Andreasen Lise Ulrik
Aarhus, Denmark
The chapter engages with feminist theories of the monstrous, performativity, and new materialism to examine how menstruation is negotiated and performed by young menstruators in the context of YouTube videos. It further asks what menstruation and menstruators can be(come) in the intersection of mediation and multiple cultural, material, affective, and discursive agents at play. By examining two YouTube videos that address menstruation, Andreasen explores how menstruation is entangled with “the monstrous” and how this relation makes new emergences of menstruation and menstruators possible. With the reservation of racial, bodily, and social privileges in mind, the chapter concludes with a proposal for a feminist affirmative critique, where the videos can be read as imaginative work and as possibilities for menstrual change for some.
本章结合了关于怪物、表演性和新唯物主义的女性主义理论，以考察年轻的月经来潮者在YouTube视频背景下如何协商和展现月经。它进一步探讨了在媒介与多种文化、物质、情感和话语因素相互作用的交叉点上，月经和月经来潮者可以成为什么样的存在。通过分析两个关于月经的YouTube视频，安德烈亚森探究了月经如何与“怪物”纠缠在一起，以及这种关系如何使月经和月经来潮者产生新的呈现方式。考虑到种族、身体和社会特权的保留问题，本章最后提出了一种女性主义肯定性批判的建议，即这些视频可以被视为富有想象力的作品，以及对一些人来说月经变化的可能性。
