Own Your Period: A Fact-filled Guide to Period Positivity - Softcover

Quint, Chella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0711256640 ISBN 13: 9780711256644

Publisher: words & pictures, 2021

Synopsis

Having a period is an incredible thing—Own Your Period celebrates what the body can do and provides young people (age 9+) with everything they need to be prepared… and empowered.  
 
This fact-filled guide to periods is bursting with positive, honest advice on managing and understanding menstruation, covering every aspect of periods as well as lots of advice on puberty and growing up in a warm, friendly, and reassuring way.

Topics covered include the fascinating science behind why things happen, with all the details of menstruation through to the menopause explained, as well as answers to all essential questions like what’s a vulva and what does it look like, what do periods actually feel like, and what happens if blood stains your clothes?

Menstrual expert and educator Chella Quint’s witty text slays superstitions, busts common myths and fights period shame, while providing practical information about menstrual products, tracking cycles, and sharing her own personal stories.
 
Funny, insightful, and warm illustrations with friendly chatty text makes this an everything-you-need-to-know essential handbook, which pre-teens can refer to before their periods start, and will appreciate when their cycle is more established. 

This complete guide will prove an invaluable companion to any young person about to start their first period, and will help them embrace their cycle with positivity and pride, and grow into healthy, happy people!

About this title

About the Author

Chella Quint is a Brooklyn-born author, educator, researcher, performer, and founder of the Period Positive movement. She studied dramatic writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts before moving to England, where she qualified as a middle and high school teacher. Chella coined the phrase “period positive” in 2006 and has spent over two decades helping children, teens, and adults understand menstruation and talk about it more openly.

She helps schools, families, communities, policymakers, and health professionals to make menstruation education clearer, more practical and more inclusive. Chella’s work brings together teaching, research, science communication, performance, art and design, and looks at literacy across the menstrual span, from first periods to last periods.

Chella has a master’s degree in education and a PhD in Art and Design. Adventures in Menstruating, her popular touring comedy show, grew out of her master’s research and wove together the experiences and ideas of students and teachers with the history of menstrual product advertising. She is also the author of a book about periods for adults, Be Period Positive, and was a script advisor and appeared onscreen in the International Emmy-nominated BBC special Let’s Talk About Periods.

Giovana Medeiros is a Brazilian illustrator, based in Lisbon, Portugal. She graduated in Fashion Design at SENAI/Criciúma, Brazil, and went to Dublin to study a Higher National Diploma at BCFE. Giovana's work focuses mainly on children's illustration, but has also been applied to a series of different mediums such as books, magazines, textiles, advertising, games, and apps. She works mainly digitally, but in her spare time likes to explore traditional painting with watercolor and gouache. Her main inspirations come from nature, women, daily life, literature, and her travels. 

Edition details

• Publisher: words & pictures
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0711256640
• ISBN 13: 9780711256644
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Medeiros Giovana
• Number of pages: 96