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Own Your Period

Own Your Period

by Chella Quint and Giovana Medeiros
Paperback
Publication Date: 14/09/2021

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This fact-filled, illustrated guide to periods is bursting with positive advice on managing and understanding periods. Own Your Period celebrates amazing bodies - an essential handbook for all pre-teens.

This fact-filled guide to periods is bursting with positive, honest advice on managing and understanding menstruation. Having a period is an incredible thing - Own Your Period celebrates what the body can do and provides young people (age 9+) with everything they need to be prepared… and empowered. Includes the fascinating science behind why things happen, with all the details of menstruation through to the menopause. Answers all essential questions like what's a vulva and what does it look like, what do periods actually feel like, and what happens if blood stains your clothes?

Chella Quint's witty text slays superstitions, busts common myths and fights period shame, while providing practical information about menstrual products, tracking cycles and sharing her own personal stories. Funny, insightful and warm illustrations with friendly chatty text makes this an everything-you-need-to-know essential handbook, which pre-teens can refer to before their periods start, and will appreciate when their cycle is more established.

ISBN:
9780711256637
9780711256637
Category:
Personal & social issues: sex education & the facts of life (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
14-09-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group UK
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
96
Dimensions (mm):
240x185mm
Chella Quint

Chella Quint is a Brooklyn-born, Sheffield-based designer, writer, and performer. A former drama teacher and head of PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economics Education), Chella coined the phrase ‘period positive' in 2006 and founded #periodpositive to use humour and joy to challenge menstrual taboos, and find long-term solutions to period poverty.

She became a leading expert on menstruation education in the UK, advising on regional and national policy on menstruation education and period poverty. She created the Period Positive Pledge as a framework for developing menstruation-inclusive policy and outreach. Chella writes and performs solo shows, delivers public engagement projects and designs installations on themes inspired by science, health, taboo, product design and social justice.

Giovana Medeiros

Giovana Medeiros was born in the late 1980s in Criciuma, a city in the south of Brazil. She graduated in Fashion Design in her hometown, but later on pursued her dream and studied Illustration at BCFE in Dublin, where she lived for three years. She worked for several years creating print designs for apparel, but since 2011 has been dedicating herself to becoming a full time illustrator. Although her work is mostly focused on the children's universe, it has also been applied to a series of different mediums such as books, magazines, textiles, games and apps.

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