Girls Only! All About Periods and Growing-Up Stuff

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There are ways of covering up stains until you're able to change your clothes, such as tying a sweatshirt around your waist. Keep a spare pair of pants and tights at school or in your bag. Should I use pads, tampons, menstrual cups or period underwear? 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 It’s about bloody time, is a light-hearted and funny book about dismantling period stigma and taboo through talking about them. No, it can't. When you insert a tampon, it stays in your vagina. All tampons come with a string at one end that is designed to stay outside your body. You can remove the tampon at any time using this string.

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. As aforementioned, this book is so kitschy! I mean, that pinup gal on the cover! It includes the history of how society has “dealt with” menstruation, which includes advertisements for feminine care from days of yore. It’s also super simple and clear in answering age-old questions like Hey, why do we have to get our periods anyway? I love how Flow fits into the realm of any other cultural history lessons. It’s Only Blood: Shattering The Taboo of Menstruation by Anna Dahlqvist, Translated by Alice Olsson 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! Note: This book doesn’t focus solely on the menstrual cycle, so if you’re after cycle or period education specifically this book may not be for you. 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!Be sympathetic and empathetic, starting your period can be strange if you don’t know all the information so be kind to those who are learning about menstruation. Elisabeth Daly, a book blogger and English teacher, says, “Age-appropriate books about puberty can help young girls feel more confident and less alone. This is a confusing and difficult time in a girl’s life, but knowing what to expect can help them feel supported.” Alma Gottlieb is an emeritus professor from my university and my office at work is her old office. She gave me a copy of this book just as I was about to start writing. It’s a cultural anthropology of menstruation. It’s one of the first books that said, ‘Instead of universalizing the idea that all humans have menstrual stigma, let’s actually take a closer look at all of these different groups.’ 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.’

Gender identity has nothing to do with menstruation and it can be helpful to use language such as ‘people who menstruate’. Period resources should be for everyone, not just cis women! After all not all women menstruate, not all menstruators are women. And another thing. Next year Sophie’s class will see the movieabout body changes, and her classmates are already buzzing about it. Sophie doesn’t want to know about that embarrassing stuff yet. Does that mean she’s immature? How can she prove otherwise? Use clear language, like "vagina". Emphasise that periods are completely normal and natural – they're part of growing up. So you’ve chosen this book because you like the approach, rather than because it has a menstruation angle per se?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. 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. There is a HUGE gaping hole in our education and health care system when it comes to the menstrual cycle. Until this is filled it’s up to us to seek out information for ourselves.

Knowing and understanding your period can be a window into your health and your mind. You just need to get to know it. Not only that but us girls need to go about breaking this taboo, these books will inspire you to do just that. 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? 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. As usual, Sophie faces challenges and challengers with determination and resourcefulness. With the same down-to-earth, realistic, humorous take on friendships and family relationships praised in the three previous Sophie Hartley books, this fourth story brings the indomitable Sophie a step closer to growing up without compromising her sense of herself.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.’ This is up to you. Tampons, menstrual cups, disposable or reusable pads (towels) and period underwear are safe and suitable if you've just started your period. You might want to use pads for your very first period as tampons and cups can take some getting used to. It might be worth experimenting until you find the product that suits you best. Can a tampon get lost inside me? That’s why I’m curious when I look at this book, and how we actually cared. We fought to come up with a vaccine to stop transmission of rubella to protect pregnant people and fetuses and children. Today, we don’t have that for COVID. Most pregnant people don’t even know that every time they go out unmasked or the people around them don’t bother masking, they are exposing themselves to the risk of stillbirth, miscarriage, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction and microcephaly.