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

A New Playbook For Raising Boys

5 days 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 week 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

2 months ago | 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

2 months ago | 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.
Why Is Good Food So Sexy?

2 months ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

Food and love looms large in our cultural imagination. We’re seduced by aphrodisiacs like figs, chocolate and oysters. A romantic dinner date takes a new relationship to the next level or rekindles the flame in an established one. These associations between food and sex go back centuries, as host Anita Rao learns from historian Rachel Hope Cleves.
One Woman's Guide To Divorcing America

Feb 7, 2025 | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

In July 2020, Tina Strawn needed a fresh start. The COVID-19 pandemic had been going on for four months, cancelling work she had lined up for the rest of the year. Her wife had just asked to go on a break. So she did something she had been thinking about doing for months: she moved abroad. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s re-election, online searches for information about leaving the U.S. skyrocketed.