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Flow: The Podcast About Menstruation
by Flow: The Podcast About Menstruation
Flow: The podcast about Menstruation proudly brought to you by Lil-Lets Talk is an opportunity for wide ranging, emotional, honest conversations about menstruation. Made as a companion to the book, the book’s authors and a wide range of guests discuss everything from spirituality to sex, and disability to workplace disputes. The book was our way of telling the world it was time to start having conversations about periods, and the podcast is a very real way of furthering that goal.
Episodes
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Period sex
Candice Chirwa hosts a frank and forthright discussion about period sex with menstruator Kayla, sexologist Tiisetso Mokoena, and Letimile Makgosi (sex toy reviewer and sex positive activist). The episode looks at our taboos and concerns, and how we can be body and sex positive and still keep…
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Working through it: periods in the workplace
A frank discussion on periods in the workplace is hosted by Pontsho Pilane, with guests Candice Chirwa, HR practitioner Althea Wicomb, Claire Fourie, and Karen Jeynes. We debate the merits of period leave and the stigma that can be attached to it, how to have frank discussions about menstruation…
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Periods with a difference: menstruation and disability, menstruation and neurodiversity
Karen Jeynes hosts this episode that takes a look at how menstruation can have additional challenges for some. With guests Claire Fourie, Antoinette Muller who speaks about her experiences of menstruation and ADHD, public health and disability researcher Zara Trafford, and Letimile Makgosi who...
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Cultural conversations: menstruation, religion, spirituality
Hosted by Pontsho Pilane, featuring guests Nomantshali Bodlela (a sangoma), Neli Msomi (a muslim feminist), rabbi Emma Gotlieb, and Christian leader Karabo Mamabolo. How is menstruation a spiritual experience? In what ways can religion create stigma and put pressure on menstruators? How do we...
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What’s normal? Pain, what to watch out for, learning to talk about it
Pontsho Pilane hosts this two-part discussion with Dr Ilana Johnson and Ntsako Mhlanga (who has a personal journey with pain). In part one, Pontsho and Dr Ilana Johnson discuss how much pain is “normal”, how to handle pain that isn’t, and some of the conditions that might be causing that pain…
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About Lil-Lets Talk:
Imagine a platform where you can ask ANY question about periods? Well, the great thing is that platform exists! And it’s free. And it’s called Lil-Lets Talk. On this Minisode, we chat with Megan Ross who is the Lead Moderator of LLT to chat about the journey of providing support to all life’s...
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Product placement in our bodies: tampons, pads, cups, period underwear - let’s talk
Hosted by Candice Chirwa, with guests Megan Ross (Lil-let’s Talk), Nokulunga Mvandaba (CoolPlay), Dr Ilana Johnson, and Claire Fourie, this episode is a frank and honest discussion about period products. How they physically feel and affect us, why some people have psychological issues with…
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First period: puberty, talking to your children, educator information
This episode is hosted by Karen Jeynes, with guests Phinah Kodisang (Soul City Institute for Social Justice), Elana Afrika-Bredenkamp (Baby Brunch), and Candice Chirwa. We talk about how to discuss periods with your children in age appropriate ways, what kids should know and how home, school,...
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Why Flow: an author’s roundtable about the book
Featuring all the authors and Na’eemah Masoet, our publisher, this episode speaks to why we made the book, offers brief descriptions of each of the three sections, and gives everyone a voice as to why they personally are passionate about this project and this book.
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Season 1 Trailer
Yes, you read right. A Podcast about Menstruation. We unpack various aspects about periods through the biological, psychological and political lens with your Hosts Candice Chirwa, Karen Jeynes and Pontsho Pilane! Flow: The Podcast about Menstruation releases in September, and will be available...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Flow: The podcast about Menstruation proudly brought to you by Lil-Lets Talk is an opportunity for wide ranging, emotional, honest conversations about menstruation. Made as a companion to the book, the book’s authors and a wide range of guests discuss everything from spirituality to sex, and disability to workplace disputes. The book was our way of telling the world it was time to start having conversations about periods, and the podcast is a very real way of furthering that goal.
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