Another Bloody Podcast

In this episode, we talk with Aria Sickler Avery, one of the student leaders behind the Cornell University #IAmJaneDoe protests calling for increased accountability and more robust resources for survivors of sexual misconduct in the wake of the Cornell 7 sexual assault lawsuit filed nearly three weeks ago. Avery, a Cornell senior and president of the Gender Justice Advocacy Coalition, describes th...

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who died last month at 92, spent decades speaking and writing about previously taboo healthcare topics, including abortion, sexual assault, and what we know call medical gaslighting. So much about her life inspired us, but in this episode we pay tribute to the ways she spoke about women's healthcare issues in a voice that was accessible, sincere, and sprinkled with hu...

It’s been a week since a former Cornell University student filed a lawsuit against the university, Chi Phi fraternity, and the seven fraternity members who are accused of raping her in 2024. To provide some context on how sexual assault can affect women’s health across their lifespan, we’re replaying a conversation we had back in April with Sharon Walker Epps, CEO of the Rowan Center. Notably, Sha...

This week we’re re-releasing Heather’s conversation on GLP-1s featuring Lili Zarghami, founder of the online magazine Jenny. In this candid, unfiltered conversation Heather and Lili talk about their very different experiences with the popular weight loss drugs and the complicated realities of living in a woman's body. From illness and aging to body shaming and the quiet mental load of trying to do...

This week we are rereleasing one of the shows that started it all. Another Bloody Podcast co-hosts Lisa Pierce Flores and Heather O'Neill are both survivors of Stage 4 endometriosis. Here, in Part 2 of their deep dive into endometriosis, they interview one another about their many years of suffering from the disease, attempting to find a diagnosis, and finally, after many of false starts and a fai...

We're bringing back a fan favorite — Lily Zargami, editor and co-founder of Jennie, whose first appearance on Another Bloody Podcast (our most-downloaded episode ever) chronicled a brutal reaction to injectable Mounjaro. Since then, the GLP-1 landscape has changed fast: an oral Wegovy pill hit the market with record-breaking uptake, Eli Lilly's own oral option is racing toward approval, and both d...

Menopausal rage doesn't look like garden-variety irritability — it feels like a ticking time bomb, and almost no one is talking about it. This week, Heather and Lisa sit down with Dr. Sarah Berg, a board-certified OB-GYN, Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, and founder of Selfority, a platform offering menopause education courses and workplace training, to unpack the symptom she first wrote...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump marked National Immunology Month by cutting the CDC's recommended childhood vaccine list from 18 diseases to 11, sorting remaining shots into risk-based tiers. State mandates and insurance coverage will not immediately be affected, but the policy shift may embolden a growing number of parents to question their doc...

If you've ever wondered whether you're imagining a shift in how you're treated at work in midlife, we're here to hand you the receipts. In this episode, we dig into why women vanish from the workforce right as they hit their stride. From the "broken rung" that stalls women when they aim for that very first promotion, to the burnout crushing senior women and blocking them from entering the C-suite,...

A little over a year ago, Rhode Island became the first state in the country to legally protect menopausal workers, amending its Fair Employment Practices Act to place menopause and perimenopause alongside pregnancy and childbirth as protected categories. In this episode, Heather and Lisa talk with the two lawmakers behind that shift: State Senator Lori Urso and State Representative Karen Alzate....

Hormone replacement therapy is having a moment in the press and on social media. Often all we hear about are the success stories of women whose hot flashes and night sweats have been cured by HRT. But what about those women who have been told that they aren't candidates for hormone replacement? This week, Heather and Lisa sit down with Jennifer Nathanson, nurse practitioner at Flourish Marin, to t...

Show Description Turns out gray hair is just the opening act. Heather and Lisa dig into why hair thins, dries out, changes texture, and slows its growth cycle with age — and where menopause, HRT, GLP-1s, and even undiagnosed illness fit into the picture, plus what hair products dermotologists say are worth spending your money on. They discuss when hair loss is just aging, and when it's time to cal...

If you've ever wondered if you're actually doing skincare right or just throwing money at pretty jars, this episode is for you. Starting with a viral TikTok trend that encourages women to use their own period blood as a facial mask (spoiler: dermatologically, it's a hard no!), Lisa and Heather delve into their own skincare routines and talk about what dermatologists say actually works. We tell you...

