What is Menstruation Matters?
I’ve spent years having periods that didn’t seem to fit in with what I was ‘supposed’ to have experienced. It’s taken me a long time and being part of a positive community to realise there is no normal. Not everybody is that lucky.
I wanted to create a space that shows menstruation matters, it is an important subject and shouldn’t be shied away from. Our experiences will help others so I wanted somewhere to collate our experiences.
So tell me about your periods, have they changed over time? Perhaps your birth control has changed them or perhaps you’ve recently given birth and are settling back into a new normal. Not all our experiences are positive and those experiences should be shared too.
Perhaps you don’t menstruate, maybe you have in the past or maybe your partner does. But don’t forget its not just women who menstruate, I want to hear from everyone!
I want your real-life stories, your photographs, your poetry and your fiction.
Bloggers
Grab the image or the code and add it to your post. Once you’ve published it come back here and link it to this project so we can build up a collection of experiences.
Non bloggers
If you don’t have your own blog then feel free to send your writing or images to menstruationmatters@atosubbee.com and I will publish them as a guest post on my own blog and link them to this project.
The list
- Periodpocalypse
- After the Flood
- Mother Menstrual
- The Curse ~ Fictional Series
- Irregular periods, fifty shades of discharge and other vaginal admin
- Contraception and how it affected my cycle
- Periods. They can knob off.
- After the Flood (reprise)
- Periods: The Bloody Truth
- What is normal?
- Period Storm
- Whose Shame is it Anyway?
- A View From the Other Side
- Flood
- Dripping red for period sex
- Cells
- Menstrual Migraines and other Monthly Misfortune
- Menstruation Matters
- Surviving the bloody week
- [Menstruation Matters] especially when it seems to happen half the month
- Noodle Arms, Insomnia, and Other Period Problems
- In the darkness: a brief tale of blood and lust
- Of Course
- The Joy of Hormones
- Let’s Chat about Bloody Matters
- We all bleed red
- Putting The Men In Menstruation
- Not So Sweeten Bloody
- Implant Misery and Eternal Bleeding
- An Ode To My Menstrual Cup
- My Menstrual Cup Experience
- Contraception – the early days
- Painful, Pleasurable Period Sex
- Go With The Flow – Missus Whispers
- My menstrual cycle controls my life.
- My battle with contraception … aka I’ve taken 5 pregnancy test this week.
- My uterus controls my life, but my medication makes the doctors listen.
- Sometimes Sex Hurts
- I’m done with being subtle. Period.
- My Nexplanon Implant Story: The Procedure
- The (period) blood is the life
- Menstrual Health Issues
- Messy
- Hysterectomy = No More Periods
- No More Drama Mama!
- A Period is the End of a Sentence not the End of Sex
- A Bloody Nightmare
- Would I have had sex during my period?
- IUD Adventures
- Why do you need contraception? You’re a lesbian
- Saying Goodbye to Tampons
- To cup or no cup? That is the question..
- A zero waste period…kind of
- 5 Kinky Alternatives when you’re on your Period
- Taking a dip
- Fucking while wearing period pads
- Nurturing a Healthy Uterus
- Pondering on Period Fucking
- It is what it is – Period
- A Bloody Good Time
- Reusable Period Products: 8 months in
- Cuntheart
- Pretty in Pad
- Leaking Menstrual Cup During Pubic Hair Removal
- Period Times
- Late
- Postpartum Periods
- PCOS: An Unreliable Contraceptive
- Periods are pants so I’m going to wear the period pants