In FLOW episode 11, Jessica and Christie host a panel conversation on sexism. Panelists Sara, Jean, and Dr. Weyand share openly about their experiences of extreme menstruation - from both the patient and provider perspective - and how sexism has affected their ability to receive or deliver treatment.

The episode addresses internalized and externalized sexism, medical hierarchy, disparity of opportunity to enter medicine - and collective endured pain and trauma -

- grab your RBG doll, everyone!

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

FLOW is sponsored by Takeda, the manufacturer of a treatment for adults with von Willebrand disease. To see if this treatment might be right for you and your needs, visit: https://ssshare.it/WT2t