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In this last episode before a much needed rest, Jessy and Rebekah talk all about our friend the nipple! We learned a ton about nipples and even found out about the strongest nipples in all the land! It has been awesome talking to you all for the past 2.5 years and…we’ll see ya….sometime down the line. Xxx
03:40: William Featherstone Montgomery looks exactly as I would have imagined. Also, he died in Dublin in 1859 so, unless he was hermetically sealed and then reanimated he is most assuredly dead.
06:15: So this extra booby is actually called an “accessory breast,” sort of like a handbag or a really cool bracelet! I found a reference to it in this journal of plastic surgery.
08:10: Check out this very informative (and maybe a tad bit confusing) article from Scientific American!
11:15: HAVE NO FEAR! The Great Nippulini has his very own website! But it isn’t actually his website, it is a website for his nipples.
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TW: Sexual violence and rape. In this episode, Jessy and Rebekah speak with Annie who was raped when she was in college and who, despite doing all the “right” things after her attack was still unable to achieve justice through our system. Just a note, if you feel you might get triggered by this content, please skip over. It is important to us that you take care of yourself. And if you have been raped or assaulted and need help, please call the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at (800)-656-HOPE (4673). By calling this number you will be routed to a local RAINN-affiliated organization based off the first six digits of your phone number. Cell phone users have the option to enter their ZIP code so they can be connected with a local sexual assault service provider.
08:45: According to RAINN, 1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Among graduate and undergraduate students, 11.2% of all students experience rape or sexual assault through violence, physical force or incapacitation.
09:30: Here is a document created by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault in April 2014. It explains what a victim advocate is as well as what other services should be offered to students who are victims of sexual violence on campus.
10:00: Here is an article from The Atlantic that talks about how to rape kit backlog has meant that thousands of rapists have gone unfound – some of them serial predators. Women were put through the terror and discomfort of doing a rape kit and oftentimes they are never tested. They just sit in warehouses and rot.
13:00: Here is “an updated definition of rape” from the archives of the Department of Justice, published January 6, 2012. In it, the DOJ makes considerations for incapacitation due to alcohol ingestion when it says, “because many rapes are facilitated by drugs or alcohol, the new definition recognizes that a victim can be incapacitated and thus unable to consent because of ingestion of drugs or alcohol.”
18:10: Here is a one-stop shop for the information about Title IX. There have been a lot of changes since Tr*mp took office and put Betsy DeVos in charge of the education department. Unsurprisingly none of those changes have been good.
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We are still recording from home! Which looks like us each recording in make-shift studios – in closets, under blankets – and FaceTiming so we get that real in person feel. It was so hot in our at-home studios. But, it’s all good. This is what we do for you. Because we love you. Another thing we do is spend the morning researching the history of vajazzling! So, enjoy! And don’t forget to donate to us at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina!
01:15: “The TikTok thing with the kids” is a clear indication that Rebekah does not use TikTok and is not a kid. She is an old.
06:00: Officially obsessed with the Face To Face NYC website. Here is their complete waxing menu, including the “Marble Sac with Shaft.”
07:00: FYI Jennifer Love Hewitt’s book, The Day I Shot Cupid, was a NYTimes Best Seller. You can buy it here.
07:15: My super sleuth skills tell me that this book was written after her split from Jamie Kennedy, a stand-up comic who I personally had not heard of until right this moment.
08:00: Here is Jennifer Love Hewitt talking about vajazzling on Lopez Tonight. It is….really something.
09:00: So, real quick, Urban Dictionary has a definition of the term “vagina buffet” which is as follows: “A time at which one eats as much vagina as humanly possible and finished it off with a big, hearty mug of ‘gina juice.” Also, you can buy Vagina Buffet: Bite Size Tales of a Brazilian Waxer here.
12:46: Here is the article from The Cut where a lot of our vajazzle intel came from. And a link to Frances Goodman’s “Vajazzling Series.”
18:30: Here is a link to an article all about vagina stencils! Because you can’t look sad when your pubes look happy.
