Highly unsanitary comedy.

- Last Hours Zine, London

"I spent a good 15 minutes flicking through the genuinely excellent Adventures in Menstruation (sic)."

-Luiza Sauma, Independent on Sunday

"We here at Microcosm have a lot of reading material about being on the rag, but nothing quite like this new zine by Chella Quint of Chart Your Cycle. Funny and heart wrenching stories are interwoven between hilarious analysis of old (20s - 50s) menstruation product ads (which are quite a chuckly unto themselves). It's really good to see humour injected into this subject, done in a smart and clever way. A very fun read."

-Microcosm Publishing

"Upon arriving at the A-Space, I viewed a table that was set up with radical women's health zines and flipped through the collection. As the show began, Chella introduced herself and her girlfriend Sarah as well as some of the local zinesters who would be reading that night. Chella kicked off the show by reading from her zine. It is one thing to read an enjoyable zine and quite another to experience the writer reading from it. I was honored to be in attendance and read at the show too. I thought it was awesome that Chella and Sarah has prepared a sketch comedy about deconstructing old feminine hygiene ads. It was hilarious and the two of them made a gerat team. Each zine reader shared their unique writing at the show and we all laughed and learned together. The importance of this roadshow is obvious. Radical women getting together in a comfortable atmosphere and talking about our periods with no shame. Learning about alternative menstrual products was pretty fantastic too. Many thanks to Chella and Sarah for their trip to the northeastern US!!

-Sage Adderley, Eye Candy Zine

Adventures in Menstruating + Chart Your Cycle Highly unsanitary comedy.
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Who we are: Chella Quint writes and edits the zines. She is a comedy writer and performer originally from New York. She now lives in the UK. Sarah Thomasin contributes to the zines and performs the live show with Chella. She is a performance poet from Yorkshire, England. What other people have said, and stuff like that: We've cunningly hidden any press we've had back here. If you're really interested, keep reading. Disclaimers: The zine community is pretty small and mostly really friendly, so we now know or are distributed by about half of the people who reviewed us, mainly as a result of Chella writing and saying thanks for the review. This is a brief smattering of reviews and comments, and we've included them mainly because they give some more information about the zines and the show. See if you can spot the one rather famous publication! (Albeit the only one that got the name of the zine wrong, but still...) "A fantastically funny collection of all things period. There are leakage horror stories and hilarious retro advertisements for towels and tampons. It's strange to think they were serious for their day, with pictures of distressed housewives and worried girls, being informed of the wonders of 'modern' sanitary products. When examined more closely you can see the parallels of a male-dominated, misogynistic advertising culture that still sometimes doesn't know how to market their tampax and always, playing on subtle fears and euphemisms. Chella's right to be angry with this too tired rhetoric of periods as being something to be embarrassed about. By poking fun at the continued climate of menstrual taboos she's doing a great job at breaking them. A must for menstruators and nonmenstruators alike." - Last Hours Zine, London "I spent a good 15 minutes flicking through the genuinely excellent Adventures in Menstruation (sic)." -Luiza Sauma, Independent on Sunday "We here at Microcosm have a lot of reading material about being on the rag, but nothing quite like this new zine by Chella Quint of Chart Your Cycle. Funny and heart wrenching stories are interwoven between hilarious analysis of old (20s - 50s) menstruation product ads (which are quite a chuckly unto themselves). It's really good to see humour injected into this subject, done in a smart and clever way. A very fun read." -Microcosm Publishing "Upon arriving at the A-Space, I viewed a table that was set up with radical women's health zines and flipped through the collection. As the show began, Chella introduced herself and her girlfriend Sarah as well as some of the local zinesters who would be reading that night. Chella kicked off the show by reading from her zine. It is one thing to read an enjoyable zine and quite another to experience the writer reading from it. I was honored to be in attendance and read at the show too. I thought it was awesome that Chella and Sarah has prepared a sketch comedy about deconstructing old feminine hygiene ads. It was hilarious and the two of them made a gerat team. Each zine reader shared their unique writing at the show and we all laughed and learned together. The importance of this roadshow is obvious. Radical women getting together in a comfortable atmosphere and talking about our periods with no shame. Learning about alternative menstrual products was pretty fantastic too. Many thanks to Chella and Sarah for their trip to the northeastern US!! -Sage Adderley, Eye Candy Zine Oh yeah - the live show we did at Ladyfest Berlin was reviewed by a German newspaper called Die Tageszeitung. The review is in German and we think it was positive, so we include the link here!
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