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Summary:

Periods enter the spotlight in this essay collection that raises a variety of voices on a topic long shrouded in shame and secrecy.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / by Kate Farrell
• She'll become a woman later / by Arisleyda Dilone
• Periods and friendship / by Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
• Going with the flow: blood and sisterhood at the London Marathon / by Madame Gandhi
• I can't walk but I can bleed / by Santina Muha
• There's a first for everything / by Ingrid Nilsen
• My period and me: a trans guy's guide to menstruation / by Wiley Reading
• Black blood / by Ashley Reese
• The homeless period: it doesn't bear thinking about and that's the problem / by Kylyssa Shay
• Bad blood / by Emma Straub
• The politics of periods / by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
• Periods, according to pop culture / by Elizabeth Yuko
• Resources
• About the authors.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Menstruation — Juvenile literature

Menstruation — Social aspects — Juvenile literature

Human body — Political aspects — Juvenile literature

Human body — Social aspects — Juvenile literature

Menstruation

Menstruation — Social aspects

Human body — Political aspects

Human body

Human body — Social aspects

Genres:

Juvenile works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Audience:

Teenagers
Children
Ages: 15 & up.
Grades: 10 & up.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 20 cm

Call Numbers:

J612.6 P445pe

ISBNs:

9781250141941 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017956993

OCLC Numbers:

994508855

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: jlg20047816