Kaia Findlay

Durham

Producer at WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC)

Producer for @embodiedWUNC, mostly tweeting over there. Bringing health/sex/relationship topics to the radio!

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Articles

Why We Need To Talk About Sex In Nursing Homes

1 week ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay |Anita Rao |Amanda Magnus

Sex has no age limit. But having a robust intimate life well beyond age 65 comes with distinct challenges, particularly when you no longer live in the privacy of your own home. Host Anita Rao talks with two people dedicated to making good sex possible for older adults, whether they are navigating dementia and living in a nursing home or forging a new relationship with someone in their assisted living community.
Climate Anxiety And The Choice To Parent

3 weeks ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay |Anita Rao |Amanda Magnus

Gen Z is anxious about climate change, and it’s impacting their family planning — but not always in the ways we might expect. Jade Sasser, a researcher and associate professor at the University of California, Riverside, started studying the links between climate anxiety, race and reproductive decision-making in earnest in 2020, with a few distinct questions in mind: How much is climate change affecting how young people think about kids?
A New Playbook For Raising Boys

4 weeks ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay |Anita Rao |Amanda Magnus

When the #MeToo movement exploded in 2017, writer Ruth Whippman — who was nearly nine months pregnant with her third son — experienced a profound conflict. As a feminist, she celebrated the movement; as a mother, she worried: How am I gonna raise these boys to be good if it seems like male misconduct and bad behavior is the norm? This tension launched Ruth on a quest to understand modern American boyhood and what's not working.
Balanced: Love & Bipolar Disorder

1 month ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay |Anita Rao

A mental health diagnosis can affect many aspects of romance, intimacy and partnership. For those living with bipolar disorder, a mental health disorder characterized by extreme mood shifts between emotional highs and lows, navigating mental health and romance involves communication, care and breaking down stigma — both internal and external.
A Doctor’s Intuition Lost And Found

1 month ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

Doctors are expected to make high-stakes decisions quickly and often. And while plenty of medical guidelines exist, sometimes finding the right answer relies on intuition as much as logic. So what happens when suddenly that intuition is gone? Dr. Ronald Dworkin, a retired anesthesiologist, found out the answer to that question about halfway through his 28-year career.
Decades Of ‘Death Cramps’ Later, A Search For Answers To Period Pain

2 months ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay |Anita Rao |Amanda Magnus

Ever since Kate Downey got her first extremely painful period at age 14, every month feels like playing Russian roulette with her uterus. Will she get “normal” abdominal discomfort — or excruciating, life-disrupting “death cramps”? “ You don't know if you're gonna spend six hours in the bathroom throwing up every ten minutes and passing out, or if you're gonna be able to go about your normal life,” Kate said.
Why We Need Trans Tech In 2025

2 months ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

Since his first day in office, President Trump has rolled out executive orders limiting transgender Americans' access to healthcare, passports, sports and the military. One trans scholar says it’s vital, in this moment, to talk about technology. “ I don't have any illusions that technology is going to solve these problems,” said Oliver Haimson, assistant professor at University of Michigan School of Information.
Why Black Women’s Disordered Eating Is Overlooked

2 months ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

Despite a decade of restrictive behavior and a career path in mental health counseling, Alishia McCullough had never associated herself with the phrase eating disorder. “A lot of times I was praised for being thin,” she said. “My providers would say you're a perfect size … so for me, it just never registered to be a problem.”She talks to host Anita Rao about how an aha moment in grad school led her to better understand how to treat eating disorders in Black women’s bodies — starting with her own.
Sexual Liberation for Single Moms

Feb 28, 2025 | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

For solo mom Tara Ilsley, time and money are in short supply. Most of her attention is focused on her 2-year-old son and her full-time job in public health — but that doesn’t mean she’s put dating, sex and romance completely by the wayside. Host Anita Rao talks with Tara about the ways that single mom life has put a finer point on her desires for partnership and pleasure, and the hacks she’s come up with to make sure she can get out the door for a date.
‘I’ve Got The Same Thing You Do’: Ehlers-Danlos Across Generations

Feb 21, 2025 | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

Soph Myers-Kelley and his mom, René Myers, have always been close. But five years ago, they discovered something that brought them even closer: a shared diagnosis of the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). EDS explained symptoms they’d both been having for decades, including waking up with jaw or shoulder dislocations and experiencing chronic pain. The mother-child pair were diagnosed one year apart – Soph was 25; René was 60.