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To contact Director / Producer Giovanna Chesler
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email giovanna@g6pictures.com

More Information on Period: The End of Menstruation?
Interview with Giovanna Chesler on Spoiler Alert Radio
Recommendation in Our Bodies Ourselves
Article & Video on Period in the New York Times
Full press list at www.g6pictures.com


Recommended Links Challenging Menstrual Suppression (Our recommended links are compiled through research. We do not gain monetarily from these suggestions.)

Want to go off hormonal birth control?
Read this book by Justisse Healthworks for women "Coming Off the Pill, the Patch, the Shot and other Hormonal Contraceptives: Learning How to Restore Menstrual Cycle Health"

Non-hormonal birthcontrol options
Natural Contracteptive Methods at Sexuality and U - your link to sexual well-being.
Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research :"Manipulating Menstruation with the use of Hormonal Contraception - what does the Science Say?" and other informative articles.
Fertility Awareness Network - learn how to track your cycle and practice methods of contraception without hormones.
Justisse: Fertility Awareness Education - connect to a health pracitioner with information on non-hormonal birth control options.
Laughing Sage Wellness: New York based group interested in helping women have happy hormones!

Organizations devoted to Menstruation Research & Activism
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research: non profit, interdisciplinary research organization interested in the role of the menstrual cycle in women's health and well-being.
The Red Web Foundation: Creates "Lifelong Menstrual Health through community and education" and provides a wealth of links to books and classes around menstrual education
Museum of Menstruation & Women’s Health: documents the "rich history of menstruation and women's health" and a great jumping off point for most everything menses related.
Holy Hormones, Honey! (or the greatest story never told), a radio show on the benefits of tracking and studying the hormonal cycle
Red Tent Sisters: Toronto based business dedicated to serving the reproductive and sexual health needs of women across the life-cycle.

Recommendations on Menstrual Suppression
The Well Timed Period, blog by Author / Dr. Diana Kroi
Seasonale Extended Use Oral Contraceptives which allow for four bleeding episodes each year instead of the usual twelve.
Recent Article on Menstrual Suppression, "Period: Full Stop", Washington Post 6/6/06
Depo Provera Horror Stories to hear from those who have tried and have an experience to share

Gina Sucato, in attendance at Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference, author of:
Sucato GS, Gold MA. Extended cycling of oral contraceptive pills for adolescents. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 2002;15(5):325-27. and
Sucato GS, Gershultz, K. Extended cycle hormonal contraception in adolescents. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2005:17(5):461-5.

Coutinho, Elsimar Is Menstruation Obsolete? (translated by Sheldon J. Segal), Oxford University Press, New York, 1999 and a review of the book by Kathleen O'Grady, Director Canadian Women's Health Network

Recommended Links for Alternative Menstrual Products
Luna Pads - natural menstrual products and more
Reddy's Pads are made by a participant in Period and include in panty and panty free designs
Jade and Pearl Sea Sponges instead of tampons
Glad Rags for all types of alternative menstrual related products

Good Reads
Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation by Elizabeth Kissling (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007)
Girls in Power: Gender, Body and Menstruation in Adolescence by Laura Fingerson (SUNY Press, 2006)
The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo, Menstruation by Karen Houppert (Farrar Starus Giroux, 1999)
Blessings of the Curse: No More Periods? by Susan Rako (Backinprint.com, 2006)
Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum by Terri Kapsalis (Duke University Press, 1997)

Cast (with available links)
Terri Kapsalis Chicago Women's Health Center: Women Making Health Care Accessible
Geneva Kachman www.moltx.org
Kami McBride and Living Awareness Institute www.livingawareness.com
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research www.menstruationresearch.org
Susan Rako www.susanrako.com
Morty Diamond www.mortydiamond.com
Red Hot Mamas www.primeplususa.com
Vanessa Tiegs www.livejournal.com/users/spiralingmoon/

Crew
Giovanna Chesler www.g6pictures.com
Kadet Kuhne www.audibleshift.com
Adriene Hughes www.adrienehughes.com
Hannah Guggenheim www.punditproductions.com