- ARTIST SUPPORT
- PERIODICAL
- VOL. 28: DROPPIN’ YOU A VOTE
- VOL. 27: CARRIED AWAY
- VOL. 26: LET COMMUNITY BLOOM
- VOL. 25: YOU’RE GETTING WARMER
- VOL. 24: SHAME IS LAME (BUT RELATABLE)
- VOLUMES 12 – 23
- VOL. 23: HARK! THE LEGAL ANGELS SING
- VOL. 22: BRINGING DOULAS INTO PRISONS
- VOL. 21: SIMPLY THE BREAST
- VOL. 20: COMMUNITIES NEED CLINICS
- VOL. 19: PAD PRIDE
- VOL. 18: XYZs of STIs
- VOL. 17: TAKING PRIDE IN PARENTHOOD
- VOL. 16: MOTHER’S DAY IS COMING: HERE ARE OUR DEMANDS
- VOL. 15: UNMARRIED & UNAPOLOGETIC
- VOL. 14: REWRITING THE SCRIPT
- VOL. 13: THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN
- VOL. 12: REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AND NEW BEGINNINGS
- VOLUMES 01 – 11
- VOL. 11: PUBERTY AND OTHER FAMILY MATTERS
- VOL. 10: DEAR ALLIES, WE LOVE YOU
- VOL. 09: A NEW NARRATIVE FOR SEX ED
- VOL. 08: THE ENDURING POWER OF PLEASURE
- VOL. 07: REPRO JUSTICE MEANS SUPPORTING PARENTS, TOO
- VOL. 06: THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES
- VOL. 05: AAPI IN THE REPRO CONVO
- VOL. 04: PERIODS ARE NORMAL – PERIOD.
- VOL. 03: GETTING FIRED UP FOR ENDO
- VOL. 02: CELEBRATING BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH
- VOL. 01: ABORTION IS COMMUNITY
- PODCAST
- HOW TO CARRY WATER – Shoog McDaniel
- FAT ACTIVIST – Allison Graham
- HOW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS – Nyala Moon
- BLACK MADONNA – Morgan Jerkins & Zora Schiltz Rouse
- with sexologist Tyomi Morgan
- LABOR + JUSTICE – Sara Joy Byington
- THE BOND – Jahmil Eady
- TOUCH – Ricki Fairley
- ALWAYS AND FOREVER – Lara Everly, Jessica Stamen and Elease Lui Stemp
- LONG LINE OF LADIES – Shaandiin Tome & Rayka Zehtabchi
- PREVIOUS EPISODES
- WHO GETS TO PARENT? – Timmia & Pere DeRoy
- SIMONE – Aisha Aiman
- COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO – Reema Maya Sengupta
- MY YEAR OF DICKS – Pamela Ribon & Sara Gunnarsdóttir
- REHEARSAL – Courtney Hope Thérond
- MISO – Kelly Walker, Mariah Bess & Alex Sgambati
- LA MACANA – Maria Mealla
- OUTSIDE THE GENDER CONSTRUCT – Kevin Shane
- SWEET POTATOES – Rommel Villa
- SEX ED – Dr. Julia VanRooyen
- HEROINES – Katia Badalian
- MARCY LEARNS SOMETHING NEW – Julia Kennelly
- PLACENTA PATÉ – Tia Salisbury
- UNDUE BURDENS – Andrea Raby & Marie Khan
- AAPI IN THE REPRO CONVO – Lilly Hu & Seri Lee
- A PERIOD PIECE – Shuchi Talati
- ON THE DIVIDE – Maya Cueva & Leah Galant
- END-O – Elaine Gracie
- THE ENDO CO feat. Jenne Rishe
- REBYRTH – Cydney Tucker and Imani Byers
- THIS IS NOT A LOVE LETTER feat. Ariel Zucker, Daryl Paris Bright, & Isabel Pask
- PLAYLIST
- FILM ARCHIVE
- ASK AN EXPERT
- Interview with Bea Höller [Klimax & DarkChocolate]
- REEL TALK
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Labor+Justice]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Always and Forever]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Long Line of Ladies]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Rehearsal]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Who Gets To Parent?]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Summer Fridays]
- Sexual fantasies from a teenage girl’s perspective [My Year of Dicks]
- Jimanekia Eborn of Tending the Garden
- Nisha Ahuja
- 6 Things A Midwife Wants You To Know About Pleasure
- Storyteller Kristen Morley on using virtual reality to tell her abortion story
- The ‘Sweet Genius’ of Agnès Varda & the Pleasure of Female Friendship By Laura Lee Bahr
- Talking About Consent
- The Key To Normalizing Conversations About Periods
- MY ENDO STORY: A REPRO ORIGINAL ESSAY.
