I absolutely adore that the audience for this book starts at a junior high age--especially the chapter about how to use period products with an emphasis on the "lesser" known menstrual cup.

A well-researched investigation about our country's historic and modern stigmatization of menstruation and how it has affected policy (luxury taxes on essential period products), instilled a sense of shame and silence upon women, and has disproportionately affected people in poverty and female prisoners.

Okamoto encourages the reader to help remove the stigma from periods by acknowledging it's existence and freely talking about it.

Notable quotes

Regarding the stigmatization of periods and its affects on women's self esteem beginning at puberty:
" When kids start going through puberty, boys feel more manly as their voices drop in tone, their bodies become more aligned with societal views of baskelett lenity Kaaba and societee pats him on the back for becoming men. Girls, on the other hand, get their periods and the strongly embedded stigma within our society tells them that this answered of menstruation makes them less capable and less reasonable. They're taught to feel anxious and ashamed about their periods, that menstruation is something they have to invest in financially come a physically, and emotionally, just to be able to compete at the same level as their male counterparts" (188).