8 episodes
Unruly Flamingo
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- Society & Culture
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4.2 • 79 Ratings
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Unruly is a new podcast from the award-winning body hair and care brand Flamingo, hosted by author, curator, and critic Kimberly Drew. Each week on Unruly, we unpack the quiet ways women’s bodies are commodified, defined, and regulated by social media, the medical profession, the beauty industry, and more. Then we name them, out loud — because information is power, and your body is your business. The series also highlights the work of Flamingo’s social impact partners who seek to empower and educate by promoting body neutrality and mental health. New episodes drop on Wednesdays.
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Suffering in Silence
Women are often taught to silence themselves and that can have damaging effects. On our last episode of the season, psychologist, writer and speaker Maytal Eyal joins host Kimberly Drew to discuss her Time Magazine article: “Self Silencing is Making Women Sick.” We get into Maytal’s research, what’s at stake when we don’t express ourselves fully, and how we can work together to fight against these toxic cultural norms.
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Don’t Hem Us In
Female athletes have fought uphill battles for equity and respect for about as long as sports have existed. Their bodies and uniforms are under intense scrutiny from the public, the press and athletic institutions. In this episode, we talk to Olympic Shot-Putter Raven Saunders, who pushes back on archaic athletic dress code standards – she famously wears a Hulk mask when she competes. We get into her Olympic experience, what it means to push wardrobe boundaries, and how coming to peace with herself and her body is a huge part of how she expresses herself through clothes and through sports.
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Menopause and the Media
How is it that menopause, something that can affect half the population, also manages to be among the most understudied and least understood bodily phenomena? This week, journalist Susan Dominus talks with host Kimberly Drew about how a landmark study on hormone therapy for menopausal women was misunderstood in the media creating panic and long-term repercussions on the way women’s symptoms were treated.
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To Freeze or Not to Freeze: High Tech Fertility
Being a person with a uterus means you sometimes face the question of when, how, or if you’re going to have kids. This week, we hear from anthropologist and “The Mating Gap” author Marcia Inhorn, PhD, MPH, about the way society makes these decisions even harder for women today. We learn about the history and science behind egg freezing, as well as the real reason women are electing to delay pregnancy.
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Body Language
Vaginal atrophy, geriatric pregnancy, incompetent cervix- why can medical terminology around women’s bodies be so shaming?! In this week’s episode, “Vagina Obscura” author Rachel E. Gross talks with host Kimberly Drew about the long shadow of the patriarchy over the medical profession. She walks us through how it’s shaped the way we talk about our bodies, how we understand vital body parts like the clitoris and the ways in which language impacts the treatment we receive as patients.
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The Beauty Industry: Diet Culture’s Fraternal Twin
How do we decide which beauty products we use, and are those choices really our own? This week, writer and beauty culture critic Jessica DeFino, author of the Substack The Unpublishable, sheds light on the alarming power of the beauty industrial complex. She and Unruly host Kimberly Drew unpack terms like “anti-aging” and how we are sold products under the guise of empowerment. In this episode, we learn how to divest from the idea of external beauty as inherent self worth.
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Customer Reviews
helps me with body neutrality ♪
love this podcast, even as a trans guy (i normally avoid things catered towards woman because of dysphoria- its silly, i know 😅), it helps out with the issues i have with my body as a chubby-ish boy with weird toothpick arms. it’s very nice and i would recommend it to really anyone, even other guys. love, hugs, kisses, and prayers to the lovely people behind, on, and representing this podcast! -sebastian moon ☆
Singing my SONG!
LOVED this podcast! Two years ago, I got diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer, which only comes in stage 4 and has a median survival rate of four months. Thyroid cancer, my holistic friends tell me, is about suppressed words. Well, after a lifetime of denying my pain, always smiling, keeping a stiff upper lip, etc., I started speaking my feelings, singing, stand up comedy, telling people when I didn’t like how they spoke to me or treated me and guess who’s still here? Mouthy, irritating, boundary setting me! I wrote a memoir about it. “It’s part of my cure,” I told people. “That’s part of your cure?” said some in disbelief. “That’s not rational,” said one person (a man, of course!) Thank you SO MUCH, Kimberly and Maytal, for this very enlightening conversation! And I can’t wait for the next season!
Can’t wait for future episodes
I love the way this podcast is bringing issues to light around women’s bodies that have traditionally been under discussed - and as a result, empowering listeners with information! I can’t wait for more episodes to drop.