She Who Persisted. The Nasty Podcast.

She Who Persisted. The Nasty Podcast.


Latest Episodes

Episode 35: Let it Grow - Body Hair Stigma and the Fight against it.
December 11, 2018

Grab all your pre-Christmas chocolate and cookies and listen to Liz and Bea discuss (gendered) body hair, the history of its removal and the fight against body hair stigma. Our listeners get 15% off FUR products: visit www.furyou.com and enter the...

Episode 34: Menstrual Entrepreneurship with PerSister Hallie Mazurkiewicz
November 27, 2018

In this episode we speak with Hallie Mazurkiewicz, founder of Lunar Wild. Hallie turned her own very positive period experience into her entrepreneurial passion and we had a great discussion about how to talk more about periods and start normalizing...

Episode 33: Fighting Period Poverty with PerSister Raashi Thakkar, Founder of the Minte Project
November 13, 2018

In this episode Bea and Liz sit down with PerSister Raashi Thakkar to discuss her initiative to provide menstrual products and education to rural India, The Minte Project. She's doing amazing work and you can support her by starting a chapter on your...

Episode 32: Feminist Halloween Edition
October 30, 2018

How are you planning on celebrating Halloween this year? In this episode we discuss how to have a feminist Halloween in the era of #metoo, because there's nothing scarier on Halloween than rape-culture. So join us and grab some halloween candy to...

Episode 31: Monstrous Menstruation - The Carries and others
October 16, 2018

It's October, our favorite month! Time for the morbid, macabre, and scary. You know what patriarchy seems to be very scared of? Yep, menstruation. In the fourth episode of our menstruation series, we talk about menstruation in horror films, most...

Emergency Minisode: Fevered Fury - Supreme Ragespiration
October 07, 2018

Beatrice talks about women's rage as the impetus for action. Rebecca Traister - "Good and Mad": http://www.rebeccatraister.com/ "Why is This Happening" -...

Episode 30: Eve's Curse - Menstruation Taboos Across Cultures
October 02, 2018

In this episode Elizabeth and Bea discuss period taboos and cultural beliefs around menstruation. Some of it's good, some of it...not so much, so grab some chocolate and settle in. *Note: Elizabeth's audio has some issues for the first 30 minutes,...

Episode 29: Blood Money: Tampon Tax and Period Poverty
September 18, 2018

In the second episode of our menstruation series, we talk about the painful truth of financial discrimination based on biology. yep, tampon tax, period poverty, the whole bloody shebang.  Get yourself a blanket, a cup of tea and lots of chocolate and...

Episode 28: The Red Menace - Period Shame and Period Positivity
September 04, 2018

One thing that causes us pain and necessitates the consumption of copious amounts of chocolate is PMS and period pain. You know what causes us even more pain and requires the consumption of even more chocolate? You guessed it: period shame and period...

Episode 27: The Snail Darter Gang - Ecofeminism and Vegan Feminism
August 21, 2018

Grab your vegan chocolate and listen to Liz and Bea (despite her heatwave-induced aphasia) talk about the origins of ecofeminism, ecofeminism and intersectionality, speciesism, the intersection of meat eating and hegemonic masculinity, meat eating and...