"making menstrual icons!" is not actually what i replied.

and okay technically i did most of the work last night, but today i uploaded them and did all the finishing stuff.

because
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so on thursday my uterus said, "like, i know it's two days early and that you're wearing a new pair of underpants, but it's menstruatin' time! yeehaw!" (my uterus is a cowboy? IDK ( Read more... )

so acne is one of my body's default answers to pretty much everything. stress? acne. change in temperature? acne. hormone shift? acne. new medication? acne. the worst part about it is that it hurts. i get those deep, volcanic cysts that bulge up under the skin like something out of the x-files. they don't just inhabit one pore. oh, no! they take up ( Read more... )

it's 2.47 in the morning and i've just had the following conversation with myself ( Read more... )

two-thirty in the morning and i am beyond tiredness, close to tears, an ocean just below the skin. time has reset itself. over the last few years my focus has shifted to birds, light, weight. bound to the earth by a heavy sky, bleeding into valleys, across hills. i wish i had a language for music ( Read more... )

flipping through the calendar at work, i discovered daylight savings ends. winter is coming. we are halfway home.

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( two words: cervical mucus )

for the two weeks he was off work, i was happy. happiness as sleight of hand. now i'm back to gasping for air, to unexpected tears, to no, no, i can't.i feel the sneaky slide of blood from the last few centimeters of my vagina, where the nerves are, like a thick tear, like my body is grieving. fear and grief. i am sick with it, weighted with it, ( Read more... )