A campaign for period positivity | Ananya Grover

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Having your period is exhausting — and for many people across the world, menstruation is even more challenging because of stigmas and difficulty getting basic hygiene supplies, says social activist Ananya Grover. In this uplifting, actionable talk, she shares how "Pravahkriti," her campaign to spread period positivity, creatively engages with everyone to promote menstrual health, raise awareness and break taboos around periods. After the talk, Shoshana has a sweeping conversation with OB/GYN, activist and fellow TED Audio Collective host Dr. Jen Gunter on breaking down period myths and misconceptions.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:07.0	Welcome back to Ted Health.
0:11.0	It's Dr. Shoshana. We live in a world today where talking
0:16.2	about a totally normal natural biological process is often shrouded in secrecy and shame.
0:24.0	Can you guess which one it is?
0:26.0	I'm talking about menstruation.
0:29.0	Despite being as old as humanity itself,
0:32.0	it's a subject that often evokes discomfort and hush tones.
0:37.1	In her 2020 Ted Ed Weekend Talk, social activists Ananya Grover makes a case for raising awareness of menstrual health and period
0:46.4	positivity.
0:47.8	Join us for a conversation about breaking taboos and a movement towards embracing the natural and the necessary.
0:56.2	Then stick around after for a conversation with renowned OBGYN activist and fellow TED audio collective host Dr. Jen Gunter where we break down myths
1:06.7	and misconceptions around all things periods. Thank you. Hey everyone, it's Adam Graham. I host a podcast called Rethinking, about the science of what makes us tick.
1:26.0	This season, we're talking about navigating young adulthood with clinical psychologist Meg Jay.
1:31.0	If I had to pick one word that I hear from 20-somethings more than any other word in terms of where the struggles come from, it's uncertainty.
1:40.2	And so I think just the uncertainty involved in how do you make those big life decisions,
1:46.9	how do you take control of your life.
1:48.8	Find and follow rethinking with Adam Grant wherever you're listening.
1:55.3	Men's Truation. A simple word describing a natural biological process
2:01.0	weighed down by centuries of stigma has been transformed into
2:04.8	something most of us can only speak about in whispers. But why? As I speak to you
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