A 's Guide To Happiness Podcast - Episode 15: Accessing Preventive Healthcare - with Madame Law
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STI testing is the bedrock of a sustainable life, for everyone and especially for happily adults. Most STIs today are easily identified and cured or treated. However, without easy access to testing and early detection, STIs can have devastating life consequences. Stigma, discrimination, fear, and lack of financial investment in preventive ual healthcare all contribute to more difficulty accessing testing. Madame X, a career-long nurse, joins us to discuss her experiences and perspectives on STIs. In her teens, Madame X contracted chlamydia. Without access to testing, she ended up finding out about the disease only after it had progressed to the point of needing hospitalization and causing irreparable damage to her reproductive organs. Although information about and access to testing has improved over the years, today Madame X continues to see barriers to STI testing both in her personal and professional experience.
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Welcome back to a **** Guide to Happiness,
where your body is perfectly imperfect,
and it's safe to be as *****, queer,
or **** as you want.
I'm really excited to be talking with a kind and open-hearted
woman, a friend and medical professional joining us today
from California.
I first met Madame Law through T-Max,
another ****, queer friend who you've heard on this podcast.
And I've heard from T-Max on a personal level
how long Madame Law has been supportive of their journey
coming out as queer, ****, and polyamorous,
and embracing this new version of themselves,
which I think is amazing.
And Madame Law is now on her own vulnerable and amazing journey
of exploring ethical non-monogamy and ****.
And it's been really inspiring to me
to see the way that she has shared it
with her partner, friends, and community
as she reimagines her relationship to ***ity.
But what isn't new to Madame Law is her longtime role
as a professional nurse, as well as her strong feminist values
throughout her life.
And like me, Madame Law is also the mom of a daughter
who has long thought about--
and Madame Law has long thought about how
to support girls in becoming self-authored and powerful
women in a patriarchal society.
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