19:15: Betty Beauty: It’s Color for the Hair Down There!
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In this weeks podcast, we talked about some pretty amazing women! Jessy will tell you all about the badass gender-bending blues singer Gladys Bentley, and Rebekah will introduce you to Kirsta Scruggs, a serious taste maker in the natural wine world! In lieu of all the usual notes, we are going to share with you some resources for things to read, places to donate and things to watch. We are living through a revolution, friends.
Here is an AMAZING reading list by Victoria Alexander (you can find her on Twitter @victoriaalxndr):
Anti-Racist Lit: Starter Kit:
Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
Anti-Racist Lit: Intermediate Kit
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America, Anders Walker
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incareration in the Age of Color Blindness, Michelle Alexander
The Condemnation of Blackness, Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland, Jonathan M. Metzl
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki
How to be an Anti Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
Anti-Racist Lit: Topic Specifics
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond: Everything Your American History Textbook got Wrong, Marc Lamont Hill
Lies My Teachers Told Me, James W Loewen
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversation about Race, Beverley Daniel Tatum, PhD
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, Darryl Pinckney
Anti-Racist Lit: Biographies, Non- Fiction, Personal Narratives
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Killing Rage, bell hooks
Becoming, Michelle Obama
The Black Lives Matters movement has put this amazing site together that has been shared pretty widely. But, sometimes we miss things! So, here it is! There are protest maps, petitions, places to donate (both with money and with time), a missing people thread, extra resources and more. Honestly, Black Lives Matters has been at this for A MINUTE and has used that time to put together a bunch of resources to make us as useful as we can possibly be. So, check it out, explore the site. As we said: there are so many different roles to be played here and they do not all involve being out on the streets protesting. So find out where you can be most useful. The only mistake you can make is not getting involved, whether that be through conversations with friends, donating money, whatever. Black lives matter.
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We did not have wine before we recorded this intro. JK we had all the wine. But be sure to donate to us at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina so we can keep buying wine and bringing you this content that you so desperately need. On today’s episode, we spoke with Lola Jean and the Reluctant Sexpert all about kinks and fetishes and consent. Make sure to stick around until the end to hear us thoroughly offended about a listicle that we read.
05:00: Check out our interview on Is Our Love…? Podcast here!
05:30: In case you did not grow up in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, here is a link to THE Double Mint Gum commercial for your listening pleasure.
05:45: And here is Lola Jean’s “Pass the Porn” project which works to bring ethical porn to the forefront rather than having people shamefully hiding their porn habit behind closed doors and incognito settings.
08:45: Here is a Wiki page about Cytherea in case you’re curious. She is known for her ability to ejaculate. Go Cytherea!
10:30: Here is the TimeOut announcement for the 2019 Kinky Carnival. This year’s event was sadly canceled due to this very, very rude pandemic.
24:00: The Violet’s webpage isn’t up and running, but here is an article from XBIZ all about their independent adult cinema that they presented at the Sex Expo here in NYC. Stay tuned for more events once we are allowed out in public again.
52:00: It was actually Molly Brenner who talked about wanting to have a rom com make our fast forward to brunch relationship.
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In this episode Jessy and Rebekah went LIVE….virtually. We did an Instagram Live sesh where we talked about body hair during the pandemic. No waxing? No shaving? No problem! This is a time where we can get back to our roots – no pun intended – and figure out what feels right to us without the input from society. Also, check us out on glow.fm/welcometomyvagina where you can purchase our AMAZING merchandise. We will be posting images this week on our Instagram so make sure to stay tuned for that! And without further adieu…
02:50: Yup, looks like our body odor DOES change during quarantine! According to this Vice article, our body odor is determined by the microbes that live on our skin. Those microbes are influenced by whoever we spend time around. When we engage in skin-to-skin contact with other people, we share our microbial community and therefore our odors are changed. Currently, the people we come in contact with has been severely diminished and therefore our personal microbial community, and therefore our body odor, has changed!
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06:45: Maybe Rebekah was thinking about this article by Dave Barry? Which we think is satire?
