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Episode 6: Menstrual health & managing your period: Advice from the foster youth community

Featuring Karina & Wednesday

Our all-former-foster-youth squad tells all about menstrual health and periods: what they are, why they happen, and what it feels like to get one. We also share our own stories and provide tips on how to stay comfortable. We even explain the many period products you’ll see out there, such as pads, tampons, menstrual cups, period underwear, etc. After listening in, we hope you’ll realize that periods are a normal part of growing up and nothing to be embarrassed about. Your body and everything that comes with it is unique, and that’s okay. You’ve got this!

Host: Derenice (she/her), RHEP Youth Advisory Board member

Guests:
Karina (she/her), RHEP Youth Advisory Board member
Wednesday (she/her and they/them), RHEP Youth Advisory Board member

Content Warning: The stories we are sharing sometimes touch on different kinds of trauma, please take care of yourself while you listen.

Self-Taught is produced in California. If laws, policies and programs are discussed in an episode, these may be specific to California. Listeners from other locations should check out their own state’s or country’s laws and programs – and if you need help finding your state’s laws, reach out to us at fosterreprohealth@youthlaw.org.

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Self-Taught is supported through a grant to the National Center for Youth Law from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. We are very grateful for their support. Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Hilton Foundation.

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