#Period stories

[battleangel]

🩸PERIOD UNDERWEAR > TAMPONS + PADS🩸

[journey-to-the-goddess]

Last week I was privileged to present my doctoral research on🩸Re-sacralizing Female Blood🩸to my local @pacificaalumni Alumni event! I even revealed some of the new work going into my forthcoming book for Inner Traditions! 

One of the things I love most about this topic is that it always elicits the most rich conversations! Women love to tell me their menstrual stories and often men are curious to hear about our experiences.

Special thank you to Fujio who told our small group of women that it was an honor to be a part of our discussion!

No matter a woman’s relationship to her period, she has a story to tell. I think it is through our shared storytelling that we can begin to change menstrual stigmas and to find a route to healing, or simply appreciation, for our beautiful menstruous bodies. 

Watch the full presentation: https://youtu.be/jtkOonttuIA

[dieplz]

i just got off the toilet and im on my period and i was about to flush it and i was like GODDAMN THAT'S TOO RED AM I BLEEDING OUT and then i remembered that i ate beetroots the other day

[unianj]

Me: DO YOU HAVE PAD?

Them:

Me: IM IN A PICKLE

Them:

Me: Pls. See. This.

Them:

Me: I’m dying.

Them:

Me: Because I choked

Them:

Me: On. The. Pickle.

Them:

Them:

Them: 😂

Me: WHAT ABOUT THE PADDDDDD

[mydivinepunishment]

Omg happy 12 years of periods to me and I only remember the date because I had a (Hindi) exam this day 12 years ago and I didn't want to tell my mother I started my period because she makes me uncomfortable when it comes to feminine things so I used toilet paper as make shift pads for the next 3 days to avoid detection 😭😭😭😭

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.

Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.

The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.

The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.

Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.

The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.

We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.

The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.

At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[didanagy]

EVER AFTER: A CINDERELLA STORY (1998)

dir. andy tennant

[angel-fruitcake]

there will never be another accidental love story as insane or profound as destiel i fear

[journey-to-the-goddess]

I’m thrilled to be a featured speaker at this year’s Women’s Health and Psychedelics Summit!

I’ll be discussing:

1. How menstrual stigmatization in Western society has a negative imapct on women’s pyschological well-being.

2. Why Western societies need affirming sacred menstrual stories, symbols, and rituals to improve women’s overall psycholoigcal well-being.

3. Why the Sumerian goddess Inanna is an empowering antidote to remedy this cultural void.

4. Bonus: I’ll even discuss the psycho-symbolic role psychedelics play in the menstrual cycle

I’ll be speaking amongst a group of innovative and provocative women experts in the intersecting fields of psychedelics and women’s health.

Join us!!!

WHEN: September 20-22nd

CMT

WHERE: Online:

https://sites.google.com/dysphoricproject.org/leadershipsummit/home

[myfitnessteacher]

Irregular Periods ? 5 Period Mistakes that Every Woman Should Avoid | Periods Pain Relief |

5 Common mistakes that women make during their periods that become the reason for problems like PCOD, thyroid and urinary tract infections and even aggravate PMS symptoms like cramps and bloating. We will also discuss how to prevent these mistakes and the best practices so that your period passes by like a breeze. So without any further delay, let’s get started.  Every month a woman’s body…

[isabelleadjani]

You know, I'm not surprised he likes to come to me after he sleeps with you...

DIABOLIQUE dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1996

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Danielle de Barbarac's red dress in Ever After

[canisalbus]

Sobbing over Machete, who can only be seen smiling in one part of the growing up compilation, as a wee little lad.

Sobbing over the face that he was a toddler in that part, a child who had yet to be separated from his family or know the abuse of his "teacher," who only knew the joys of cute snails and holding his favorite pet chicken.

It seems like all of his issues were compounded after his family left him :(

It is what it is. Considering the cards he was dealt, he managed to play his hand pretty well, I think. I've been mulling over this a bit lately, and I'd go as far as to say that in the eyes of his contemporaries, his childhood probably wouldn't even have been unusually unhappy or unfortunate. By most metrics he was a wildly successful individual.

Historically speaking, child abandonment has been more widespread than a modern day person might initially think.

(source)

I'd also like to believe that his parents meant well and the decision to give him up wasn't an easy one. They were going through an impossibly tight squeeze of financial and emotional hardship, and Machete, the youngest child, was constantly sick with mystery illnesses they didn't know how to deal with (anemia + weakened immunity system being the main cause for most of them). Rather than having the entire family suffer and starve, they arranged to have him be left at a monastery, hoping to give him a fighting chance to survive.

If there's a silver lining to it, it was a immense stroke of luck he ended up somewhere where he was looked after (monks were known to have better understanding and access to medicine than commoners). Moreover, he was also taught to read, a rare and priced skill at the time, which ultimately enabled him to claw his way into the upper echelons of the society. Not only did he survive, he prevailed against all odds.

Machete himself probably has mixed feelings about his childhood. He doesn't like to think about it, and (like most people) doesn't realize or admit the extent it affected him. His parents only exist on some conceptual, untouchable level to him, and I don't think he has any desire to try to find out who they were and if they're still alive. He might harbor some repressed, aimless and faceless resentment for them for deciding to wash their hands of him for a reason for another. Maybe it's the root of his inferiority complex and persistent sense of inadequacy, knowing there must've been something wrong with him for that to happen. But then again, it's hard to truly miss something or someone you don't have a personal connection to, or any memories about. In the end, he wasn't worth their time then and they're not worth his time now.

He can recall some of his time in the monastery and it was mostly a pleasantly uneventful existence, filled with strict but soothing routines and a sense of community. His mentor (father-figure, whether he likes it or not) was a cold and brutish man who disciplined him harshly. His relationship with him is tense and inflamed, but he realizes he wouldn't have gotten as far as he did without his tutelage, connections and patronage. If he hadn't sponsored his studies in Venice, he would've never crossed paths with Vasco either.