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Parent info: Sssh! Periods is recommended for ages 11 plus. It's a Story led show that should be listened to in order. Made in the USA, it's about Life Skills and Emotional Health for kids. Launched in 2019, it has 3 seasons.
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This is it, friends. 75+ guests, 89 episodes, and almost 40,000 downloads later -- Sssh! Periods is coming to an end. Join us for our last episode as we reminisce about the good, the bad, and the many, many times Luke has roasted Ms. Huq and her extensive coll…
The podcasters have some burning questions for former college student/current 7th grade English teacher, Ms. Huq.
It's Christmas time, y'all! We're talking clothes, grandmas knitting sweaters, and whose Christmas dinner has the best seasoning (hot tip: it's all in the Goya packets).
TikTok got us talking about trans identities and whether or not trans women can get periods. Another blast from the past (and by the past we mean 2021, which at this point was 2 weeks ago).
New year, old us! Yes, we're late to the conversation about DaBaby's homophobic comments from his concert in 2021 but also this IS a pandemic year and time is a construct anyway, so...enjoy.
A very chaotic episode about women's bodies, the male gaze, and whose responsibility it is if a woman's pants are too tight.
Sade, Josmelkis, Fatima, Annely and 13 (aka Aissatou) weigh in on the pressure parents put on their kids' bodies to fit some ideal that nobody understands.
We're following up on last week's episode with an in-person rant session on starting beef in the group chat and why social media can be toxic.
The last episode we recorded during the pandemmy! Well, the pandemic is still ongoing but you know what we mean. Pandemic podcasters Parousia, Kadidja, Annely, and Josmelkis weigh in on the pressure they feel to fake a personality on social media.
ANOTHER one! We uncovered an episode we recorded (and then forgot about) so we thought we should let this see the light of day. Special guest James Stefanik gets interviewed by pandemic podcasters Annely, Josmelkis, Parousia and Cristal on the awkward moments …
What's Thanksgiving like for you? Do you get stabbed by a fork because your elbows touch the table? Did your family leave the plastic on your turkey and give you food poisoning? Are your parents out here asking you personal conversations? This episode is for y…
Uncovered a pandemic episode that we had never released! Pandemic podcasters Camilla, Parousia, Josmelkis, and Annely weigh in on the challenges young people face when deciding to come out.
Professional former student James sits down with co-host Ms. Huq to take questions from middle schoolers on the highs and lows of high school.
The newest batch of podcasters weigh in on the past 18 months of pandemic life and answer the question: would you rather be doing school in person or online?
6th graders Raizel, Annely, Tatiana, Sade and Josmelkis share thoughts on body shaming. In short, don't do it! It's gross and nobody wins.
We're BACK IN PERSON! For the first time in 18 months we are recording LIVE from SCHOOL like back in the yee yee old times. It's good to be back and ranting about the topic of the day, which happens to be homework (and why it is trash).
This week, the 6th graders discuss how culture gets co-opted to be "trendy," anti-Asian hate, police violence against black people, and just how much racism plain sucks.
The 6th graders are back! And they have a message for you: Give women credit for all that they do, y'all.
From what we eat to how we dress and when our parents need us to translate for them, we out here on the struggle bus. #immigrantkidlife
The 6th graders interview current and past middle schoolers about their relationships with their parents. Spoiler: a lot of times, it's not pretty.
Forcing women to dress a certain way is dumb. People should just let folks wear what they want to wear.
It's our last episode of the year (and maybe ever?) and we get emotional, y'all.
Podcaster and resident 6th grader Sade gives us her hot takes on the end-of-the-year poll taken by her fellow 6th graders. TL;DR: most of Sade's class seems stressed about their relationships with their parents.
Guest Ceasar Hernandez sits down with us to discuss immigrant parents' love language, mental health, and why it's important to tell your bros that you love them.
Special guest Annie Pei joins us to talk getting your first period at 10, the stigma around mental health in the AAPI community, and maybe a potential podcast where we only list common nouns that start with the letter "P."
3 years after our first episode, things...haven't changed much. People still get shamed for having periods! Who would have thought.
Scholars and teachers weigh in on how life has changed since the pandemic started a year ago.
