Visualising Menstruation – Details, episodes & analysis

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Visualising Menstruation

Dr Bee Hughes

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Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/48d. Total Eps: 6

Join academic and artist Dr Bee Hughes (they/them) for a monthly podcast about the representation of menstruation in art. We'll be discussing examples of art from c. 1970 to the present day to consider what art can tell us about attitudes towards periods and people who have them, and about wider society.

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Women's Work: Menstruation and Gendered Labour

Episode 5

Friday, July 31, 2026 • Duration 01:13:25

What counts as women’s work? And how does menstruation and menstrual art represent and respond to experiences of gendered, aesthetic and reproductive labour? In Episode 5 of the Visualising Menstruation podcast, we explore these questions through contemporary art, featuring work by Carina Úbeda Chacana, Eleanor Antin, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Phoebe Ching Yin Man, Lutz Bacher, Lee Bul, Helena Walsh, Catherine Bell, Casey Jenkins, Elspeth Owens, Su Richardson and Jane Woollatt.

Content note: Alongside menstruation itself, we will be discussing themes of sexism, racism, and historical forms of oppression. We’re going to cover abortion, reproductive violence, and on pregnancy, conception and fertility and menopause.

Full show notes including resources and references: https://www.beehughes.co.uk/visualisingmenstruation/s135-womenswork

Visualising Menstruation is written, hosted, edited and produced by Dr Bee Hughes.

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state

License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS

Get involved at: https://forms.microsoft.com/e/Vc2h3dqPH8

Find out more about Bee at www.beehughes.co.uk

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Blood, Thread and Lockdown (Bonus)

Episode 4

Friday, April 3, 2026 • Duration 25:19

Visualising Menstruation is written, hosted, edited and produced by Dr Bee Hughes.

In this episode (a brief departure from our promised schedule) Bee shares project updates, reflects on their experience as Artist in Residence at St Andrews during Covid, talks through some of the menstrual art historical touchstones of their work, and reveals how an iconic academic gown was transformed into menstrual art. Listen now.

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state

License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS

Get involved at: https://forms.microsoft.com/e/Vc2h3dqPH8

Find out more about Bee at www.beehughes.co.uk and full show notes here The Visualising Menstruation project is supported by LJMU Faculty of Society + Culture funding. The Artists Residency and Blood Lines project discussed in this episode were funded by a Diversity and Inclusion Grant from the University of St Andrews. Bee’s residency was hosted jointly by the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art and Institute of Gender Studies.

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There Will Be Blood (Part 1)

Episode 3

Friday, March 6, 2026 • Duration 01:09:01

Visualising Menstruation is written, hosted, edited and produced by Dr Bee Hughes.

In today's episode (part 1 of a 2-part special) join Bee to explore how artists have shaped the aesthetics of menstrual blood, from the language of disgust and stigma to imagery that celebrates blood’s beauty, power, and symbolism, and work that uses menstrual blood as a metaphor for social and political violence. We’ll talk about art made by men about menstruation, think through how some works link menstrual blood to universal ideas of femininity, and others that totally reject that framework to make bold political statements. It’s a conversation that goes way beyond the bloody binary — we hope you enjoy.

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state

License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS

Get involved at: https://forms.microsoft.com/e/Vc2h3dqPH8

Find out more about Bee at www.beehughes.co.uk and full show notes here The Visualising Menstruation project is supported by LJMU Faculty of Society + Culture funding.

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Bring Out the Bodies

Episode 2

Friday, February 6, 2026 • Duration 41:32

Visualising Menstruation is written, hosted, edited and produced by Dr Bee Hughes.

In this episode we’re going to get into the thorny issues of the naked body in art. Why has femininity historically been labelled as the object, and masculinity as the subject? Is it possible to wrest control of representing bodies away from the regime of the male gaze?

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state

License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS

Get involved at: https://forms.microsoft.com/e/Vc2h3dqPH8

Find out more about Bee at www.beehughes.co.uk and full show notes here

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Painting the Town Red

Season 1 · Episode 1

Friday, January 9, 2026 • Duration 32:00

In the first full episode Bee talks about why they think it's important to paint the airwaves red with menstrual talk, they discuss some of the ways menstruation has been theorised by art historians and other academics, and discuss examples of art projects by Jen Lewis and Vanessa Tiegs. Full show notes here.

Visualising Menstruation is written, hosted, edited and produced by Dr Bee Hughes.

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state

License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS

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Episode 0 - Introducing Visualising Menstruation

Season 1

Friday, December 5, 2025 • Duration 23:21

In this episode get to know Bee, find out how you can get involved & discover Bee's thoughts on menstrual liminality. Full shownotes: https://linktr.ee/visualisingmenstruation Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS

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