rePROFilm Podcast
Hosted and produced by Asha Dahya
rePROFilm connects storytellers and advocates who celebrate bodily autonomy. We curate mission-aligned short films in our online publication, The Periodical, along with an original interview podcast, playlist, newsworthy links and other small bits of activism. All you have to do is sign up at reprofilm.org
Episodes
36 episodes
HOW TO CARRY WATER with Shoog McDaniel
Fat activist Allison Graham talks to photographer Shoog McDaniel about what it was like to be on the other side of the lens for the documentary about their life and art practice. “I want people to see the movie and not be abl...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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26:35
a conversation with Fat Activist Allison Graham
It’s a very compassionate thing to do to see yourself as you are and not hate yourself.” — Allison Graham on building fat community in her hometownAdvocate and community-builder Allison Graham joins guest host Emily Chri...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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38:36
COLLECTIVE LENS
Today on the podcast, and the 2nd anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Asha Dahya speaks with Florencia Varela of Peace Is Loud and Lela Meadow-Conner of rePROFilm, along with several filmmakers who participated in the recent
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31:30
HOW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS with Nyala Moon
On the Periodical Podcast, triple threat Nyala Moon chats about her “Fleabag”- inspired fourth-wall-breaking short film “How to Date While Trans.”Like a lot of actors, Moon had to create the content she wanted to star in. When she was i...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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40:25
BLACK MADONNA with Morgan Jerkins & Zora Schiltz Rouse
“I don't personally believe you can extricate environmental issues from reproductive issues because if a mother is drinking polluted water, what is that going to do to her system? What is that going to do to the system of the baby that she's...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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57:16
Teaser with Morgan Jerkins & Zora Schiltz Rouse
Morgan Jerkins and Zora Schiltz Rouse are young filmmakers working at the thematic intersection of environmental and reproductive justice.Morgan is a New York Times bestselling author and National Magazine Award-winning journalist. Zora...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:25
with sexologist Tyomi Morgan
More than a decade ago, Tyomi Morgan noticed no prominent Black women were talking about sexual health. “Instead of complaining about it, I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to enter into this space.” The sexologist and designer of The Cowgirl...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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57:16
LABOR + JUSTICE with Sara Joy Byington
“Labor + Justice” is such a tonally wild and imaginative film, we were fascinated to hear a behind-the-scenes conversation about of how it came together. For example, director Sarah Joy Byington researched real-life stories of women char...
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Episode 27
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35:09
THE BOND with Jahmil Eady
In this moving conversation, Asha Dahya speaks with writer/director Jahmil Eady about how her own birth story inspired the screenplay for “The Bond.” When Eady was born, her mother was incarcerated. She was shackled during labor, a pract...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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28:34
Birth Control Your Own Adventure with Sindha Agha
Welcome to this special rePROFilm mini podcast episode, as part of our ‘Films for Thought’ partnership with WISP - a company that specia...
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Season 1
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21:38
The Gallery That Destroys All Shame with Aurora Brachman and Jessie Zinn
Welcome to this special rePROFilm mini podcast episode, as part of our ‘Films for Thought’ partnership with WISP - a company that specializes in female-focused online reproduction and sexual ...
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Season 1
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39:19
TOUCH with Ricki Fairley
I know I’m a badass. I do a lot of good things. But I can’t change the mindset of a racist, 50-year-old white cardiologist. What I can do is teach Black women how to care for themselves and to demand the care they deserve (from their doctor...
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Episode 25
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45:27
ALWAYS AND FOREVER with Jessica Stamen, Elease Lui Stemp, & Lara Everly
The “work wives” behind the dark comedy “Always & Forever” join Asha Dahya on the Periodical Podcast to chat about collaboration, going viral, and how humor is a secret weapon in the fight for reproductive justice. “It's just a...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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52:27
LONG LINE OF LADIES with Shaandiin Tome & Rayka Zehtabchi
On this month’s episode of the Periodical Podcast, Asha Dahya speaks with the “Long Line of Ladies” co-directors about “a different kind of filmmaking” driven by listening, collaboration, and representation — the non-p...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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58:45
WHO GETS TO PARENT with Timmia & Pere DeRoy
The “Who Gets to Parent?” creators join Asha Dahya on the rePROFilm Periodical Podcast to discuss their parenthood story and how they combined storytelling and research to create their documentary series. They also discuss the life-changing ...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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1:09:46
SIMONE with Aisha Amin
The idea for “Simone” came to writer-director Aisha Amin after countless hours on public transit observing parents and other caretakers struggling with young children. For our Vol. 16 Periodical Podcast, Asha Dahya speaks with Amin about how sh...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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34:03
COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO with Reema Maya Sengupta
Periodical Podcast host Asha Dahya chats with “Counterfeit Kunkoo” writer/director Reema Maya Sengupta about how her mother’s struggle to find housing as a single woman inspired her to write a “very angry script.” In a lovely full-circle mom...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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34:03
MY YEAR OF DICKS with Pamela Ribon & Sara Gunnarsdóttir
Welcome to our March episode of the rePROFilm podcast. It’s Women’s History Month, and it’s also Oscars month, and we are SO excited to speak with two Academy Award-nominated filmmakers in this episode!&...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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46:30
REHEARSAL with Courtney Hope Thérond
REHEARSAL with special guest Courtney Hope ThérondThe “Rehearsal” writer/director talks to Asha Dahya on the Periodical Podcast about how her own on-set experiences inspired her short film. Maybe if she could demonstrate how intim...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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36:11
MISO with Kelly Walker, Mariah Bess & Alex Sgambati
With special guests “Miso” director Kelly Walker, writer/director/producer Mariah Bess, and actor/producer Alex SgambatiAsha Dahya speaks with three women behind “Miso,” a short film about a doula-assisted, at-home abortion. The t...
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Episode 17
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43:05
LA MACANA with Maria Mealla
Our featured short film this month has got us thinking about family support systems, awkward parental conversations, and how repro rights and health care is actually inextricably linked to all of that.The short film we’re excited to pre...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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22:38
OUTSIDE THE GENDER CONSTRUCT with Kevin Shane
Asha Dahya speaks with Kevin Shane who is the Marketing & Communications Director for an organization called the Male Contraceptive Initiative. He is leading the organization’s advocacy and outrea...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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49:09
SWEET POTATOES with Rommel Villa
Asha Dahya speaks with “Sweet Potatoes” director Rommel Villa about how he worked with Miramontes’ children to tell his improbable story of invention and resistance. Please do yourself a favor and RUN, don’t walk, to watch ‘Sweet...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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48:33
