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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
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"10 Tablespoons a
Month"
It's inspired by an artist on this
site and "documents all the sanitary
paraphernalia that a woman uses
monthly. . . It's headless because
it's
every woman who has a menses."
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"The Gift'
It shows "how vaginas have a
flower-like quality."
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'Bleed for God'
Also uses menstrual blood.
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ALL ART COPYRIGHT 2005 Quiara Z. Escobar
The artist Zoey (Quiara Z.
Escobar) writes that she used
pencil, then
ink and red marker on paper
14"x11" originally. She's an art
teacher
and painter who lives in New York
City. She continues,
I realized how I hid my menses
each month and became aware of
messages I receive which are
mostly negative. I read a
t-shirt once that said I don't
trust anything that bleeds for
five days and lives. Our culture
sees menstruation as something
unclean and yet without it we
can not create life.
I had a friend who wouldn't
allow menstruating women to sit
in his house. He was scarred as
a child when he found a disposed
pad in the trash and thought his
mom was dying. If it weren't
hidden but revered then beliefs
about menses would be different.
Hiding menstruation, tampons,
pads, and experiences leads to
warped thinking, misconceptions,
ignorance and shame. I can
honestly say that my cycle has
come and gone and I have seen it
as a nuisance at times, an
inconvenience, punishment from
God or a blessing when I see my
nieces and nephews.
I must say I was pleasantly
surprised by your site. A museum
dedicated to menstruation. For
some reason this month as I
received my menses I felt that
everywhere I turned there was
dialogue on the subject. Tampon
commercials (you know she can't
sleep in white pjs and sheets),
ads and conversations in
passing.
On the View they dedicated one
whole segment; who knew that
every month those 10
tablespoonful of blood would
inspire a museum. I got online
and researched menstruation and
was amazed to find your site. I
went to dinner last night with
some friends and told them about
your site. They were floored. I
was wondering if you still do
private visits to the
museum? A group of my friends
would like to visit your
establishment.
Also, in my family tampons
were seen as hymen breakers or
de-virginizers. So to say the
least I was not encouraged to
used them. I had to hide them
from my mom and wear those
diapers called pads instead.
Thank you for your time and
efforts on behalf of women,
Namaste,
Zoey
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NEXT
artist: Fanni
Fazekas
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
© 2005 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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