The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Normal With Amika George

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

With period products being declared 'non-essential' by the Welsh supermarkets during their most recent lockdown, it's become clear that menstruation is still heavily stigmatised in our society.⁣ This week on The Skin You're In, we're chatting to activist Amika George about her work campaigning for free tampons across schools in the U.K, why gender inclusivity is so important when discussing menstruation, what we can all do to break down the stigma, and lots more. We'll also be discussing how to move activism from online spaces into physical ones, the barriers Amika has faced when trying to be taken seriously by politicians, and how she overcame them.

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This is the sixth and final episode of our brand new limited podcast series, The Skin You're In! Each week, for six weeks, we'll be exploring what it means to be alive today, and the biggest issues affecting our generation. From period poverty to body positivity, gender, disability, feminism and race, we want to know where the conversations are at, and what we can do to move them forward.

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The Skin You're In, a Polyester Podcast, is brought to you by Polyester's founding editor in chief Ione Gamble (@ionegamble), and co-hosted and produced by Olivia Graham (@og.irl), in collaboration with Monki. Polyester is a self published culture zine exploring intersectional URL feminism in the IRL world. Have faith in your own bad taste! And follow us on Instagram!⁣

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Ione and Olivia here and we're so excited to be presenting the last episode of our new limited podcast series exploring modern identity made in collaboration with
0:22.9	monkey the skin you're in explores what it means to be alive today and the biggest issues affecting
0:27.3	our generation from period poverty to body positivity gender and race we want to know where the
0:33.0	conversations are at and what we can do to move them forward we're talking to the people at the
0:37.2	forefront of these issues
0:38.3	in acting change through their work and lives.
0:40.9	So let's go on the last episode of The Skin You're In, sad times.
0:46.1	Sad times.
0:47.0	But we've talked about so much good stuff.
0:49.1	Yeah, we've covered absolutely so much ground
0:51.4	and there's definitely loads more to cover but it's a good start yeah absolutely
0:56.1	feels good it feels like a good start yeah it does so for our last episode we have amica george
1:03.2	who is such an amazing activist also an upcoming author you probably know about her work with free periods, which is her campaign
1:12.6	and organisation to end period poverty. We're going to be talking to Amika about period poverty,
1:17.2	also about like activism, the stigma that still exists around periods, what we can like do
1:24.3	to kind of advocate for change around period poverty. The recent changes in the
1:30.1	law, I mean, I'm just outlining all of it now, but we did cover so much ground and it's a really
1:35.8	great interview. So here it is. I can't wait for you to hear it. Hey, Amica. Hi. Hi. Thanks so much of having me. Thanks for coming on. How are you?
1:47.8	Yeah, really good. Thank you. How are you guys? I mean, I feel like grateful to you this morning for actually
1:52.7	waking me up because usually I would not be in full makeup by 10 o'clock in the morning. So thanks to you for that.
1:59.7	For anyone who maybe isn't familiar with you or your
2:02.4	work could you just give us a little bit of an introduction yeah of course so my name's amica
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