It's this week! It's spring! It’s time for shorts and reading and writing about blood!
Hope to see you and your loved ones in the DMV area for the events below.
✨Bleeding and Being✨
A reading and writing workshop
Thursday, April 13, 5:00pm - 7:00 PM
Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library, D.C.
Join me, Somah Haaland, Sofiya Moore, and my very own aunt Nina Kauder for a reading from Our Red Book. Following the reading, there will be a writing workshop that will guide participants in crafting their own period story. Writing and art supplies will be provided. A limited number of *free* copies of Our Red Book will be available to take home.
And!! Because of some visionary librarians, everyone will be invited to contribute their story to a temporary display: a “bleeding wall” of local stories. Folks have begun populating the wall in the library already and it makes me teary-eyed, not only because they are such beautiful accounts but also because it shows me how caring a public space could be. Come add your voice!
✨Reading & Community Fair!✨
Saturday, April 15 2:00pm - 4:00 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library.
Hear stories from folks of various identities who menstruate, don’t menstruate, have experienced menopause, or bleed in other ways.
Join me and contributors Somah Haaland, my aunt Nina, Sofiya Moore, Victoria Law, Shira Grabelsky, Marian Evans, and Mindi Rose Englart for a reading from Our Red Book.
Throughout the event there will be a community fair featuring local gender justice and health organizations working toward our collective well-being. Including a table from Thick Press!
All ages, identities, and experiences are warmly welcomed to this inclusive event, sponsored by the Mt. Pleasant Library Friends.
ASL Interpretation will be provided.
In other news, please enjoy these recent essays, out this month. Well, enjoy is the wrong word, but here you go!
Florida’s “Don’t Say Period” bill can’t stop the menstrual wave—Salon
Prisons Use Menstruation as a Form of Punishment—TIME
With love,
Rachel
A sweet photo of Daaimah, me, Somah, and Vikki from Somah’s film camera right before our reading at Bard