PLR Edmonton Presents: A Critical Discussion on Cycle Syncing

PLR Edmonton Presents: A Critical Discussion on Cycle Syncing

A look at the Exploitation of Women’s Health Through Cycle Syncing + Wellness Culture

By ProjectLoveRun

Date and time

Sunday, May 25 · 10am - 12:30pm MDT

Location

Run Meet up & Brunch at Rooster Kitchen & Bar (10732 82 avenue)

10732 82 Avenue Northwest Edmonton, AB T6E 6P4 Canada

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes

Come through Sis, Join us for an honest discussion on how the growing trend of cycle syncing—sold to us as empowerment—often reproduces harm…

From Instagram influencers to hormone-optimization apps, we’ll unpack how the wellness industry has co-opted menstrual health into something sleek, scientific-sounding, and marketable—yet deeply exclusionary.

Discussion: In this intimate and participatory gathering, we’ll explore:

  • What cycle syncing is, and why it’s become so popular
  • The connection between cycle syncing, healthism, and the wellness industry’s obsession with productivity and self-optimization
  • How this trend marginalizes non-white, disabled, queer, trans, and non-cycling bodies
  • How we might talk about hormonal health in ways that are inclusive, liberatory, and community-centered

Our intention: To offer a space for sharing, critical thinking/questioning, unlearning and re-learning—not a workshop that tells you what to eat or how to train by your cycle.

Join us as we dive deeper and explore.

Run: Join PLR Edmonton Leader Shelley for a 4/5km walk and jog, followed with brunch.

Keep in mind... we meet you exactly where you’re at (no need to be a "runner") — just come as you are. And if cost is a barrier— please email: projectloverun@gmail.com, NO ONE will be turned away.

PLEASE READ OUR CODE OF CONDUCT AND SIGN OUR WAIVER BEFORE YOU SHOW UP SIS!

What to know:

Meet & Brunch: Run Meet up followed by brunch at Rooster Kitchen (10732-82 avenue)

Time: 10:00am

Your registration will include :

  • Brunch
  • A curated list of questions with reading guide to use on your own for further unpacking.

PLEASE NOTE: We will be taking photos/videos of this event so we can provide more information online to women who want to know more about PLR runs-to-brunch, by purchasing a ticket you are consenting to having your images captured. Of course, if you do not want to be in any photos/video, please let us know, we respect your choice.

As always tag @projectloverun, what city you are in and your reflections and/or photo of your run & brunch.

With Love,

Project Love Run

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ProjectLoveRun

Project Love Run aims at offering women+ a place to talk about matters of the heart. A monthly run-to-brunch, that holds space for women to run and share stories, listen and learn from each other. Providing a setting for women to meet women who they can connect with and relate to, sharing stories and running as common ground. Our community constantly draws an awareness to how running culture intersects with systems of domination (like Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy) and we constantly work to subvert those systems from a place of heart and a place of critical interrogation; looking both inward and outward so we can see how they impact our (run) experience.

In loving ourselves and our bodies body, we make room for a loving world. We make room for our Beings. Women’s** running collective.

CA$33.28