Underestimated: A Podcast

Episode 13 of #DontMentionIt features a conversation with Dr. Dalton Connally. We talk about the importance of affirming care for the LGBTQIA+ community, how the LGBTQIA+ community is not a monolith, and the idiocy of the boxes we put ourselves in. *Note: I mention in the intro that it is Pride Month, but obviously this episode is not releasing in June - just a reminder that we can celebrate Pride the whole year round.   Show Notes Links You can visit Dr. Connally’s website for Connally Counseling here: https://www.connallycounseling.com/ Underestimated is written, produced, and hosted by me, Elizabeth Palmer, with theme music inexpertly composed also by me in GarageBand.  All opinions expressed by me in this podcast are my own, and do not represent the views of anyone else, or any employer, company, or entity.  If you like what you’ve heard, you can follow the pod on Twitter @underestipod (that’s @U-N-D-E-R-E-S-T-I-P-O-D), on Instagram @underestimatedpodcast, or email me at underestimatedpodcast@gmail.com. A

*Re-Release* There is no more appropriate episode for me to publish today, the 50th anniversary of #Stonewall and #Pride, than this one. Please listen. Happy Pride! Episode 11 of #DontMentionIt - My conversation with Lilianna Reyes, Second Stories Director at the Ruth Ellis Center & Co-Executive Director of the Trans Sistas of Color Project. We talk about the Ruth Ellis Center, life for trans women of color, and about the role racism and privilege play in access to resources for people of color in the LGBTQIA+ community. Note: This episode contains difficult subject matter including violence against trans women of color and survival sex work. All opinions expressed by the me in this podcast are my own, and do not represent the views of anyone else, or any employer, company, or entity. Show Notes Links Ruth Ellis Center Website: http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/ Second Stories Drop-In Center at Ruth Ellis http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/what-we-do/2ndstories/ Ruth Ellis Center 2018 Report http://www.ruthelli

*This week's episode is a re-release of episode #1 of the Don't Mention It series.* "Don't Mention It" is a series from Underestimated: A Podcast about the things we're apparently not supposed to mention, things that society doesn't seem to value as much, but things that are important to talk about. This series shares stories that too often go unmentioned in relation to health throughout the spectrum of femininity. Episode 1 is a discussion with activist and FGM survivor Maryum Saifee about how FGM is not a faraway problem, the Detroit case, and banning FGM entirely.   Show Notes Underestimated is written, produced, and hosted by me, Elizabeth Palmer, with theme music inexpertly composed also by me in GarageBand. All opinions expressed by me in this podcast are my own, and do not represent the views of anyone else, or any employer, company, or entity. If you like what you’ve heard, you can follow the pod on Twitter @underestipod (that’s @U-N-D-E-R-E-S-T-I-P-O-D), on Instagram @underestimatedpodcast, or email

It's the first ever Underestimated Special Edition! This week, my best friend Mary and I get to interview FRANGELA! I have been listening to Frangela for over a decade, and I love them. You'll hear me fan-girling pretty hard, but more importantly, you'll hear Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton, the essential best friend comedy duo, talk about their friendship, their career, and of course, they are hilarious.  Get. In. To. It. Also, studio dog Agatha sighs audibly in annoyance. Enjoy.   Show Notes Follow Frangela Here: Frangela.com Twitter @frangeladuo Instagram @frangeladuo Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/frangeladuo/ Buy their comedy album, Resist! Tour Dates You can hear Frangela every Friday on the 3rd hour of The Stephanie Miller Show – on Progressive Voices Radio and Free Speech TV, and you can find their podcast, The Final Word with Frangela on Apple Podcasts and all other podcatchers. The Final Word is part of Stephanie Miller’s Sexy Liberal Podcast Network. You can follow Frangela’s TV show, M

Happy Pride! Episode 11 of #DontMentionIt - My conversation with Lilianna Reyes, Second Stories Director at the Ruth Ellis Center & Co-Executive Director of the Trans Sistas of Color Project. We talk about the Ruth Ellis Center, life for trans women of color, and about the role racism and privilege play in access to resources for people of color in the LGBTQIA+ community. Note: This episode contains difficult subject matter including violence against trans women of color and survival sex work.   All opinions expressed by the me in this podcast are my own, and do not represent the views of anyone else, or any employer, company, or entity. Show Notes Links Ruth Ellis Center Website: http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/ Second Stories Drop-In Center at Ruth Ellis http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/what-we-do/2ndstories/ Ruth Ellis Center 2018 Report http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ReReport.pdf Ruth Ellis Center on Twitter: @REC_Detroit Instagram @ruthelliscenter FB at facebook.com/RuthElli

A quick update on the new release schedule. Thank you for listening!

