Trigger warnings: Descriptions of Female Genital Cutting; gender-based violence; sexism; transphobia; pain and distress; trauma In the UK, FGC is considered child/ sexual abuse and a form of gender-based violence
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Myth Busting Female Genital Cutting (FGC): Part 3- FGC is not circumcision
Trigger warnings: Descriptions of Female Genital Cutting; male circumcision; child abuse; sexual abuse; gender-based violence; sexism Hoda Ali highlighted the importance of language when describing FGC. For instance, the Somali
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Menstrual Maths # 1: Why we say ‘people who menstruate’…
In December 2018, there was a twitter storm after a menstrual health activist referred to people who menstruate as ‘bleeders’ in a lighthearted tweet raising awareness of period poverty. Some
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I’m so over the moon… myth (Part 2)
Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach The last post outlined two common menstrual myths… One about the moon having an influence over the menstrual cycle, another about
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I’m so over the moon… myth (Part 1)
Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach (Wiki-commons) Building on last month’s blog about the way in which PMS is often (wrongly) presented as something affecting ‘all women’,
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