2026-05-06 11:43 UTC
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@vagina_museum@masto.ai 2026-05-06 11:43
Before the Blood: Community and Belonging from Menarche to Migration is still on display, Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm. // Nisaba is a grassroots organisation that provides holistic, trauma-informed, menstrual, sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing services for migrants. Follow their work and donate if you can! https://www.nisaba.org.uk/
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@eowyn@pouet.chapril.org 2026-05-06 17:07
@vagina_museum *i* was well informed but my comrades were not and harrassed me when i had leaks. No one ever offered me help or sanitary products at school.
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@moonrabbit@sunny.garden 2026-05-06 18:51
@vagina_museum i wish that someone told me that menstrual blood could be brown, so that when it first happened twice something like a year apart when i was 10/11, i didn't think (both times) that i'd eaten too much fruit and my bum was leaking and that i couldn't eat fruit till it stopped and for the following few weeks just in case. i was ... older ... when it finally dawned on me what that had been. (knowing that endometriosis was a thing might've helped too. but now i do know, i also know i have it, and i have no treatment anyway, so. i guess i'll stick with the not-poo thing as my "i wish".)
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@ditsch42@troet.cafe 2026-05-06 18:57
@vagina_museum I wish I had known that it was totally normal that the menstrual cycle was *not* exactly 28 days. We actually learned a lot about the cycle and hormonal changes and everything in school, but it was always supposed to be exactly 28 days. Mine was sometimes... 6-8 weeks (and also sometimes rather black than red). I was worried, but didn't dare to mention it to anyone.
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@TheShellyTea@mastodon.art 2026-05-06 19:32
@vagina_museum @MamaLake If you're having pain, reach out for help. It doesn't have to be that way. If you're having unbearable pain, see a doctor. That's not normal. You're not "gross" because you're on your period. You're not "gross" if you use a pad instead of a tampon. Period panties can make you a lot more comfortable. Reuseable cloth pads can help hugely with chaffing. Going through biological cycles is normal. Bleeding is normal. And if guys had to do it, we'd absolutely have PTO for it!