The Roadshow has been going since 2005, and includes comedy readings, feminine hygiene ad deconstruction, tampon crafts, an SDU performance lecture and comedy menstrual songs. Chella maintains the Mobile Menstrual Zine Library and often takes that along, plus other resources to look at or take away. Our latest roadshow is a comedy performance lecture entitled ‘Here’s the Science Bit’. It’s an hour long and includes all kinds of sanitary shenanigans.
Stains TM is Chella’s satirical, sartorial response to the ‘leakage horror’ that modern femcare ads are still using to peddle their stuff, 85 years after the first time.
Robyn’s Egg is a children’s book Chella has written and is currently illustrating. It introduces very little kids to menstruation and encourages parents to talk about it way before the ‘big puberty talk’.
Periods for Men: Everything You’ll Never Ask is a book in the works, based on the Skids masculine hygiene campaign, although Chella is informed by her more endometrially educated male friends that it will be a mere pamphlet, because they are so hip to that jive now. But they don’t hear the questions we get asked at the end of our show.
One woman’s fight to improve toilet cubicle design via feminine hygiene sanitary disposal units.
Click to view our workshop handout.
Skids: Masculine Hygiene is our viral ad campaign parodying stereotypical feminine hygiene advertising euphemisms. Help us make actually go viral. Please. Starting with a new home for our fake Skids Pads website.
How Do You Feel About Your Friend?
This is a free mini-zine you can print out and make yourself. Chella uses it in a workshop about menstrual euphemisms. To make the zine, print these two sides out on one sheet of A4 paper (or US legal-sized paper and then cut it down), cut horizontally, place the side with the title behind the half-sheet below it, and staple.
Over Flo and Shame Dame are two comic book super hero characters who appear in our comedy sketch show, and they’ll soon be in a comic book. Get in touch if you’d like to do some guest art! Here they are in ‘Over Flo Begins’.
Period Positive is a compilation cd Chella’s hoping to put together as a freebie with a future issue of the zine. If you’d like to suggest or submit a song that’s period positive, write in. Track listing will be added to as it develops. So far we’ve got: Chart Your Cycle by Party Weirdo and The Crimson Tide by Adventures in Menstruating
Resources are coming soon.
