Things that make you go Hmmm.
Why is that we know the statistics involved with highway fatalities, the number of veterans who lose their lives in service, the number of lives lost to cancer, but we have to research and dig up the deaths of women caused by domestic violence?
So there’s this event that Aleisha, Shanna and I will be attending THIS WEEKEND in Seattle, Washington. I’m stoked.
So this is a little pre-event share. If you’re not able to go, don’t worry there will be a nitty-gritty post (possibly a vlog….Shanna?) when we get back. Here are the details:
One of the first contact points with feminism I had was through learning about wimmin’s health. I’ll refer to the topic in this way for the sake of simplicity, but I do recognize that some men menstruate and have other concerns related to having female anatomy. My main concerns were with menstruation and birth control, especially after I found the more mainstream methods of approaching those issues weren’t working for me. I was led to a lot of resources that might not have explicitly called themselves feminist, but were clearly promoting an approach that didn’t fall into the norm of “don’t touch it, don’t look at it, and definitely don’t try to understand it because the doctor always knows best.”