I Sent My Grandma a Vagina In the Post

A Trip to the London Vagina Museum Ode to Gy(n)a, mural (detail) produced in collaboration with Skaped and four young artists. Vagina Museum, London. Photo by Lottie Horn. There has always been something about the vagina that has intrigued me.  Perhaps the symbol...

Head Girl Rants: Free to Bleed

The freedom I want to rant about this month is the freedom to bleed. You might not consider this a freedom. But what about the young women and girls who are homeless, or in prisons, detention camps, or otherwise detained around the world? These women do not have...

Molly Grows Up, and other awkward discussions of puberty

  Do you know why women menstruate? Do you know what the word menstruation means? If your primary source of sex education came from American “educational” films from the 1940s-1960s, you probably have only a vague idea about most things related to sex...

31 December 2016 Commentary

Judgement is an easy occupation for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Deaths related to female health problems? Avoidable, of course! Not necessary, not in this world. And here in the west? No, no problems with female health, eh? The news that reach us from Africa and Asia,...

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