Love-XX presents The Periodical Podcast and Blog. A feminist community working to advocate change and break the global menstruation stigma.
Jessie and Trey dive into the scandal surrounding Thinx founder and CEO Miki Agrawal. What is the fallout of a feminist-minded, woman CEO facing assault allegations? What’s the line between familiarity in a body-positivite workplace and sexual harassment? How will this controversy affect the brand? And what about the fight for those edgy subway ads?!? Jessie and Trey discuss it all.
Listeners can go to auntflow.org, customize their box, select a beneficiary organization, and use code THEPERIODICAL (no space, all caps) at checkout for their first box free (when they subscribe.)
Jessie interviews Lindsey McEntee, COO (Chief Ovulation Officer) of Aunt Flow. Aunt Flow is a buy-one, give-one subscription box for 100% cotton tampons and pads. Listen in for a promo code to try Aunt Flow FREE! Jessie and Lindsey discuss stigma's within period culture and the challenges of creating a business based around menstruation stigma.
Aunt Flow is a buy-one, give-one subscription box for 100% cotton tampons and pads. Menstruators can go online, customize their box of 18 pieces, and have it delivered to their door each month. For every box they purchase, one is donated to a person without access to menstrual products in the US.
Follow Aunt Flow on Social Media @goauntflow
Lindsey is the COO (Chief Ovulation Officer) for the social enterprise Aunt Flow. She spends her days making period puns, answering flow mail, and fitting in as many Gilmore Girls episodes as possible. To chat about anything and everything menstruation, or Aunt Flow, contact her at lindsey@auntflow.org.
Follow Lindsey IG: @lindseymcenteeofficial (joke... lol) Twitter: @lindseymcentee FB: Lindsey McEntee
Shea Mangold talks about her first love and the disasters that came along with it, her calamity involving a curious pet and ceiling blood, and trying to become the role model many young women deserve in a world filled with Regina George-esque high school students.
This week, Jessie welcomes Shea Mangold. Shea is a English teacher, dance coach, choreographer, over-confident artist, and sarcasm enthusiast. She has been known to describe herself as “basically Robin Williams from that one movie where he’s an English teacher… but more of an asshole.” Jessie and Shea discuss girl stalking, period cups, and black cats while sharing their love for one another and embracing embarrassing situations.
You can keep up with Shea on her instagram @sheasheamus, but only if you enjoy meaningless memes and Afterlight edited selfies.
This week, Jessie Braun is joined by Tilly Pearce, a showbiz journalist from London. Together the girls discuss sex education in the U.K., bonding over P.C.O.S., and Tilly's journey to becoming confident about having periods with male housemates.
Tilly speaks about the UK advertised "skirt" tampons that Jessie has never heard of. In the US, Tampax advertises the "pearl" feature of the Tampax tampon. See skirt tampon below.
If you want to learn more about Tilly and her work visit https://tillyjeanette.com/about/. Follow and tweet with Tilly on Twitter @tillyjeanette.
UK advertised skirt Tampax tampon.
Love-XX presents The Periodical -- a podcast where our host, Jessie Braun, speaks with people who want to advocate change, and stop the global menstruation stigma. Women spend about 8.5 years of their life bleeding and we want to talk about it. We believe there is empowerment in freely talking about our periods. We want to talk about things like: how is menstruation represented in pop culture? Why are we hiding tampons up our sleeves as we walk to the bathroom? What new hygiene technologies are in development? We are sharing period stories that need to be heard. This is Love-XX: The Periodical.