In my last blog I detailed my hesitation and resistance to my gynaecologist's suggestion that I have a second diagnostic laparoscopy (keyhole surgery) to look for endometriosis. It feels weird then, almost two months later, to be writing that this week I had that surgery. My hesitations varied from not wanting to repeat another painful…
Continue reading ➞ Vindication, endometriosis & some Douglas bloke | Pleasure Moans #3
Here's a blog I didn't want to write but that's been itching to get out for a couple of months. It's about a problem I didn't realise the extent of until the worst had passed, so keep in mind that this story has a slightly happier ending than most of my blogs! A Skin Thing…
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…
Continue reading ➞ Review: It’s Only Blood – Anna Dahlqvist #Periodically 25
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