Femme on Creatives: Dena Moes and It's Your Body
Download MP3Join us on #IWD25 as we speak with the amazing Dena Moes RN CNM about her new book, It's Your Body: The Young Woman's Guide to Empowered Sexual Health.
Dena is a nurse-midwife with 26 years' experience in reproductive health and her book fills information gaps on all things contraception, sexual health and abortion, for teens and young adults in Trump's America.
We discuss how Dena's book is an essential resource for all everyone, but mostly to help young women make decisions about their bodies, their fertility, and their lives. It really is an incredible chat. Dena is inspiring, funny, and empathetic.
Fins out more about Dena and her incredible book and work: https://itsyourbody.net/
Dena is a nurse-midwife with 26 years' experience in reproductive health and her book fills information gaps on all things contraception, sexual health and abortion, for teens and young adults in Trump's America.
We discuss how Dena's book is an essential resource for all everyone, but mostly to help young women make decisions about their bodies, their fertility, and their lives. It really is an incredible chat. Dena is inspiring, funny, and empathetic.
Fins out more about Dena and her incredible book and work: https://itsyourbody.net/
Creators and Guests
Host
Alyson Shelton (she/her)
Alyson Shelton writes about women across mediums + genres. She’s written about a superpowered and multi-faceted heroine in her comic Reburn, and uncovering childhood secrets in Eve of Understanding, the award winning feature she wrote and directed. In her award winning screenplay, The Night We Met, she tackles a psychological thriller through fractured realities and self-invention. She is working on a memoir in essays and her writing has been published widely at outlets including The New York Times, Ms., The Rumpus and more. Her generalist knowledge and approach make her the perfect fit for her podcast, Fine Cut, in which she and a guest take a deep dive into one scene of the guest’s choosing. You can learn more about her through her website, www.alysonshelton.com and her Instagram @byalysonshelton where she hosts a weekly Instagram Live series inspired by George Ella Lyon’s poem, Where I’m From, where she’s hosted over 100 writers and creatives.
Host
Ria Carrogan (she/her)
she/her. Femme on Collective producer. Host of Femme on Film, Femme on TV and Hearts and Vaginas. Pop Guerrilla. Smash the patriarchy.
