This postdoctoral research project examines how menstrual health is experienced, interpreted, and cared for across biomedical, holistic, and commercial wellness contexts. Through comparative qualitative ethnography, it explores everyday practices, therapeutic encounters, and forms of embodied and institutional knowledge, with attention to how individuals navigate overlapping systems of care and develop situated understandings of their cyclical health.

The research combines in-depth interviews, participant observation, and collaborative, co-created methods. Participation may involve one-on-one conversations as well as engagement in research workshops and reflective sessions designed to facilitate discussion and collaborative exploration of menstrual experiences, practices, and meanings. Participants may also opt into voluntary creative activities—such as journaling, mapping, or drawing—to articulate embodied experience beyond verbal interview. These engagements are exploratory and research-oriented; they are not therapeutic interventions and do not involve clinical assessment, diagnosis, or treatment. The study further considers how menstrual health is represented and negotiated within digital and wellness-oriented spaces, situating individual experiences within broader infrastructures of care, commerce, and governance.

Adults (18 years or older) who menstruate, as well as practitioners in menstrual health–related fields, are invited to participate. Participation is entirely voluntary, and individuals may decline or withdraw at any time without consequence. Detailed information about procedures, confidentiality, and consent will be provided prior to participation, and consent will be treated as an ongoing process throughout the research.