Tag: period

  • My Body is Waving a White Flag

    My Body is Waving a White Flag

    I was in the sixth grade when I got my first period. Two white girls came up to me in gym class; tennis rackets in hand, stern-faced and whispering as they approached me. Um. We think you got your (they leaned closer and whispered) period. The gym teacher handed me an unopened box of Supers cardboard…