Modern Sex Ed: What a mouse can teach us about menstruation

Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.

This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about.

Event Schedule:

6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open

7pm Lecuture Starts

7.45pm Q&A

8pm Talk Concludes

8.30pm Event Closes.

*Please arrive close to 6.30pm

A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go.

Your Topic and Speaker: Amongst the many, long-standing hurdles to effectively studying menstruation, a mouse from the deserts of Egypt is changing how we view, study, and understand female reproductive health. Despite not having a menstrual cycle, Dr McKenna has spent the past 5 years talking on radio, podcasts, and in pubs around Melbourne covering everything from where the clitoris is to the evolution of menstruation.
However, Dr McKenna also spent his PhD investigating the menstrual cycle of the world’s only known menstruating rodent: The Egyptian Spiny mouse.
Dr McKenna passionately takes students and audiences further down the path to menstrual literacy by discussing the evolution of and hurdles to studying menstruation, and how a mouse from the deserts of Egypt is changing how we view, study, and understand female reproductive health.

Event Venue

Hotel Esplanade, 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda, Australia

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