Chella Quint
Chella Quint is an American born writer, performer, and education campaigner on menstruation, based in Sheffield, England.
Chella Quint
- Name
- Chella Quint
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, US
- Education
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts Bretton Hall College of Education
- Occupation
- activist · writer · comedian · docent · designer
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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Chella Quint is an American born writer, performer, and education campaigner on menstruation, based in Sheffield, England.
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Chella Quint was a writer, activist and comedian. The writer was born in Brooklyn. Awards and honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
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• Name — Chella Quint • Birthplace — Brooklyn, New York, US • Education — New York University Tisch School of the Arts Bretton Hall College of Education • Subject — Menstrual stigma • Website — Official website
Early life and education
Early life and education
Chella Quint was born in Brooklyn, New York, and earned her degree in dramatic writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She subsequently gained a place at Bretton Hall College of Education, where she completed her postgraduate certificate in education in drama education.
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Career
Early in her career, Quint taught drama at school, based in Sheffield during the day and performed stand-up comedy at night. In 2005 she published the first of her zines, "Adventures in Menstruating", in which she humorously explores menstrual products, sanitary bins, and blood stains. She introduced the term "period positive" in 2006 and created #periodpositive to challenge menstrual taboos through humour while seeking solutions to period poverty. In 2019, she introduced the "Period Positive Pledge," which serves as a guideline for forming menstruation-inclusive policies and outreach programmes. Quint published Own Your Period in 2021. In 2024 she was awarded an OBE for her contributions to the field of education.
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- 1.Chella Quint – Reading Assembly: Care.
- 2.Arney, Kat. TES talks to.Chella Quint. The Times Educational Supplement. 5231. 13 January 2017.
- 3.Nijsten, Nina. Unruly Booklets: Resisting Body Norms with Zines. DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies. 4. 2. 75–88. 2017. 2593-0273.
- 4.Adventures in menstruating. Issue no. 1. Wellcome Collection.
- 5.Bobel, Chris. Menstruation Matters: Introduction to Representations of the Menstrual Cycle. Women's Studies. 40. 2. 121–126. 31 January 2011. 0049-7878.
- 6.Fahs, Breanne. An Energetic Jaunt Through the Menstrual Universe with Chella Quint: Be Period Positive. Women's Reproductive Health. 10. 1. 159–160. 2 January 2023. 2329-3691.
- 7.Sheffield Hallam University. Sheffield Hallam researcher and trailblazing activist named in Disability Power 100. www.shu.ac.uk.
- 8.Chakrabarti, Shami. Of Women: In the 21st Century. Penguin Books Limited. 2017. 978-0-241-29635-6.
- 9.Leeper, Angela. Own Your Period. Booklist. 46–47. 1 August 2021.
- 10.Parnell, Grace. Sheffield period education campaigner 'honoured' by OBE. BBC News. 17 June 2024.
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