FLOW is on a mission to normalize dialogue around menstrual health - and that means addressing sexism in the medical sector - and society - at large. 

All too familiar stories of dismissal and abuse of power, plus some reminders of the progress being made as more women enter the medical profession and speak about traumatic experiences…. Episode 11 invites back Sara Jestrab, with a panel including Dr. Jean Grow and Dr. Angela Weyand (known on FLOW as The Shemalogist, twitter: @acweyand ) - to address (if not solve) internalized and externalized sexism. Oof.

Program Notes:

Recommended articles and resource-links mentioned in the episode:

• Learn More About The Shematologist Dr. Weyand

  • https://twitter.com/acweyand

• Advocacy Organizations mentioned in this episode:

  • The Period Movement https://period.org/

  • Endofound https://www.endofound.org/

• Book Recommendations

  • Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

  • Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery

  • The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine Hardcover  by Janice P. Nimura  

• “You’re Not Crazy” Article:

  • Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/elizabeth-blackwell-becomes-the-first-woman-doctor-in-the-united-states

• Find our Hosts on Instagram:  @jessicalaurenrichmond @christie_publichealth

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