Read the first entry in rites of passage for the first menstruation, the menarche:
THANK YOU for your beautiful and important site! I read in your news page that you are planning on providing information about menarche celebrations. I have been facilitating menarche and rites of passage celebrations for the last eight years, and would love to post this information on your site.
My non-profit organization is called RED MOON.
Please find enclosed a short description of rites of passage work I've done in Israel, with Jewish and Palestinian women.
Hope you can find this information useful for posting at your site.
Many blessings,
DeAnna L'am
You can help by:
1. Sponsoring one or more girls
2. Sponsoring/organizing a RED MOON workshop in your area
3. Contributing to our Travel Fund
4. Donating clothes for girls and women in the occupied territories in
Israel/Palestine
- ALL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE
You can reach RED MOON at: deannalam@juno.com
Men Stopping Rape visited the museum; support them!
Hello, Harry,
I don't know if you remember me. I came to see your wonderful museum three years ago. At the time, you remarked that we were the first pair of men who had ever shown up not as body guards for women.
I would like you to consider linking me to your website. I have been a rape prevention educator for 14 years as a volunteer with Men Stopping Rape of Madison, WI and for 12 years through Joseph Weinberg & Associates Educational Consultants. I specialize in talking to boys and men about rape, domestic violence, homophobia, racism, raising children non-violently, male socialization, male and female sexuality, developing a non-abusive masculinity and forming and maintaining long-term, egalitarian relationships.
I write and distribute a newsletter called Teaching Sexual Ethics.
My URL is: http://www.teachingsexualethics.org
Joe Weinberg
Cardui patent medicine may have been better than I thought
Just a note on your comments re: patent medicines of the past.
The remedies, e.g. "Cardui," are actually herbal combinations that are not unlike those that a herbalist today would use. Blessed thistle is a good liver tonic, which often helps menstrual disorders as oestrogens are broken down in the liver, black haw is a very good anti-spasmodic and pain reliever and goldenseal is a mucous membrane tonic and another liver tonic.
It is standard practice to have at least 20% alcolhol in a herbal tincture - any less and the medicine won't keep. Besides, the mix would have been very bitter and would NOT have made a pleasant tipple. It is more likely that it was the herbs that did good rather than the alcohol.
But thanks for a great Web site and best wishes. [Thanks for the information and you're welcome!]
Sara Hamer, MNIMH (UK)
Medical Herbalist
Another synonym for menstruation - and diaphragms as menstrual cups
I once heard comedian George Carlin define a woman's period as "riding the cotton pony."
Also, have you known women to use their contraceptive diaphragms for menstrual flow protection? [Yes!]
Great Web site! Found out about it via the book The Curse.
The Australian tampon tax - discussed earlier here - in Ms. magazine
Hello, Harry,
Here's another one for your files: The June/July issue of Ms. Magazine has an article about women in Australia protesting a new tax on non-necessities because the way it is written, tampons are not necessities. One of their slogans is "keep your bleeding laws to yourself." I can't believe I'm sharing this with a guy. . . . [Join the crowd!]
Thanks for sharing your visions of the future museum with me. It really is quite fascinating. Maybe there could be a building housing your museum and Judy Chicago's homeless Dinner Party. Curious about your own work as an artist and what else you do.
Hope you enjoy my sites and let's definitely keep in touch. to visit my site http://viragogallery.webjump.com, which features my work on female images. I also have a web shop at http://artmamagalleryshop.webjump.com
Menstruation in the Caribbean, etc.
I just found your site.
I am building a Caribbean search directory and would be pleased if you would add your link to our database.
The end result will be another way for Web users to find your site and possibly more visitors.
If you are interested please visit http://www.StarApple.com
Thanks in advance.
Mark Lee.
http://www.StarApple.com
Building a Caribbean Community. We Click!
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Or is it a one-legged woman? No, wait - a crucified woman?The sign for Venus??It CAN'T be just a "T."
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It's crap. The ad - the text, above, is from the center of the ad, at right - seems almost sacrilegious, even for an ancient non-Egyptian, like me, because it steals today's mildly countercultural symbol of enduring life. I think it panders to its critics, the women who have demanded safe tampons. It says nothing about why you should use Tampax. It's designed to make your eyes mist up, the way raising the flag is supposed to do. | ||
Bottom line of the ad above |
Tampax did revolutionize menstrual hygiene by adding an applicator to tampons (in 1936), but it hasn't revolutionized anything since. It did prevent a revolution among women, however, by changing its bleaching process to reduce - eliminate? - the carcinogen dioxin from its tampons. (Read more about this.)WOMEN. The revolution continues! |
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The artist Edward Gorey died in April, and Alison Lurie eulogized him in the latest New York Review of Books.Had I known he loved cats - Lurie writes that he had seven or eight when she once visited him - I might have warmed to him. Um, gory drawings can be funny, but I didn't think most of his were, just jaded. |
Gorey drew a self-portrait that appeared in the 25 May New York Review of Books; this section shows his legs in front of a cat; he loved cats. |
They remind me of Andy Warhol's work after he stopped drawing shoes as a commercial artist - the shoes were great! - and became an Artist; they show his boredom, and they bore me."In these macabre comedies [Gorey's stories] almost no one looks happy - with the striking exception of the cats, who always seem to be having a wonderful time . . . ," writes Lurie, who also wrote the quote in the headline, above.For me, the best American "dark" artist was Charles Addams, mostly of The New Yorker magazine, who drew a greater span of subject matter and could be terrifying and perplexing - and hilarious. The cartoonist Gahan Wilson, to me, tries too hard to be gruesome; it should be natural - and enjoyed, as with Addams. (Addams collected antique torture equipment.)But I choose the German Heinrich Kley (this will give you an idea of what he did) as the world-class late nineteenth-twentieth century "grotesque" artist, even though he had a lot of competition among the Art Nouveau people. He drew incredible and funny situations of people and animals and drew them better - and with pen and ink, mostly - than anyone I know.Years ago, while poking through an antiques/junk store in Heidelberg, Germany, I found a drawing of his enlivening the cover of 1910s sheet music. I got it for a song, so to speak, one of the finds of my life.Just one man's opinion.Cats and art are always worth thinking about. |
You can get the correct information if you go to these pages published by the U S Naval Observatory:
http://psyche.usno.navy.mil/millennium/whenIs.html (that`s a capital "i" in
"whenIs")
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/docs/millennium.html
A comprehensive site from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich will put right any doubts:
http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/new_mill.html
Irregular menses identify women at high risk for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which exists in 6-10% of women of reproductive age. PCOS is a major cause of infertility and is linked to diabetes.
