Ep. 30: Aoife Frances and Fiona Dunkin on miscarriage, early motherhood, and making a zine

For episode 30, the first episode of Bits of Me with two guests, I spoke to Fiona Dunkin and Aoife Frances, two friends who created a zine about fertility, motherhood and beyond earlier this year. We talk about their own experiences of the above, from early activist ventures including a campaign to make the morning-after pill more accessible, to Fiona's miscarriages and Aoife's surprise pregnancy, traumatic birth and struggles with early motherhood. They explain how this spectrum of experiences inspired the creation of a zine, exactly why it became a zine and not a blog or a website, what they're hoping that the zine might achieve, what they themselves got out of it, and what cacao has to do with it... But we talk about so much more – from the 12-week rule to the implications of thyroid function on fertility, from Earth Mama narratives to sleep deprivation and much, much more.

You can pre-order your own copy of the next print-run of Aoife and Fiona's zine, Waters and the Wild, on the zine website, where you can also read the zine in full in a digital version. You can also follow them on Instagram for updates. Bits of Me is on Instagram too, as well as on Twitter.

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Music: Ice and Snow by Icreage, licensed by Soundstripe.

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Ep. 30: Aoife Frances and Fiona Dunkin on miscarriage, early motherhood, and making a zine

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