A headshot of a woman resting her face on her interlocked fingers. She is wearing black clothes and a black hat, and she wear a wedding and engagement ring.

Memoir | Only Living Bodies Bleed

All the years that I was religious, I couldn’t find the good in the forced separation around menstruation. It made me feel like my very essence, the soft and miraculous parts of my womanhood, was distasteful, to be kept at a distance. ...