Period 27 Miscarriages and heat
It’s the first week of classes, but not for me! I’m on teaching leave this year to focus both on some administrative work for the university and to write my...
Period 26: Journalists - stop saying that menstrual products are tested with saline and please do some reporting
Ok, sidebar newsletter. Share this one, please. Last week for the weird period fact I shared a recent paper that looked at menstrual product...
Period 25: Ultimate menstrual frisbee
I was on Taboo Science Podcast this week talking about PERIOD (which, by the way, if you’ve read it, would you consider leaving a rating or review on...
Period 24: the turning point at which these newsletters slowly turn into very long weird period facts
We’re finally home after a perhaps too-long vacation. It was good to see family, and if I could have stayed with my sister and her kids another month I...
Period 23: Getting insomnia just in time for this Cape Cod book event
I’m still on vacation but this week is the not-vacation vacation, meaning we put our youngest in camp so we could actually work during the day. My partner...
Period 22: 100 tampons and a discount code
I’ve been writing a lot for the last month… just not newsletters. I got about 35,000 words deep into my next book, which is on pregnancy loss. It turns out...
Period 21: Natural born killers
I was on Slate’s podcast The Waves this week – which was such a treat because I’m a big fan! Between being on The Waves and This Podcast Will Kill You I’ve...
Period 20: Just say no to TERFs
When you write a book, all you can really do is hope it gets the kind of exposure that it will end up in the hands of the people who want it or need it. No...
Period 19: on privacy, the definition of water, and multiregionalism
Well my book tour is done, and it was really fun to meet so many readers and future readers of Period. It was also nice to travel again after three years of...
Period 18: no one told me about all the turkey sandwiches
I’m on book tour! Which doesn’t mean I’m traveling continuously – I’m not that fancy – but so far I’ve had my hometown event (a ton of former derby teammates...