Raizel interviews the ladies of The Girls Co. -- Abby Warner, Taimi Kennerley, Zoia Ali -- to talk about the challenges of being female entrepreneurs, empowering future generations, and, of course, how much cramps suck.
The 6th graders are back! We're weighing in on Jojo Siwa's coming out announcement, and how some people have been trying to cancel a whole seventeen-year-old for living her truth.
The 6th graders weigh in on the TikTok silhouette challenge, thirst traps, and people who try to police women for what women put on their bodies.
Resident LGBTQ guest James takes questions from our listeners about what makes us gay, if bisexuality is valid, and what is safe sex.
Abuse sees no gender, and male victims' experiences are valid. Our resident 6th graders and podcast co-host Raizel weigh in.
What is asexuality? Ms. Huq and her 6th graders bring you a special Friday episode inspired by our listeners.
Raizel speaks with two friends of hers, Mikayla (@mikaylasilva) & Gabby (@gabbyocruz), for International Women's Day on topics ranging from feminism to dress code to racism.
Professional adult James sits down to talk about stocks, the highs and lows of paying your own bills, and his love affair with using his Amazon Prime membership to score sweet, sweet deals at Whole Foods.
6th grader Kadidja shares an original horror story.
Does wearing makeup make you gay? (No, it does not) And even if you were gay and want to wear makeup, does that make you any less of a man? (Also, no) Our resident 6th graders weigh in.
Sixth graders share their thoughts on bad dating advice, right in time for Valentine's Day.
Ms. Huq's 6th grade class is here to tell you that catcalling isn't the way to go.
An international round table of gays, queers, and bis sit down to talk about sex ed, consent culture, and how the patriarchy does a disservice to our LGBT youth when it comes to learning about and validating their own sexuality.
The five minutes of sex education that most of us receive while in middle and high school in the U.S. is a d.i.s.g.r.a.c.e. to the guys, gals and nonbinary pals: a rant.
We sit down with community organizer and secret friend of Ms. Huq, Ibtisam Ahmed, for a chat about knowing when your insight is (and isn't) welcome, and which spaces you do (and don't) belong in.
Waking up to reports of Kim and Kanye's divorce, the results of the 2020 Georgia Senate runoff elections, and an insurrection by domestic terrorists. Six days in, and 2021 is already giving 2020 a run for its money.
The holidays are rough, and the holiday season of 2020 is garbage trash, but here's some holiday cheer to close out the year. See you in 2021, y'all.
Harry Styles was the first solo man to be featured on Vogue's cover, and he did it in a dress. Predictably, the internet had a lot to say. Raizel and Ms. Huq sit down to chat about men in dresses, the "feminization" of so-called "male ideals," and how gender i…
Backlash against the fox-eye trend on TikTok takes Raizel and Ms. Huq down the road of POC on POC hate. Also, Raizel plugs her recent interview in The 74 Million ('WAP' and Sex Ed: How the Billboard-Topping Track is 'Making Conversations about Sexual Health Le…
Once upon a time, One Direction came out with "That's What Makes You Beautiful" but society had different thoughts on that, so here we are to talk beauty standards, how curly hair makes us witches, and how Lara Jean should have ended up with John Ambrose.
Raizel and Ms. Huq sit down at Raizel's kitchen counter to talk fatphobia, being the fat ugly friend of the friend group, and handling men who want to call you fat because they can't take no for an answer.
Got opinions on how a woman should dress? Think it's your place to get between a woman and her uterus? Raizel and Ms. Huq have a lot of thoughts that they'd like to share.
Caroline and Raizel eat Dunkin' and talk about internalized misogyny while their chauffeur Ms. Huq drives them around Inwood on a Saturday afternoon.
TV show Euphoria is giving some teens the entirely wrong message about mental illness, and Raizel and Caroline are having none of it.
We start off talking about the pervasiveness of street harassment and end with the normalization of violence against women. Warning: We do discuss sexual assault and violence against women. May not be suitable for children under 13.
We are one week away from the most pivotal election of our lifetime, and we have some thoughts.
In which Raizel roasts Ms. Huq for her Harry Potter tattoo, and Ms. Huq roasts Raizel back for being a former Shane Dawson stan.