11:00: Here is the Amanda Mull article from The Atlantic that Jessy was referring to.
24:30: At this point Jessy actually cut a bit of her hair. So, this is what you are missing by not coming to our live recordings.
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Before we get started, don’t forget to donate to us at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina. We have all sorts of rewards available (totes, t-shirts, tanks, underwear) AND all monthly subscribers will get access to extra exclusive content! What are you waiting for?! And now to get to the nitty gritty. Jessy started off with a VERY convincing presentation as to why hard boiled eggs are the best snacks and then we spent some time speaking with Lindsey Boylan who is running for the House of Representatives! WOW! Make sure to stick around to the end where we talk about where we would be if we could be anywhere in the world during this pandemic so make sure to stay tuned!
04:30: Meet Lindsey Boylan! She is running against Gerry Nadler for his seat representing the 10th Congressional District for the State of New York in the House of Representatives!
07:45: One issue that wasn’t addressed directly here that we want to highlight is the dangers facing the victims of domestic violence when stay-at-home orders are coupled with economic stressors. In the US, some precincts are reporting a 35% increase in DV calls, and that does not include those that go unreported, which is said to be at about 50% of total cases. You can read more about it in this article from The Intercept.
09:15: It appears as though people in the Nadler camp are very worried about Lindsey Boylan. Read about it in The Washington Post, Business Insider and Teen Vogue.
15:00: Ron Desantis is actually the governor of Florida and he is totally fucking this entire thing up. But the person Rebekah was thinking of is the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick who said that there are a lot of old people who would sacrifice themselves to open the economy up earlier and, essentially, that getting business rolling is more important than the loves of potentially hundreds of thousands of people. And he can say that because he himself is old. Read about it in this article from Vanity Fair.
20:45: We are, in fact, around the same age!
24:15: It is true, the yearly salary for members of Congress is $174,000. A number that has been unchanged since 2009, the same year as minimum wage was raised from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. Just saying.
30:00: As of March 13th, the government was planning on kicking 700,000 people off SNAP benefits as per this Vox article. But, due to the coronavirus, a federal judge blocked Trump’s plan. That being said, people can’t use their SNAP benefits to purchase groceries online, which means that some of the most vulnerable in society are forced to go to a grocery store if they want to eat.
32:30: Important note: the Virginia legislature has flipped blue – Democratic governor, as well as a majority in the state House and Senate – which means it is something of a testing ground for how a lot of these progressive policy proposals will play out over time.
36:30: This is fun. The Washington Post has decided to label all women in Congress who have children under 18 as “working moms.” Anyway, the group has nearly doubled its number to 23. There are 21 serving in the House and 2 in the Senate. So, with 535 members between the House and the Senate, 4.5% of them are women with children under 18.
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In this episode, Jessy and Rebekah interview Hallie Lieberman, author of the book Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy. She is an absolute wealth of knowledge and her upcoming book is all about gigolos! Seriously, you do not want to miss this episode. There is so much here! And make sure to stick around till the very end when we talk about dreams and who we want to have itchy buttholes for all time.
02:00: We just released an episode with the incredible Ashlie Atkinson a few weeks (or was it years?! back. Check it out here!
02:45: Check out @siptipsurvive where bartenders will be coming at you live Tuesday-Saturday! Have a drink and leave a tip! Or if you’re hurting too, just hang out! It’s a blast.
15:00: Normal Mailer was a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and is still considered an innovator of “creative non-fiction” alongside people like Truman Capote and Joan Didion.
16:30: Betty Dodson. Living legend. She created masturbation classes during which women sit naked in a room, learn about their bodies with a hand mirror and then explore, ultimately figuring out how to pleasure themselves. Dodson believes that women’s sexual pleasure and general empowerment are tied together and you cannot be empowered without true sexual liberation.
22:30: Rudolph Valentino died in 1926 at age 31! He was an Italian actor based in the United States and was considered the original “Latin lover.” He is SUPER interesting. You should check him out.
35:30: Check out Tom of Finland his art is AMAZING!
