January 2012
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angryclothes:
This evening the comment “I’m tired, I’ve got my period and I’m not in the mood to argue” was deemed offensive because someone was eating in the same room.
With hindsight I see that the argument that menstruation is a biological fact and not a lifestyle choice is not best served by the statement “When you grow up, if you have a girlfriend with cystic fibrosis and she needs her...
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spitphyre:
“That miracle substance isn’t just blood. It’s full of uterus lining, stem cells, a teeny tiny little egg, bodily fluids, blood, etc. That egg. It had potential to be a person. Men get to spill their seed all over a paper towel, or a woman’s face, or their desk at the office as they yank it to porn. This must be a great feeling of power. Women just bleed into stinky cotton products and...
Ladybleeding on the Job →
persephonemag:
From the article:
While this is obviously a bad situation, I’m fortunate in that I can stash my supplies in my desk and slip out to the “ladies room” whenever I need to do so. I don’t have to worry about it being too obvious that I’m having “female issues,” as my boss refers to it. I think back to how I might have handled this if I still worked in a restaurant or in retail and...
Anyone got a tampon?
i originally posted this in the summer:
stick a fork in me. i’m done. no really, i have never ever felt this horrible ever. i feel i should go into gross detail. no? you’d rather i wouldn’t? ::claps hands and sits:: okay so, on the seventh of july, i started my period and at the time i was like “egh period, ok normal body functions, whatever.” and so i accepted it. i am a woman. this is...
LADIES. I need to say some words about the state of my menstrual cycle lately:
I track my period and symptoms for no reason other than that I am weird like that, and for four years it has been the exact same thing: light cramping for two to three days before my period starts, one day of heavy flow, one day of lighter flow, CRAMPS OF DOOM and heavy flow again for a day, and then it tapers off and...
inverted spill.
okay, so i was at this guy’s house and we’re friends, but the new kind of friends. the kind of friends that you have to crawl with the amount of funny shit [completely absurd and inappropriate] you have happen to you. anyways, i was on my period and put in a new tampon. i went to the bathroom, and i came back without taking the tampon out because it was new. new. should i repeat myself...
Menstruation Decorations on Etsy
Menstruation Decorations-Patterned bathroom tiles.
to flush or not
i’ve gotten my period monthly for the past 16 years. that’s an incredibly large amount of tampons i’ve used and just this summer i learned that most women FLUSH THEIR TAMPONS!!! i didn’t know this. my father was a plumber. after my mom told him about my new womanhood the only thing he ever said to acknowledge it was “don’t flush them down the toilet” and...
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fulishfulani:
I hate all this period bullshit. Why must it make us suffer to the point of missing school? Isn’t it the 21st Century, shouldn’t there be some special chemical in the water that makes us not have our periods after a while? I mean 12-13 just to get used to it/make sure I can have children/make sure I’m not a wasted away gymnast. And then I wouldn’t get it again until I was 30 and...
lowselfesteemmakesyouworthless asked: I've gotten my period twice in my month twice in this year. Do I need to see a doctor?
Also sometimes I vomit during PMS.
Also sometimes I vomit during PMS.
A GREAT NEW TIP: Removing stains.
Normally when I know I’ve bled through (the tampon, the pad, the liner, whatever) and it gets on either my ugly or nice underwear, I soak those suckers in ice cold water for an hour or more. ——*AS MANY WOMEN DO:
However, I came across a new trick. After soaking it in cold water, lay out your ruined panties on the floor of a bath tub, spray Lime Away (rust, calcium, etc)....
wishywashydreamer asked: I'm sharing a where've I've bled thing. So I was at a theater camp. The last week of the theater camp was us touring around on a bus camping out and performing our show. It's a 4 week long camp, so ALL of the girls in our show had synced. The tents and tour bus was painted red. I feel really bad for the guys that were in the show for having to deal with us.
P.D.C.S.D.
Post-Diva Cup Stress Disorder:
It is pretty ironic I made a hopeful post about my Diva Cup a couple days ago because today I had to go to the ER because of it! Without health insurance!And here is that story…
So yesterday I put it in and I was all like, “Hell yeah, it is finally workin, wassup!” Then I slept with it in (BECAUSE YOU’RE ALLOWED TO) and I woke up and tried to take it...
December 2011
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karaj:
“what are the poetics of menstrual blogging?”
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baby-sitters girl gang: Performative wholesomeness: I WANNA BE A MENSTRUAL BLOGGER*
i literally have no idea how i existed in the world before reading things like this on tumblr or why i would even want to.
omgomg omg
November 2011
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thing you should know: kotex tampon recall →
artsexbooksandpolitics:
ladyatheist:
murphysbride:
theowlintheolivetree:
spectralradiance:
bitchesguidetoetiquette:
Be safe out there, my lovely bitches
“During the manufacturing process, the tampons were contaminated with the bacterium Enterobacter sakazakii, which can cause UTIs, pelvic inflammatory disease, and potentially life-threatening vaginal infections.”
what the FUCK
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September 2011
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July 2011
6 posts
Tampon???
