The girl who became a moon

What will you tell your girl when she menstruates for the first time?

In many traditions the Menarche It is considered a rite of passage, the moment when a girl becomes a woman.

This book, “The girl who became Luna”, comes to tell us ancestral wisdom – ancient memories, long forgotten and silenced –, from a time when we felt the honor, the power and the pride of inhabiting a female body. 

“She had been feeling strange for a while.
His ears heard new words not spoken.
His eyes were pointed towards that
that they had never observed before.
His smell had changed too,
like someone who recognizes herself with a new dressing.
There was no room in his voice for asking for pampering.
and his body no longer fit on any lap.

Growing up was a weird thing…
A being not yet fully converted,
an “almost” that had not yet arrived,
that being “in the middle” without going or coming back,
in an eternal while.
The beginning of an end that is lost from sight”

Author: Morena Cardoso
Illustrator: Julia Vargas