My Period Stories with Funke Treasure: Recent Episodes
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The Podcast is a series of conversations and stories of everyday people about menstruation, the diverse issues, policies and perspectives surrounding it from peoples across the world. It captures authentic stories of pains and gains in the advocacy to get free and sustainable sanitary pads into the hands of every girl in Nigeria and the world. Our aim is to normalise the conversation about periods in the public space, shattering the myths, misconceptions and inhibitions so that everyone can talk comfortably about periods, without shame.
In this episode, we continue with menstrual rites of passage ceremonies attached to the first menstruation. We go to Ghana, in West Africa, where film maker and lecturer, Laurene Manaa Abdallah takes us through the popular ‘becoming a woman’ ceremony called dipo among the krobos of Eastern region in Ghana and the bragoro by the Akans in the same country.
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In this episode, titled Periods & Rites of Passage, we look at rites of passage ceremonies attached to the first menstruation. It is a becoming a woman ceremony that is considered sacred and critical to transiting the girl child to womanhood. This is a two-part series, that will take us through Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. Many cultural rites of passage are dying across many cultures of the world, is this one that rides on the wing of a girl’s first menstruation, one of them?
Ayanda Magida, a research psychologist, lecturer, and academic talks to us about Intonjane, a Xhosa rite of passage into womanhood practiced in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
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When a couple separates for whatever reason, we often underestimate the turmoil and emotional adjustment a girl child goes through, especially at the onset of menstruation, a life milestone for every woman.
In this episode, titled Periods in Broken Families, Olabisi Adesina, an equality, diversity and inclusion partner based in the UK, shares how difficult it was starting and coping with her period in an unfriendly family environment. It is an emotional recount. Daddies, especially, need to listen.
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Daddies and daughters in all cultures have a bond. Yet there is a stereotype that men are uncomfortable discussing periods. Certainly, not all dads. But why are many men distant from their daughters in matters involving periods?
A research from ‘Hey Girls’ in the UK, found that nearly half of dads surveyed have never spoken to their daughters about periods, fewer than half (41%) would feel comfortable talking about periods to their kids, and a third had never purchased sanitary products.
In this episode, our aim is to de-stigmatize the conversation about periods among men. We talk with two daddies. Ayodeji Adewale is ‘daddy’ to more than twenty school girls at his Kings and Queens Dance academy, he founded in Bariga, a low income area of Lagos, Nigeria.
Our second guest, Chika Alfred, a project manager in the UK, is co-host & founder of How Una See Am Podcast and Sabi Nation Media. He is that favourite Uncle you hear about every now and then, the empathetic one, the one who can get Daddy and Mummy to do everything. He shares his period story with his nieces.
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We continue with our resolve to normalise the period conversation this week with two riveting stories, one from charlotte, in the United States and the other from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. In Nigeria, the ripple effect of a lack of knowledge of how to handle periods fuels teenage pregnancies.
There are currently 106 adolescent births per 1000 population in Nigeria remains a major concern for the government and other stakeholders. Risk factors for adolescent pregnancy in Nigeria include poor information on sexual and reproductive health (SRH)
On this episode, Ms. Winifred Ereyi, the chair of the GirI Force Movement, a coalition of organisations and people who identify with advocating for the girl child, shares our period story while Precious Chi Jack, a Teen coach, Mental Health Advocate and Youth Counsellor talks us through her intentional pre- menstrual talk with her daughter, with her husband playing a prominent role. Find out more.
Why do women find it difficult to have that vital conversation about periods with their daughters? Is it out of shame? Are they shy? Or do they lack the soft skills to broach the subjects with their daughters? Many girls experience menstruation without knowledge of what it is and how to go about it? Perhaps it is because the period conversation is not mainstream yet.
In this second episode titled ‘The Mother-Daughter Period Talk’, we speak with radio presenter, Adeyinka Aderemi who recalls her first period without a pre- menstruation talk with her mum, and tells mums to ask their daughters for forgiveness.
Ghanaian Film maker Laurene Addy reminds us of the period when girls made their own pads from tissue paper; and Public Relations Consultant, Eniola Mayowa talks about how she socialised her daughter into the period talk.
Plus a preview of our chat next week with Teen Coach & mentor, Precious Jack based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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In this first edition, about normalising the period conversation, we chat with three school girls, Chika Ezekiel, Agnes Amesime, and Adijat Yekini from a Dance Academy in Bariga, Lagos about their first period experience. Sesede Simeon, from Nigeria’s border town of Badagry shares her first time experience of buying sanitary pad and her confusion with the blue liquid. And award winning radio presenter, Abigail Gogo gives voice to our campaign for free pads in Nigerian secondary schools.
What’s more? You get a chance to win two packs of re-usable sanitary pads courtesy Diatom Impact, Nigeria, if you are one of the first five girls to get our questions correctly.
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My Period Stories catalogues the experiences of many women regarding the stigma, myths, and misconceptions associated with menstruation.
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