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