Period 40: Run, hide, fight
At the start of every semester, my campus sends around a reminder to go over with students what to do in the event of a campus shooter. Our options are Run-...
Period 39: How to think not what to do
This week for my Feminist Science seminar we read Michelle Murphy’s work on pollution and the alterlife, and Jamie Haverkamp’s work on love-care-response as...
Period 38: To transform, to be transformed
I spent hours this week reading names of the dead. Out on the quad, on sunny, gorgeous fall days, we stood at various intersections with four binders full of...
Period 37: I hate tampons (derogatory)
I hate tampons. No, really. I hate them. I tend to be menstrual product agnostic in that I think people need to use whatever works best for them given their...
Period 36: It's complicated
So it’s been a while – between activism, parenting, book writing, and professoring it’s been hard to prioritize the newsletter. Here and on Bluesky, I feel...
Period 35: Reckoning with menstrual pain – and a note on “biological sex”
As a young person, when my periods became intensely painful, my mother introduced me to prescription strength doses of ibuprofen. I would take 800-1000...
Period 34: Menstrualsplaining
How have I gotten thirty-four issues into this newsletter and not done a basic menstrual cycle explainer? My whole book is kind of like a menstrual cycle...
Period 33: Perimenopause can perimeno-suck it
First, big news! Buttondown now has commenting functionality! You can comment on these newsletters to your heart’s content – a great way to meet like-minded...
Period 32: Hostile sexism and beliefs about menstruating people
Babies are on my mind right now – over the last few months I’ve interviewed a number of people who have had miscarriages or stillbirths. There are elements...
Period 31: Retraumatization versus remembering
I have just finished reading (listening to on audio via LibroFM, actually) Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger (these are regular links not affiliate links). I think...
