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• Are you more creative while menstruating?
• A post on Amplify about the Nepali tradition of chaupadi--isolating women who are on their periods:
  In this superstitious logic, if a menstruating woman touches a tree it will never again bear fruit; if she consumes milk the cow will not give anymore milk; if she reads a book about Saraswati, the goddess of education, she will become angry; if she touches a man, he will be ill.
• Similarly, Jos at Feministing writes about the attitudes and beliefs surrounding menstruation and sexuality while growing up in an Eastern Orthodox Christian church.
  Every sperm, and egg, is sacred. Wasting either, through masturbation, a wet dream, or simply having your period, is a sign of our fallen state, our unclean-ness. Even though a woman’s period is also a sign of her one real purpose: to make babies. So women are baby-making factories, that’s what God made them for, but their ability to fulfill this purpose makes them unclean. So women are inherently unclean, or a failure at being women.
• Jezebel posted a trailer for the new movie Hysteria, about the invention/development of the vibrator. Actually, it's a rom-com that happens to be based around the development of the vibrator. It looks pretty feel-good, so to speak. Don't expect a documentary, people!

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• Video: How to make a vagina cupcake. [Insert pussy-eating joke here]
• My Little Red Book--stories about people's first periods! I'm adding it to my want list.
• From Jezebel: How to Menstruate Politely. This is actually practical advice! I love Jezebel more and more lately.
• From Huffington Post: "A new study suggests that depending on where they are in their menstrual cycles, women have very different reactions towards strange men."
• A woman is donating her uterus to her 25-year-old daughter! Isn't that an interesting thought?--The place where you came from is now inside you! At least you'd know you were getting quality equipment. :)

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• Heavy Flow is a new menstruation zine I have not read [yet], but it looks cool.
• There's some pretty solid advice about how to Macguyver yourself a maxi pad in an emergency over at Jezebel. Favorite part?: "If you really want to give your clothes eternal life, you're going to have to mummify your panties."
• There is talk of remaking Carrie.
• Lately I am in love with The Frenemy. Here she hilariously expands on what Cosmo has taught her about her vagina.
• lovelifeproject sings the praises of reusable maxi pads.