The first, CALLING THE MOON: 16 Period Stories From BIPOC Authors (Candlewick, 368 pp., $22.99, ages 10 and up), is an anthology of short stories and prose poems.
The title “Calling the Moon” is a reference to menstruation, which usually happens once a month and which some of the anthology’s characters call a moon or luna.
Many of the young characters are quick-thinking, improvising ways to handle an unexpected emergence of blood, including the wadding up of pieces of toilet paper as a method of absorption.
But I blanched at her use of the word “menstruators” to encompass people who have periods but don’t identify as female.
I have to think that we can come up with something else, maybe simply “people who have periods.”
Persons:
Aida Salazar, Yamile Saied Mendez, Salazar, Mendez, There’s Penny, it’s, Eden, ” McCullough
Organizations:
THE, “, Young, Casa
Locations:
Casa Esperanza