Lucy Peach - Period Queen

Period Queen takes the worst thing about being a woman and turns it into the best thing. The truth is the menstrual cycle has benefits — big, fantastic, daily, monthly, even lifelong, benefits. 

Author and period preacher Lucy Peach chats with Danielle Caruana (aka Mama Kin)! 

This event will take place on Zoom. The Zoom meeting detais form part of your ticket, emailed to you after registration. 

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About the Book

As young girls, most of us were given the talk about how to manage our periods. It's the beginning of a tedious bloody grind, one of the last great taboos. But the truth is, the menstrual cycle has benefits — big, fantastic, daily, monthly, even lifelong, benefits.

Every month, you have four hormonal phases that keep coming around and each phase bears its own gifts and ways of making us feel: a time to dream, a time to do, a time to give and a time to take. Once you know what to expect from each phase, you can predict them, plan for them and use them over and over again. In fact, harnessing your period superpowers will make you unstoppable (until you choose to stop, that is). 

In the book Lucy writes: ‘Once I understood [my period], I began paying attention to myself. Really paying attention. I began paying attention to how and when I changed throughout the month, and instead of perceiving my fluidity as a weakness or an inadequacy, I came to see it as a strength.’

Period Queen takes the worst thing about being a woman and turns it into the best thing. Author and period preacher Lucy Peach urges us to stop treating periods like nature's consolation prize for being a woman, banishing the notion that hormones reduce us to being random emotional rollercoasters. Become an expert in recognising what you need at different times of the month and learn how every cycle gives you a chance to cultivate the most important relationship of your life: the one with your precious self. It's pretty bloody amazing.

Praise

"This will start a revolution for women."  - Constance Hall

About the Author

Lucy Peach is a period preacher, folk singer and theatre performer who has worked as a human biology teacher and sexual health educator. She has a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology and Biomedicine with Honours in Medicine, and a Graduate Diploma of Education in Human Biology. 

She has spent ten years producing work about the menstrual cycle. She currently performs her shows My Greatest Period Ever (for 14+) and How to Period Like a Unicorn (all ages) around Australia and the UK. Lucy's new EP, Blood Magic, will be released 2 June to coincide with the release of Period Queen, and features four songs; one for every part of the menstrual cycle, making it the perfect soundtrack to cycle with. 

Lucy will also launch a podcast called 'Period Queen' in June, which will include interviews with Constance Hall, Mia Freedman, and Clementine Ford.   

About the Moderator

Danielle Caruana is known professionally as Mama Kin, one half of Aria-nominated and WAM (West Australian Music) Award-winning blues and roots group, Mama Kin Spender.