This episode features Silvia Canelón (she/her), a queer Latina data scientist and body literacy advocate based in Philadelphia. Silvia weaves together her passion for reproductive justice, relational power dynamics, and fertility awareness to support reclaiming autonomy through cycle tracking.
In this episode, we explore: ✨ Silvia’s story of her first period, growing up in Venezuela ✨ What the symptothermal method is — and how it changed her life ✨ Fertility awareness as a form of resistance and self-determination ✨ Becoming a Body Literacy Advocate ✨ Navigating contraception under political uncertainty ✨ Practical ways cycle tracking helps with stress, planning, and emergency contraception ✨ The joy and power of knowing your fertile window ✨ Building inclusive, community-rooted approaches to fertility awareness education
Connect with Silvia: • Website: www.silviacanelon.com • IG: @cycle.curious
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Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be
Chapters: 00:00:00 Body Literacy as Empowerment 00:00:50 Welcome & Grounding 00:01:50 Guest Introduction: Silvia Canelón 00:02:55 Silvia’s First Period Story 00:06:00 Menstruation Over the Years 00:09:00 Intro to Symptothermal Method 00:10:00 How Silvia Found Fertility Awareness 00:12:30 Learning to Chart & Finding a Queer-Inclusive Educator 00:15:00 Educator Training Journey & Becoming a Body Literacy Advocate 00:19:15 Fertility Awareness as Resistance 00:21:00 “Apocalypse-Proof” Birth Control 00:22:00 Reversibility & Empowered Choice 00:23:00 Favorite Parts of Charting 00:25:15 Emergency Contraception & Charting 00:28:30 Final Reflections 00:29:45 Where to Find Silvia
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