This is a conversation about period pain, and everything that goes along with that.
One day in the Autostraddle Slack “office” we were casually chatting about tracking our periods and our partner’s periods; soon our banter turned into a rousing discussion about period pain, uterus pain, the medical establishment being incompetent at best and harmful/dangerous at worst (often both!), PMDD, and how we as individuals manage the pain that people are so often told is simply “part of having a period / uterus / body!” You know, just a regular day at the office.
We decided to collect our thoughts, feelings, and experiences about period pain into a roundtable for you. Here it is!
