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Their Period

by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

Summer 2023

Stoke on Trent Back to the Bone Festival

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Kali Theatre presented Their Period - a 15minute new play by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, directed by Gitika Buttoo at the Back to the Bone Festival in Stoke-on-Trent on 10 June.

Their Period is an answer to the question – What would it look like to queer a period party? Tamil period parties are ceremonies for people who’ve just started their periods. The event signals survival and post-genocide stability but it can also be rooted in a colonial denial of transness.

Back to the Bone is a festival of different art forms celebrating womanhood and the menstrual cycle.  There will be an exhibition, a series of Menstrual Cycle Awareness Workshops and live performances from 7.30pm.

Writer Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

Gayathiri is a Tamil writer and sex educator. They are interested in how language shapes childhood and how we use it to queer the future. Gayathiri co-authored ‘Sex Ed: An Inclusive Teenage Guide to Sex and Relationships’ and they’re exploring how we might start ‘Decolonising the Creative Classroom’ with DYCP. Gayathiri has developed work with […]

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