The Waves: Your Period Deserves Respect
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys, I am Ashley Gavin and I am your father. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Elena Joy, I am Mommy, and I'm Macinture Me, your hot teenage brother. |
| 0:08.4 | Baby, Mac is baby. |
| 0:09.7 | We are your chosen family because you don't have a gay family and you need a gay family. |
| 0:14.3 | Every week we bring a topic to the family dinner table from gender dysphoria to minogamy to |
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| 0:23.2 | podcast app or watch full episodes on YouTube to get the full family experience. |
| 0:27.7 | Chosen Family is a part of the Forever Dog podcast network. |
| 0:38.6 | Welcome to the Waves, Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and this week talking about menstruation. |
| 0:45.6 | Period. Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off |
| 0:50.4 | our minds and today you've got me, Shayna Roth, senior producer at Slate. Later in the show |
| 0:55.4 | I'll be joined by author and professor of anthropology Kate Clancy. I personally do not have a very |
| 1:02.5 | specific memory of getting my period for the first time, which given how many times it has been |
| 1:07.6 | used to signify a very important right of passage in books and movies and such is very surprising to me. |
| 1:15.4 | I mean what person, especially girls of a certain age, don't remember the scene in my girl when |
| 1:21.4 | Veda gets her period and thinks she's dying. |
| 1:26.0 | Oh my god! Daddy! Daddy, daddy! |
| 1:33.6 | Daddy! Daddy! |
| 1:38.2 | Wait up. What's the matter? |
| 1:41.6 | Where's daddy? Well he just left. What's wrong? I'm hemorrhaging. |
| 1:44.9 | What do you mean you're hemorrhaging? I don't want it. I don't need your help but Daddy got |
| 1:49.5 | this happening in the bathroom. How old are you? 11 and a half. It's okay. Come on upstairs we have to have |
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