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. (…)
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. (…)
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. (…)
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. (…)
In her short documentary About Bloody Time!, filmmaker Rachel Judkins explores the silence about periods in a very personal way. (…)
Inspired by primitive period traditions, artist Skylar Taylor is making a piece on the monthly bleeding. All menstruators are invited to contribute! (…)
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. (…)
‘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. (…)
Totally different from all her other work: The Rorschach-series of the New York photographer Sarah Anne Ward. (…)
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. (…)
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. (…)
In 19th century literature, women never menstruate. However, Eline Vere, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina do regularly feel ‘a bit weak’.
Photographer Charlotte Luijendijk was inspired by the many euphemisms for the word ‘menstruation’.
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’
Becoming a woman isn’t easy. Het Wijfje, an illustrated guide for women by Nele Sys, offers hilarious and ironic real-life advice. (…)
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.
Visit an art exhibition in New York, donate some female hygiene products and support the RedDot campaign!
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.
This feminine wooden ovary necklace designed by Sæunn Kjartansdóttir is a subtle way to celebrate your femininity. Period!
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.