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Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. It might seem a lot, but it's only about 20 to 90ml (about 1 to 5 tablespoons). It's not a sudden gush – you'll just see a reddish-brown stain on your pants or on your sheets when you wake up in the morning. What if period blood leaks through my clothes? The whole cycle is actually very clever, extremely interesting and can tell you a lot more about your life than ‘you need to buy tampons.’ Here are some of the questions that you, as a parent, might get asked by girls about periods, with suggestions on how to answer them: How will I know when my periods are going to start?
Angelica (Jelly for short) is the queen of comedy at school. She has a personality as big as she is, and everyone loves her impressions. But Jelly isn’t as confident as she pretends to be. No one knows her deepest thoughts and feelings. She keeps those hidden away in a secret notebook. Puberty books should cover all the topics ranging from menstruation and understanding the biological changes to tips on choosing sanitary products. It should also highlight aspects like body hair, pimples, breast development, reproduction, personal hygiene, mental health, eating habits, personal care, and emotional changes, while also focusing on empowerment and spreading body positivity. Why Trust MomJunction? This is a collection of beautiful and heartfelt essays about different times. In this book, we have stories from people of different ages, races, and gender identities who talk about menstruation, and we want to share them with you. Each of the twelve writers has a unique point of view that helps us see so many different things. Some of the stories they write are about free bleeding during a marathon, trans people who have periods, and even living through a painful living experience. These essays are written to celebrate menstruation and life through the power of words. This would be a bad idea to not do. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain by Abby Norman Note: Wild Power doesn’t cover much about the science of the menstrual cycle and assumes a bit of prior knowledge. Side Note That I Find Hysterical: When finding the cover image for Under Wraps, the list of You May Also Like To Read suggestions included a bunch of books about periods and ended with Nicholas Sparks’s A Walk To Remember.Draw your own conclusions here. Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life by Darcey SteinkeThe Fifth Vital Sign is heavily researched and covers everything from fertility, menstrual cycle charting, period problems (such as PCOS& period cramps) and how to work with your cycle in everyday life. My hope is that the more you understand about how hormones and neurotransmitters affect our menstrual health, you’ll better understand your body and perhaps change your expectations about what you can and can’t do.” You Can Have a Better Period, 2022 I teach a general education course called ‘humanizing science.’ It’s a social science course designed for science majors. For the last class of the semester, I assigned two readings that were trying to expose students to a justice-minded way of thinking about the world, to ethics, to understanding the history of science and medicine and the incentive structures and problems of science so they can go and produce a different way of doing science. That’s my big dream.
This book has a very clear goal: let’s talk about periods as a normal part of life, y’all. It eloquently combines Okamoto’s personal experiences with practices and beliefs in society surrounding menstruation that prove to be unfair. Along with the problems, she offers solutions, starting with: let’s all have a conversation about periods. Hence the title of the book. Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer Well, those warnings were because of Esther Rome and other feminist activists at the time, who made sure that we all knew there was a problem and changed how we categorize and standardize the absorbency of tampons. Whether you’re a seasoned menstruator, a young menstruator, or a parent of a soon-to-be menstruator, you need books about periods to help guide you through the whole bloody (and absolutely normal!) process, physically and emotionally. We’ve got you covered. There’s this way that especially in Western science and culture, we think of humans as separate from nature, instead of understanding that there is interconnection. We are as deserving of care and conservation as the rest of the planet. What I hope is that by putting attention on the material body, we start to notice once again that our bodies are just as worthy of conservation. If we’re not taking care of ourselves, I don’t understand the point of taking care of everything else.Max’s work really shows the naivete of how we think about pollution and how the first solutions that we so often come up with, especially in Western science narratives, are always, ‘Let’s get it out of our context and put it somewhere else.’ We don’t think about the fact that we moved the factory, so now it pollutes somebody else’s community, or that when we put the landfill over here, the waste leaks into the groundwater and affects this other community. We don’t pay factory workers enough, some of them commit suicide or die, or don’t have enough wages to feed their families. There is a real need for us to imagine greater interconnection, and to stop creating solutions that are all about assuming access to land that isn’t ours and extracting resources without a mind to the consequences of it.
Bleeding Thunder is filled with honest and moving stories, poetry and art from genderqueer menstruators, artists and writers. The Zine explores the nuanced and often misunderstood relationship between periods and the trans and non-binary communities. Women stop getting their periods, and we call it a pause. Why it’s not called menostop, I’ll never understand. Anyway, Flash Count Diary gets to the real raw truth of what it feels like to go through a change from menstruator to no-longer-menstruator. You want to know what a hot flash feels like? Steinke will offer every single uncomfortable moment and all the awkwardness that goes along with it. Want to learn about menstrual cycles of killer whales? Steinke’s got the facts. With references to art, literature, and history, Steinke’s account shows how menopause activism is just as necessary as period activism. Author Emma Barnett shares period stories from many menstruators, as well as her own experience with endometriosis. Because talking about menstruation in a messy, open and real way helps to dissolve the shame many menstruators feel.Cyclical Awareness can benefit people of all genders, bringing meaning and empowerment to each of us in a different way. The creators of Bleeding Thunder are leading the charge in period education specifically for trans people and we hope to see more of it! Abby Norman suffers through undiagnosed endometriosis for years. Her leg goes numb, she loses 30 pounds, and when she goes to a doctor, she’s sent home with antibiotics. She knows her pain is real, not “all in her head,” so she starts digging through medical journals to find her own diagnosis. But doctors never believe her, thinking she’s too young and naive to really understand her body the way a medical professional can. A truly eye-opening read about gender bias in the medical community. Further Reading
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