Persistent and Pervasive: Feminists Take on Toxics
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA crash course in feminist environmental health! Learn with us through case studies of products marketed to women and girls including cleaning products, cosmetics/personal care, menstrual/intimate care products and more. We discuss the health effects of toxic chemicals in these products and hear from feminist scientists and activists who are designing creative solutions by raising awareness, advocating for policy reform, and community organizing for action!
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Episodes
The Beast in Beauty: Toxic Chemicals in Hair Straighteners
September 30, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBMany hair care products marketed particularly to Black women and girls contain chemicals that are endocrine disruptors and thus may interfere with the body’s hormone system. Some of these chemicals are also known to cause asthma or cancer. In this episode, we explore the chemical and cultural issues around Black hair care and interview scientists and activists who are working to ensure that safer products are available. TO LEARN MORE: Links to organizations and resources mentioned in th...
Advocating for Safe and Just Cleaning
January 18, 2022 05:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBIn Part 2 of our mini-series on toxic chemicals in cleaning products, we focus on the efforts of organizers, domestic workers and scientists to strive towards safe and healthy working conditions, as well as job security and benefits for those in the cleaning work sector. We speak with an organizer with the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance, a chemical engineer working to ensure that safer chemicals are used in consumer products, and a founder of a worker-owned cleaning coop. All of these ...
Cleaning: A Stained Industry
July 14, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBThe cleaning products in your home are not as safe and healthy as you think — especially for domestic workers who have to use them day in and out! This is Part I of our cleaning products and domestic workers series. Our conversation explores the toxic chemicals in cleaning products, who does most of this country’s cleaning work, why that is, and how domestic work conditions – including the use of unsafe products — have come to be.
Toxic menstrual and intimate care products are wrong. Period.
October 23, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBOur pilot episode centers on toxic chemicals in menstrual and intimate care products. We give a brief history of the market and then interview experts about the toxic chemicals in these products, disproportionate exposures, and the ways that feminist scientists and activists are creating solutions.
Trailer - Persistent and Pervasive
October 23, 2020 04:00 - 3 minutes - 2.84 MBAn introduction to the new podcast series, Persistent and Pervasive: Feminists Take on Toxics!