PERIOD FUTURISTS
NOMINATE a DIVERSE LEADER and PERSPECTIVE ON THE FUTURE OF PERIODS
“Transgender, gender nonbinary, and intersex people are highly invisible in the discussion of menstrual healthcare. for instance, which bathrooms can they safely (physically and psychologically) use while they menstruate? An ideal future for periods is when everyone accepts that menstrual experiences are not limited to biologically and socially women. Not everyone who identifies as a woman menstruates, and not every person who menstruates identifies as a woman.”
SIUFUNG is a professional body-builder and genderqueer advocate based in Hong Kong
“I imagine a future where transition is not limited to a binary of an estrogen- or testosterone-dominant body. A world where all gendered marginalization has been eliminated, and our technology related to transition, surgery, childbirth, and menstrual care has radically improved. Where the distinction between ‘cis’ and ‘trans’ is no longer even needed because people are accepted and respected for who they are. Where people aren’t obsessed with trans people’s bodies in deeply dehumanizing ways.”
VIN is a writer, poet, and illustrator