What's a NORMAL period?

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Unladylike Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Why is menstruation still so misunderstood? Ask Kate Clancy, the anthropology professor and period scientist who cared enough to study the relationship between COVID vaccination and temporary cycle changes when nobody else was. Cristen talks to Kate about intersectional feminist period science, what "normal" means and Period: The Real Story of Menstruation. Highlights include: an imaginary menarche, problematic faves, pathologizing vs contextualizing, a serendipitous Slack and menstrual liberation. Follow Unladylike on Instagram and TikTok Join the Unladies' Room Patreon Shop merch Contact Multitude Productions for ad rates, etc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Lady Lai.
0:05.0	Lady Lai.
0:09.0	A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like
0:17.0	I've had a love.
0:22.0	This is un Lady Lay, I'm Kristen.
0:25.0	A little while back, I received an email from a listener named Candace.
0:31.0	It was short and sweet sweet and it said this. I'm reading a book called Period
0:38.3	right now by Kate Clancy. Call her up and interview her to exclamation points.
0:44.0	It's so fascinating.
0:46.0	Loved your pod since 2009.
0:49.0	I of course was compelled.
0:52.0	I mean I love a short and sweet right to the point email.
0:55.1	Candice has been listening to me Yamaran since 2009.
1:00.5	Oh my God, Candice, that's 15 years of our collective lives. Is everything okay with both of us?
1:07.6	The book Candice was talking about is called Period. try to sort of menstruation.
1:15.0	What I mean by real story is, you know, if we try to sort of pull aside
1:20.0	the sort of way that culture and history has kind of layered onto the science of
1:25.1	menstruation if we peel that away and look at the actual functioning of it
1:28.9	what do we actually know? My name is Kate Clancy I'm a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois and I run a lab that studies hormones and biomarkers and I mostly study how environmental stressors affect the menstrual cycle.
1:42.0	Dr. Kate Clancy is the author of Period.
1:46.2	The Clancy Lab, she runs, is an intersectional feminist biology research space. Yes, please. I am a scientist who studies the menstrual
1:56.8	cycle and yet one of the things I'm continually confronted with are the various
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