Stop by and expieence our new exhibtion, enjoy some bubbly, and speak with our Curators and Staff members about the work on view at Pen + Brush. 

Turning Tides: from menstrual stigma to menstrual justice

June 17 – September 24, 2022

With works by:

Amanda Marie Atkinson, Lucy Azubuike, Uma Bista, Maggie Boyd,

Paola Martínez Fiterre, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Lyla Freechild,

Zanele Muholi, and Padmini Ray Murray with Joel Johnson & KV Ketan

Public Opening Reception: Saturday June 18, 12-6pm

Fall public program to be announced

Turning Tides: from menstrual stigma to menstrual justice brings together works by artists and cultural producers from diverse contexts to explore how menstruation is figured in culture, society, and everyday life. By foregrounding menstruation, an experience close to half the world’s population will have for a significant duration of their lives, Turning Tidescounters menstruation as taboo, banal, disgusting, or shameworthy. Instead, it calls for a critique of menstrual stigma and explores how it operates and keeps menstruators at odds with their bodies and their communities, and in some contexts, risks their lives.