Our Red Book
Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing
Published on 1. November 2022
384 pages
978-1-9821-6867-4 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, gathered by the editor of the New York Times bestselling anthology My Little Red Book.
After hearing a harrowing coming-of-age story from her great aunt, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff started gathering stories about menstruation in her family that had never been told. What began as an oral history project quickly snowballed: Rachel heard from family and friends, and then from strangers?writers, experts, community leaders, activists, young people, and other visionaries?about the most intimate physical transformations in their lives.
Our Red Book takes us through stories of first periods, last periods, missing periods, and everything about bleeding that people wish they had been told. Weaving together powerful voices?from teenagers, midwives, Indigenous scholars, Olympic athletes, incarcerated writers, disoriented fathers, elected leaders who fought to make period products free, friends transitioning genders, grandmothers, and lovers?the book invites us on a collective journey of growth and change, with Rachel's own voice as a guide.
The result is a people's history of menstruation, told through an array of perspectives and identities that span the globe. Gathered over twenty years, the collection takes stock of our shifting relationships to family, cultural inheritance, gender, aging, and liberation.
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Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is a writer working at the intersection of oral history, performance, and public health. Her newest book is Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing, and Changing. She is the author of Stages: on Dying, Working, and Feeling; coeditor of The Feminist Utopia Project; and the editor of the New York Times bestselling My Little Red Book. She teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- A Note from the Editor
- The Aunts
- 1. Nina Bassman
- 2. Lienna Silver
- 3. Nina Kauder
- A Small City: Stories from Home
- 4. Zannette Lewis
- 5. Kica Matos
- 6. Nina Bentley
- 7. Ma Xiao Ling
- Into the World
- 8. Enrique
- 9. Claudia Pacheco
- 10. Ray Lipstein
- A Small Flood: Stories from Writers & Artists
- 11. Judy Blume
- 12. Trinidad Escobar
- 13. Sarah Ruhl
- 14. Michelle Memran
- 15. Daaimah Mubashshir
- 16. Sam McCann
- 17. Leah Hazard
- 18. Kubra Khademi
- 19. Jennifer Thomas
- 20. Tanaya Winder
- 21. Florence Given
- 22. Fiona Hallinan
- 23. Te Awa Atua: The Divine River: An essay by Ngahuia Murphy
- 24. Alexis Sablone
- 25. Irena Haiduk
- 26. Sarah Rosen
- 27. Tamora Pierce
- 28. Hannah Bae
- 29. C.C.
- 30. Elena House-Hay
- 31. Zhi Kai Hoffman Vanderford
- 32. Kwaneta Harris
- A Brief Interlude on Menstrual Justice (or, What Is Menstrual Justice?)
- 33. A Conversation with Madame Gandhi
- 34. A Conversation with Amira Pierotti & Amy Yao & Anika Sanyal & Maggie Di Sanza of Bleed Shamelessly
- 35. A Conversation with Julianna Baldo
- 36. A Conversation with MSP (Member of Scottish Parliament) Monica Lennon
- 37. If Men Could Menstruate: An essay by Gloria Steinem
- Back into the Flood: More Stories from Writers & Artists
- 38. Fatema Maswood
- 39. Drew Pham
- 40. Shira Grabelsky
- 41. Mariana Roa Olivia
- 42. Una
- 43. Katherine Agard
- 44. Somáh Haaland
- 45. Agnes Borinsky
- Intimate Conversations
- 46. Laurelin Kruse talks with her mom, Barbara Bolanovich Kruse
- 47. Cassie da Costa talks with her mom, Chilombo da Costa
- 48. Cristina Fernandez talks with her mom, Mercedes Artime Bordas
- 49. Mary Marge Locker talks with her aunts Lucy Locker Crosby & Susan Locker Farris
- 50. Maria Gaspar talks with her niece Thaís Beltran
- 51. Henry Hoke talks with his mom, Melissa Oliver
- 52. Emily Mast talks with her partner, Yehuda Duenyas
- 53. Mara Hoplamazian talks with their friend Kellyn Kusyk
- 54. Rachel Kauder Nalebuff & Caitlin Ryan O'Connell listen to their students Pamela Beckford & Victoria Lynch talking
- 55. Salty Xi Jie Ng talks with her grandmothers, Teo Siew Lan & Tan Cha Boo
- A Full Circle: More Stories from Home
- 56. Nadia Gaskins
- 57. Axel Gay
- 58. Jordyn McBride
- 59. Piper Zschack
- 60. Mindi Englart
- 61. Marian Evans
- 62. Lily Grace Sutton
- 63. A Conversation with Odette Waks
- 64. Simran Ankolkar
- 65. A Conversation with Alice Lu-Culligan
- 66. Sofiya Moore
- A Note on Process
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Contributor Bios
- Permissions
- Copyright
