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April 14, 2016 0 Comments

You know: Aunt Flo

‘About 10 percent of girls will get their first period and not have any clue about what is happening or what they should do’, says April Kurtyka. ‘That’s why I decided to write Aunt Flo.’

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February 8, 2016 0 Comments

Dear Period…

‘I love surprises, but just not surprise blood stains just when I’m wearing my nice new white undies.’ Period!- editor Yayeri van Baarsen writes a letter to her menstruation.

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January 19, 2016 4 Comments

A time for celebration

‘Our first period is a precious time and a celebration of the transition from being a girl to becoming a woman. But how come so very few of us truly celebrate our menarche?’ A guest blog by the Australian counsellor Robyn Jones. (…)

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January 7, 2016 3 Comments

Me & my cycle

‘For most of my life, I’ve lived without any connection to my cycle, my body, my uterus, my ovaries, my breasts, my menstruation, my ovulation – in other words, to the fact that I am a woman.’ A story from the heart, by Mariette Reineke. (…)

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May 3, 2015 0 Comments

PMS Blues

‘But you know we can’t help it. We don’t even know the cause. But as soon as this part’s over, then comes the menopause.’

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April 1, 2015 0 Comments

Dangerous stuff

‘The wine is sour, flowers wilt, seeds dry out, bee colonies die, even the mirror becomes dull and loses its gloss ivory’ – Pliny the Elder.

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April 1, 2015 0 Comments

PMS-ing together

‘If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon’s gonna get pissed off, and the tides’ll change, and all the women’ll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to f***ing regret it.’ – Tori Amos.

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August 18, 2014 0 Comments

Deformed males

‘Women are defective by nature.’ Those are the words of the Greek philosopher Aristotle. He considered females as inferior because they menstruate instead of producing semen.