We want to take a moment to acknowledge that we may be on the precipice of some dark legislative changes in the United States. While it’s true that the government wants to control our rights and access to safe and legal abortions, what’s also true is that we don’t have to go down without a fight.
Healthy menstruation is, arguably, one of the most important, yet the most overlooked, aspects of our health and the body-positivity movement. We have been taught to believe that it is largely an inconvenience to bleed: painful, messy, and embarrassing. For centuries, the patriarchy taught us to believe that bleeding people are "dirty", unholy, and even dangerous.