“Health in Her Hue” A Conversation with Ashlee Wisdom Episode 10 of #DontMentionIt is a conversation with the Founder and Publisher of Health in Her Hue, Ashlee Wisdom. Health In Her Hue is, …”a space for black women to be informed and empowered when making choices pertaining to their health.” We talk about her vision, how Health in Her Hue was born, what the organization looks like right now, and her plans for the future. Get into it.   Show Notes: You can follow Health in Her Hue by visiting healthinherhue.com, where you can also sign up to receive their newsletter, an learn about upcoming events. You can follow Health in Her Hue on social media on Twitter @HealthInHerHue, on Instagram @healthinherhue and on Facebook at facebook.com/HealthInHerHUE. The view expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host, and are not those of anyone else, any other entity, any employer, or company. Follow Underestimated on Twitter @underestipod, on Instagram @underestimatedpodcast, or visit https://

In this week's episode, we have an interview with Anne Ryan, founder of the Ann Arbor Aviary. We discuss aerial performance and circus arts, body positivity, and creating the safe spaces we want to see in the world. You can find the Ann Arbor Aviary at www.a2aviary.com, and you can follow the Aviary on Instagram @a2aviary, and also on Facebook at The Ann Arbor Aviary.  Check out the art for Anne's episode on underestimatedpodcast.com. Follow the show on Twitter @underestipod or Instagram @underestimatedpodcast. All opinions expressed by the host in Underestimated and The Introverted Activist are my own, and do not represent the views of any other entity. Additional sounds credits this week go to the following music from the YouTube Audio Library: "PeriTune - Strategy4" Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Music provided by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/Mamvr2umWak  Music: Jazz In Paris - Media Right Productions: https://youtu.be/mNLJMTRvyj8   

Episode 8 of #DontMentionIt is my conversation with the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Womanly Magazine, Attia Taylor. Attia and I talk about the transformative power of art and music to make health information more accessible, creating resources for communities of color, and supporting women and non-binary people with their work. Womanly Magazine is revolutionizing providing accessible health information for women, non-binary people, and communities of color through the arts. Issue #4 of Womanly, Black Maternal Health, comes out this month. Links for how you can access and support Womanly are in the show notes below.   Show Notes: Check Out Womanly Magazine: https://www.womanlymag.com/ Donate to Support Womanly Magazine: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/brooklyn-arts-council/womanly-magazine Pre-Order Issue #4, Black Maternal Health, here: https://www.womanlymag.com/shop/womanly-magazine-issue-no-4-preorder Womanly on Social Media: @WomanlyMag on Twitter  @womanlymag on Instagram  Womanly Magazine on F

I really wanted to title this episode, “I Could Talk to You About Placentas Forever,” but I landed on “Consequences of Being a Multicellular Organism.” Episode 7 of #DontMentionIt is a conversation with Dr. Amy Boddy, PhD, where we talk about her research in fetal microchimerism, cellular trade-offs and cancer defense, and we get star struck (organ struck?) and nerd out over that most transitory and wondrous of bodily organs, the placenta.   Show Notes: You can follow Dr. Boddy’s work on the Boddy Lab website: http://amyboddy.strikingly.com/ Video from Dr. Boddy’s website on fetal microchimerism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isIFKQPaiP0&feature=youtu.be The view expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host, and are not those of anyone else, any other entity, any employer, or company. Follow Underestimated on Twitter @underestipod, on Instagram @underestimatedpodcast, or visit https://www.underestimatedpodcast.com. You can support Underestimated on Patreon by visiting https:

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, and this week, in episode 6 of #DontMentionIt, I speak with Kalimah Johnson, Founder and Executive Director of the Sasha Center in Detroit. SASHA stands for, "Sexual Assault Services for Holistic Healing and Awareness." We talk about Kalimah's path to founding the Sasha Center, holistic healing, and why creating this space for African-American women, with shared cultural experience from the Detroit area to heal together from the trauma of sexual assault is so important. Links to support the Sasha Center are in the show notes below. *Note: Toward the end of the interview, the audio quality suffers some issues, but I chose to leave it all in, because you can make out what Kalimah is saying, and it is all important to hear. Also, I have a very sore throat for the intro and signoff. Thank you for understanding.* The view expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host, and are not those of anyone else, any other entity, any employer,

Episode 5 of #DontMentionIt, “A New Kelly,” is a very personal episode. A couple of feminist friends talk about unexplained infertility, surviving a miscarriage, and our hope that talking about these things will become more and more normalized the more we share our stories with each other. The view expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host, and are not those of anyone else, any other entity, any employer, or company. Follow Underestimated on Twitter @underestipod, on Instagram @underestimatedpodcast, or visit https://www.underestimatedpodcast.com. You can support Underestimated on Patreon by visiting https://www.patreon.com/underestimated   Show Notes Music Credits “Transitioning” Lee Rosevere http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Living_With_Trauma/Lee_Rosevere_-_Living_With_Trauma_-_10_Transitioning Transitioning by Lee Rosevere is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. Edited for episode. “Swing” Dee Yan-Key http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Ke

