Heavy Flow

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

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

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.”