This YA graphic novel, filled with interesting facts throughout and containing oodles of relevant backmatter, is geared towards a more mature audience. Go with the Flow also addresses other teenage topics such as boys (the nice ones and the “fart bags”), sexual identity, generational and cultural gaps, activism, and kindness, without ever being preachy. She has to face well-meaning but clueless male teachers, and experiences anxiety about what might be wrong with her. Brit deals with excruciating cramps that forces her to miss several days of school per month. Her passion and determination to be heard leads to hurt feelings, teetering friendships, and important lessons about listening. (No one-note, perfect, fictional girls here!) Upbeat Abby, fierce defender of women’s rights, decides to address the lack of feminine products in their school’s bathrooms after Sasha has a period emergency. These four girls could not be more different in ethnicity, body types, personalities, and menstrual experiences, which makes this book super relatable to its YA audience.
More so, it’s a great choice for anyone who wants to know more about periods and how to have a positive conversation about them.Go with the Flow (First Second, 2020) is written and illustrated by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann, co-creators of the online comic series The Mean Magenta and is the book I wish I had when I was a teen.īrit, Sasha, Christine and Abby are four sophomore friends, who share laughs, rides, cookies and quiet conversations about their struggles with their periods. Go with the Flow is a great choice for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jeff Kinney. Lily Williams and Karen Schneeman expertly balance a fun coming-of-age story with a real cultural and social issue that influences half of the population. Go With the Flow expertly tackles the struggle of being a teenager-and also the cultural stigma against periods and the people who have them. This is a story of four friends struggling to handle high school, and, more specifically, the challenges of having a period while being in high school. And, when Abby takes things too far to make a point, everything gets even more complicated. At first, their efforts get shut down, and no one is willing to discuss the issue with them. The four friends begin a campaign to help confront period stigma, period poverty, and the lack of access and understanding in their school.
But mostly.periods are normal.”īest friends Abby, Christine, and Brit step in to help Sasha, a new student, when she unexpectedly gets her first period at school They are dismayed to realize that the school’s pad and tampon machines are not only empty, they are expensive.
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