awfully hilarious: period pieces
awfully hilarious: period pieces
awfully hilarious: period pieces
Description
Description
In an intimate, courageous, and transformative collection, 26 girls and women of all ages share poems and stories exploring the ups and downs of menstruation, from first period to post-menopause.
The award-winning anthology awfully hilarious series returns with its second installment, period pieces, featuring that most ubiquitous "time of the month." These short pieces of prose and poetry illuminate our collective fascination, trepidation and shame around the biology of periods: from pre-pubescence and monthly cycles, to perimenopause, hot flashes, and menopause.
Told in cycles, awfully hilarious: period pieces explores menstruation through feminine (but not always female) archetypal milestones of the maiden, mother, and crone-and the many identities we embody in between.
In the Spring sections, the collection focuses on stories of first periods and youth on the cusp, as well as the follicular phase between flow and ovulation. Summer revels in ovulation, fertility (as well as birth control), and pregnancy. Fall represents menstruation's luteal phase, when many experience greater pain and distress, and finally, Winter takes readers to the very edge and end, with perimenopause and menopause.
Regardless of gender expression or experience, period pieces is for everyone: fervently and courageously sharing a human experience often forced to secrecy and solitude. In this stunning collection, readers can join the chorus: We've been there. We've got you.
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awfully hilarious is an anthology series of poems, short stories, and essays that tackle social taboos by talking openly about them. With great camaraderie and heart, contributors share the awkward and devastating stories that-with time and experience-become the badges of honour we share to affirm we are never truly alone in this world. Learn more at awfullyhilarious.com.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"An open-hearted volume. Reading these stories feels like talking to a family most of us wish we could have."
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, editor of New York Times best-selling My Little Red Book and editor of Our Red Book.
"These stories matter, to menstruators, and others alike. I'm delighted to see voices joyously celebrating what has been shamed and secret for far too long."
Sandi MacDonald, Co-founder, IAPMD International Association for Premenstrual Disorders
"Period pieces highlights a struggle to embrace the onset of menses, to find time and space to care for ourselves, to obtain supplies and caring health providers. A bright and painful journey into the inner lives of those who menstruate and those who love them."
Dr. Ingrid Kristensen, Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
"Period pieces bust out of diaries, bringing heart-wrenching emotions. My hope is that menstrual research and healthcare can also take a step forward along with these brave storytellers."
Dr. Meghan Dougan, ND - Naturopathic Doctor, Menstrual & Mental Health Advocate
"The stories we don't tell - or the ones we tell only to our dearest friends, either with laughter or with quiet tears - are often the stories the rest of the world needs the most. This book is full of such stories: the intimate, the vulnerable, the funny, the heartbreaking. Tracing the seasons and cycles of women's lives and the transitions - in our bodies, in our lives, in our understanding of ourselves and each other - these stories remind us that the taboo topics are the most important ones. awfully hilarious: period pieces will remind you that you are not alone in this wild roller coaster experience of womanhood."
Christina Myers, editor, former journalist, writing instructor, and award-winning writer.
"Period Pieces, edited by Heather Hendrie, is a deep dive into the cycles of womanhood, from the first red stain on a young girl's panties to the sweat-soaked sheets of menopause. This fearless collection of 26 stories, poems, personal essays, and experimental explorations about "Aunt Flo" reminds us that the female body is universally complicated and beautiful; inconvenient and miraculous; messy and mysterious.
It's a bloody good read."
Katherine Fawcett, wordsmith&musicmaker
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