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A review by annmariereads
Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing, & Changing by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
5.0
I straight up feel like an Earth Mother Goddess after reading this. No, I don't know what that is exactly, but I feel powerful, like I've gained essential knowledge.
Our editor, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff has brought together an incredibly diverse group of stories about periods. They're the kind of stories we tell with our friends, laughing or crying or picking our jaws up off the floor. The stories are "taboo" but they always felt so freeing to talk about them out loud with our inner circles. Reading an entire book about it feels like tapping into this gorgeous, important set of collective knowledge.
This book has got to be one of the most comprehensive period books ever written. We've got menstruation experiences from Holocaust survivors, grandmothers talking wtih their granddaughters, teenage activists fighting to make period products more accessible, transgender and non binary folks, JUDY BLUME for crying out loud, women who were enslaved, indigenous people, scientists, poets, writers, the runner who famously free-bled while running the marathon, and 11 year olds all the way to 91 year olds. Just WOW.
I felt seen in so many ways while reading this and found myself highlighting lines that really resonated with me. I especially enjoyed the multi-generational interviews.
SUCH a fantastic book!
Our editor, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff has brought together an incredibly diverse group of stories about periods. They're the kind of stories we tell with our friends, laughing or crying or picking our jaws up off the floor. The stories are "taboo" but they always felt so freeing to talk about them out loud with our inner circles. Reading an entire book about it feels like tapping into this gorgeous, important set of collective knowledge.
This book has got to be one of the most comprehensive period books ever written. We've got menstruation experiences from Holocaust survivors, grandmothers talking wtih their granddaughters, teenage activists fighting to make period products more accessible, transgender and non binary folks, JUDY BLUME for crying out loud, women who were enslaved, indigenous people, scientists, poets, writers, the runner who famously free-bled while running the marathon, and 11 year olds all the way to 91 year olds. Just WOW.
I felt seen in so many ways while reading this and found myself highlighting lines that really resonated with me. I especially enjoyed the multi-generational interviews.
SUCH a fantastic book!