I couldn’t wait to be inducted into the ranks of this female frustration—the period as albatross, lunar burden, exit ticket from Eden, keys to the authenticity kingdom. Bleeding among the sharks meant being eligible for men, which meant being eligible for hope, loss, degradation, objectification, desire, and being desired—a whole world of ways to
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to enter into a mindful relationship with your menstrual blood is to reaffirm your own natural bodily processes and inner dynamism, reject shame and reconnect to a long history of menstrual rite.