POD Rainbow Science
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Are you fed up with reading about American scientists? Do you want to punch your face with your own fist when you see or hear people droning on about observational studies, experiments and you still do not understand what’s the point? If the answer is yes, this podcast is for you.My name is Karolina, but you can call me K. I’m a psychologist, sexual health specialist, scientist and HIV adviser. I deeply believe that science could be easy and understandable, and you don’t have to complete 4 PhDs to talk about science and make use of it. My mission is to break the academia door and make social science more comprehensible to people who are not familiar with scientific world and scientific discourse. If you like what I do, you can bye me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/podrainbow
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How to eliminate internalized homophobia + bonus exercise
December 18, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBPRS#16: How to eliminate internalized homophobia + bonus exercise Besides social changes and more positive attitude towards gender and sexually diverse people, LGBTQ individuals still experience negative emotions stemming from social inequality. One of the most well-known phenomena explaining the relationship between social prejudice and mental well-being in this group is internalized homophobia, experienced, with varied intensity, by almost all LGBTQ persons. In this episode I’m explaining...
mRNA vaccine against HIV – is it the end of an epidemic?
December 10, 2021 21:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBPRS#15: mRNA vaccine against HIV – is it the end of an epidemic? There are approximately 40-42 million people living in HIV. Since 1980s, the number of new cases increased dramatically every year, in 1995 antiretroviral therapy became available, number of new cases still increased year after year but the number became significantly lower compared to the times before 1995. Until now, a lot has changed we have new types of combined antiretroviral therapies, which enable people to easy adhere ...
HIV-2? New mutation of the same virus?
December 03, 2021 15:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBPRS#14: HIV-2? New mutation of the same virus? December 1st – International AIDS Day. I thought it’s a magnificent occasion to tackle the problem of different types of HIV. Not many people know that there is more than one type of HIV, in addition not many scientists are interested in HIV-2. In this episode I’m telling a little bit about how HIV transmitted onto humans and what’s the difference between HIV-1 and HIV-2. If you want to read something about HIV-2, here are a few papers I think...
Non-binary? Means who?
November 25, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBPRS#13: Non-binary? Means who? The term transgender became more and more popular over the last decades, however transgender community is colorful and transgender persons might present many different identities. Non-binary identities are less recognized, so I thought it would be nice to clarify this term and explain what’s the difference between non-binary and transgender binary people. If you want to read interesting pieces on non-binary identities, I recommend those things: https://www.n...
Sexual dysfunctions in LGB men and women
November 17, 2021 18:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBPRS#12: Sexual dysfunctions in LGB men and women Sexual dysfunctions are prevalent in population, however the prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in LGBT community seems to be elevated as compared to straight people. In this episode I’m talking about the most prevalent sexual dysfunction in lesbian, gay and bisexual men and women, the most frequently diagnosed causes and most popular ways to treat them. Music: bensound.com A few Interesting research on this issue: https://pubmed.n...
Sexual satisfaction in women
November 07, 2021 21:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBPRS#11: Sexual satisfaction in women Sex life is one the most important predictor of good relationship and good life, for years women’s sexuality was neglected and inferior to men’s sexuality. Sexual minority women were in the especially bad position, because the vast majority of research focused on women’s relationship issues such as lesbian bed death, problems with attachment or grief over not having children with a partner, while sexual satisfaction and positive aspect of sex lives in se...
Why is Donald Trump bad for mental health?
October 25, 2021 07:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBPRS#10: Why is Donald Trump bad for mental health? Politicians and public figures have a profound impact on people’s lives and well-being, not only via law or acts, but also via words they use and speeches they give. Since the era of Donald Trump’s presidency is often considered to be the dark age for LGBTQ Americans, in this episode I’m trying to explain how politics and mental health are related. Couple of interesting research: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34198029/ https://pubmed.n...
