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Period Power Stories is a special collection of The TMI Project Story Hour, made in collaboration with Kingston High School’s Period Power! Club, who are fighting to make period poverty a thing of the past.

Period Power Stories uses true storytelling to explore the ultimate “TMI” topic: menstruation.

Each episode features a true story from the youth activists from Period Power! Club, originally performed live in a showcase following a 10 week TMI Project true storytelling workshop.

Guests include TMI Project true storytelling workshop leaders, healthcare professionals, and a special appearance by New York State Senator Michelle Hinchey, who authored a successful bill to require menstrual products to be offered for free in college restrooms.

Episode #1 | Recycle Your Cycle
Episode #2 | Bloody Storytelling
Episode #3 | Senator Michelle Hinchey on Period Politics
Episode #4 | The Birds and the Bees
Episode #5 | How to Get Doctors to Listen
Episode #6 | Join the Flow, Bro
Episode #7 | Reframe the Shame
Bonus Episode | Period Power Stories Extravaganza

Podcast Co-hosts

Makayla
Leon

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Period Power! Club Member

Domonique
Campbell

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Period Power! Club Member

Tina
Dierna

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Period Power! Club Advisor

Video Podcast Director & Producers

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Raine Grayson

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Director

Blake Pfeil

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Producer

Hayley Downs

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Producer

Additional Credits:
Set Design by Makayla Leon with furniture provided by Hudson Valley Habitat for Humanity ReStore

HUDSY Team

Producers
Lex Cantania
Angel Fonseca Gates
Caleb Wyatt

Production Manager
Lex Cantania

Editor
Natasha Scully

Camera Operators
Gabrielle Johnson
Lex Cantania
Caleb Wyatt
Natasha Scully

Sound Operator
Jesus Velasquez

Period Power! Club

Club Members
Makayla Leon
Siobhan Burch
Domonique Campbell
David Paul
Rhemyi Blue
Benny Jiang
Kat Samedova
Divine Hassell

Club Advisor
Tina Dierna

Club Interns
Saige Stephney
Rebecca Seavey

Funded with support from

Song Credits

Do What I Like – Queen Jasaria
Power In Me – Queen Jasaria

Special thanks

Lee Ann Albritton, Bianca Coppola, Isabel Kroeger, Whitney Hall, Shakera Tems, Morgan Weinberg, Alexandria Wojcik

About TMI Project & the Podcast

Since 2010, TMI Project has led nearly 150 true storytelling workshops and staged live storytelling performances by over 3,000 storytellers, which have been presented to audiences of nearly 250,000. In the past, you had to wait on line to get seated in an off-broadway theater, a cafeteria in a detention center, or perhaps you were coming to hear activists perform their stories at the United Nations. Now, you can listen from anywhere in the world. Tune in and join us. While you listen, don’t forget to ask yourself, “What is my TMI story?” We all have one.

Podcast Partners

Funders

TMI Project programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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