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Censorsing Women's Health, with CenHership co-founder Clio Wood
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- WomenKind Collective
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- Jul 11, 2026
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- 3139
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Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 The history of women's bodies is, in many ways, a history of what men decided women should and shouldn't know. From Aristotle's declaration that the female form was a "defective" version of the male, to Freud's wildly influential and wildly wrong theories about female psychology, medicine has long been shaped by shame and a striking resistance to progress. Today, the censorship has simply migrated from the anatomy textbook to the algorithm: the word vagina can get your content suppressed, women's health ads get pulled without explanation, and gynaecological cancer campaigns get taken down. This week we're joined by Clio Wood, women's health advocate, journalist, author of Get Your Mojo Back: Sex, Pleasure and Intimacy After Birth , and founder of wellbeing retreat company &Breathe together with Anna O'Sullivan , founder of FutureFemHealth, they co-founded CensHERship , an advocacy and research initiative tackling the censorship and bias affecting women's health online. We talk about : • The moment that pushed Clio to act, the compromises creators make (swapping "vagina" for a grapefruit emoji) • Whether that reinforces the very shame they're fighting, • The eye-opening data: 95% of the 150+ organisations they surveyed had experienced censorship in the last year. • We also dig into the double standard between men's and women's health content, • The real-world cost of suppressed information, self-censorship and body shame, • Algorithms, and what's going on here • Where CensHERship is actually seeing ch…