The Waves: Your Period Deserves Respect

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On this week’s episode of The Waves, we’re talking about menstruation. Period. Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth is joined by author and anthropologist Dr. Kate Clancy. Kate recently published her extensive study on menstruation, Period and they dig into why Western culture has constantly looked at menstruating bodies with shame, how this impacts scientific studies and healthcare for women and gender minorities, and how we can overcome the embarrassment. In Slate Plus: Why language matters in science. If you liked this episode, check out: The Hustle of Being Beautiful Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know it, and Body Body knows it, leaks suck, which is why they've dropped a new collection of life-changing period underwear in collaboration with Puma.
0:11.0	Designed to absorb up to 2-3 tampons without leaking, you'll forget all about your period while you move, jump, kick and sweat.
0:20.0	So go on, swap your sports uniform for a period-proof one. Explore the Puma Body Body Active Collection today.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Waves. Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and this week, talking about menstruation. Period.
0:45.0	Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds, and today you've got me, Shayna Roth, senior producer at Slate.
0:53.0	Later in the show, I'll be joined by author and professor of anthropology, Kate Clancy.
0:59.0	I personally do not have a very specific memory of getting my period for the first time, which given how many times it has been used to signify a very important right of passage in books and movies and such is very surprising to me.
1:14.0	I mean, what person, especially girls of a certain age, don't remember the scene in my girl when Veda gets her period and thinks she's dying.
1:24.0	Oh my god!
1:26.0	Daddy!
1:28.0	Daddy, daddy!
1:31.0	Daddy!
1:36.0	Daddy!
1:37.0	Veda, what's the matter?
1:39.0	Where's Daddy?
1:41.0	Well, he just left. What's wrong?
1:42.0	I'm hemorrhaging.
1:43.0	What do you mean you're hemorrhaging?
1:45.0	I don't want it. I don't need your help, but Daddy got to move on.
1:48.0	Did this happen in the bathroom?
1:50.0	How old are you?
1:52.0	I'm eleven and a half.
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