Everybody Hates Me: Let's Talk About Stigma

Dr. Treena Orchard: Swipe Right On New Perspectives

Dr. Treena Orchard is an author and award-winning professor at Western University. Her work on sexuality, gender, and health sheds new light on human behaviour in the 21s

Dr. Jad Sinno: We Said “That’s So Gay.” Now We Watch Heated Rivalry. What Changed?

Jad Sinno, PhD (they/them) is the Director of Research at the Community Based Research Center and an affiliated Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health Science

Dr. Tanya Sharpe: Stigma & Homicide Violence

In this episode we discuss stigma and homicide violence, in particular its impacts on Black communities, with Dr. Tanya Sharpe. Dr. Sharpe, Professor and Endowed Chair in

Lori Brotto: Let's talk about sex!

Dr. Lori Brotto is internationally recognized as a leader in sexual health research. She has evaluated psychological interventions for sexual dysfunction and genital pain

"Sometimes when you share a story it frees the storyteller from stigma": On digital storytelling and stigma reduction with Dr. Mike Lang and Kristy Wolfe

This podcast invited Dr. Mike Lang and Kristy Wolfe, digital storytelling experts at Common Language Digital Storytelling to reflect on the power of digital storytelling

Dr. Angela Kaida: What does it mean to practice allyship in contexts of stigma?

Dr. Angela Kaida is a Simon Fraser University Distinguished Professor and the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute for Gende

Kim Canady on HIV-related stigma: Make the uncomfortable, comfortable

Kim Canady is an HIV/AIDS activist, advocate, mother, and wife born with HIV. Throughout her adolescence, Kimberly became a member of many HIV/AIDS awareness organization

Bridgette Picou: Challenge HIV stigma-Educate Yourself and Get Tested!

Bridgette Picou is a nurse with several years of HIV and infectious disease experience and an avid blogger with The Well Project. She also writes a guest column with Posi

Ciarra "Ci Ci" Covin on HIV Stigma: People living with HIV are still human, with the same desires

Ciarra “Ci Ci” Covin is a mother, advocate, and lover of all human beings. Diagnosed with HIV at the age of 20, Ci Ci has curated a life of HIV and mental advocacy throug

Lezlie Lowe on Sanitation Stigma: "We are taught that toilets are funny or toilets are gross"

Lezlie Lowe began her freelance radio, newspaper, and magazine career in 1996. She has penned and produced pieces on urban rats, roadkill cemeteries and, prominently, pub

Chelsea Wald on Sanitation Stigma: Potty Talk with the Author of 'Pipe Dreams'

Chelsea Wald has repeatedly plunged into the topic of toilets since 2013, when editors first approached her to write about the latent potential in our stagnating infrastr

Dr. Caetano Dorea on Sanitation Stigma: It's More Than Just a Toilet

Dr. Caetano Dorea is a Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, at the University of Victoria. His interests and expertise are at the crossroads of environmental and p

Dr. David Brennan: GB2M Stigma, HIV, Blood Donation Bans, Monkeypox and Pride

Professor David J. Brennan is the Associate Dean, Research at Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. He is the founder and director of the CRUISE

Dr. Steffanie Strathdee: Stigma and why phage therapy was forgotten

Dr. Steffanie Strathdee is Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences and Harold Simon Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California

Jessica Lynn Whitbread: Challenge stigma & #LovePositiveWomen

As a community organizer, artist, activist, academic and at times a “professional”, Jessica Lynn Whitbread is interested in doing work that creates spaces for dialogue ab

Sabby Duthie & John E. Johnson: Stigma & Elder Abuse

Sabby Duthie and John E. Johnson are authors of 'Elder Abuse: You have a role to play'.  This first-of-its-kind book undertakes the uncomfortable conversation t

Annie Philpott: Stigma, Sex and the Pleasure Revolution

Annie Philpott is a public health professional, pleasure propagandist and ‘guerrilla girl’ of HIV prevention. She founded The Pleasure Project in 2004,  an international

Dr. Keosha Bond: Gendered Racism & Changing the Narrative

Dr. Keosha T. Bond is an Assistant Medical Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine at the CUNY School of Medicine.  She is a trained behaviora

Dr. Steve Bell: Seek to be surprised

Associate Professor Steve Bell is a Principal Research Fellow in the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland. He is an applied health and so

Calvin Hudson Hwang: Anti-Asian Racism & COVID-19

Calvin Hudson Hwang is an award winning Taiwanese Canadian director, producer and founder of SUPRE.  SUPRE aims to empower underpowered voices and present  often unheard