In which Raizel gets salty about selective activism and Ms. Huq's inability to introduce the podcast, but also shouts out the 2020 winners of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge for being the cutest and the best.
We are on the precipice of a game-changing election year. Too many lives hang in the balance, too many issues on the ballot for any of us to be indifferent. In today's episode Raizel, Litzy, and resident ghost Ms. Huq discuss the ways in which they have advoca…
Raizel, Litzy and resident ghost Ms. Huq talk about the various issues on which they have taken a stand. It's beyond hashtags and wokeness, y'all.
When it comes to canceling someone, why do we have different standards for what actions are deemed cancel-able and what actions aren't? And how come women seem to get the short end of the stick in these scenarios? Raizel and Litzy discuss.
Some of us are new to TikTok. Some of us only learned about TikTok because of time spent at home, social distancing in the midst of this pandemic. And some of us recently discovered some viral TikToks where young women ask her boyfriends how a pad works, and t…
Welcome back! We're kicking off Season 2 with an interview with resident Florida woman Litzy. Florida's been in the news for a few different reasons -- no mask mandates! Reopening schools in August with no social distancing guidelines! A Disneyland rollout str…
Reflection time! Time to wrap up the year, look back on our accomplishments, and look ahead (as much as we can) to the future.
In which a 7th grader gives career advice to a middle school English teacher on how to get more clout to finally make that Instagram aesthetic money.
All of us on one Zoom call? Amazing!
At the time of this recording, New York State is in its 47th day of self-isolation due to COVID-19, and xenophobia against Asian-Americans is rampant. Raizel Febles sits down--from a safe social distance--with Mikayla Navalta and Abigail Sy to discuss the rise…
It's been 365-ish days since Sssh! Periods received the phone call that would change our lives. One year since winning NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, where are we now? Raizel and Litzy, our two out-of-state correspondents, jump on this conference call to fil…
At the time of this recording, we were in Day 23 of quarantine. We chat with Raizel Febles, calling all the way from Bergen, New Jersey, to chat about life in the time of COVID-19. How's our mental health? Do we need hugs from our mom to fall asleep at night? …
In December of 2019, we heard about the first reported case of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Two months later it came to New York. Within weeks towns went into lockdown, schools shifted to remote learning indefinitely, and life was nothing like it used to be. We s…
This episode was recorded in January, 2020, months before New York went into lockdown. Our school has moved to remote learning for the rest of the school year; all field trips, college visits, and proms have been canceled. That being said, please enjoy this ep…
We're a self-proclaimed bunch of nerds here at Sssh! Periods, so we sat down to talk about what life has been like as a nerd. Do glasses make you smart? Do you get bullied because people think you're a nerd? Special guest (and Bronx Prep 6th grader) Jaylin Lew…
It's a spring Wednesday and Amir, Sheslianny, Madison (the silent support sister), Randolph and Ms. Huq like the bird sit in the 3rd floor hallway of Bronx Prep Middle School to talk clothes. Are we sneaker heads? How many of us have been sent home for dress c…
What do periods have to do with religion? More than you'd think. We spent the past year looking into how period stigma alienates us from our peers, but there are other forces in our lives that also makes us feel different from the people around us. For some, r…
A month ago we started recording our Valentine’s Day episode, but the episode ended up being more of a reflection on how we express love. Some of us, we found out, express love through actions. Some of us, we found out, want the kind of love that can be used t…
This week we interview Maureen Smith, a menstrual rights advocate and author of Your Moontime Magic. Your Moontime Magic provides first-time menstruators with tips and tricks to navigate the tricky world of periods, and Maureen had plenty of insight to share w…
Middle schooler Sheslianny sits down with high schoolers Yelitssa, Ashley, and Jasmin to talk about the transition from middle school to high school. The two campuses may just be a hallway apart here at Bronx Prep, but the classrooms at the opposite ends of th…
We're back at it again with yet another episode, the title of which came from a terrible pun that we found on Google! This week we sit down (more like stand around a mic, but who's counting anyway?) to talk makeup. Do our moms let us wear makeup? How open is m…
Are people dragging Valentine's Day? Who is Valentine's Day for? And why do some of our partners refuse to celebrate Valentine's Day? We sit down with skeptic James Stefanik, love expert Amber Harrison, and middle schoolers Darlene, Madison, Kassy and Aissatou…
