If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause
and are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine (Italian edition) featured several
of the above artists in an article about this
museum and menstruation in 2003. The newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna
magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine Dishy (Turkey) showed some of
the artists in 2005 in articles about this museum.
 
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The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
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"Soft as a Fleecy Cloud"
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Detail from the pillow.
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Artist Jennifer Boe writes, "The piece was recently sold at an
auction for The Kansas City Artists Coalition."
She adds, "I grew up in a small town in the Bible belt were applicatorless
tampons were met with a smirk. A girl would ask for a tampon, I would
hand her an o.b. (a product which I enjoyed using because there was
less trash and they could fit easily into my jeans pocket) and you'd think
that I was offering to lend her my vibrator for the weekend. On one
such occasion, the girl actually dropped it like it was a snake and gave
me this mean accusing look as though I had just played a very cruel practical
joke on her. Within a week there was this bizarre rumor floating around
school that I was a lesbian and had propositioned her."
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NEXT: Roz Bonnet
See all the artists in the links in the left-hand
column.
If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and
are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
See
also Bea Nettles' art The Moonsisters
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work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission
of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org
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