Free Bleeding Empowers Women

[Valley Oak]

Here are female trailblazers in their own words on how free bleeding liberates and empowers women.
Huzzah!

[wisewomn]

In pre-patriarchal times, menstruating women went off together to a separate tent or structure for the duration. It was a sacred time. They were brought food and water and left to themselves. They performed rituals linked to the moon's cycles. On reaching puberty, young girls were given public celebrations for entering womanhood by the entire community. What a welcome and stress-free relief that must have been! Women were revered because they could bleed without suffering any ill effects. The Feminine was sacred but with the rise of the patriarchy, all things female were gradually disempowered and degraded until they became shameful and without value in the eyes of society.

All of which brings me to a bumper sticker I saw years ago: "War is menstruation envy."

[Valley Oak]

Dr Isadora Leidenfrost, Apr 16, 2015

Celebrate Menstruation in the Red Tent

Join us in the virtual “Red Tent” for today's episode of Red Tent TV. After you've watched the episode, I'd love to know...How have you celebrated menstruation?