- OUR STORY
- SUPPORT
- The Screening Womb
- ARTIST SUPPORT
- PERIODICAL
- VOL. 28: DROPPIN’ YOU A VOTE
- VOL. 27: CARRIED AWAY
- VOL. 26: LET COMMUNITY BLOOM
- VOL. 25: YOU’RE GETTING WARMER
- VOL. 24: SHAME IS LAME (BUT RELATABLE)
- VOLUMES 12 – 23
- VOL. 23: HARK! THE LEGAL ANGELS SING
- VOL. 22: BRINGING DOULAS INTO PRISONS
- VOL. 21: SIMPLY THE BREAST
- VOL. 20: COMMUNITIES NEED CLINICS
- VOL. 19: PAD PRIDE
- VOL. 18: XYZs of STIs
- VOL. 17: TAKING PRIDE IN PARENTHOOD
- VOL. 16: MOTHER’S DAY IS COMING: HERE ARE OUR DEMANDS
- VOL. 15: UNMARRIED & UNAPOLOGETIC
- VOL. 14: REWRITING THE SCRIPT
- VOL. 13: THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN
- VOL. 12: REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AND NEW BEGINNINGS
- VOLUMES 01 – 11
- VOL. 11: PUBERTY AND OTHER FAMILY MATTERS
- VOL. 10: DEAR ALLIES, WE LOVE YOU
- VOL. 09: A NEW NARRATIVE FOR SEX ED
- VOL. 08: THE ENDURING POWER OF PLEASURE
- VOL. 07: REPRO JUSTICE MEANS SUPPORTING PARENTS, TOO
- VOL. 06: THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES
- VOL. 05: AAPI IN THE REPRO CONVO
- VOL. 04: PERIODS ARE NORMAL – PERIOD.
- VOL. 03: GETTING FIRED UP FOR ENDO
- VOL. 02: CELEBRATING BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH
- VOL. 01: ABORTION IS COMMUNITY
- PODCAST
- HOW TO CARRY WATER – Shoog McDaniel
- FAT ACTIVIST – Allison Graham
- HOW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS – Nyala Moon
- BLACK MADONNA – Morgan Jerkins & Zora Schiltz Rouse
- with sexologist Tyomi Morgan
- LABOR + JUSTICE – Sara Joy Byington
- THE BOND – Jahmil Eady
- TOUCH – Ricki Fairley
- ALWAYS AND FOREVER – Lara Everly, Jessica Stamen and Elease Lui Stemp
- LONG LINE OF LADIES – Shaandiin Tome & Rayka Zehtabchi
- PREVIOUS EPISODES
- WHO GETS TO PARENT? – Timmia & Pere DeRoy
- SIMONE – Aisha Aiman
- COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO – Reema Maya Sengupta
- MY YEAR OF DICKS – Pamela Ribon & Sara Gunnarsdóttir
- REHEARSAL – Courtney Hope Thérond
- MISO – Kelly Walker, Mariah Bess & Alex Sgambati
- LA MACANA – Maria Mealla
- OUTSIDE THE GENDER CONSTRUCT – Kevin Shane
- SWEET POTATOES – Rommel Villa
- SEX ED – Dr. Julia VanRooyen
- HEROINES – Katia Badalian
- MARCY LEARNS SOMETHING NEW – Julia Kennelly
- PLACENTA PATÉ – Tia Salisbury
- UNDUE BURDENS – Andrea Raby & Marie Khan
- AAPI IN THE REPRO CONVO – Lilly Hu & Seri Lee
- A PERIOD PIECE – Shuchi Talati
- ON THE DIVIDE – Maya Cueva & Leah Galant
- END-O – Elaine Gracie
- THE ENDO CO feat. Jenne Rishe
- REBYRTH – Cydney Tucker and Imani Byers
- THIS IS NOT A LOVE LETTER feat. Ariel Zucker, Daryl Paris Bright, & Isabel Pask
- PLAYLIST
- FILM ARCHIVE
- ASK AN EXPERT
- Interview with Bea Höller [Klimax & DarkChocolate]
- REEL TALK
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Labor+Justice]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Always and Forever]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Long Line of Ladies]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Rehearsal]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Who Gets To Parent?]
- Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Summer Fridays]
- Sexual fantasies from a teenage girl’s perspective [My Year of Dicks]
- Jimanekia Eborn of Tending the Garden
- Nisha Ahuja
- 6 Things A Midwife Wants You To Know About Pleasure
- Storyteller Kristen Morley on using virtual reality to tell her abortion story
- The ‘Sweet Genius’ of Agnès Varda & the Pleasure of Female Friendship By Laura Lee Bahr
- Talking About Consent
- The Key To Normalizing Conversations About Periods
- MY ENDO STORY: A REPRO ORIGINAL ESSAY.
- OUR STORY
- SUPPORT
- The Screening Womb
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Interview with Bea Höller
Introducing our featured filmmaker: Bea Höller ‘Animation is a perfect tool for visualizing sexuality.' Bea Höller Real life prohibited a podcast interview with Bea this month, so we asked her some questions about her career, her process, and what she hopes to achieve with animated shorts. Where did your filmmaking career begin, and what made [...]
Madame Ovary: A Message From Our Team
NEW FOR '24 Madame Ovary: A Message From Our Team Dear rePROFilm Village, We’re dropping in to wish you all a very happy new year and update you on some fun changes coming to The Periodical as we dive into our fourth year of programming! Like you, we're bracing for the constant negative rhetoric of [...]
Ask An Expert: Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [LABOR + JUSTICE]
Ask an Expert: Reel Talk with Dr. Julia Maternity care in a post-Dobbs environment Dr. Julia Arnold VanRooyen Sarah Joy Byington’s film “Labor + Justice” takes place in a dystopian future where women who “fail” to deliver a living baby are immediately sentenced to death by a grotesque panel of judges. These men (and one [...]
Ask An Expert: Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [The Bond]
Jahmil Eady’s short film exposes a nearly unfathomable yet routine practice in the treatment of incarcerated pregnant patients in the U.S.: shackling inmates during pregnancy and labor. “The Bond” tells the story of Aria, a pregnant incarcerated woman who endures this treatment. Most viewers will instinctively understand how humiliating it must be to give birth [...]
Cancer Lens
a playlist by Eshaana Sheth I started this playlist sometime after I got diagnosed with breast cancer. I’ve always been a writer, so I was devastated by how the trauma and side effects of treatment impacted my ability to write and process details. Journaling was too difficult, so instead I began a playlist to capture [...]
Ask An Expert: Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Always and Forever]
It takes less than three minutes to watch the brilliant short film “Always & Forever,” a devastating commentary on the consequences of forcing children to give birth. Though the film is fictional, it points to reality: An increasing number of states are effectively doing just that to their pregnant teenagers. Lack of comprehensive sexuality education, [...]
Ask An Expert: Reel Talk with Dr. Julia [Long Line of Ladies]
Rayka Zehtabchi and Shaandiin Tome’s, "Long Line of Ladies" is a beautiful and inspiring film that follows a young girl, Ahty, as she prepares for her Ihuk, an empowering ceremony that girls in the Karuk tribe experience after they have their first period. The ceremony involves many tribal members and celebrates entry into womanhood. Intensive [...]
Be proactive about your sexual health and minimize your risk of STIs
Our resident medical expert Dr. Julia watched “Summer Fridays” and has a few tips for viewers about how to navigate your sexual health care. Be proactive about your sexual health and minimize your risk of STIs In Blair Baker and Chloe Berk’s short film “Summer Fridays,” we follow Frankie as she visits her gynecologist for [...]
Questions For Reflection: WHO GETS TO PARENT?
In their docuseries, Timmia and Pere DeRoy tell the story of their IVF journey and the additional challenges they faced as a queer, multiracial couple. Anyone who has gone through the IVF process could likely relate to Timmia and Pere’s struggle to raise the money necessary for even one cycle of IVF. For those not [...]
Jimanekia Eborn of Tending the Garden on IG Live
View this post on Instagram A post shared by rePROFilm (@reprofilm) Jimanekia Eborn is a Queer, Sexual Assault & Trauma Expert, Trauma Media Consultant, and Comprehensive Sex Educator. She is the host of Trauma Queen - a podcast for survivors of assault and our allies. The podcast focuses on uplifting voices in all communities and [...]
