supervag:

via menstruationresearch.org

Periods can be awful. I’ve been institutionalized four times because of mine (including a near-successful suicide attempt) amongst other awful things, so I know how awful they can be. But I see my period as such a necessary part of my identity that I can’t actively hate it without hating a little bit of myself. I don’t feel that women have to love their periods and can understand disliking the process, but I do find it alarming that so many of us absolutely hate our periods, with as much vitrol as the word ‘hate’ entails. What’s even more alarming is that so many of us don’t understand that we’ve been sold that hatred in order to get us to buy things (like aspirin that really isn’t any different from regular aspirin, just sold to us differently), or to keep us in check by making us fear and despise what we don’t understand or know. Switching to non-disposable products and charting my cycle has revolutionized the way I feel and approach my own cycle. Bringing me into such close contact with my cycle has allowed me to understand it a little more, and it’s really hard to hate or fear something that you understand. I wish all women would do this as a statement of personal ownership, but I know it’s not for everyone.

Just my two cents. I’ll try not to do this too often.

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