Show notes
Hi! I’m Fernanda Mariath, a pharmacist with a master’s degree in Scientific and Culture Dissemination. Also, I’m part of the Mundaréu Podcast, which focuses on telling stories about feminist Latin American researchers. As part of my dissertation, I produced the series Feminista In Vitro.
In this podcast series, I will take you from the inside to the outside of a cell. And starting with the organelles, the tiny little parts inside them, I’m going to tell you about menstrual blood cells and bring you feminist discussions in stem cell research.
Feminista In Vitro is already available in Portuguese on Mundaréu’s website with a transcription in pdf. But, as part of this journey, I also did some interviews in English with Professor Sarah Richardson, the pHD student Hannah Cowdell, and Professor Malin Ah-King. This episode is an audio collage of these interviews. I hope you enjoy it!
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Transcription
WESTER, Fernanda Mariath Amorim. Feminista In Vitro: Situando sexo e gênero na pesquisa biomédica com células-tronco. 2025. Dissertação (Mestrado em Divulgação Científica e Cultural) – Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Laboratório de Estudos Avançados em Jornalismo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas. 2025.
MANICA, Daniela Tonelli; ASENSI, Karina Dutra; MAZZARELLI, Gaia; et al. Gender bias and menstrual blood in stem cell research: A review of pubmed articles (2008–2020). Frontiers in Genetics, v. 13, 2022.
Sarah Richardson’s Curriculum
GenderSci Lab Site
Hannah Cowdell’s Curriculum
Malin Ah-King’s Curriculum
Ah, esse é um episódio extra da série Feminista In Vitro. Totalmente em inglês e é resultado de uma audio-colagem com as três entrevistas realizadas em inglês para a série, com a professora Sarah Richardson, a doutoranda Hannah Cowdell e a professora Malin-Ah King. Você escutou trechos dessas entrevistas ao longo da série, com a tradução simultânea. Nesse episódio, você pode escutar essas entrevistas na íntegra!
Production Credits
General Coordinator of Mundaréu: Daniela Manica
Mundaréu Team: Daniela Manica, Clarissa Reche, Fernanda Mariath, Irene do Planalto Chemin, Igor Pereira, and Maxie Viana
Coordinators of the “Feminista In Vitro” series: Fernanda Mariath and Daniela Manica
Results of the master’s thesis in Scientific and Cultural Communication (Labjor/IEL, Unicamp): “Feminist In Vitro: Situating Sex and Gender in Biomedical Stem Cell Research” (CAPES Case: 88887.826615/2023-00, funding code 001), defended by Fernanda Mariath and advised by Professor Daniela Manica
Scientific journalism project: “Amplifying a Mundaréu of feminist sounds: a multimodal project in scientific journalism and science communication” (FAPESP 2025/16311-2) and “Feminist Mundaréu: a multimodal project in science journalism and science communication” (FAPESP 2024/15321-1), led by Fernanda Mariath and supervised by Professors Daniela Manica and Germana Fernandes Barata (Unicamp)
Related research project: “Body, gender, and technosciences: the ‘stem cells’ of menstrual blood” (FAPESP 2018/21651-3)
Related research project team: Daniela Tonelli Manica (principal investigator), Germana Fernandes Barata, Karina Dutra Asensi, Marko Synésio Alves Monteiro, Regina Coeli dos Santos Goldenberg, and Simone Pallone de Figueiredo
Interviewees: Amiel Modesto Vieira, Aryella Maryah Couto Correa (IOC/FIOCRUZ), Bruno Paranhos (UFRJ), Daniela Tonelli Manica (Unicamp), Hannah Cowdell (University of Exeter, England), Julia Helena Barros (UFRJ), Karina Dutra Asensi (UFRJ), Malin Ah-King (Stockholm University, Sweden), Regina Coeli dos Santos Goldenberg (UFRJ), Sarah Richardson (Harvard, United States), and Tais Hanae Kasai Brunswick (UFRJ)
Link to the Unicamp Research Data Repository: https://doi.org/10.25824/redu/HXWSLR
Interviewers: Fernanda Mariath
Episode editing and production: Fernanda Mariath
Full episode transcription: Fernanda Mariath
Episode transcription review: Igor Pereira and Maxie Viana
Series visual identity: Bianca Bursi
Series soundtrack: Gabriel Marcal
Sound design: Fernanda Mariath
Teaser editing: Fernanda Mariath
Website content: Fernanda Mariath
Dissemination: Fernanda Mariath
Funding: FAPESP, CAPES, CNPq, and Unicamp
Acknowledgments: To CAPES for the master’s scholarship (Case No.: 88887.826615/2023-00, funding code 001), to FAPESP for the Mídia Ciência scholarship (Case Nos.: 2025/16311-2 and 2024/15321-1), to the staff at Labjor, to Professors Germana Barata and Marina Nucci, to the entire team at Mundaréu and Labirinto who contributed to the production of this series, and to my friends and family!