On the Rag: Writing about Menstruation
In response to the sheer lack of literary spaces that support conversations about menstruation writing, this generative workshop invites writers of all genders and genres to come explore their relationship to menstruation in community.
Taught by a queer, trauma-informed teaching artist living with premenstrual dysphoric disorder, this workshop will begin with consideration for our self-care and community-care needs in the Zoom room. We will then read and discuss poems and essays (including work by Franny Choi) that examine menstruation from multiple lenses--queer, (dis)abled, BIPOC--before responding to prompts that invite us to reflect, without romanticization, on our first menses, last menses, and the ones that have come--or not come--in between.
In addition to writing about menstruation, there also will be time and space for us to reflect on how our menstruation experiences have impacted our creative processes (and what shifts might help us going forward).
Come ready to write! Writers of all experience levels are welcome, and writers will leave with drafts of their own work.
In response to the sheer lack of literary spaces that support conversations about menstruation writing, this generative workshop invites writers of all genders and genres to come explore their relationship to menstruation in community.
Taught by a queer, trauma-informed teaching artist living with premenstrual dysphoric disorder, this workshop will begin with consideration for our self-care and community-care needs in the Zoom room. We will then read and discuss poems and essays (including work by Franny Choi) that examine menstruation from multiple lenses--queer, (dis)abled, BIPOC--before responding to prompts that invite us to reflect, without romanticization, on our first menses, last menses, and the ones that have come--or not come--in between.
In addition to writing about menstruation, there also will be time and space for us to reflect on how our menstruation experiences have impacted our creative processes (and what shifts might help us going forward).
Come ready to write! Writers of all experience levels are welcome, and writers will leave with drafts of their own work.
In response to the sheer lack of literary spaces that support conversations about menstruation writing, this generative workshop invites writers of all genders and genres to come explore their relationship to menstruation in community.
Taught by a queer, trauma-informed teaching artist living with premenstrual dysphoric disorder, this workshop will begin with consideration for our self-care and community-care needs in the Zoom room. We will then read and discuss poems and essays (including work by Franny Choi) that examine menstruation from multiple lenses--queer, (dis)abled, BIPOC--before responding to prompts that invite us to reflect, without romanticization, on our first menses, last menses, and the ones that have come--or not come--in between.
In addition to writing about menstruation, there also will be time and space for us to reflect on how our menstruation experiences have impacted our creative processes (and what shifts might help us going forward).
Come ready to write! Writers of all experience levels are welcome, and writers will leave with drafts of their own work.