The One About Periods & Period Poverty with Bloody Btches!
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
An ever-evolving conversation around periods, Bloody Btches brings menstruation to the forefront of their work. To normalize them, discuss them over social media, share and encourage the sharing of period stories and, finally and most importantly - to create awareness around period poverty. With the current state of the world, period poverty has hit harder than ever, making it super difficult for many people to have access to pads, tampons, cups, etc. Nayanka and Zoe met in college and since then have been researching and exploring ways to help our lower-income communities that don't have access to menstrual products. Can you imagine having to pick food over pads?!Their work is fascinating, informative and truly transforming lives as they have worked to become this non-profit organization with periods at the center of it all.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.5 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.2 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. All right, everybody, welcome |
| 0:33.0 | back. Today's episode is going to be one that, you know what I'm just going to say it? It's juicy. It's juicy. And I'm going to let that be the pun that we use for this episode. And we're not going to feel ashamed about it. Please welcome Zoe and Nyanka from bloody bitches. And today we're talking about freaking periods. |
| 0:52.1 | Thank you for having us. Oh, I just am so excited to get into this. |
| 0:57.5 | Now, Nyanka, how did you guys kind of come together? How do you know each other? And how did this |
| 1:04.3 | start? So, okay, so it started like three and a half, close to four years ago. I was a sophomore in college. I was on my |
| 1:13.4 | period. And I was having like, I've never had like super intense cravings at this point. |
| 1:20.4 | And I just started having like really intense cravings. And my cramps were really bad. And I was |
| 1:26.1 | talking to my partner at the time. And I was telling them, I was just like, yo, like I feel like there's really bad. And I was talking to my partner at the time and I was telling them, I was just like, |
| 1:30.1 | yo, like, I feel like there's really nothing out here for people that menstruate, like, |
| 1:35.3 | to just like make them feel good and just like, just like cute little packages, like to take |
| 1:39.2 | care of themselves or whatever like that. |
| 1:40.4 | But also at the time, I wasn't knowledgeable that there were like a couple like subscription |
| 1:43.8 | brands that had like treats, but they weren't in the way that I envisioned |
| 1:47.7 | it. And so like I had started making these boxes at the time with like two little goodies |
| 1:54.0 | and stuff like that. And I think it was called the dot box. I love that. Or whatever. And so I started |
| 1:59.7 | doing that just to just like test it out. And then I kind of like let go of |
| 2:04.9 | it. And then I came back. It's like junior year now. And I had switched majors and my minor was now |
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