Sexual fantasies from a teenage girl’s perspective
“My Year of Dicks,” based on the memoir by Pamela Ribon and directed and animated by Sara Gunnarsdóttir, brilliantly and humorously reveals the inner thoughts of a teenage girl determined to lose her virginity. It’s refreshing to see teenage angst about sex from the perspective of a girl. Much more commonly, we see films about [...]
Talking about consent with Dr. Julia
Talking about consent with Dr. Julia Our resident medical expert Julia Arnold VanRooyen weighs in on how comprehensive sex education can advance the conversation around consent. The more openly and frequently we talk about consent, the more comfortable everyone will feel expressing both their desires and their reservations. It should be routine to check in [...]
Nisha Ahuja on IG Live #AskAnExpert
Learn more about how Hollywood negotiates tricky scenes from certified intimacy coordinator Nisha Ahuja (“Never Have I Ever,” “Mayans”).Nisha (she/they) will join Alex Sgambati for a rePROFilm Instagram Live #AskAnExpert conversation at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET Feb. 7.{{ vc_btn: title=Follow+%40reprofilm&style=custom&custom_background=%23cc77e0&custom_text=%23ffffff&align=left&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.instagram.com%252Freprofilm%252F }} View this post on Instagram A post shared by rePROFilm (@reprofilm) nisha ahuja [...]
REHEARSAL discussion questions from our resident expert Dr. Julia
Courtney Hope Therond’s short film “Rehearsal” is engrossing and uncomfortable. In depicting the gray areas around issues of consent, the film provides a great entry point into conversations about this topic. Discussion Questions Consider a couple of specific scenes from the film: In the very beginning, Jared tells the actors they are they to block [...]
The Key To Normalizing Conversations About Periods
I think the key to normalizing conversations about periods is to Just Talk About It! I grew up in a household with two brothers and no sisters and menstruation was literally never discussed in my house. Not with my father or brothers, certainly, but not really with my mom either, beyond me telling her awkwardly [...]
The 2022 rePROFilm Gift Guide 🎁
The 2022 rePROFilm Gift Guide 🎁 If you’re looking to cut down on clutter and change up your holiday shopping routine, we put together a list of some of our favorite organizations to support. Consider crossing a few gifts off your list by making donations in honor of your nearest and dearest. National and international [...]
rePROFilm team member Asha Dahya seeks funding to complete short doc about abortion
Asha Dahya, the host of the rePROFilm Periodical Podcast, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign in support of her short documentary “Someone You Should Know.” The film features the stories of three women who underwent later abortions with the goal of breaking down stigma and fostering empathy. “Someone You Know” is about the extraordinary burdens and [...]
The ‘Sweet Genius’ of Agnès Varda & the Pleasure of Female Friendship
The ‘Sweet Genius’ of Agnès Varda & The Pleasure of Female Friendship By Laura Lee Bahr The pleasure of friendship, time-worn and as familiar as a second skin, is the comfort and delight that is Agnès Varda’s “One Sings, the Other Doesn’t” (1977). Varda — a pioneer of the French New Wave, lifelong feminist filmmaker [...]
SIX THINGS A MIDWIFE WANTS YOU TO KNOW ABOUT PLEASURE
Mychal Shifrah CD DTI (she/they), is a resident midwife and certified doula. She has been supporting all pregnancy outcomes for over seven years. Mychal is also a sex educator, endometriosis educator, and the creater of slutsoak. You can see what she is up to on Instagram or on her website. As you read this, I [...]
Storyteller Kristen Morley on using virtual reality to tell her abortion story
Storyteller Kristen Morley on using virtual reality to tell her abortion story In post-Roe America, educating ourselves about reproductive health care is more important than ever. We need to understand what abortion care is, what it looks like, that unhealthy pregnancies exist, and that abortion care is health care. A 3D version of me was [...]
MY ENDO STORY: A REPRO ORIGINAL ESSAY.
MY ENDO STORY: A REPRO ORIGINAL ESSAY.By Chloe Quakenbush Poly-cystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) was my first diagnosis. I’d been told even at 13 that my body would likely “absorb the tissue naturally” as it would for uterine lining during normal menstruation, and my periods would eventually regulate. That was not the case, as for the [...]