Beyond its medical definition as a natural phenomenon concerning the female body, menstruation is a term that is overburdened with a plethora of distorted cultural and religious meanings. Through the centuries, the biological process of the monthly expulsion of non-pregnant women's uterus lining is popularly misunderstood as a profane activity. Despite the surplus of awareness measurements to educate masses about menstruation's biological underpinnings, societal negligence towards women’s incapacitating experiential realities associated with menstruation continues even in the twenty-first century. Accordingly, Paula Knight’s graphic medical memoir on infertility, titled The Facts of Life (2017), offers a distinctive perspective about menstruation through the creative deployment of the lycanthrope metaphor. By depicting her menstruating self as a lone werewolf, Knight offers a compelling representation of menstruating women's abysmal corporeal and cultural anxieties. By close reading relevant images from Knight’s memoir and drawing theoretical insights from Victoria Louise Newton and Elizabeth El Refaie, this article analyses how graphic medicine necessitates a humane and non-stigmatizing approach to menstruation.

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可视化耻辱：月经、图形医学和狼人的话语

除了医学上定义的女性身体自然现象之外，月经这个词还充斥着过多扭曲的文化和宗教含义。几个世纪以来，非孕妇子宫内膜每月排出的生物学过程被普遍误解为亵渎神灵的活动。尽管有过多的意识测量来教育大众了解月经的生物学基础，但即使在 21 世纪，社会对女性与月经相关的无能力体验现实的忽视仍在继续。因此，Paula Knight 关于不孕不育的图解医学回忆录，题为 The Facts of Life (2017)，通过对兽化人隐喻的创造性部署，提供了关于月经的独特视角。奈特将她来月经的自己描绘成一个孤独的狼人，提供了一个令人信服的表现月经妇女极度的身体和文化焦虑。通过仔细阅读奈特回忆录中的相关图片并从维多利亚路易斯牛顿和伊丽莎白埃尔雷法伊那里汲取理论见解，本文分析了图形医学如何需要一种人道和非污名化的月经方法。