It's Only Blood

The Hotbed

The Hotbed podcast is back for series two! We hope you've had some good orgasms since we were away. And now we're straight in at the deep end again, talking about periods: period shame, period education, period sex, period poverty and period politics. It's a good one! The Hotbed Collective (that's Cherry Healey, Anniki Sommerville and Lisa Williams) also manage to reference Love Island, cult horror film Carrie, and Cherry's show Inside the Factory. We also interview Anna Dahlqvist about her book It's Only Blood. It's worth a listen. Period.

Our episode sponsor is Honour Your Flow. These are some of their reusable pads, and remember you can use the code REDTENT for 10% off on their website.

We speak to Anna Dahlqvist, the author of It's Only Blood, which you can buy from Waterstones here...

Articles/studies we talk about during the episode

1. No joy in sex for half of young women (via the Times)

2. Boys should be taught about periods at school (via BBC Newsbeat)

3. Am I ovulating? (via NHS)

4. Women wear fewer clothes when they are ovulating (via The Guardian)

5. Girls are starting their periods younger than they did before (via The Guardian)

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Episode produced by Lisa Williams and Alex Graham. With thanks to Shola Aleje, and Sophie Herdman and the team at Acast.

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