In Episode 4 of "Don't Mention It," we dive into the history or reproductive health in the United States with historian Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson. We talk about 19th and early 20th century reproductive health in the United States, how a lack of fundamental equality in the Constitution restricts our access to healthcare, sterilization, the Comstock Laws, "Twilight Sleep," and more. Note: Some audio issues occurred in the recording of this episode, you may notice audio level changes in the intro section. The view expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host, and are not those of anyone else, any other entity, any employer, or company.   Show Notes: Books & Articles   Jacqueline H. Wolf: Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequencehttps://www.amazon.com/Cesarean-Section-American-Technology-Consequence/dp/1421425521 Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecologyhttps://www.amazon.com/Medical-Bondage-O

“Don’t Mention It” is a series from Underestimated: A Podcast about the things we’re apparently not supposed to be loud about. The things that don’t get talked about often enough. The stories of people and the issues they face that are undervalued in the mainstream, and shouldn’t be. Today’s episode, my interview with Shelby Quast, Director for the Americas for Equality Now, is the third in a three episode series within “Don’t Mention It” focused on fighting to end FGM/C and gender based violence against women and girls.    Show Notes Equality Now https://www.equalitynow.org End FGM/C U.S. Network https://endfgmnetwork.org/ Additional Music Credits: “All the Answers,” by Lee Rosevere http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Music_For_Podcasts_5/Lee_Rosevere_-_Music_For_Podcasts_5_-_02_All_the_Answers

"Don't Mention It" is a series from Underestimated: A Podcast about the things we're apparently not supposed to mention, things that society doesn't seem to value as much, but things that are important to talk about. This series shares stories that too often go unmentioned in relation to health throughout the spectrum of femininity. Episode 2 is a discussion with writer, activist, and FGM survivor Mariya Taher about breaking the silence on FGM/C, using storytelling as activism, and her groundbreaking work to collect data on FGM/C survivors living in the United States.    Show Notes   Sahiyo https://www.sahiyo.com     The Orchid Project https://orchidproject.org/   Change.org Petition - Ban Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Massachusetts https://www.change.org/p/ban-female-genital-mutilation-cutting-in-massachusetts   U.S. End FGM/C Network https://endfgmnetwork.org/   Mariya’s Articles   How My MSW Thesis Broke the Silence on Female Genital Cutting https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/practice/h

"Don't Mention It" is a series from Underestimated: A Podcast about the things we're apparently not supposed to mention, things that society doesn't seem to value as much, but things that are important to talk about. This series shares stories that too often go unmentioned in relation to health throughout the spectrum of femininity. Episode 1 is a discussion with activist and FGM survivor Maryum Saifee about how FGM is not a faraway problem, the Detroit case, and banning FGM entirely.   Links End FGM/C U.S. Network Maryum’s Articles I’m a survivor of female genital cutting and I’m speaking out – as others must too. Female Genital Mutilation and the Detroit Ruling: A Survivor’s Perspective Transcripts of the episode are available at underestimatedpodcast.com Underestimated is written, produced, and hosted by Elizabeth Palmer; music inexpertly composed in Garageband.

If you can't embarrass yourself in the service of a friend, then what good are you really? Even if that friend is covered in fur and purrs when you pet her. This is a short update on what's been going on with me, and where the pods are headed in 2019. Thank you for listening.

This is a short one. I talk about what's next for Underestimated, what to expect for the rest of 2018, and how the show will be changing in 2019. Follow the pod @underestipod on Twitter and @underestimatedpodcast on Instagram. You can email the show at underestimatedpodcast@gmail.com. The views expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host and not those of anyone else, any employer, or any other entity.

This week, I dive into some of the weird stuff we're exposed to as kids that informs, in some ways, who we grow up to be. I cover two Detroit area staples in this episode: Milky The Clown, and Major Magic's All-Star Pizza Revue.  Follow Underestimated on Twitter @underestipod and on Instagram @underestimatedpodcast.  The view expressed in Underestimated are that of the host, and are not those of any other entity. Reference Links: General Understanding Megalophobia or the Fear of Large Objects https://www.verywellmind.com/megalophobia-2671869 The American Museum of Magic https://sites.google.com/a/americanmuseumofmagic.org/amm/ Food Mascots The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All-Time http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-most-baffling-food-mascots-all-time/ 12 truly bizarre product mascots that made us lose our appetites https://metv.com/lists/12-truly-bizarre-product-mascots-that-made-us-lose-our-appetites Clown History The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cult

In this week's episode, we have an interview with Anne Ryan, founder of the Ann Arbor Aviary. We discuss aerial performance and circus arts, body positivity, and creating the safe spaces we want to see in the world. You can find the Ann Arbor Aviary at www.a2aviary.com, and you can follow the Aviary on Instagram @a2aviary, and also on Facebook at The Ann Arbor Aviary.  Check out the art for Anne's episode on underestimatedpodcast.com. Additionally in this episode: A brief recap of the midterm elections, with a view to covering the outcome of the elections in next week's installment of The Introverted Activist. Follow the show on Twitter @underestipod or Instagram @underestimatedpodcast. All opinions expressed by the host in Underestimated and The Introverted Activist are my own, and do not represent the views of any other entity. Additional sounds credits this week go to the following music from the YouTube Audio Library: "PeriTune - Strategy4" Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Music provided by BreakingCo