Review: It’s Only Blood – Anna Dahlqvist #Periodically 25

Last week I attended the launch of gender, sexuality and human rights journalist Anna Dahlqvist's book It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation. The conversations on the night, between Dahlqvist, the founder of Bloody Good Period Gabby Edlin and the audience were interesting enough, but the book itself stands out as an enlightened piece of writing…

The menstrual cup is disgusting – until it’s not #Periodically 7

Sorry mum - you're really going to hate this one. It's your least favourite topic my large repertoire of vaginal related discussion - the menstrual cup.  I started reading articles and blogs, even watching vlogs, about people with uteruses' experiences with menstrual cups probably about a year ago, when I began to get a period…