Poet, activist, and scholar Judy Grahn was born in Chicago and grew up in New Mexico. Grahn’s honors include a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Book Review Award, an American Book Award, an American Library Award, and a Founding Foremothers of Women’s Spirituality Award. Since 1997 Triangle Publishers, after awarding Grahn a Lifetime Achievement Award in Lesbian Letters, have issued an annual Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award.

Audio: From sacred blood to the curse and beyond

By Judy Grahn

Published: May 8, 1982

Judy Grahn on menstruation, mixed with music by Elisabeth Waldo. Writer Judy
Grahn reads her article “From Sacred Blood to the Curse and Beyond” published
in the anthology “,” edited by Charlene Spretnak (Harper and Row, 1982).
Produced by Karla Tonella.

Contains sensitive language.

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