Brightness*

Tracking menstruality:

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Using the Embodied Menstrual Awareness (EMA) method, we learn

to capture (‘snapshot’) variables such as basal body temperature

(BBT); cervical secretions and menstrual flow, hue, and consistency;

discomfort or pain and related emotions; plus activity ratios (work,

play, or rest). In transcribing interoceptively and exteroceptively em-

bodied menstrual data, we each visualise ‘menstrual complexity’:

individual patterns in periodicities that are contiguous, self-replicating,

cumulative, and synergistic.

 

How we can rehumanise, personalise, and enliven pencil-on-paper

menstrual tracking charts into live / living tissue subjectivities vis-à-vis

embodied awareness. Here, the chart is simultaneously diagrammatic

proxy and conduit for embodied cognition.

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