46:30: Here is a questionable accounting of Paul Snider AKA The Jewish Pimp.
47:30: Here is Hallie’s BuzzFeed article! And again, a link to her book through our favorite local book store Books are Magic!
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In this episodes, Jessy and Rebekah talk about lady serial killers! But before we get started, make sure to donate to us at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina. We need your support now more than ever since we both just got laid off of our bar jobs due to the coronavirus outbreak! If you can spare a dollar or five, head on over to glow.fm/welcometomyvagina and become a supporter. Make sure to stick around until the end for a briefing on surplus killers in the animal kingdom!
02:30: Here is an article from Psychology Today that talks all about the racial breakdowns of serial killers – including the tendency for people to murder those within their racial groups.
02:40: Check out this serial killer database created by Radford University and Florida Gulf Coast University. It’s creepy!
05:35: Check out Sheila Isenberg’s Women Who Love Men Who Kill here or borrow it from your local library!
06:40: And also Lady Killers by Tori Telfer!
08:00: Want to learn more about Elizabeth Bathory? Check out our episode all about virginity and how it’s a BS social construct.
09:30: Check out this awesome blog called Rejected Princesses and specifically the episode on Bathory!
24:30: Actually, Rebekah was talking about The Black Dahlia Killer (I think? Maybe?) Although who knows because there was only one known victim – Elizabeth Short.
29:30: Lizzie Halliday was the first woman sentenced to death by the electric chair. She ended up having her sentence commuted and died in a mental hospital in June of 1918
36:00: Here is an article about the choices made at Charity Hospital in the days following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
41:00: Extra weird fact! Ted Bundy married a woman named Carole Ann Boone who I guess in marriage became Carole Bundy but she was a completely different Carole Bundy than the one we talked about. HEAD EXPLOSION.
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In this weeks episode, Jessy and Rebekah welcome the one and only Ashlie Atkinson to the show! You know her. She was Connie in Blackkklansman, Janice in Mr. Robot, Dak on Steal the Stars Podcast and so many other things. You might have seen her in Elementary, Law and Order, Inside Man, Nurse Jackie and more stuff that I can’t think of right now. She’s smart and funny and uber talented so get ready for a treat! Go ahead and follow her on Instagram and Twitter. Make sure to stick around until the end for some mom jokes! AND if you like our intro music, DM @woollywillie on Instagram and get yourself a theme song!
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05:00: Listen to this episode all about the clitoris! We also interview Nicole of Vagina Party fame. Make sure to stick around til the end to get a sneak peek at one of her awesome party games!
14:00: If you are bad at TV like Rebekah, here is a Vanity Fair article all about Donna Lynne Champlin’s Paula Proctor.
16:00: Check out this article from The Lily which discusses the importance of looking into the role of white women in supporting and committing violent acts, oftentimes without being noticed or suspected.
18:30: Lindy West has also written quite extensively about this topic. She discusses it in her book Shrill. You can read an excerpt from that book here.
23:30: Here is an article that’ll give you an idea of what Ashlie means when she says “Karening.”
37:15: Here is a primer on concern trolling for those among us who don’t know what it means.
37:30: Here is a recent article about The Biggest Loser reboot from The Atlantic.
43:00: Here is an article all about the Finnish Baby Boxes!
46:30: Looky here! “Conan O’Brien is among a new wave of podcasters helping to transform the niche medium into a viable business!” Cool story, bro.
52:00: Don’t know what the husband stitch is? Look no further.
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Don’t Count Out Warren!
In this special Super Tuesday release of Welcome To My Vagina, Jessy and Rebekah talk about Elizabeth Warren, our by far #1 pick for president of the United States. Seriously, we love her. She is badass and she got Chris Mathews fired! SUPER HERO STATUS! Before we get started, donate to us at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina BUT ALSO give some money to Elizabeth Warren if you can. And come to our live even this Sunday at Threes Brewing!
00:45: Come to our live event! It is part of International Women’s Day at Threes Brewing. We’re going to do give aways, play games and record a podcast in front of your very eyes all about shit that women couldn’t do until recently! Like, file for divorce! It’ll be loads of fun.