Hair puns! We love them. We also love looking into our relationship with hair, and how it's shaped by our culture, families, and genetics. Why do we wear our hair the way we do? What's the story behind our braids, weaves, extensions, and bangs? We interview fr…
A comment from an Instagram follower about homelessness in the South Bronx sparked this episode. What does homelessness look like in our community? How many NYC children spend their nights in shelters because their single-parent households can't afford rent? W…
Free pads and tampons are great and all, but what would the people of Bronx Prep do without their favorite bodega? We hear from students, teachers, and bodega customers alike about Los Amigos, Bronx Prep's faithful source of chopped cheese, Arizona iced teas, …
The holidays are a great time for many people, but what if you have a hard time getting behind the Christmas merrymaking and festivities? We sit down with Sheslianny, Amir, and Thirteen to chat about being Muslim during Christmas, being dragged to family holid…
Kids at school bat around these words on the regular: "that's gay," "no homo," and whatever else we haven't heard yet. Where does this culture of homophobia come from? How does someone's sexual identity threaten your own? We sit down with two middle school boy…
What do five high schoolers and two Dartmouth grads have in common? A fierce passion for women's reproductive health, and a love of fun stickers. We sit down with Jordana Kier and Alexandra Friedman, co-founders of LOLA, to chat first periods, cramps, and revo…
Raizel Febles interviews menstrual equity extraordinaire, 16-year-old Hannah Samimi, one of the co-founders of the NYC's first-ever National Period Day Rally. We're talking tampon tax, custodians who won't clean out receptacles in girls' bathrooms, and so much…
Veteran podcasters (Jasmin, Ashley, Yelitssa, Caroline, and Kassy) are joined by newcomers (Kaylee, Kiara, and Sheslianny) in a frank conversation about what adolescent boys do, and don't, learn about women's bodies.
Producer Raizel takes questions from Instagram about birth control. How young is too young to be on birth control? Would your parents let you get on birth control? What is birth control good for, anyway?
Summer is almost over, but teachers have been back at school for the past three weeks. What do teachers talk about when they're putting up the first bulletin boards of the year? How do you make your way through a crowded airplane to get to the bathroom before …
The instructional staff at Bronx Prep Middle School is over 80% female, and many of the female teachers have families with young children. How do they manage to spend 12+ hours a day at work, then find the energy to go home and raise their own families? Guest …
From teachers to moms, partners to coaches, the ladies of Sssh! Periods have been loved and supported from Day 1 to keep doing what they're doing. We bring Part 2 of our favorite episode, Advocates, because the love for our tribe does not end.
It takes a village to go from a 7-person operation to a nationally recognized student podcast. On this episode each of us pays tribute to the advocates whose support us took us from the bottom to the top.
On August 3, 2019 a gunman opened fire in an El Paso Walmart and killed 20 people. Less than 13 hours later, a separate gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio and killed 9 individuals outside of the Ned Peppers Bar. Instances of mass gun violence have become a rec…
East Coast meets West Coast (again)! Our conversation with the ladies of Vicious Cycle was such a hoot that we had to upload it in two parts. We ask the ladies how they cope with period stigma, their experiences of menstruating in middle school, and what has c…
Our podcast has reached the Mobjap Girls' School in Kenya! Today we take questions from 7th and 8th grade girls in Nairobi. We may be separated by an ocean but we still have similar anxieties about dating, boys, the awkwardness around periods, and so much more…
East Coast meets West Coast! On this episode the ladies of Sssh! Periods share a long-awaited conference call with Vicious Cycle, three women across the country who are also fighting the good fight to make Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) visible.
The girls are weeks away from graduating eighth grade, and they're frustrated by how little progress they see for women. Reproductive rights. Access to healthcare. Ending the stigma around menstruation. How do we change the narrative?
Fresh off our win on NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, the girls take the stage at NYCLU's Centennial Celebration to talk about the pink tax, period poverty, and how to stay in dress code while still feeling yourself for prom.
The ladies of Bronx Prep Middle School bring you the first episode of their podcast, Sssh! Periods. On this episode the girls share their experiences with menstruation in middle school, the 5,000 different euphemisms for periods, and how getting a period is no…
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