Acknowledgments

The thinking for this book began with a series of coauthored pieces with Breanne Fahs, first for a special issue of Feminist Formations titled “The Biosocial Politics of Queer/Crip Contagions,” edited by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire, and next for a chapter in the open-access collection The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, edited by Chris Bobel, Inga T. Winkler, Breanne Fahs, Katie Ann Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, and Tomi-Ann Roberts. I developed the frame for menstrual justice while working on this book alongside a piece for a special issue of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, “Queer and Trans Health Justice: Interventions, Perspectives, and Questions,” edited by Fernando Sánchez, McKinley Green, and Wilfredo Flores. Thank you to all the peer reviewers of the pieces mentioned above, to the editors mentioned above, to Lisa Diedrich for feedback on and review of this book, and above all to Leah Pennywark and everyone at the University of Minnesota Press. The final chapter of this book benefitted from the summer institute organized by Sage Gerson and Jeremy Chow on “Waste Worlding” and from the co-thinkers in my breakout group. Thank you also to my mentors, in particular, Breanne Fahs, Helen Leung, Chris Breu, and Ada Jaarsma for supporting my work. Thank you to Derek Sparby, Cassie Herbert, Jin Lee, Anna Kurowicka, Melissa Jacques, and graduate students at Illinois State University for being interlocutors and supporters. I came to care about the politics of pain, menstruation, and gender when I was an undergraduate in a class offered by Mebbie Bell, and I want to thank her and everyone at the University of Alberta, in particular Michelle Meagher, Lise Gotell, and Jo-Ann Wallace for early support of this work, as well as Shannon Bell at York University.