globaltraveler2021
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Palestinian girls and women are forced to use tents as pads. People boost. Donate if you can
#period
Then please explain it to me properly Mr Johnson
My ovulation tracker suddenly asked what state I live in
🇵🇸 🕊️ BURN THE PATRIARCHY
"It said telling them was required to continue using the app.
The fuck it is.
I deleted it immediately. Like I’m gonna risk police showing up to my door if I miss a month due to non-pregnancy reasons.
Update: I just went to the tracker’s spot in the App Store to leave a review warning other potential users. According to the last few reviews that were written, I am NOT the first user since the last update who noticed and immediately deleted.
I have no problem naming and shaming the app, but I’m unsure if it’s allowed. If a moderator could let me know if I’m allowed to name the app or not, I’d really appreciate it!
Edit #2: I’ve gotten permission to name the app as long as we don’t go brigading. The app is called Ovia. Avoid it like the plague!"
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menstruation is the only blood that is not born from violence, yet it's the one that disgusts you the most.
-Maia Schwartz
Palestinian girls and women are forced to use tents as pads. People boost. Donate if you can
It’s so embarrassing when I’m going through a mental breakdown and then my period shows up.
It feels like the Scooby Doo meme where Fred pulls off the monster’s mask and underneath there’s a rich white man but instead it’s untreated PMDD.
Like ah, yes. Once a month Blood Madness takes hold and suddenly I’m hyperventilating in my closet trying to talk myself down from making a rash and irreversible decision as my brain burns itself to the ground in response to hormonal fluctuations.
By the by, if this is at all relatable to you, that’s not normal. That is potentially a thing called Premenstrual dysphoric disorder. It’s listed in the DSM-5 as a depressive disorder. And your life doesn’t have to be like this.
I’m in a nightmare position where the medications that can help with PMDD make my complex immune disorder issues worse.
But there is treatment for PMDD. It might be hard to access at first because it primarily affects people with a period, but keep fighting until someone takes you seriously and helps you.
Please. Do it for me if you can. It’ll make me feel better talking about this to know it helped other people not suffer.
Why don’t we have visual examples of how much is a full pad with realistic looking blood!? I just blew out a gush of blood and clots out the front and now I have to change from looking like crotch got murdered. Like not all blood is liquid and instantly absorbed. Sometimes it goopy like gel or oil. Anyways glad I didn’t go to school cause fuck!! The gushing alone is worrying enough!
born to be an abstract concept, forced to be a percievable entity
I saw a pro-choice comment saying “if Roe is overturned, then what are we handing over to our granddaughters???” well for one they won’t be aborted, so now you can actually meet them.
Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.
Reblog to save a life?
Baymax in the new Baymax! show buying pads for a girl who got her first period and getting help from people, including a trans man.
Some people are really mad about this, when he is literally a health care robot interested in people's physical and emotional needs.
It was fine to respond to the actions of Hamas from oct 7th. But now it has gone far far beyond anything reasonable and history has truly shown that it is Israel at fault and not Palestine going back 70 + years. Also understand that part of Palestine was carved out for the creation of Israel.
An accurate description of what a period is. #periodssuck #notably #hurtslikehell #accurate #whymustibeagirl
“You're the only one who can hold your head up high
Shake your fist at the gates saying
"I've come home now!"
Fetch me the Spirit, the Son, and the Father
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended
It's time now
My time now
Give me my
Give me my wings!”
“10,000 Days (Wings Pt. 2)”
-Maynard James Keenan
RIP Betty 🌹 You were an amazing Woman who brought light, laughter, comfort, love and so much more to so many of us. A true advocate for all animals, and a wonderful spirit that shined so brightly. Sleep well Betty, you’ve earned your peaceful rest. 🌹
January 17, 1922 - December 31, 2021
We need better sex ed because I didn’t know that periods that cause excruciating pain, among other things wasn’t normal. I didn’t learn about the many common problems people could encounter from menstruating from sex ed. I learned it from the internet.
- anonymous
by june bates
At what age did you give up shaving everything? I'm 17 and considering it but I'm hesitant because I'm REALLY hairy and I'm kinda afraid of what I'll look like completely untrimmed
Last year in June. That would make it 20 years old. Don’t worry, honestly. I go swimming every weekend now, something I never thought I’d be able to do only a few months ago. And here I am. And believe me, everything is unshaved - armpits, legs, bikini line, all of it on show. Happy trail. You name it. It’s not as bad as you think. In fact it’s not bad at all. It’s very liberating! You also learn something very important which might be distantly somewhere in your mind, but not really present until you do it. That your body is your own body! If it were as hairy as a bear - surely that should be your perogative right? Why does it concern anyone else? It’s like eating lunch and worrying someone else won’t like what you’re having. LOL.
17 is great! (Any age is great) This is an investment, begin to believe in yourself now, and it doesn’t matter how steady you go, or even if you stop - as long as you don’t go backwards, you’ll be way past me at 20 and you’ll be glad you took off the shackles. I remember while doing this, many MANY times, I reluctantly decided to hide myself when I had the opportunity to show it. And I hated myself for being ashamed and hiding it, but you know what I would have hated 100x more? If I had shaved for other people’s opinions when I didn’t want to. So I held on, as stagnant and as stuck as it felt, I said to myself I’d rather die than have one hair on my body shaven off because I’m scared. I ended up hiding a lot more than I thought, but then you know what happened? One time I showed it. And then I showed it again. And again. And now? I’m swimming with it all out there. It might take a little while, but it’s lasting. The feeling you get when you realise how free you are is addictive, and when you feel it you’ll thank yourself, and wonder how bizarre life would be if you continued caring so much what other people think. :) Not only that but you realise how incredibly insignificant it is. And despite it maybe taking a while to get to that confident stage (though for you it might not take months, it could be weeks, or days, whatever) when it does happen, it’ll be one of the most instantly gratifying things you’ll remember, and it will be gratifying every, single, time. That you’re you. And no one can change that.
And I know because you’re young you’re worried about the social effects as well, even if you do accept yourself. Believe me all that happens naturally. During the time I stopped shaving everything (so a few months ago) I applied for a job through Facebook as there was no other way to do it and my cover photo was one of my photography photos showing my armpit hair, and I got a call, and I got the job a week later. Even though I thought, oh God they’ll think I’m a weird, still, I thought well there’s nothing to lose. And I was actually so surprised. So then instantly all my colleagues knew about it through that - no one said a thing. We went out a lot, had drinks together, we were cool. Some people met me before they saw my Facebook, and we were really cool with each other, then they saw it, and they didn’t act any differently. Similarly because of that, a lot of people from Uni found out that way even through the times I was scared to show it. Girls from class came up to me saying they were shocked at how brave and courageous I am, and they really think that’s awesome. I like learning languages and many times through online I come across people I can Skype with to practice the language more. These being many guys from Japan who are my age, who have then added me on social network and seen that, and didn’t even say a thing about it, and we still chat just like before. The only one who mentioned it, said he thought it was really cool.
The point I’m trying to make is, things just gradually happen on its own, and people don’t care as much as you think. If they do, it simply means they’re shallow dickheads, and that’s a very clear sign not to hang out with that person. Therefore if anything it’s a good way of seeing who actually cares about you, and who is actually a cool down to earth person.
I’m not saying there’s no more difficulties I am not personally facing, but with the way it’s gone, to have done as much as I have, and discovered as much as I have, in a period of say 8 months - that is incredible. If that’s not hopeful, I don’t know what is.
If you’re ‘REALLY’ hairy as you say, then come over and we’ll be super hairy together LOL because you’re not alone.