FPA Positivity Podcast Episode 5: The Period Positive Special with Chella Quint

Trigger Warning: Discussion of shame and teenage bullying.  This is the fifth episode of Firth Park Academy's Positivity Podcast and it’s a Period Positive Week and World Menstrual Day Special. In this episode we find out the very cool and very local history of Period Positivity! Mrs Arundel and Miss Tompkins talk about their experiences with menstruation and their views on it throughout their lives. Then we meet Chella Quint, a former head of PSHE at our school. We talk about the Period Positive Pledge and how pupils here helped get it started. We learn about menstrual shame, how people can deal with it and what can happen when they don’t. And we get the inside story on what it was like making the Newsround Let’s Talk About Periods programme and hear all about the TWO books about periods that Chella has coming out this summer, including one for young people.  Here are some links to the things we mentioned in the episode:  Chella’s Period Positive website:  https://www.periodpositive.com  The Stains™ project:  https://www.stainstm.com  Chella has written two books:  Out 7 September: Own Your Period is for young people and you can preorder it now.  https://bit.ly/ownyourperiod  Out 8 July: Be Period Positive is a Q&A style book for adults all about reproductive health, and the book and audio book are available for preorder here: https://geni.us/BePeriodPositive  If you are interested in earning the Period Positive award for your organisation the way Firth Park Academy is, you can register your interest at the links below:  Period Positive Schools charter award: https://bit.ly/PPCharter  Period Positive Places award: https://bit.ly/PPPlaces  Here is the link to Newsround Specials - Let's Talk about Periods: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000t0zd/newsround-specials-lets-talk-about-periods