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August 19, 2024 0 Comments

Exhibition: Red Astral

The main theme in Emelly Velasco’s abstract art: the menstrual cycle and female fertility. Red Astral, her first solo exhibition, can be seen in Amsterdam from 7 September. (…)

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April 8, 2024 0 Comments

Menstrual art: Widening the Cycle

The Widening the Cycle exhibition included work by 36 artists from ten different countries. All with one common goal: putting menstruation in a different and, above all, broader perspective. (…)

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November 11, 2020 0 Comments

Bloody serious comic

Just to be clear. The comic Super Woman by Proud Mary isn’t about the legendary action hero Superwoman by Marvel. The autobiographical illustrations are about Super Plus Tampon Woman. Who, in a sense, also possesses super powers. (…)

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January 22, 2020 0 Comments

Super plus cute

How to smash the menstrual taboo in a super plus cute way? American stop-motion animation artist Annie Wong created Ovary Actions: a colourful series of animation GIFs that are all about menstruation. (…)

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November 26, 2019 0 Comments

Beauty in blood

‘Do you consider what you see pretty or ugly?’ Visual artist Jen Lewis invites people to look at menstruation in a different way with her series Beauty in Blood. (…)

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April 14, 2019 0 Comments

Psychological test

Totally different from all her other work: The Rorschach-series of the New York photographer Sarah Anne Ward. (…)

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June 14, 2018 0 Comments

What’s your menarche story?

Everybody remembers her first period, don’t they? Was it a happy occasion? A sad one? British artist Pippa Robinson is exploring the menarche transition in her participatory arts project My Menarche. (…)

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February 21, 2018 1 Comment

Pearls and panty liners

Not all creations made by Dutch fashion artist Agnes van Dijk are very wearable. This AllDayPearlDress for example, which is made of pearls and panty liners. (…)

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August 11, 2017 0 Comments

A bit weak

In 19th century literature, women never menstruate. However, Eline Vere, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina do regularly feel ‘a bit weak’.

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April 21, 2017 0 Comments

Greetings from Bosnia

Bosnia | Losing Innocence is a series by photographer Esther Cappon about her first military mission in a war zone. ‘Apparently we’re more shocked by a tampon than by hand grenades’

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November 27, 2016 0 Comments

First Moon gift

Need a First Moon gift for a daughter who’s about to get her first period? What about a piece of jewellery from the Ideal Woman collection made by Allie Pohl.

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December 18, 2015 0 Comments

Menstruation frustration

If you don’t know it, you probably won’t see it: but the jewellery collection by Lili Murphy-Johnson has something to do with menstruation frustration.

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July 8, 2015 0 Comments

Very feminine

This feminine wooden ovary necklace designed by Sæunn Kjartansdóttir is a subtle way to celebrate your femininity. Period!

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May 12, 2015 0 Comments

Selfie 2.0

Dutch writer Heleen van Royen gave a whole new meaning to the term ‘selfie’. One of the 200 pictures in her book Selfmade shows her removing a tampon, in close-up.