The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast

Episode 22 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now!
 
The title is “Bodily Natures: Exploring Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.”
 
You’ll hear my conversation with Professor Stacy Alaimo, who teaches at the University of Oregon in the US. She specializes in environmental humanities, American literature, and how writers explore environmental threats to oceans, plants, and animals. Professor Alaimo also has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and describes it as relatively mild.

We start our conversation talking about her experiences with MCS. Then we explore her influential 2010 book, “Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material,” in which she writes in detail about MCS.

You’ll hear Professor Alaimo discuss:

• How many products that people buy make them ill in unexpected ways.
• Why the majority of people with MCS are women.
• How most people who are able to get diagnosed with MCS are white and have completed higher education.
• And more.

More information about Professor Alaimo’s research can be found here: https://www.stacyalaimo.com
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Check out Episode 21 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!
 
The title is “Putting Chemicals Back in MCS.”

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This episode features a conversation with Varda Burstyn,  longtime advocate for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Based in Ontario, Canada, Varda is also an environmentalist, writer, and has lived with the illness for decades. 
You’ll hear Varda discuss her important and extremely well-researched report that she wrote with Maureen MacQuarrie in response to a  2021 paper published the Quebec National Institute of Public Health that claims MCS is an anxiety disorder.


Read the summary and report by Varda Burstyn:
"Putting the Chemicals Back in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity"

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Quebec paper & summary


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Check out Episode 20 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!
 
 The title is “Snowflake, Arizona.”
 
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It features a conversation with two long-time residents of Snowflake, a town in the northern part of the US state of Arizona. The community has gained a reputation among people with MCS as a relatively safe place to live, away from chemicals found in urban environments. 
 
You’ll hear Susan Molloy and Scott Killingsworth talk about
 Their experiences with MCS and settling in Snowflake.What it's like to live there and some of the challenges (including the climate).And the steps people with MCS normally take in order to decide if living in Snowflake is the right choice for them.New episodes twice a month! Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Episode 19 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now! 
The title is “Photographing The Canaries.

It features a conversation with documentary photographer Thilde Jensen.
 
Thilde talks about her internationally acclaimed 2013 book, "The Canaries." It's a compelling collection of self-portraits and photos of others with MCS.
 
"The Canaries" by Thilde Jensen




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In Episode 18, “Toxicology & Communities of Resistance," I’m speaking with Melina Packer, Ph.D. 

Melina is a postdoctoral research associate in the Feminist Lenses for Animal Interaction Research (FLAIR) Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is currently writing a queer feminist history of toxicology in the U.S., in which she argues that racial, gendered, and economic hierarchies are embedded into the science itself. These inherent biases, in turn, help explain how and why marginalized peoples remain disproportionately more exposed to toxic environmental chemicals.


In our conversation, Melina explores:
How  society became inundated with synthetic chemicals or toxicants.

How women, especially women of color, factory- and farm-workers, LGBTQ+ people, and members of other socially marginalized groups, are often over-burdened by toxic exposures.

What endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are and how they challenge core tenets of toxicology.

How over-exposed communities are pushing back against the chemical industry.Melina Packer’s website
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In this episode, I’m speaking with Andrea Lily Ford, Ph.D. Originally from California in the U.S., Andrea is now based in Scotland. She is an anthropologist and specializes in culture and medicine and works at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. 


As a researcher, Andrea builds on her experience as a practicing birth doula to examine the impact of chemicals on the endocrine system. She also specializes in how chemicals affect childbearing women, foetuses, and infants. 


In our conversation, Andrea explores how:
The placenta does not protect the foetus from chemicals.Many women spend time and energy identifying products that potentially keep their unborn children and infants safe.Reducing the number of chemicals is everyone’s responsibility. Breastfeeding can pass chemicals from mothers to infants, but in spite of this, it is still widely recommended because of its benefits.Links:

Website: Andrea Lily Ford, Ph.D.


"Purity is not the Point: Chemical Toxicity, Childbearing, and Consumer Politics as Care." 2020 paper by Andrea Lily Ford.


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