While doing some research I came across an author who resonated with me ,Chris Bobel, a writer, the president of the society for the menstrual cycle research and an associate professor of women’s gender sexuality studies at Umass. I travel to Boston and drive outside of the city to meet her in her beautiful home. We sit down and have a nice filter coffee and talk about the importance of addressing the menstrual stigma around periods, the links between menstruation and gender, and the impact of body literacy beyond what society and the structure of capitalism think of our body.
Chris Bobel is interested, most broadly, in the social construction of embodiment, and the diverse efforts of actors to effect social change especially around issues that are stigmatized and otherwise marginalized.She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies [due out in 2020], and she is at work on a new ethnographic project exploring contemporary activism inspired by grief and trauma.Chris is a fellow of the working group on Menstrual Health and Gender Justice at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference, a member of the Board of Representatives of the Consortium for Graduate Studies of Gender, Women, Sexuality and Culture and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Signs and Women’s Reproductive Health.Chris is often consulted by the mainstream media about the rapidly growing global menstrual activist movement.For a complete list of her publications and public intellectual engagements, see https://works.bepress.com/chris_bobel/
Find her on Twitter at ChrisBobel
