A BOOK ABOUT MENSTRUATION FOR TEENS

This book is a work in progress – it will be published in both German and English in 2022. The aim is to start a healthy conversation about the female cycle to stop ignorance and body shaming. This book encourages girls to explore their menstruation through ancient wisdom and new perspectives.

You can support this project in order to help me create and independently publish the book. Contribute to my crowdfunding campaign or simply help me spread word on social media.

As a therapist I’ve worked extensively with teenage girls and have supported them through their struggles. I also still remember my own puberty and how frightening it felt when my body started to change. Suddenly there was a great deal of pressure to look a certain way: you had to shave your legs and armpits, stay in shape, wear make-up, … and then there was menstruation to deal with. Bleeding definitely seemed to be something embarrassing, something one had to hide while it was happening.

Today, times are slowly changing, but many teenage girls are still embarrassed about their bodies and feel the need to hide their cycles. I’m creating this book because I strongly believe that girls can learn to embrace their menstruation and develop a sense of pride for who they are. We can all help them gain agency and start a conversation on a wider social level.

Girls can be encouraged to define their own rite of passage on their journey to womanhood (whatever that may mean to them, individually). My goal is to spread this message as widely as possible and to reach teenage girls in different parts of the world.

I decided to turn to crowdfunding because I want to start a healthy conversation about menstruation. Sharing the creation process on social media will hopefully raise awareness for this important topic. We can all support teenage girls in gaining greater agency by embracing their menstruation and cycles.

Self-publishing will allow me to keep full control over the content. This is important to me, as I would like to keep this project free of commercial interference. The funds raised will allow me to focus my energy on creating and publishing the book. I intend to closely work with girls throughout the entire process.

My project includes my work on the following steps:

Step 1: Research – participative workshops with girls, interviews with women & girls, and research of relevant literature

Step 2: Creation – content design & text, illustration and graphic design

(as well as regularly checking in with girls to see if they like what I’m doing)

Step 3: Translation between German & English

Step 4: Print, publishing and shipping

I will keep you updated every step of the way on social media. You can follow my progress on Instagram @Kids_cocreate or on Facebook.

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A BOOK ABOUT MENSTRUATION FOR TEENS

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A BOOK ABOUT MENSTRUATION FOR TEENS

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