01:45: Artist Jackie Ann Ruiz made “She’s Electable if you Fucking Vote 4 Her” t-shirts, stickers, tanks, totes etc. These are all also available without the swear words for the less potty-mouthed among us.
03:00: Jessy does not actually think Hillary Clinton is shrill or unlikeable. The point here is that she had DECADES in the public eye and so every single misstep just glued itself to her in society’s eyes and so by the time she ran for president she was detested. And people could say it wasn’t about her being a woman it was about her being Hillary. But, for a lot of people, it was actually about her being a woman and that is what we are learning here right now.
06:30: If you missed it, here is our episode on Cancel Culture. It’s worth a listen.
08:00: Childcare costs more than in-state college tuition in 33 states and Washington, DC. Warren and Debra Haaland (D-NM) introduced the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act 2019; Kamala Harris promised to make high quality child care more affordable through the Child Care for Working Families Act, both done back in 2019. Sanders introduced his early childhood plan on February 24th, 2020.
08:30: Here is the tweet to end all tweets by Kaitlin Byrd, @GothamGirlBlue
14:30: PLEASE read her plan to lower our maternal mortality rate, which, by the way, she rightly calls an epidemic.
16:10: Here is some info on her plan to deal with coronavirus, which follows up her January plan to prevent and contain infectious diseases in general. BAM.
21:00: AOC has launched her own PAC called “Courage to Change” to help fund progressive down ticket races all across the country.
22:30: So the cat is out of the bag. We recorded this episode on Saturday, February 29, before Steyer, Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out of the race.
28:15: Here is Ezra Klein for Vox in an article called “The case for Elizabeth Warren.”
34:45: It was from the New York Times. “As a senator, she’s known for zeroing in on seemingly obscure appointments, understanding how, say, having the wrong person as an under secretary for domestic finance could translate into real-world suffering.”
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History of Midwifery
In this episode Jessy and Rebekah talk all about the history of midwifery here in the United States. But, before that, BIG NEWS. We are going to start releasing a super secret episode every month for our monthly subscribers! Our first episode is going to come out in March and will be all about NIPPLES! So, head on over to glow.fm/welcometomyvagina and become a monthly subscriber so you can have access to our first secret release and all the ones that follow! Also, we are participating in a live event at Threes Brewing in Brooklyn! It’s International Women’s Day and so we are going to play some games, give out some prizes, and then host a live podcast recording. Want to know the theme? Come to Threes! Sunday, March 8th at 2pm. We go on at 2:30 right after our good and hilarious friend Kendra Cunningham who you should also come see.
04:20: Check out this documentary, “All My Babies…a midwife’s own story.” Produced by George C. Stoney, it was used as an educational tool for midwives in the United States with the express intention of promoting greater cooperation between midwives and the healthcare system. In 2002, it was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry, part of the Library of Congress.
08:15: Here is the story of Stephanie Snook, who was supposed to be interviewed for an article about indigenous women’s high rate of pregnancy-related deaths. She went into cardiac arrest before she was able to give birth to her babies and her story was barely covered by the news.
11:00: Doctors did not misplace midwives. They displaced midwives.
14:30: Here is an article from The Sun all about King Louie the XIV and his fetish about childbirth. We’re all about fetishes here but not so much when they change the course of human history to the detriment of women’s health. Just sayin’.
21:00: Here is an article form The Washington Post and one from Oprah Magazine talking about discrepancy in healthcare based off race.
22:00: Check out this ProPublica article, “A Larger Role for Midwives Could Improve Deficient US Care for Mothers and Babies,” if you want to learn more about the important role midwives could play in reducing maternal and infant mortality.
24:30: Here is an article specifically about changes in maternal mortality in the US over time as well as the causes of death. Here is the maternal mortality rate by country (info from 2015) done by the CIA World Factbook.