Minority Stress
October 18, 2021 07:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBPRS#9: Minority Stress Members of the rainbow community experience mental and physical adversities significantly more often compared to their straight counterparts. In this episode, I’m talking about minority stress – the conceptual framework that helps to explain discrepancy in mental health between straight and non-straight people. If you want to read more on this, here are some worth mentioning papers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072932/ https://psycnet.apa.org/record...
Evelyn Hooker – a woman who saved the gays
October 10, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBPRS#8: Evelyn Hooker – a woman who saved the gays In this episode you’re going to hear about Evelyn Hooker, the myth buster who started the revolution and led to removal of homosexuality from psychiatric handbook of disorders. In addition, there are a few words about projective methods and why today we shouldn’t rely on them. To read Hooker's publication go here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08853126.1957.10380742 Music: bensound.com Support the show (https://www.buymeacoff...
Lesbian bed death
October 03, 2021 19:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBPRS#7: Lesbian bed death Lesbian bed death became popular phenomenon in the early 80s and since then growing number of urban legends about it became widespread in gay and lesbian community. The truth is that lesbian bed death, even though popular, does not have scientific evidence to support the hypothesis that it is something real. In this episode I’m looking at the first publication on lesbian bed death (Schwartz & Blumstein - American Couples: Money, Work, Sex) and subsequent studies on ...
Robust evidence that bisexual men exist
September 15, 2021 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBPRS#6: Robust evidence that bisexual men exist The status of bisexual men and bisexual people in general have long and controversial history. Bisexual people were often accused of being promiscuous and untrustworthy, regarded as the ones sitting on the fence, not confident enough to come out as gay. Bisexual men were also considered as those who pass HIV onto women, due to their numerous sexual contacts and countless sexual male-partners. This all caused increased stigma toward bisexual peo...
Healing homosexuality
September 10, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBPRS#5: Healing homosexuality Conversion therapy, also known as reparative therapy, reorientation therapy or gay cure therapy is pseudoscientific method, trying to change one’s sexual orientation. Based upon the faulty assumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder, it is recognized as ineffective, unethical and harmful, and it's banned in many countries. Even though, there is no evidence that sexual orientation can be changed, still there are organizations and individuals who attempt to...
How to tell if you have HIV?
September 01, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBPRS#4: How to tell if you have HIV? HIV became popular in the early 1980s, when UCLA doctor, Michael Gottlieb, published an article about gay patients with rare type of fungal infections and pneumonia. Since then, all around the world, doctors observed similar symptoms in their patients, especially those who had sexual contacts with other men. Due to this observation, for some time AIDS was believed to be a condition specific to gay men and called GRID – gay-related immune deficiency. After...
Do we still need Pride Parades?
August 24, 2021 16:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBPRS #3: Do we still need Pride Parades? Pride parades as well as other events set up to celebrate LGBT pride evoke many emotions in straight and gay people. Some people love the idea of celebrating pride, while others are reluctant to participate or even support the idea of celebration. In the 70s and 80s pride parades were held to increase the visibility of sexual and gender minority people and while society and governments started to recognize the rights of LGBTQ persons, pride parades be...
Transgender athletes and testosterone mess
August 16, 2021 21:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBPRS #2: Transgender athletes and testosterone mess We’re right after the end of the weirdest Olympic Games, but also the most rainbow-colored Olympic Games in our history. We also had an opportunity to (eventually!) see Laurel Hubbard, the first transgender person to compete in the sex category according to her gender identity, and even though without any medal, she left Tokyo with, impossible to count, signs of support from all around the world. Therefore, I believe it is a good moment to ...
HIV testing and window period
August 16, 2021 20:00 - 13 minutes - 9.21 MBPRS #1: HIV testing & window period According to UNAIDS, roughly 38 million people were living with HIV in 2020, still about 6 million of them did not know they were HIV+. In this episode, we’re going to have a closer look at the barriers to testing, different types of tests and the ‘window period’. For more information go over to https://www.unaids.org/en. Music: bensound.com Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/podrainbow)