Menstrual 

10 creative works found

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  Sky Over Fire Pool With Two Trees
  by Elena Ray

  Abstract mixed medium painting; acrylic and watercolor on paper with inked Chinese character for “sky”. Original 8. 5×11”. Created after a particularly present and powerful yoga practice from which I promptly began to menstruate. At the moment it felt to me the most profound painting I had so far produced. I value the brief process of producing small paintings and collages. They are finely “Now”. It’s complete. I’m fulfilled. I move on. It felt incredible to create directly from my own dynamic moment; blood and opened cellular energy; the feeling that my attained balance and cleanly spinning connection was becoming unhinged by the heat and hunger of the incoming biological process. My first true landscape as a painter, an inner landscape composed of ancient alchemical symbols, which came without intention. It evolved just from the physical act of my hand moving the brush, the inner events, the intense energy generated.

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  KNICKERS MENSTRUAL PAD PANTIES
  by SofiaYoushi

  In the United Kingdom and Ireland knickers is a word for women’s undergarments: There are now many names for the undergarments that previously have been called knickers, such as panties, thongs, g-strings, briefs, shorts, tangas, etc. While the term ‘knickers’ refers almost exclusively to women’s underwear, ‘knicks’, knick-knacks’ and similar more masculine variations are acceptable monikers for men’s underwear, particularly for young boys.

• Monthly Cycle
  by Peter Evans

  I ROFLMFAO at this so I just had to share it with my RB friends. For the Ladies really … the rest of us should be very, very afraid….

  I ROFLMFAO at this so I just had to share it with my RB friends. For the Ladies really … the rest of us should be very, very afraid. Peter / This is an actual letter sent to Proctor & Gamble TO: MR. JAMES THATCHER BRAND MANAGER, PROCTER & GAMBLE Dear Mr. Thatcher / I have been a loyal user of your Always maxi pads for over 20 years, and / I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuard Core™ / or Dri-Weave™ absorbency, I’d probably never go horse riding or salsa / dancing, and I’d certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach / in tight, white shorts. But my favourite feature has to be your / revolutionary Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company smart enough / to realize how crucial it is that maxi pads be aerodynamic. I can’t tell / you how safe and secure I feel each month knowing there’s a little F-16 / in my pants. / Have you ever had a menstrual period, Mr. Thatcher? Ever suffered from / ‘the curse’? I’m guessing you haven’t. Well, my ‘time of the month’ is / starting right now. As I type, I can already feel hormonal forces / violently surging through my body. Just a few minutes from now, my body / will adjust and I’ll be transformed into what my husband likes to call / ‘an inbred hillbilly with knife skills.’ Isn’t the human body amazing? / As brand manager in the feminine-hygiene division, you’ve no doubt seen / quite a bit of research on what exactly happens during your customers’ / monthly visits from Aunt Flo. Therefore, you must know about the / bloating, puffiness, and cramping we endure, and about our intense mood / swings, crying and out-of-control behaviour. You surely realise it’s a / tough time for most women. In fact, only last week, my friend Jennifer / fought the violent urge to shove her boyfriend’s testicles into a George / Foreman Grill just because he told her he thought Grey’s Anatomy was / written by drunken chimps. / Crazy! The point is, sir, you of all people must realize that the UK is / just crawling with homicidal maniacs in Capri pants. Which brings me to / the reason for my letter. Last month, while in the throes of cramping so painful I wanted to reach / inside my body and yank out my uterus, I opened an Always maxi pad, and / there, printed on the adhesive backing, were these words: ‘Have a Happy / Period.’ / / Are you fucking kidding me? / / What I mean is, does any part of your tiny middle-manager brain really / think happiness – actual smiling, laughing happiness – is possible during a menstrual period? Did anything mentioned above sound the least bit pleasurable? / Well, did it, James? FYI, unless you’re some kind of sick S&M freak girl, there will never be anything ‘happy’ about a day in which you have to jack yourself up on Nurofen and Kahlua / and lock yourself in your house just so you don’t march down to the local Tesco’s armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your life in a blaze of glory. For the love of God, pull your head out, man. If you just have to slap a / moronic message on a maxi pad, wouldn’t it make more sense to say / something that’s actually pertinent, like ‘Put Down the Hammer’ or / ‘Vehicular Manslaughter Is Wrong’?- Or are you just picking on us? / / Sir, please inform your accounting department that, effective immediately, there / will be an $8 drop in monthly profits, for I have chosen to take my maxi-pad business elsewhere. And though I will certainly miss your Flexi-Wings, I will / not for one minute miss your brand of condescending bullshit. And that’s a / promise I will keep. Always. / Best, Wendi Aarons

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  The Menstrual Cycle ...The Mind Boggles!
  by taiche

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  Evolve
  by Elena Ray

  Woman with her arms raised walking from an open nautilus shell. Photo based illustration.

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  The PMS Shirt
  by Johanne Brunet

  Feeling crappy when PMS? This is a friendly reminder shirt, just for you! My first attempt at vector art. I isolated the right shoe in my photo Social Climber and went to work to transform it into vector art. Thirty-five layers and 10 hours later (told you it was my first!), this was the result!

• PMS T-Shirt !!!
  by Johanne Brunet

  I just spent the last two days working on a new t-shirt design. I wanted to try out vector art, and I found a tutorial....

  I just spent the last two days working on a new t-shirt design. I wanted to try out vector art, and I found a tutorial giving out some good pointers to go get me started. Thirty-five layers and close to ten hours later, I came up with a red sexy shoe in vector art. Making the t-shirt design was quick enough because what I wanted to do was very clear in my mind. Here is The PMS Shirt: / The vector shoe up close: /

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  Our Lady of the Bleeding Thighs
  by Suvi

  To glorious to resist ;)

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  Hermit Series... She Bleeds Alone
  by linaji

  Human attitudes towards menstruation, and menstrual blood in particular, have a spotty history. Ancient Middle Eastern cultures regarded the blood as dirty, and women were shunned or confined to small dark rooms for the duration of menstruation. / .. / I learned to prize my time alone, / I knew I was more / I became more alone, / darkness became me / My Spirit got large / My Freedom, / desired / above all else / I am my Freedom. / alone in the dark / I began the journey.

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  The Cycle
  by jon daly

  only women bleed…