I relinquished my tampon virginity today because I didn’t like not being in the know. And mostly because I was nearly 19 and I thought I should.
So I woke this morning and watched 3 youtube videos on how to use a tampon, since the last time I was taught had been in fifth grade health class. In all, it was pretty easy until it came to extracting it…and so in the end I yanked it out,...
so my period is super irregular, like it hasnt...
autostraddle:
do they have a pool?
Ask Laneia something small or large
Another Stain Removal Option
Hydrogen Peroxide works. It breaks down the enzymes and stuff and helps bubble the stain away. Then wash as normal.
that weird stilted must-keep-vag-closed walk you...
May 2011
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Diva Cup Users:
artsexbooksandpolitics:
Do you ever get annoyed that your period hasn’t come yet because you’re so eager to wear your Diva Cup again?
!!!
So I bought that Diva Cup. And I just voted.
artsexbooksandpolitics:
Diva Cup News: I bought it at this great little natural foods store that I discovered recently. I was in awe when I first saw it on the shelf. I thought I’d only be able to buy them online!
But wow. I was not prepared for the gory scene that would happen when I first tried it out. I of course had to try to get it in a few times and ended up with red fingertips. But it...
April 2011
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March 2011
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it is funny how much more a tampon weighs when you pull it out. (things i tell period tumblr = things i can’t really tell anyone else)
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January 2011
71 posts
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BUST Magazine: Surviving the Tampocalypse →
Just remember, you heard it on Period Tumblr FIRST.
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Yesterday a UPS driver got mad at me at a 4-way stop and I cried because it hurt my feelings, and then I thought of you.
xo
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my favoritest of all my favorite things about using a menstrual cup is that i can still get really, really wet with it in and have awesome sexy-times, no lube required.
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my favoritest of all my favorite things about using a menstrual cup is that i can still get really, really wet with it in and have awesome sexy-times, no lube required.
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re: free bleeding
so, a long time ago when i was eighteen, i realized i liked girls when i met this amazing little punk kid person and instantly had this huge crush. anyway one of the things i was really into, although it surprised me to be into it, was that this person did not use any period products and just kind of bled into his boxer briefs and camo shorts. it is interesting to note that much later, after we...
re: free bleeding
so, a long time ago when i was eighteen, i realized i liked girls when i met this amazing little punk kid person and instantly had this huge crush. anyway one of the things i was really into, although it surprised me to be into it, was that this person did not use any period products and just kind of bled into his boxer briefs and camo shorts. it is interesting to note that much later, after we...
Red Light Politics: Controversial ideas: Free... →
redlightpolitics:
I just finished reading a post at All About my Vagina about a topic I have rarely (if ever) seen mentioned, at least in mainstream media: free bleeding.
Now, I also know that most people will have a pretty visceral reaction to this idea muttering an “Eww” or two. But is it really? Or is it a byproduct of the centuries of indoctrination we have had about the impurity of...
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when I started
My gender identity as a child was mostly confused. I wanted people to call me James. My dad explained periods to me when I was 10. I listened to him like it was another dad science lesson and never really felt like it was something that would actually happen to me.
When I was 12 in the changing rooms after hockey practice Left Defense asked the room at large if anyone there hadn’t started...
i just wanted to second the spit-as-stain-remover suggestion! my mom used to quilt a lot and she always used spit to get the blood out when she accidentally pricked her finger. i’ve actually had success with larger stains, as well.
submitted by holdontoyourwhales
[does this method work if the stain has had some time to set? i feel like this is the craziest advice and i kind of love it.]
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really serious about wanting my own menstrual hut
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I just got my period for the first time in six months WHILE LOOKING AT PERIOD TUMBLR DOT TUMBLR DOT COM. For real.
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I just got my period for the first time in six months WHILE LOOKING AT PERIOD TUMBLR DOT TUMBLR DOT COM. For real.
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i just wanted to second the spit-as-stain-remover suggestion! my mom used to quilt a lot and she always used spit to get the blood out when she accidentally pricked her finger. i’ve actually had success with larger stains, as well.
submitted by holdontoyourwhales
[does this method work if the stain has had some time to set? i feel like this is the craziest advice and i kind of love it.]
thanks
Would like to give a shout out to Mother Nature for making me a few days late this month, cause if the bleed had started when it was supposed to it would have ruined the 3 days I spend in bed with this gorgeous girl. And that would have just been awkward. So big ups to Mother Nature!
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hello bleeding humans
i have a doctorfriend ladyperson who’s in the process of advising a couple of you who’ve submitted stories of irregular / woeful periods. i’ll publish those submissions when i have her two cents, yeah? hope that’s ok.
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another option for removing stains
spit, preferably the saliva of the person who used to be toting the blood around. Something about enzymes.
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