Silvia Young on Clubhouse

Bio

Changemaker in “period pain”🩸💛
She/Her/Ella

🦋 Founder/CEO, FemTruth™️
🦄 Founder/President, FemTruthYouth
📚Author: FemTruth Published Works
🎭 Playwright: GASLIT, A 3-Act Play
🎤Speaker
📣🩸CA Menstrual Equity🎗Women’s Health Edu Organizer
🙋🏻‍♀️ Lived Exp: Endometriosis/Infertility/ACEs
🤝 PR Strategist
💕Latina

🦄 Passion: Bringing solutions to market to normalize conversations around gaslit pain, predominantly impacting girls, keep youth in school and educate into body literacy related to common, yet debilitating diseases and disorders like endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, IC, PMDD, uterine fibroids, mental health —disrupting systemic, gender bias/stigma/myths of “It’s just a bad period’ & “It’s all in your head”.

🦄 Non-profit focus: youth’s agency through artivism


Published:
📕 ‘My FemTruth, Scandalous Survival Stories’ memoir
📒 ‘FemTruth Endometriosis Edition, A Collection of Stories by Courageous Women’ anthology
🎭 ‘Gaslit, A 3-Act Play’
📕 ‘Flo & Friends, A Wellness Guide Beyond Menstruation’ illustration, children’s book
🎼 Chirping Blue Birds’ songwriter

Article Byline:
🖋 ‘Medical Gaslighting Epidemic in Women’s Health, Myths of Period Pain Require Academic Discussion’ by Silvia Young for The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley Student Newsroom
Articles Featured:
‘Shame, Dismissal, Agony: Women with Endometriosis Speak Out’ by Gillian Edevane, NBC

📣Coalitions: AB31, AB1989, AB367

Books Contributor
📕 ‘Pain and Prejudice, How the Medical System Ignores Women and What We Can Do About It’ by Gabrielle Jackson

🎤 Speaker:
Poder Latinx
Women’s March Foundation
Nat’l Organization for Women (NOW)
CA-NOW
Hollywood NOW
CADEM Central Committee
UC Berkeley First Menstrual Symposium
UC Davis Mental Health Initiative
Riverside Medical Clinic Charitable Foundation
AS Women’s Center, San Francisco State University
Nat’l Period Day, UC Berkeley
Nat’l Assoc Commissions on Women (NACW)
Rewire Youth
Endo Support United, Teens with Endo

🎭 Play performed at:
UC Davis
UC Berkeley
NACW Teen Summit
Online debut by FemTruth Youth 2.13.21

💡🔨 Workshops:
‘Owning Your FemTruth’
‘What Covid19 Taught Me About Women’s Health’
‘CA Policy: Menstrual Equity, Women’s Health & Endometriosis, HerStory’

🤝 PR Strategist
PROTOS, Silver Anvil.
Strategic Comms, Campaigns, Launches

Let’s connect 🙋🏻‍♀️
Women’s Health, Periods, FemTech, Investors, Artivism, Endometriosis