About Learn Body Literacy
We’re radically changing the way people understand their bodies, take charge of their health, and maximize their autonomy.
We work to build a world where everyone has access to compassionate, inclusive, and empowering education using the framework of body literacy.
Body Literacy is a health concept that uses the menstrual cycle as a self knowledge tool, a vital sign, and a way to measure hormonal health autonomously.
The phrase means to "learn to read and understand the language of the body."
Body literacy expands the scope of menstrual knowledge beyond the period to the entire menstrual cycle.
What does it look like when body literacy is truly supportive, welcoming, and available to all?
How We Support Girls, Women, and All People Who Menstruate
We offer accessible, affirming resources that help people understand their menstrual cycles from their very first menses through their reproductive years, to menopause and beyond. By teaching the signs of fertility, hormonal patterns, and body changes in clear, inclusive language, we empower menstruators of all identities to build body confidence and make informed choices.
Our visual tools, free resources, and culturally sensitive materials ensure that this knowledge is available to teens, adults, educators, and caregivers alike. We believe everyone deserves to understand how menstruation connects to health, identity, and agency.
Our Approach
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Body literacy isn’t just for cis, heterosexual, married, religious women. It’s a secular and scientific system for anyone who wants to understand how their body works. Whether you're menstruating, pregnant, postpartum, or in perimenopause, this work honors your lived experience and your identity.
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When you know how your body communicates, you can make powerful, informed choices. Fertility awareness gives you the freedom to prevent pregnancy, support it, or simply understand yourself without external control or pressure. It provides both individual and communal modes of resistance through knowledge.
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Charting bridges the gap between science and personal awareness. It’s not just about hormones and numbers, but also how you feel, cycle after cycle. Learn to interpret real biomarkers and your intuitive patterns with equal value.
We provide thoughtful, transparent education that’s grounded in current research and enriched by the lived experiences of those who’ve practiced body literacy across generations and traditions. Our programming values critical thinking, encourages lifelong learning, and remains open to evolving knowledge from ever growing research.
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Learn Body Literacy offers resources in gender-neutral language, visual formats, audio formats, closed captions, transcripts, and multiple languages, including some resources available for free use under a Creative Commons license. That means no gatekeeping, just knowledge for anyone who needs it.
From the way we teach to how we build community, we are committed to creating space for everyone who feels called to this work. Accessibility across language, identity, ability, and experience is not an afterthought, but a guiding principle that ensures there’s always a way in and a place to belong.
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Exploring body literacy can be deeply personal, and we honor that with a trauma-informed, compassionate approach. We prioritize privacy, safety, harm reduction, and community accountability. This creates space where people feel seen, respected, and supported. Feedback is always welcome, and we remain open, responsive, and committed to building trust through care.
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We are dedicated to building a future where body literacy supports intersectional reproductive justice and birth justice for all. Our work acknowledges the harmful histories of reproductive research, gynecology, and obstetrics, and centers the voices and experiences of those who have been historically excluded or marginalized. We invite ongoing reflection to the cultures we each carry, honoring how identity, ancestry, and lived experience shape the way we engage with this work.
Body literacy introduces foundational fertility knowledge that is relevant in all stages of the menstrual life cycle.
Learn Body Literacy Is On A Mission.
At Learn Body Literacy, our mission is to empower individuals of all genders to understand and interpret the language of their bodies. By using fertility awareness as a guide and the menstrual cycle as a vital sign, we strive to create open pathways to empower self-mastery and collective solidarity.
We create resources to tangibly and immediately build reproductive freedom, through teaching the observation, charting, and interpretation of the fertility signs. Our platform is focused on accessible, inclusive education, so people can advocate for their own health, make informed decisions, and deepen the body‑mind‑spirit connection from menarche to menopause and beyond.
Additionally, Learn Body Literacy continues to conduct and publish studies, blogs, and art to increase public awareness around issues related to menstrual health.
Our History
Before Learn Body Literacy became an organization, it started as a hashtag. It was a simple but powerful call to awareness that resonated with thousands. For over five years, #FAMTaughtMe became a rallying cry across platforms to spark public conversation, share free resources, and advocate for a more inclusive and compassionate understanding of the menstrual cycle, fertility, and reproductive health in the context of reproductive justice.
What began as grassroots advocacy evolved into a full-fledged educational platform, shaped by the voices, questions, and lived experiences of the community. Learn Body Literacy was officially founded in 2020 to carry that momentum forward by offering deeper support, online visual tools, and inclusive education for all who seek body literacy knowledge.