Tag: health
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Time To Bleed The Room: Unlocking the Magic of Saying the Bloody Word
Sofia Perez It’s that time of the month when Auntie Flo comes around and you ride the crimson wave. It’s shark week… but also strawberry week…and also lingonberry week if you’re Swedish. It’s code red! Granny’s stuck in traffic! Les Anglais ont débarqué! If you think I’m describing a doomsday scenario with a side of…
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From Cloth To Comfort: A Menstrual Revolution In a Material World
Sofia Perez Contact with it [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, […] hives of bees die. Pliny the elder If you’re one of the lucky ones among us who menstruate- or ever has or will- you should know a decent chunk of the humans that have ever existed would…
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Menstrual Menstralas: Why Art Is The Path Out of Stigma
Sofia Perez if there is a rivermore beautiful than thisbright as the bloodred edge of the moon ifthere is a river more faithful than thisreturning each monthto the same delta if thereis a riverbraver than thiscoming and coming in a surgeof passion, of pain if there isa rivermore ancient than thisdaughter of evemother of cain…
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Closing the Comma on Period Poverty
Sofia Perez There is a moment every female-bodied tween dreads- the day your sporadic, temperamental period comes early and you’ve forgotten your pad. You’re stuck in the bathroom stall on a muggy summer afternoon in the middle of French and you know your only option is to stuff toilet paper into your panties and say…
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A Tale of Toxineering & Tarantulas
Sofia Perez The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in Kings’ palaces. Proverbs 30:28 After defending the bad press snakes get in Western culture and highlighting the potential their venom offers the field of medicine, I was struck by a dagger of guilt. More than 220,000 species- or approximately 15% of all animal…
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Dirt, DNA & Declarations of Rights: Why is food so tricky?
Sofia Perez The mouth is an underappreciated organ. It is the place where our voices leave our bodies, where food enters in. It allows us to give; it allows us to take. Think of all the interactions that happen there on a daily basis and how they influence your life. To narrow it down to…