Heather Corinna
Author of What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You
About the Author
Heather Corinna is a longtime queer feminist activist, author, and educator. They are the founder and director of the innovative and inclusive sex, bodies, and relationships information clearinghouse Scarleteen; author of SIX; coauthor, of Wait, What?; and a contributing editor of Our Bodies, show more Ourselves. They've received acclaim from The Woodhull Foundation, Ms. magazine, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and NPR. show less
Image credit: On left, with Isabella Rotman at the release party for Wait, What? Women and Children First Bookstore, Chicago IL, 9/4/19.
Works by Heather Corinna
What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You (2021) 126 copies, 6 reviews
S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College (2007) 105 copies, 2 reviews
S.E.X., second edition: The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties (2016) 86 copies, 1 review
Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up (2019) — Author — 80 copies, 3 reviews
Associated Works
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (2008) — Contributor — 578 copies, 12 reviews
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- Canonical name
- Corinna, Heather
- Birthdate
- 1970
- Gender
- non-binary
- Country (for map)
- USA
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Short biography
- Heather Corinna (b. 1970) is a queer polymath best known for her role as publisher of the sex-positive online magazine Scarleteen, which she founded in 1998. She graduated from the Chicago Academy of the Arts and studied at Chicago's Shimer College, a Great Books college then located in Waukegan, Illinois. She has worked as an educator, activist and writer, and writes on sex education for a variety of outlets including Ms. Magazine. Her books include S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College, and she was also a contributor to the 2011 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. (from Shimer College Wiki)
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- Works
- 5
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 398
- Popularity
- #60,946
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 12
- ISBNs
- 16
I've read a couple other books on the topic. I think this one is especially good at exploring the psychological complications around perimenopause, as some people will rejoice at the freedom from periods while others will grieve. The language throughout is incredibly inclusive; the author is nonbinary. There's even a chapter at the end that directly addresses the needs of trans individuals going through perimenopause. This is a book that acts as a good reminder that society tends to sneer in disgust or make a mockery of perimenopause, but it is nothing to be ashamed of and we are definitely not alone in what we're enduring. The author is a sex educator and quite blunt about their own experiences. Some of the lines are laugh out loud funny, like: "For the bulk of the time I’ve had them, my periods have, like Republican administrations, been painful and disruptive to my life and well-being."… (more)