Periods and Gender Workshop

Let’s get together to continue our exploration of Gender & periods. This is an invitation for women and gender minorities to come together in a safe space to share stories, challenge scripts, unlearn shame, share resources, support causes, learn, listen, create, move.

How do we define gender?
How is it connected to the menstrual cycle?
How is our gender identity impacted when we don’t / no longer bleed?
How is our language excluding other’s experiences?
Are our narratives around gender and periods supporting our journeys?
These and other questions suggested by participants will be addressed throughout the day.

Through a series of structures we will have a chance to approach these topics with words and through our bodies. Interacting with others we will access our collective knowledge and build upon each other’s experience. Sharing in groups will allow us to go open up about our personal experiences navigating our identity and our relationship with our menstrual cycle.

Everyone’s experience is valid. We would work to create a non-judgmental space.

Whether you are a woman that struggles with pain, a gender-queer person that hates bleeding, a non-binary individual that joins moon rituals, a trans man that has to take lots of pain killers, someone that loves their period or any other configuration where gender and periods intersect, you and your story are welcome.

Gender & periods are both sources of oppression for many.
Together we can decolonise our bodies.
Together we can choose new stories.
Together we can amplify the voices of those more impacted by stigma.
Together we can unlearn the shame stored in our bodies.

Suggested donation £5 to cover venue costs.
‘NOTALOF’ policy – no-one turned away for lack of funds.

Please email TahraLAnitya@gmail.com if you will be attending as we need to keep track of numbers.