In the news ‘Show me!’ a Prison Guard says to the Menstruating VisitorĮvery once in while the disparate worlds I travel in collide. Editor to reporter: “Get Houppert on the horn right away!” Nobody wants to hear my views about any of that.īut periods, that’s another story.

I’ve written two other books since then and a gazillion articles on race, gender, family, militarization, the criminal justice system, education, abortion, rape, religion, death, birth, birds, rats and a mom who ate her baby. Blah, blah, blah. When tennis player Serena Williams does a Tampax ad, when a new birth control pill suspends women’s menstrual cycles, when sit-com characters toss in period jokes, I tend to get a call from the press. Now-weirder still-whenever someone’s period bleeds from the private realm into the public conversation, reporters call me for “expert” commentary. A year later, the paperback edition came out, then a UK edition, then an Australian edition, then the Spanish-language edition, then the Turkish-language edition. In 1999, I followed that up with a book called The Curse: Confronting the Last Taboo: Menstruation (published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In 1995, I wrote a cover story for The Village Voice, “Pulling the Plug on the Sanitary Protection Industry.” About my blog Menstrual Moments: When Periods Make the Press

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