Now that the "one glass of red wine is good for you" advice has been officially retired, is any amount of alcohol safe or is it essentially just poison on the rocks? We dig into the current research, from the surprising links between alcohol and cancer, heart disease, and inflammation, to why women process liquor so differently than men do, to the medical community's new drinking guidelines (spoil...

From razor ads that invented a "problem" in 1915 to the J Sisters' salon that made the Brazilian a household word, Heather and Lisa trace the strange, sometimes prickly history of female hair removal — and why, a century later, the bush is having a comeback moment. We dig into how advertising, the bikini, Playboy, and enthusiastic celebrities shaped what women do (and don't do) below the belt, wha...

This week, Heather and Lisa dive into one of gynecology's most dreaded instruments — the speculum — and the wave of new, more comfortable designs headed to doctors' offices. They cover updated cervical cancer screening guidelines, applaud the medical community's call for less-frequent Pap smears, and trace the speculum's surprisingly dark and ancient history. Plus: Find out which book they have ch...

When YouTube creator Jesse Ridgway (McJuggerNuggets) and his wife Audrey announced on X that they'd terminated a pregnancy after a Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) diagnosis, millions saw it — and the backlash was immediate. Death threats. Viral condemnation. Coverage in People. The response from abortion opponents was predictable. But the disability community also pushed back, challenging how Ridgway c...

Inspired by Jen Hatmaker’s 2025 memoir Awake, Lisa and Heather take a deep dive into the hellscape that is evangelical Christian purity culture. A generation ago, purity culture was having a moment. Some of Hollywood’s most popular young actors and teen pop stars were publicly declaring their intention to abstain from sex until marriage. The media responded with a creepy level of curiosity about t...

If you've ever been caught without a pad or tampon and felt that flash of panic, you already understand a small piece of what millions of people navigate every single day: period poverty. In this episode, Heather and Lisa sit down with period equity advocate Rakisha Kearns-White, who has spent the past seven years working to end menstrual stigma and provide accurate sexual health information in pu...

Your vagina is changing, and nobody warned you. Heather and Lisa are here to give you the 411 on this 911 situation. In this episode, we're diving into vaginal atrophy — the condition affecting roughly 50% of perimenopausal and menopausal women, where tissues dry out, shrink, and generally stage a quiet revolt. Your clitoris can retract like a turtle. Your labia can disappear. Fun times! Heather a...

Last week, President Trump gathered RFK Jr., Dr. Mehmet Oz, and a room full of pronatalists to push his fertility and maternal healthcare agenda — and hosts Heather and Lisa had a lot of feelings about it. Sure, they had a field day with Dr. Oz's declaration that one in three Americans are "underbabied" and RFK Jr.'s, er, passionate interest in teen sperm counts. (Yes, really.) But once the laughi...

This week we discuss the medically unnecessary product women were taught they couldn’t live without: the douche. About 20% of U.S. women use disposable douche products for vaginal cleansing on a weekly basis. Far more have used them at least once. Yet medical experts say these "hygiene" products are unnecessary and can even be hazardous to your health. So why, despite decades of research linking d...

In our first ever installment of Another Bloody Book Club, Heather and Lisa dig into Famesick, Lena Dunham's raw and surprisingly funny memoir about the collision of ambition, chronic illness, and public life. They explore what the book reveals about the invisible toll of endometriosis, the pressure women face to keep showing up no matter how sick they are, and the particular loneliness of experie...

In Part 2 of our Sexual Assault Awareness Month conversation, we unpack some of the terminology and ideas mentioned in our interview with advocate Sharon Walker Epps in Episode 10, starting with a roadmap of the terrifying, predatory digital world young people and parents are struggling to navigate. From there, Heather interviews Lisa about her own work as a sexual assault crisis counselor and wor...

In this episode of Another Bloody Podcast, we talk with Sharon Walker Epps, CEO of the Rowan Center, about the long-lasting impact of sexual violence, why so many survivors wait decades to disclose abuse, and what healing can look like when support comes early. Sharon shares her own path from Wall Street to advocacy, shaped in part by her daughter’s experience as a survivor, and explains how sexua...