Amanda Laird

Heavy Flow

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What do you know about your menstrual cycle?
Your menstrual cycle is your fifth vital sign — a barometer of health and wellness that is as telling as your pulse or blood pressure. Yet most of us see our periods as nothing more than a source of inconvenience and embarrassment.
The reasons for this are vast and complex and many are rooted in misogyny. The fact is, women the world over are taught the bare minimum about menstruation, and the messages they do receive are negative: that periods are painful and gross, that they turn us into hormonal messes, and that they shouldn't be discussed.
By examining the history of period shame and stigma and its effects on women’s health and wellness today as well as providing a crash course in menstrual self-care, Heavy Flow aims to lift the veil on menstruation, breaking the “curse” once and for all.
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274 printed pages
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
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Quotes

  • Erandi Acostahas quoted3 years ago
    Only once we are educated about our cycles and the cultural associations can we recognize it for what it really is: not a shameful secret but a fact of life that need not be concealed.

    — Elizabeth Kissling, Capitalizing on the Curse:
    The Business of Menstruation
  • Nataliahas quoted5 years ago
    It is at once a political issue, a cultural issue, a class issue, and a public health issue. Our attitudes toward menstruation mirror our discomfort with seasonality and change, death and renewal
  • Nataliahas quoted5 years ago
    In a world where the minutiae of our lives are live-tweeted, posted to Instagram, and enshrined online, we wouldn’t dare update our status to “menstruating.”

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