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Common mxnstrual health concerns (including PCOS, endometriosis, and fibroids) and resources for treating them through holistic healing methods:
Anything from fertilityfriday.com (book, podcast, freebies)
Holistic mxnstrual health approaches (physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional):
Bhandal, T. (2019). Self-Care Down There: An All Genders Guide to Vaginal Wellbeing. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Nimisha on the moon cycle and nutrition https://mooncyclenutrition.com/about/
Anderson, Kim. (2011). Life stages and Native women: Memory, teachings, and story medicine. Winnipeg, CA: University of Manitoba Press.
Feels about Polycystic Ovaries Syndrome (PCOS) aka Anovulatory Androgen Expression (AAE):
Buddhavarapu, S. (2019). Bearding, balding, and infertile: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and nationalist discourse in India. Journal of Medical Humanities.
Buddhavarapu, S. (2019). The weight of a cherry blossom. New Delhi, IN: Rupa Publications.
https://www.cemcor.ubc.ca/resources/topics/anovulatory-androgen-excess-aae
Some viewpoints about hormonal birth control (the pill, the patch, the hormonal IUD, the shot, the ring):
Grigg-Spall, H. (2013). Sweetening the pill: Or how we got hooked on hormonal birth control. Alresford, UK: John Hunt Publishing.
Anything from Amanda Laird (book, podcast, freebies) http://amandalaird.ca
Prior, J. C. (2016). Apply the precautionary principle concerning combined hormonal contraception use in adolescents. Women's Reproductive Health, 3(2), 113-116. doi: 10.1080/23293691.2016.1196086
Intersectional, Indigenizing perspectives on health and healing
Batacharya, S., & Wong, Y.-L. R. (Eds.). (2018). Sharing breath: Embodied learning and decolonization. Edmonton, CA: AU Press.
Browne, A & Reimer-Kirkham, S. Toward a critical theoretical interpretation of social justice discourses in nursing. Advances in Nursing Science. 29(4), 324-339.
Harker-Smith, M. Potent not pollutant: Exploring menstruation in the Māori world. N8vdaughter.com
Kaur, Nikky. (2005). The birth of the Khalsa. A feminist re-memory of Sikh identity. Albany, US: SUNY Press.
Ahenakew, C. (2011). The birth of the ‘Windigo’: The construction of Aboriginal health in biomedical and traditional Indigenous models of medicine. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, 5(1), 14-26.
Alberts, C. K. (2018). We are dancing for you: Native feminisms & the revitalization of women's coming-of-age ceremonies (cutcha risling baldy). Transmotion, 4(2), 192-194.
Fahs, B., Gonzalez, J., Coursey, R., & Robinson-Cestaro, S. (2014). Cycling together: Menstrual synchrony as a projection of gendered solidarity. Women's Reproductive Health, 1(2), 90-105. doi: 10.1080/23293691.2014.966029
Crenshaw, K. (2020). She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ over 30 years ago. Here’s what it means to her today. Retrieved from https://time.com/5786710/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality/
Brown, A. M. (2019). Pleasure activism: The politics of feeling good. Chico, US: AK Press.