If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or menopause and are
interested in showing it on thesepages (it's
free!), contact MUM
Marie
Claire magazine (Italian edition)
featured several of the above artists in
an article
about this museum and menstruation in
2003. The newspaper Corriere
della Sera (Io Donna magazine)
(Milan, Italy) and the magazine Dishy (Turkey)
showed some of the artists in 2005 in
articles about this museum.
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The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of
Menstruation and Women's Health
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"Soft as a Fleecy Cloud"
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Detail from the
pillow.
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Artist Jennifer Boe writes, "The
piece was recently sold at an
auction for The Kansas City Artists
Coalition."
She adds, "I grew up in a small
town in the Bible belt were
applicatorless tampons were met with
a smirk. A girl would ask for a
tampon, I would hand her an
o.b. (a product which I enjoyed
using because there was less trash
and they could fit easily into my
jeans pocket) and you'd think that I
was offering to lend her my vibrator
for the weekend. On one such
occasion, the girl actually dropped
it like it was a snake and gave me
this mean accusing look as though I
had just played a very cruel
practical joke on her. Within a
week there was this bizarre rumor
floating around school that I was a
lesbian and had propositioned her."
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NEXT:
Roz Bonnet
See all the
artists in the links in the
left-hand column.
If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or
menopause and are interested in
showing it on these pages (it's
free!), contact MUM
© 2004 Harry Finley. It is
illegal to reproduce or distribute
work on this Web site in any manner
or medium without written permission
of the author. Please report
suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org
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