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In this weeks episode, Jessy and Rebekah get deep on Title XI! It is a follow up episode to our amazing interview with Donna Freitas, author of the book Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention. Before you get into it, make sure to check us out on glow.fm/welcometomyvagina where you can become a monthly subscriber and get all kinds of swag AND a super awesome monthly bonus episode!
01:30: Want to learn a little bit more about pay inequality in soccer? Here is the latest information and how the U.S. Soccer and the president, Carlos Cordeiro, along with some nonsense libertarian think tank publications, seem to think that, actually, everything is fine. It isn’t.
03:45: Here is one of the fun articles Rebekah wrote when she decided to poke the bear’s nest, AKA the MRA’s. Enjoy. She sure did.
05:15: Whelp, here it is. Thanks to Betsy DeVos, most unqualified person to ever lead the Department of Education, all these MRAs are filing civil rights claims that basically say that women’s groups on campus are discriminating against men. This is after they spent years suing women-owned businesses. Here’s the thing. If women sued all the men-owned businesses we wouldn’t even have time to take a shit.
08:45: Listen to our amazing episode with Donna Freitas. And read her book!
11:40: Here is an AMAZING video on Holly Knox who founded the Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER) in the early 1970s.
15:00: Check out Girls for Gender Equity which is an AMAZING organization. They work really hard to empower girls and young women of color. This is really what our future relies on.
25:00: Remember Producer Cait? She was a guest on our podcast talking about her abortion story and she runs More Banana Podcasts, where we and a bunch of other super awesome podcasts live! You should check out ALL the awesome podcasts on offer and if you want to create your own podcast, reach the fuck out! Does Cait have a plan for you!
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In this episode Jessy and Rebekah speak with Title IX expert and author of the newly published memoir, Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention. This book is all about Donna’s experience being stalked by her professor/advisor in graduate school – something that seriously impacted her experience, her well-being and her career post-graduation. In this conversation, we delve into her book, her career and how difficult and weighted it is for women to come forward and report abuse when the person abusing her has so much sway over her future. It is so complicated. But even through the heaviness and the complications rest assured we still found time to laugh!
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02:30: You can purchase the print and e-version of Consent here.
03:30: We will be releasing an episode all about Title IX in the near future, but for those of your who are unclear as to what it is, here is a small primer from the organization “Know Your IX.”
18:50: Typically when we talk about mandatory reporting we are talking about people who have reason to suspect the abuse or neglect of a child – this applies to educators, athletic coaches, etc. But it also extends to people who suspect abuse or neglect of a dependent adult or an elderly person, or really to any member of a society.
33:30: Here is the best outline we could find on what Obama’s Title IX rules looked like.
34:00: “The Hunting Ground” is a 2015 documentary film about the incidence of sexual assault on campuses in the United States and the overwhelming failure of those institutions to adequately deal with them. Emma Sulkowicz was the Columbia University student who produced a piece of performance art called “Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)” which involved them carrying a 50lb mattress on campus to express the burden that rape victims are forced to carry with them.
35:30: Here is a link to Michelle Obama’s speech after the Access Hollywood tape was released.
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In this two year anniversary special, Jessy and Rebekah revisit Vulva Shame, the topic of our very first ever episode! We do a bit of a deeper dive into labiaplasty and go into why (mostly young) women get it and how the patriarchy is pedaling bullshit insecurities in order to control women’s sexual empowerment and enjoyment. We also talk about a bunch of other nonsensical things such as vaginal steaming and shooting ozone up your hoo-ha. Give us a listen and don’t forget to rate and review us! It makes a HUGE difference.
00:34: Want to listen to our original Vulva Shame episode? Find it here!
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04:30: Check out this study done in Britain that says that there is no such thing as a “normal” vagina.
06:30: Here is an abstract of Jessica Malone’s publication, “Women and genital cosmetic surgery” from the journal Women’s Health Issues Paper and another (free!) article that uses Malone’s work as a reference. It is called “In their own words: a qualitative content analysis of women’s and men’s preferences for women’s genitals,” which is, you know, telling.
