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The Digital Period is an open conversation about technology by Judith Blijden.

Hi! My podcast examines our relationship with technology through conducting a series of conversations about period apps with experts and individuals.

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Are period apps betraying our trust? 🔍

Are period apps worth the risk? 👀

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The second episode

What do you achieve when you track your period?
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What do you achieve when you track your period?
Is it just the convenience of knowing what to expect? Or is there more to uncover? 👀

Rayén from @radicaldata shared in the episode that they want to create a self-tracking app that can be a technological portal to reclaim our sense of self - “to make people so precariously related with their feelings, their sensations, their pleasure, the feeling of being alive”.

This project is made possible by @humanityinaction and the Alfred Landecker Foundation.
Website & photography credits: @sachaverheij
Design credits: @asjakeeman

#Period #Data #Menstruation #PeriodTracking #Digital #Technology #DataAnalytics

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The first episode is now live! 🎉

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The very first episode of The Di

It’s finally here! 🤩

After months of researc

July has been filled with wonderful trips in Europ

July has been filled with wonderful trips in Europe. I was invited to talk at the Workshop on Gendered Digital Harms organised by the University of Sheffield. The workshop participants were all doing wonderful work around data protection, privacy and digital harms. After the workshop I had the pleasure to talk some more with Anastasia Siapka. I wanted to talk to her for quite some time and thanks to the workshop we were finally in the same city at the same time. You can listen to her when the podcast is out this fall. 🎉

After Sheffield, I headed to Egham where I met up with some of the researchers of the University of Holloway to learn more about their research on cybersercurity and femtech. They have given their research to artist who made wonderful art works visualizing the potential and risks of period trackers.

This project has brought me so many meaningful encounters with people all over Europe. ❤️

For more information check the links in the bio. 👉

I had a lovely time contributing to the workshop Q

I had a lovely time contributing to the workshop Queering the Quantified Self with the amazing @radical.data. Thanks to everyone who participated - I loved meeting everyone. And thanks to @superrrnetwork for hosting us ❤️.

Last week I was in Kraków, Poland to meet my fell

Last week I was in Kraków, Poland to meet my fellow fellows of the Landecker Democracy Fellowship. It was absolutely amazing. I feel very lucky to be part of such a wonderful group of people. ❤️

Last week my friend @irisvanwurmond came by to dis

Last week my friend @irisvanwurmond came by to discuss her experience using Clue. As always, Iris said many wise things while also being hilarious. We kind of ended the conversation with making plans to go to Berlin to visit @clueapp to have a chat with them. The app works quite well, but we also had some suggestions. Should we go? #period #clue #tracking #quantifiedself

Last week I had a wonderful conversation with Rayén from @radicaldataproject about our individual and political motivations for tracking ourselves. They are creating new ways for people to relate and get closer to their bodies by building the app ‘Self’. Check out their project to learn more (link in bio). #technology #democracy #embodiment

Hi! I’m Judith the creator of The Digital Period

Hi! I’m Judith the creator of The Digital Period. This year I will be examining period apps. I will share regular updates here and take you along my activities. Questions or ideas? Shoot me a dm or email at judith@thedigitalperiod.com

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