Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You

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To see the cycle as the enemy can set you up for more suffering. But working with and within its rhythmic imperatives can be your foundational path to healing.” Wild Power, 2017. For me, this book was really powerful. I cite and talk about it quite a bit in one chapter of my book. I thought her critique was so skillful. In the vein of what I was talking about with Rebecca Solnit’s book, I think critique is actually optimistic. It offers a path forward toward a better future and demands more of others. That’s what I admire about this book. It isn’t saying, ‘Therefore, you should all do nothing, go leave now.’ Instead, she’s saying, ‘I expect better of all of us. Let’s figure out a path forward.’ Allow questions and keep an open mind to conversations that could be had whilst discussing menstruation. Have you ever heard the term ‘Menstrual Cycle Awareness’? This was actually coined by authors Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, a concept they explore in depth in Wild Power. They also founded period education organization Red School and have published many other books between them. This book should be given to every woman who has menstruation in the whole world! She tells her own story of her first period, because the goal of this book is to make menstruation less painful. Nadya crushes it. She also wants to make sure that menstruation doesn't have a gender. Let's say people who menstruate, not women. There are only menstrual products, not "feminine hygiene products." This is a great book for young people who menstruate, but it's also great for young people who don't. "Period Power," which is written in an easy to read style and is full of interesting facts, is a book about the culture, history, and privilege that go along with this most basic of bodily functions.

It took a significant amount of time between moms noticing that if they had rubella while they were pregnant their child might be born blind or die, for people to pay attention. They said it enough times to enough people. The first person who really believed them seems to be a doctor in Australia, Norman Gregg.You Can Have a Better Period is an amazing resource for any menstruator dealing with hormonal imbalance, gut issues, PMS, pain or heavy bleeding. Christina M. Rau is the author of the sci-fi fem poetry collection, Liberating The Astronauts (Aqueduct Press, 2017), and the chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). In her non-writing life, she teaches yoga occasionally and line dances on other occasions. When a girl starts her periods it's a sign that her body is now able to have a baby. It's important that she also knows about getting pregnant and contraception. The questions girls ask about periods

Here’s a nice change of pace—menstruation as magical powers! Okay, they aren’t exactly magic, but Wild Power offers ideas about how menstruation aligns with energy to empower women. In addition to teaching the ladies how to harness and use this innate power, it also guides us to a new approach to menopause. Basically, this book redefines everything we may think about menstruation. Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology by Sharra Vostral Emma cuts right through all the myths and embarrassment with searing facts, honesty and, perhaps more importantly, humour. A bleeding good read.' - Yomi Adegoke To make your child feel secure and enthusiastic about this stage, she needs the correct information. As a parent, you must provide a secure environment for your child to feel safe approaching you with her questions about puberty. And a suitable place for you to start would be selecting the right books on the topic. This right here is a beautiful collection of essays about menstruation. A lot of things you might not think of are covered here. Madame Gandhi talks about how she had to stop bleeding while running the London Marathon because she was so tired. Wiley Reading talks about what it's like to be a trans man with a period in his story. Emma Straub talks about how she didn't think about a painful time for a long time.Your periods will start when your body is ready. This is usually between age 8 and 17, or 2 years after your first signs of puberty. 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? Periods are no longer secret little taboos. A big, loud political issue is what Jennifer Weiss-Wolf talks about. She gives us a lot of history and culture from around the world, along with a lot of ideas for activism that will get your blood pumping. Periods Gone Public is a must-read for any feminist who wants to make the world a better place for women. Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You by Maisie Hill 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.

Now we’re at the last book you recommended, which is Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America by Leslie Reagan. Tell me about this book. I don’t know much of the history. One thing I always wondered growing up is what happened 100 years ago, before there were sanitary pads or tampons or in societies where you don’t have all those disposable products. What did people do? Nadya tells her period story, covers the essentials about menstruation, how it is portrayed in the media and the political environment.

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. 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. Your menstrual cycle is a vital sign, just like your pulse, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure. And it provides you with the essential information about your health.” The Fifth Vital Sign, 2019. 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?

Let’s go through the books you’ve chosen. The first one is The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South. Tell me about this book and why you like it. If you’re interested in the world of menstrual cycle awareness, there are so many incredible books about periods covering everything you need to know. Respond to questions or opportunities as they arise and do not be embarrassed. Periods are natural. Talking about periods 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.Clever, useful and wise. Read it. Pass it on to your daughters. And then to your sons.' - Fi Glover Here are a few books on periods that I would recommend if you are looking to learn more than the basics you learned 10 (or more) years ago at school. Or if you are ready to educate some other young ladies about periods. I will certainly be sharing what I’ve learned with my daughter. Do you want to learn more about cycle phases, hormones, fertility, activism, spiritual practices, or all of the above? You will find the perfect book for you in this list!