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Period : twelve voices tell the bloody truth / [edited and introduction by Kate Farrell].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 208 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 125014194X
  • 9781250141941
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction / Kate Farrell -- She'll become a woman later / Arisleyda Dilone -- Periods and friendship / Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow -- Going with the flow : blood and sisterhood at the London Marathon / Madam Gandhi -- I can't walk but I can bleed / Santina Muha -- There's a first for everything / Ingrid Nilsen -- My period and me: a trans guy's guide to menstruation / Wiley Reading -- Black blood / Ashley Reese -- The homeless period : it doesn't bear thinking about and that's the problem / Kylyssa Shay -- Bad blood / Emma Straub -- The politics of periods / Jennifer Weiss-Wolf -- Periods, according to pop culture / Elizabeth Yuko -- Resources -- About the authors
Summary: In this collection, writers of various ages and across racial, cultural, and gender identities share stories about the period. Each of our twelve authors brings an individual perspective and sensibility. They write about homeless periods, nonexistent periods, male periods, political periods, and more. Told with warmth and humor, these essays celebrate all kinds of period experiences. -- Amazon.com
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 612.662 P445 Available 33111008896108
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 612.662 P445 Available 33111009203825
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

In this collection, writers of various ages and across racial, cultural, and gender identities share stories about the period. Each of our twelve authors brings an individual perspective and sensibility. They write about homeless periods, nonexistent periods, male periods, political periods, and more. Told with warmth and humor, these essays celebrate all kinds of period experiences.

Periods are a fact of life. It's time to talk about them.

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

In this collection, writers of various ages and across racial, cultural, and gender identities share stories about the period. Each of our twelve authors brings an individual perspective and sensibility. They write about homeless periods, nonexistent periods, male periods, political periods, and more. Told with warmth and humor, these essays celebrate all kinds of period experiences. -- Amazon.com

Includes bibliographical references.

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