Dr. Bee Hughes (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, and Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Bee's recent research explores embodied experiences of gender through themes including menstruation, everyday rituals and routines, and the feminist tradition of self-examination. Their recent practice-led research outputs examine repetition, cut-up methods and menstrual normativity encountered through online medical advice, considering how these frequently visited sites of medical authority now form part of the everyday experience of menstruation. Bee has presented their research and exhibited in the UK and internationally, completing their interdisciplinary practice-led PhD 'Performing Periods: Challenging Menstrual Normativity through Art Practice' 2020. Bee has published on a number of topics, including criticality in illustration, the visual culture of Dracula (Stoker, 1897), and most recently menstrual normativity (2018) and menstrual art (2018, 2020) and policy-making (2021, 2022). Bee is a founding member of the UKs Menstruation Research Network and a member of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research and was Artist in Residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art and Institute for Gender Studies at the University of St Andrews 2019-2021. Dr.

Kay Standing (she/her) is Professor in Gender Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is an intersectional feminist with research interests in gender based violence and menstruation in the UK and Nepal. Current research includes the British Academy/GCRF funded project Dignity Without Danger: Collaboratively analyzing stigma and taboos to develop innovative strategies to address menstrual exclusion in Nepal. Other recent research includes evaluating the provision of menstrual products at football clubs, a BA/Leverhulme small grant on re-usable menstrual products in Nepal, a Hefce funded project looking at sexual violence in HEIs and the Tender Acting to End Abuse project using art and drama in schools to explore healthy relationships. She was an expert advisor for Plan International UK and the Government Equalities Office/Department for Education Period Poverty Taskforce (research stream) on period poverty. Kay is a founding member of the UKs Menstruation Research Network and a member of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.