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Vicious Cycle

Vicious Cycle Podcast

Comedians and real-life friends Kate Elston, Meghann Hayes, and Meg Trowbridge are talking about periods. They always have, and they probably always will. And they think you should be talkin...

Episodes

20 of 135 episodes

117 - Everything is Holidays and Everything is Fine

Surprise! In these dark days (seasonally and politically), we needed a bit of light and fun. So, in the great tradition of holiday specials,...

01:31:48Dec 23, 2025

95 - RE-RELEASE: Police Tear Gas F*cked With Her Menstrual Cycle

We've been sitting in our rage for a few months now, and it feels a lot like sitting on a three-day-old maxi-pad... ITS TIME FOR A CHANGE. S...

01:11:09Jul 11, 2025

116 - Everything is Fine lol

At times like these, there are SO. MANY. REASONS. you may need an Everything is Fine episode. So, here it is! We barely touch on politics an...

01:17:38Jun 13, 2025

115 - Catholic Hospitals, Why So Suss!?

We've got our most-Catholic blost bringing you our most Catholic research yet: CATHOLIC HOSPITALS. Guess what? They are problematic. :) We d...

01:21:17May 9, 2025

114 - Fantastic Orgasms and Where to Find Them

We're talking all things *climax* babyyyyyy! From biologically what's going on, to historical understandings of female genitalia, female ple...

01:44:31Apr 11, 2025

113 - What's Pappening

In this month's episode, Kate prepped some incredible bleedsearch for us all about PAP SMEARS. If you've ever wondered what the hell your gy...

01:04:37Mar 13, 2025

112 - oh hi

hey, hello there, hi. We're so excited to be back and venting about the state of the world while also dealing with having a uterus! (...exci...

01:17:16Feb 14, 2025

Season Seven is Coming!

Your eyes do not decieve - we're back! We took an *extended* meno-pause after our last episode in Sept of 2022, but with the country crumbli...

00:01:09Feb 6, 2025

111 - Ten Important Abortions in TV & Film History Pt. 2

It's our last episode of the season and part two of our deep dive into 10 sometimes scary, often funny, and always meaningful abortions on s...

01:15:41Sep 16, 2022

110 - Ten Important Abortions in TV & Film History Pt. 1

We had such a blast when we covered periods on television, so we knew we HAD to get into how abortions have been portrayed on screen. We cov...

01:18:24Sep 14, 2022

109 - Bleeding Rainbow: Squad with Maggie Tokuda-Hall

We know our blisteners love a good story (don't all podcast lovers?) so we KNOW you'll love Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Maggie joined us fo...

01:23:35Sep 7, 2022

108 - Bleeding While Mormon with Sasha Piton

Alternative title to this episode: The Church of Jesus Christ ANOTHER UTI?! We were lucky enough to talk with Sasha Piton a few months back...

01:22:42Aug 31, 2022

107 - DIY Pussy with Riddhi Patel

Did you know that one form of a uterine anomaly is having no uterus at all? It's crazy but it's true! This is known as MRKH syndrome (named...

01:09:43Aug 24, 2022

106 - Standing Ovation for Tubal Ligation

It seems like only yesterday we were joking on the podcast about tubal litigators (lol - sometimes our words not good!), and now here we are...

01:17:58Aug 17, 2022

105 - Everyone Deserves an Abortion Doula with Cera Merrick

This week we are so lucky to have Cera Merrick on the pod to tell us about being an abortion doula — including what kind of support someone...

01:22:48Aug 10, 2022

6 - Endometriosis Suuuuuuucks (Re-release)

It's still summer! And your three co-blosts continue to enjoy our various summer adventures (read: hoping our tampon strings aren't poking o...

00:55:48Aug 3, 2022

50 - Everything is Fine (Re-release)

Picture it: It was January 2020. The three co-blosts were holed up in a downtown San Francisco hotel room for a one-night retreat. We had wi...

01:39:20Jul 27, 2022

104 - Cis Men Joining the Fight

(Re-uploaded to fix audio glitch!) Welcome to the pod Adam Segal — abortion advocate, breaker-down of toxic masculinity, and our first cis m...

01:11:45Jul 25, 2022

103 - Shouting Your Abortion with Carla Lee Pt. 2

We're back with part two! We've got more abortion stories, ways you can support people seeking abortions, and general venting about the stat...

00:54:55Jul 15, 2022

102 - Shouting Your Abortion with Carla Lee Pt. 1

One of our favorite guests, Carla Lee, is sitting in for Meg Hayes this week as we take phone calls from blisteners shouting their abortions...

01:13:27Jul 13, 2022