07:30: As promised, here is the epic Camel Toe video! Make sure to subscribe to see all of Jessy’s awesome videos the second they are released!
15:00: Check out our episode with Diana all about her double mastectomy without reconstruction following her battle with reoccurring breast cancer.
16:00: Here is the FDA release advising people not to use “energy-based devices” in order to perform rejuvenation. You can also read more about it in The Daily Beast, which quoted past president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Scot Glasberg, as saying, “without long term studies, it’s hard to know what the risks will be.”
23:00: Here is an article from Vice all about the effects of piping ozone into your vagina and a response to that piece from Dr. Jen Gunter.
26:40: Yes, wormwood contains thujone which is a hallucinogen. You would actually need quite a bit of it to do harm by orally ingesting it but vaginally? Seems risky.
31:15: Here is an article that debunks a lot of myths and also talks a bit about perineoplasty – the surgery that reconstructs the vaginal opening which, according to Dr. Jen, helps with childbirth scars heal poorly.
40:15: The gallbladder stores bile that is produced by the liver!
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In this episode Jessy and Rebekah talk all about MERKINS! To be honest, there really isn’t all that much information out there on merkins which is not terribly shocking. But! We did find an interesting connection between merkins and Jared Leto! But you’ll have to listen to find out!!
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05:00: Want to know more about crabs (and other STIs)? Check out our most recent episode, STI 101!
07:45: Actually, Rebekah was talking about Gossamer from the Looney Tunes. This information was gathered via Google search terms “big orange guy covered in hair” and voila!
08:00: OMG speaking of The Lorax, did you know that The Lorax was actually banned from at least one school in California because it was seen as an effort by craaaaazy environmentalists to brainwash children against the logging industry.
08:30: Get all caught up on body hair and the devilish razer industry in this old school episode.
10:00: According to this 2011 article from phys.org, multiple organizations such as the EPA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology worked to phase mercury thermometers out due to the environmental impacts as well as the effect of the metal on human health if the thermometer is broken and the mercury is accidentally ingested.
11:13: Here is the article we found that talks about the coining of the term “beaver” to mean vagina. There isn’t too much evidence of the term actually appearing before a little diddy was written about it in 1927.
12:12: You can buy us the domain name merkinworld.com! Seriously, such a steal!
15:30: Check out this article from the website Cinema Blend all about the ridiculous rules about full frontal nudity in film. It is hilarious. And also really, really dumb.
17:20: Just like merkins for real folk, the pubic hair attached to sex dolls really varies in quality depending on how much the doll retails for. In the more higher end dolls, real hair is used to make the experience more authentic.
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In this episode, Jessy and Rebekah talk about STIs and the shame/stigma attached to positive diagnoses. We give you the downlow on the history of STI shame, the difference between STIs and STDs (yes, there is one!), we talk about the importance of testing and then we teach you some cool stuff about BUGS! Bug facts are the best facts. But, before we dive in, give us a look on Medium. We just started our account and we need your help if we’re going to successfully take over the world so…give us some claps on Medium. But not THE clap. Just use a condom, ok? Okay. Here we go.
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01:45: Ugh…women can get donovanosis. It occurs about twice as often in men but still. Us bitches just can’t win.
02:00: His name was Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou. You’re welcome.
05:10: Check out this blast from the past interview that we did with Olivia and Maya of the campus group Adolescent Sexual Health Awareness (ASHA).
09:00: Check out For Your TMI’s episode with Tim Mousseau and, really, the entire podcast – it is hosted by are our podfriends and we love them.
10:45: In 2017, Planned Parenthood health centers across the US “provided more than 4.4 million STD tests and treatment, including more than 700,000 HIV tests.” The Trump Administration has been antagonizing Planned Parenthood for the past 3 years, causing the organization to reject federal funding under Title X rather than abide by administration rules that the organization does not refer women for abortion services.
20:20: Here is the article by Elizabeth Brown of Vice all about the history of STI shaming.
26:00: It’s true! There are more then 600 million cases of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the world, with 20 million of those being here in the US. Around 56% of college-age women in new relationships are infected with HPV< according to a study led by Eduardo Franco at McGill University in Montreal.
