Bleeding Cities
What would a city built for menstrual dignity look like? Dr Maria Tomlinson explores how workplaces, schools and public spaces can better support periods and menopause.
In this month's episode, Beth and Tom mark World Menopause Day (18 October) through an exploratory conversation with Dr Maria Tomlinson (School of Information, Journalism and Communication, University of Sheffield) about menstrual dignity, justice and the city. World Menopause Day is an international awareness day set up since 2009 by the International Menopause Society, in partnership with the World Health Organisation, to break taboos, combat stigma and educate the public about the menopause.
Together they discuss how employers, city councils, schools and community organisations can be involved in creating indoor and outdoor environments for people to bleed with dignity, the challenges of increasing heat, and why urban studies needs to take menstrual justice more seriously.
Also on the radar:
- The long impacts of Rowntree's seminal poverty report in York in 1901
- What Japanese tax, superheros and toilets have in common
- Edi Rama's architectural dreams for Albania
- What Sagal Abdi-Wali's election as the first Somali MP tells us about race, religion and gender in Camden, during the Holborn and St Pancras by-election
- Why we should all be scared of El Nino
- Blocked streets, barricades in the banlieue: France is on strike (again)
