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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
"Self Exploration, looking for Aunt
Martha"
16" x 20" pastel on paper, 1985, ©
2002 Judy Jones
"I locked myself in a friend's
bathroom for 16 hours and this is
what I gave birth to!
"It was my first attempt to
paint a body and I felt extremely
guilty.
Not only had I crossed over the
line (being taught never to look
at nor
touch my body) looking for "Aunt
Martha," which is what we called
our periods, made my sin even
greater.
"And what to do with 'the
afterbirth'? Thats what I call the
mess
I have to clean up after painting.
Since it wasn't my bathroom I
dumped
all the rags and mess into my
backpack. Guilt, guilt and more
guilt!"
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Next
artist: Margaret
Kalms
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
© 2002 Harry
Finley. It is illegal to reproduce
or distribute
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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