Jul 21, 2026 · 36 min · 14 segments
Representative Yassamin Ansari has passed out from cramps in a New York bodega and in a hair salon with foils in her hair. She KNOWS period pain. She is also the Arizona congresswoman who just…
Welcome back to Cramped, the podcast where I try to find answers to my and other people's questions about their period pain.
I hope that listening to this podcast feels like meeting up with me at your local bar, and sometimes I bring friends, and sometimes those friends are congresswomen.
So while we're hanging out at this bar, go on over to The Cramped and buy me the cheapest drink you've ever seen once a month.
When you support Cramped at a paid level, you not only pay my currently very small paycheck, you also get perks.
You can vote on episode topics and suggest your own, and at $25 a month, you can even assign me a research question once a month personally.
If anything you've learned on this show has helped you make better healthcare decisions, taught you about an option you didn't otherwise know was available to you, or just made you feel less alone, and you feel that that is worth a few bucks a month, head on over to patreon.com/cramped.
Welcome back to Cramped, the podcast where I try to find answers to my and other people's questions about their period pain.
I hope that listening to this podcast feels like meeting up with me at your local bar, and sometimes I bring friends, and sometimes those friends are congresswomen.
So while we're hanging out at this bar, go on over to The Cramped and buy me the cheapest drink you've ever seen once a month.
When you support Cramped at a paid level, you not only pay my currently very small paycheck, you also get perks.
You can vote on episode topics and suggest your own, and at $25 a month, you can even assign me a research question once a month personally.
If anything you've learned on this show has helped you make better healthcare decisions, taught you about an option you didn't otherwise know was available to you, or just made you feel less alone, and you feel that that is worth a few bucks a month, head on over to patreon.com/cramped.
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