Welcome to Litsy!

The look on her face...so relatable.

I found this graphic novel via NYPL's Teen Banned Book Club. It is inspiring, funny, heart-warming, and utterly delightful. It's an amazing resource, as well. Books like this need to exist.

You can watch NYPL's online event with the authors here: https://www.youtube.com/live/WpNLG725Uss?si=hLu7F29lGv_Cem01

And the book club link is: https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/freedom-to-read/teen-book-club

##withthebanned

This is not the only book I‘ve read featuring menstruation discrimination, but it‘s definitely the best. It tackled diseases caused by periods as well as friendships, while still including trans men and gender non-conforming people in the book. Definitely haven‘t seen that before. 5🌟

An excellent friendship story with a kickass feminist look at menstruation.

A must read, not just for those who have gotten/will get their periods, for everyone. Period stigma is still alive and well in 2021. The only way to combat it is with information and open discussions. Likewise with period poverty. Also, watch the Netflix documentary “Period. End of Sentence”.

Looks like it‘s my turn! Here are some that caught my eye. Let me know what you think 🤔 I will tag the other three books in the comments below. #lmpbc #groupg #round012

A ya graphic novel about female friendship, periods, and growing up.

A cute and fun graphic novel about friendship and periods!

A graphic novel about periods!!! It‘s fabulous 😍 I loved it and so did my 12 year old daughter. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As others have mentioned, this book is good & everyone should read it as it is about a natural thing; menstruation. 4 young girls deal with high school life & everything that comes with periods.. I think all middle school girls should read this graphic novel! It‘s very informative & inspiring! Specially the character Abby! 😻-she‘s so passionate & brave! She goes out of her way to ensure all restrooms have free sanitary items. #gowiththeflow #🩸

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Period Power!! Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore or online bookstore and buy this for the young girl in your life and help break the negative stigma about periods. Outstanding YA graphic novel that covers all the usual topics of school, friends, boys and mean girls but more importantly about menstrual equity, endometriosis and period pain. Wish I had this book when I was growing up.

You guys. Where was this book when I was a tween? A teen? In my twenties when my mother asked the emergency room doctor if he‘d considered endometriosis as the cause of my excruciating pain and he said that he was the doctor, not her, and clearly this was an inflamed appendix? (Guess who was correct.) Get this book into the hands of a girl you love, her school administrator, her doctor‘s waiting room. For real. It‘s important. (7)

This is a great GN about normalizing periods, with some great friendships and a little drama. Three old friends help the new girl when she gets her period unexpectedly, and that sets one activist-minded girl on a crusade for menstrual equity. A lot to unpack here and I love it all.

This really hits home with me right now (stumbled across it yesterday at the library) because I need to have a serious discussion with my GYN next visit about (cont)

I had almost this exact conversation with my best friend in college when the health center doc told her she couldn‘t have kids (she wanted 7, I wanted 0). Except she thought that meant I‘d have to have sex with her (now) husband, which was totally not what I was offering!
She has two awesome kids of her own (that doc was way wrong) and I have one, and it all worked out. We still laugh about it.

I feel really seen here. “This is just normal for you” was what I heard my entire adolescence. My mom told me I couldn‘t keep missing school but also understood that I couldn‘t be in class when I couldn‘t sit or stand up straight.

This was a delight!

I 100% read this book because a bunch of grown men thought the concept was SO egregious that they took time out of their lives to complain about it on the internet. Talk about periods?!? In a school setting?!? Ewww... Amiright?

While I wasn‘t as thoroughly scandalized, I was not disappointed either. This is a great story about 4 friends with differing cycles and needs to come together to support each other. (More in comments)

Abby wants the girls bathrooms to be stocked with pads and tampons, and for talk about periods to be destigmatized. Her friends are tired of her talking about it. They keep telling her to take a break (while they ice skate, go get ice cream, do many non protest related things). So she makes a big protest art piece and takes sole credit for it. And her friends are mad at her. They act like she betrayed them. I‘m missing something.

Terrific graphic novel!