Oct 8, 2020
8 min read
On Menstrual Synchrony
Where poets and science collide in the body
“Could menstruation and its observances in fact be experienced as empowering for women?” Social anthropologist Camilla Power writes, discussing the tradition of menstrual huts of Northern California’s Yurok people. I read this, while menstruating alone in my basement apartment, in the middle of quarantine, grieving the loss of blood — the small death…
