THE IMPOSSIBLE KNOT
‘The menstrual monster is thus simultaneously menstruating and non-menstruating, feminine and un-feminine, bleeding too much and too little, too early and too late, in too much and too little pain, is too proud and too embarrassed, transgendered and cisgendered’....
FOOL’S SPRING
We were cycling late last Saturday night and I'd left the house ill-prepared. My hands stung sharply with the cold; the wind whipping my knuckles as we trundled up the hill. 'Why the fuck didn't I bring my gloves?' I shouted, shaking my raw hands to bring some life...
Reimagining Menarche
What might happen if we reimagined menarche? Or even queered it all the way up? As a parent to a small human who I assume will get her period one day, I think about this a lot. There's also a growing movement of companies setting up workshops and education that...
What if we are the veil?
Some of you will have heard me say this before and so I apologise for repeating myself, but every year at Samhain I find myself sitting-with the premise of the veil between the worlds and each year I can't help but feel like there’s more to it. The idea that the veil...
Bleeding on the Edge of Time: Menstrual time, menstrual futures and liberation from the clock
I wrote this piece below a while back and it first made its debut on Instagram last year, but the themes in this writing are ones that still delight and intrigue me and so I thought I’d offer it up here too. Recently I have felt like a time-traveller,...