Theater & Performance Program, OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts, and the Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading & Conversation About a People's History of Menstruation

Join us for a reading from Our Red Book, a global collection of personal histories about menstruation, bleeding, and not bleeding from voices of all ages and genders, gathered by the New York Times best-selling author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff. Rachel will be joined by contributers Somaah Haaland, Victoria Law, and Daaimah Mubashshir to read from and discuss the process of writing their own accounts, which span the subjects of gender, identity, bleeding behind bars, and how menstruation offers an immediate window into our lives. 

Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is a writer working at the intersection of oral history, performance, and public health. Her newest book is Our Red Book (Simon & Schuster, 2022). She is the author of Stages: on Dying, Working, and Feeling (Thick Press, 2020); coeditor of The Feminist Utopia Project (Feminist Press, 2015); and the editor of the New York Times bestselling My Little Red Book (Twelve Books, 2009). She teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University.

Somah Haaland is a queer Indigenous artist and community organizer from the Pueblos of Laguna and Jemez in New Mexico who currently resides in New York City.

Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and author focusing on Women’s Incarceration.

Daaimah Mubashshir is Bard’s Playwright-in-Residence. Her work has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, and 3 Hole Press. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2021 PlayCo Residency for Black Women Theatre Makers; 2020–22 WP Theater Lab Fellowship; 2019-22 Core Writer Fellowship (Playwrights Center, Minnesota), an Audrey Residency (New Georges), MacDowell Fellowship, and Foundation of Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio

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