27:00: We were wrong! As of late 2018, the FDA had expanded the approval of Gardasil 9, the HPV vaccine, to include men and women aged 27-45! Previously it had been recommended only those aged 9-26. Get them vaccines, friends!
33:30: If you were wondering about the whole “my anus is bleeding” thing, check this out. It is HILARIOUS. I AM A BANANA!
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In this episode, Jessy and Rebekah sit down and have a conversation with super-doula Bonnie Silva! We talked about placentas, we talked about cost structure, we talked about Serena Williams. And it was really cool to compare and contrast her feelings about it with what Bree Mahoney said in an earlier episode. It goes to show, there is a doula for everyone but not everyone needs the same doula. And make sure to stick around until the end when Rebekah will tell you a super fun fact about hermit crabs that will improve your life 1000%.
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02:20: Myrrh is a gum or resin that is extracted from a specific genus of flowering plants that has been used throughout the ages as a perfume, incense or medicine. It can also be mixed with wine and ingested. Don’t mind if we do.
07:30: Check out Lindsey Bliss’ Instagram and all the cool stuff she does with Carriage House Birth, the spot where Bonnie started her doula journey!
14:00: Check out all the amazing work done by Jenny Silva who is a doula and traditional birth worker out in California.
15:00: In Germany, the Hebamme, or midwife, will visit the mother at their home for a few weeks after birth to check on the recovery process, help with umbilical chord care, check that the baby is growing at a healthy rate, help with questions surrounding breastfeeding, help the mom with some important post-birth exercises and so much more.
15:45: Read this article by Serena Williams concerning her near-death experience when giving birth to her daughter, Olympia.
22:45: The statement is “One rotten apple spoils the barrel.” You’re welcome.
24:45: Here is a 2017 article from The Guardian covering instances in which Staten Island University Hospital here in NYC performed procedures without the consent of the woman.
39:00 Remember Bree? She was the first doula we interviewed a while back. Take a trip down memory lane and give that interview a listen.
Find Bonnie!
Her website: bonniesilva.com
And her Instagram: @bonniesilva and @realdoulaclub
Her awesome podcast, Doula Club, where ever you get your pods.
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In this week’s episode, Jessy and Rebekah discuss virginity testing and why it is so incredibly stupid. There are SO MANY STUPID VIRGINITY TESTS and we will tell you about them. But first, don’t forget to support us by leaving rating us and leaving reviews, by telling your friends about your FAVORITE podcast and by donating at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina.
00:40: There are A TON of articles about this debacle, but here is one from Vulture. The podcast where he originally made his comments, Ladies Like Us with Nazanin and Nadia, has been taken down and the hosts have issues an apology. We have feelings about cancel culture (listen to our episode on the topic here) but we also have feelings about how TI’s daughter has been cast into the spotlight here. Not only did she not ask for her dad to behave this way, she also did not consent to him talking about it publicly and she does not deserve to have her sensitive information slapped all over the internet. So in doing your research, please keep all of this in mind. There is an innocent person involved here and she deserves privacy and respect.
06:30: If you don’t already follow us on Instagram, now’s the time to start. Check out our new virginity testing videos! Apparently we are not virgins. And neither is our producer, Cait. Who knew.
08:25: It’s true. The Indonesian army still carries out virginity tests on their female applicants.
12:30: If you want to hear more about how women’s bodies are actually just jungle gyms for all sorts of things – sperm, uterus – listen to our episode all about the word hysteria!
16:50: For those of you needing more information about Helkiah Crooke, have at it.
20:00: Her name was Elizabeth Bathory, she was a Slovakian Countess and also a vicious, vicious murderer.
25:00: Clearly neither of us are scientists because there are actually 7 states of matter!
27:00: Big thanks to JR Thorpe of Bustle for making this episode so fun.
33:30: We really did an entire episode on things not to put in your vagina and we would like to build a time machine and send this episode back to let everyone know that, no, do not put cinnamon up there.
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