode, they came up with |
| 0:36.0 | this idea of asking a bunch of Arab women |
| 0:38.4 | to send in anonymous voice recordings in response to some questions we had around their |
| 0:43.3 | periods. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay. |
| 0:45.1 | Periods. |
| 0:46.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.0 | Periods. |
| 0:48.1 | You know, that thing that happens to females once a month. |
| 0:52.3 | Our episode today is about that moment, that first moments. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm trying to remember as much as I can from that day when you look down and you see |
| 1:02.6 | red. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm Dana Balutz and you're listening to Kernan Cultures, radio documentaries from the Middle East. |
| 1:10.8 | The older than is predictable. They've seen it happen. to Kearning Cultures, radio documentaries from the Middle East. |
| 1:14.7 | The world that is predictable they've seen it happen. |
| 1:17.6 | And one story that always kind of captures my imagination. It's fair. |
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