Volume 27, Number 4: Summer 2025

 

A poster. At the top is a black bar with the following text in a serif font: “Summer 2025,” “Peitho,” and “Vol. 27.4.” Underneath that are the words “Menstrual Rhetorics” in a large handwriting font (white with light turquoise offset), and under that, “and Girlhood Culture” in a light orange font. On the right side of the image is an assemblage of red flowers on a menstrual pad. On the left side, a circle with two dark coral drops in the middle and a # sign at the top of the circle. Toward the bottom of the image is a calendar with drops on specific dates indicating a menstrual period. At the bottom of the image are the words “PERIOD power,” and “Talking periods for and with all bodies that menstruate.”

About this Issue

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Editor: Rebecca Dingo and Clancy Ratliff
Associate Editor: Jennifer Nish
Editorial Assistants: Rachel Smith, Jade Onnh
Web Coordinator: Hannah Taylor
Cover Art: A poster. At the top is a black bar with the following text in a serif font: “Summer 2025,” “Peitho,” and “Vol. 27.4.” Underneath that are the words “Menstrual Rhetorics” in a large handwriting font (white with light turquoise offset), and under that, “and Girlhood Culture” in a light orange font. On the right side of the image is an assemblage of red flowers on a menstrual pad. On the left side, a circle with two dark coral drops in the middle and a # sign at the top of the circle. Toward the bottom of the image is a calendar with drops on specific dates indicating a menstrual period. At the bottom of the image are the words “PERIOD power,” and “Talking periods for and with all bodies that menstruate.”

Introduction

Introduction: Menstrual Rhetorics and Girlhood Culture
Jen Almjeld and Sarah Hagelin
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.4.01

Articles and Poems

Triggering Affirmations: Trans* Adolescents’ Experiences with Menstruation and Gender Identity Construction
Lindsay Toman and and R Hunsicker
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.4.02

21 to 35
Molly McConnell
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.4.03

“Becoming a woman, a complete woman, takes time.”: Menstruation Manuals for Girls as Material-Discursive Apparatuses
Hannah Taylor and Melissa Stone
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.4.04

Embodied Expertise through Activist Toolkits
Risa Applegarth
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.4.05

“Everyone in Gaza is disabled:” Childhood, Menstrual Justice, and Disablement in Palestine
LA EL
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.4.06

Red Monsters and Mythic Villains: Redefining Menstruation and Girlhood in Carrie and Turning Red
Olivia McDuffie
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.4.07

Period Talk: Working Back to Menstrual Girlhood through Rookie Mag
Kelsey Hawkins
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.4.08

From Gen X to Gen Alpha: Girls’ Perspectives on Periods in Popular Media
Sarah Symonds LeBlanc and Kate White
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.4.09

 

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