New Radar Podcast available: Bleeding Cities - Menopause, menstrual activism and urban development

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.

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• 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)

Guest:

Dr. Maria Tomlinson is a lecturer in public communication and gender at the University of Sheffield. Her research examines the impact of health communication on social inequalities. For the last ten years, her research has focussed on menstrual health, menopause, and endometriosis. Findings from her latest book, The Menstrual Movement in the Media: Reducing Stigma and Tackling Social Inequalities (2025), have been used by charities, schools, and government bodies to improve menstrual education and reduce menstrual inequities and have been published in the Independent.

Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/episodes/19982143