Knowing your vulva from your vagina - with Victoria Kinkaid

Victoria Kinkaid is a British Army doctor specialising in women's health. She is a qualified Human Security Advisor and co-founded the Female Genital Mutilation education project. She's also been shortlisted for a 2024 Women in Defence Award.

Victoria grew up in Northern Ireland and shares how dreaming big, social justice, equality and feminism have shaped her life. She is passionate about evidence based research and is committed to improving servicewomen’s health.

Here she tells Lindsay MacDuff about the power of mentoring and sponsorship, as well as the importance of lifting and supporting other women to access opportunities. Victoria is on a mission to educate and inform the use of accurate language and to help with this, she brought into the studio a crocheted vulva. 

Listen to hear her thoughtful reflections on whether “women can have it all” and how leaders can be more effective in enabling this. 

We’d love to hear your thoughts at TheCultureColonel@bfbs.com  

Quotations: 

“You can have it all, just not all at the same time” (Betty Friedan) 

“A journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single step” – Chinese proverb 

Books Referenced: 

“Invisible Women” Caroline Criado Perez 

Other articles referenced by Victoria: 

Atherton Report:  Protecting Those Who Protect Us: Women in the Armed Forces from Recruitment to Civilian Life

Wigston report: Defence_Report_Inappropriate_Behaviours

Dr Nighat Arif – on Menopause hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty

Follow Victoria:

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Listen to Victoria's Podcast "Virago Voices": podfollow.com/1518617892

Follow Lindsay: linkedin.com/in/lindsay-macduff 

Follow BFBS Creative: (for the crochet vulva):

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BFBS Creative is an award-winning, non-profit, creative agency. We specialise in helping the Armed Forces, Defence and government tell their story. If you want to learn more about us – visit our website: https://creative.bfbs.com/ 

Thank you for listening and take care until next time! 

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