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The Sabbath of Women (1991)
This article was first published in Whole Earth Review in the summer of 1991, thanks to connections I made on the WELL (the early online community based in the SF Bay Area), and the eagle eye of then editor Howard Rheingold. The article got a lot of attention at the time, and was a gamechanger as the first piece on menstruation featured in a magazine aimed at both women and men, and which made the link between menstrual stigma and non-sustainable practices. It has subsequently been widely reprinted internationally and translated into many languages. The ideas and much of the text of this article formed the basis of Her Blood Is Gold. The whole article is included here, as it was originally published.
‘Her Blood is Gold’ 20 Years On (2012)
The story of how I came to write Her Blood Is Gold, and what happened to the book between its first publication in 1993 and its 30th anniversary in 2012.
Why we need school and workplace menstruation and menopause policies (2016)
A relatively early piece of writing on the need for accommodation to menstruation and menopause in organizational and public contexts. “Menstrual taboos in patriarchal societies have been a core method for diminishing women through the shaming of a fundamental female-only experience, with corresponding prohibitive and limiting behaviours. This taboo is gradually changing as our world becomes more equal in gender terms, but there is still much work to be done…..”
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