https://simplecast.com Literary Disparities Conversations about women’s health in art and culture with Cameron Dezen Hammon. 2017-2030 en Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:00:12 +0000 https://literary-disparities.simplecast.com Literary Disparities https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4b13fd1b-1537-4857-86e4-716811465a3c/de1f99a5-4167-4029-8c56-8b4e55a586b3/3000x3000/artboard-2015-100-20-1.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://literary-disparities.simplecast.com episodic Conversations about women’s health in art and culture with Cameron Dezen Hammon. Cameron Dezen Hammon true https://feeds.simplecast.com/ja0Ah_zA creative writing, healthcare, medicine, menopause, perimenopause, sexual health, women's health Cameron Dezen Hammon camerondezenhammon@gmail.com 4cdd5140-dfac-4cae-a96c-e34fb72a2b83 Taking Back Menopause with Lidia Yuknavitch Welcome to the first episode of Literary Disparities! What an absolute joy it was to talk to Lidia Yuknavitch about the portal of perimenopause and menopause and how transformation comes, whether we're ready or not.

Lidia is an author, guide, advocate, and (I think) mystical storyteller, and her memoir The Chronology of Water was just made into a film, directed by Kristen Stewart. 

Today we are talking about her work as editor on a collection of essays from writers on the experience of peri and menopause, called The Big M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause. 

We talk about UTI's, vaginal estrogen (estradiol) , the trees and river and lakes, and all the ways women have coped and thrived in a culture that assigns value based on our reproductive capacity. What happens when that reproduction is no longer centering relationships and children, but expands to include art-making, friendship, and activism?

It's been 6 years since my last podcast, The Ish, wrapped. I'm so glad to be back :)

Here are links to some of the things we talked about. Check it out:

Flashcount Diary

Darcey Steinke

Cheryl Strayed

Killer Whales and Menopause

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]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0000 camerondezenhammon@gmail.com (Grand Central Publishing, Lidia Yuknavitch, Cameron Dezen Hammon) https://literary-disparities.simplecast.com/episodes/taking-back-menopause-with-lidia-yuknavitch-k9qyCToN Welcome to the first episode of Literary Disparities! What an absolute joy it was to talk to Lidia Yuknavitch about the portal of perimenopause and menopause and how transformation comes, whether we're ready or not.

Lidia is an author, guide, advocate, and (I think) mystical storyteller, and her memoir The Chronology of Water was just made into a film, directed by Kristen Stewart. 

Today we are talking about her work as editor on a collection of essays from writers on the experience of peri and menopause, called The Big M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause. 

We talk about UTI's, vaginal estrogen (estradiol) , the trees and river and lakes, and all the ways women have coped and thrived in a culture that assigns value based on our reproductive capacity. What happens when that reproduction is no longer centering relationships and children, but expands to include art-making, friendship, and activism?

It's been 6 years since my last podcast, The Ish, wrapped. I'm so glad to be back :)

Here are links to some of the things we talked about. Check it out:

Flashcount Diary

Darcey Steinke

Cheryl Strayed

Killer Whales and Menopause

Connect with Cameron:

Get Cameron's book This Is My Body

Follow Cameron on Instagram

Literary Disparities Instagram

Cameron's Tik Tok

https://www.instagram.com/literarydisparities/https://www.instagram.com/literarydisparities/

]]> Taking Back Menopause with Lidia Yuknavitch Grand Central Publishing, Lidia Yuknavitch, Cameron Dezen Hammon 00:40:46 Host Cameron Dezen Hammon talks to author Lidia Yuknavitch about The Big M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause. Host Cameron Dezen Hammon talks to author Lidia Yuknavitch about The Big M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause. women's health, sexual health, creative writing, menopause, perimenopause, literature, medical humanities true full 1 1 fbca1c1c-02bc-4c7c-bf79-f8750fcb4b65 Welcome to Literary Disparities In this brief introductory episode-- we mean, like, really brief-- host Cameron Dezen Hammon talks about the nickname her OBGYN gave her, and why we need a place to talk about the aspects of women's health no one else is talking about. We'll look at the way books, tv, art, and culture consider women's health and talk to creatives, artists, and scientists working to make the invisible visible. Welcome!

 

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:00:00 +0000 camerondezenhammon@gmail.com (Cameron Dezen Hammon) https://literary-disparities.simplecast.com/episodes/welcome-to-literary-disparities-N4V8urNX In this brief introductory episode-- we mean, like, really brief-- host Cameron Dezen Hammon talks about the nickname her OBGYN gave her, and why we need a place to talk about the aspects of women's health no one else is talking about. We'll look at the way books, tv, art, and culture consider women's health and talk to creatives, artists, and scientists working to make the invisible visible. Welcome!

 

Connect with Cameron:

Get Cameron's book This Is My Body

Follow Cameron on Instagram

Literary Disparities Instagram

Cameron's Tik Tok

https://www.instagram.com/literarydisparities/https://www.instagram.com/literarydisparities/

]]> Welcome to Literary Disparities Cameron Dezen Hammon 00:02:28 What Literary Disparities is, and what it has to do with the weird and wacky world of women's health. What Literary Disparities is, and what it has to do with the weird and wacky world of women's health. meno, women's health, menopause, perimenopause true trailer 1