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[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

HA! what a wonderful community... I just stumbled upon you guys when I was looking for information about menstural art...

you see, I'm looking for ideas and information on menstrual art...

menstrual blood painting, tampon earrings and the like...

and I'd love ANY AND ALL suggestions, advice, and links you can offer...

as for my information, I'm 18, bisexual, and I'm studying psychology and women's studies as a second year college student, I work at a girls' science camp every summer, and I hope that I can help you as much as you can help me!

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[--heartattack.livejournal.com]

in the film 'ghostworld' the main character has to go to summer art class and another student makes this sculpture out of found objects (a tampon in a teacup)... i want to say it was originally done by judy chicago or some other feminist artist but i forget what the end credits say.

i know nothing about menstrual art, however, everytime i see my clots, i want to preserve them and turn them into those icky jellied toys.

[zombiefaerie.livejournal.com]

Menstrual art was always a very interesting topic. I don't know if this is going to sound strange but I always felt like a life was being lost with every cycle and for awhile it really depressed me. Then the thought of drawing pictures in menstrual blood of my hypothetical children occured to me. Immortalize them on paper. I guess I just feel that I owe it to them.

[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

I'm doing this for my final project at college (well, at least I'm seriously considering it--it's not for another 3 yrs) but I'd like to collect women's stories and perhaps menstrual art as well as part of my project. is there any chance you might be interested in contributing?

[zombiefaerie.livejournal.com]

I would be very honoured. Just what sort of ideas are you looking for?

[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

I'm not totally sure yet...the idea's still in the formation phase... I only just dicovered the existance of the keeper... and my project has to be approved by several people at the end of my junior year (I'll be a sophomore this year)... but I'm thinking stories...possibly along the lines of the vagina momologues...but I'm leaning towards something more about female empowerment as opposed to stories directly liked to vaginas...but we'll see.

I'll keep your user name and keep you posted as my ideas cement themselves.

but thank you so much for accepting!

[zombiefaerie.livejournal.com]

hey no problem it all sounds very interesting. :)

[bi-ballerina.livejournal.com]

I've done three mentrual blood paintings now. . .

its made my periods feel very. . .peaceful and beautiful. . .
I look forward to them because i get to paint :)

I use The Keeper to collect my blood and then mix it with white/ iradescent paint, although I'm looking for clear too.

I'm also Bi, and studying psychology :)

[ring-of-fire.livejournal.com]

ugh, my girlfriend is bi and also studying psych. How weird is that?

[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

very interesting...

what kind of psyc? like...any focus or special interests?

[ring-of-fire.livejournal.com]

She wants to do experimental psych, but i'm pushing for clinical because it pays more.

[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

hmm...interesting...

I'm looking at a biopsych thing...but dreading the idea of having to take a ton of less-than-relavant science courses

[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

that's what I'm thinking of doing as well--with the keeper and everything. I am concerned about smell issues and health issues (is menstrual blood considered a biohazarous material?)... are either a problem? and if so how do you solve it? thanks!

[bi-ballerina.livejournal.com]

It doesn't smell, surprisingly. I was worried about that, and I heard that if you mix it with paint soon enough, it doesn't smell. I really haven't had that problem at all. As for it being a biohazard, menstrual blood can carry STI's. . .I am really careful about cleaning up, and only use my materials for that type of painting (even though I am pretty sure I don't have an sti. . .better to be safe. I think after it dries that it would be incredibly difficult to contract an sti through the painting. Most viruses don't live that long. ..and probably as long as no one puts a mucus membrane in direct contact with it, you're fine.
oh,a nd check out the blood_art community.

[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

thank you so much!

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

I don't really know much on the topic, but I was at a white elephant christmas party (for those that dont know what that is, everyone brings 1 rediculous gift like a gold windbreaker or a faux shrunken head made out of a coconut and you play a game to see which stupid gift you're stuck bringing home) so anyhow someone brought "christmas ornaments" which were simply tampons rolled in glue and covered in glitter. Another woman made slippers out of pads and made little flowers out of tampon wrappers to decorate them with. I thought it was pretty damn funny. I think 2 men ended up with those...

[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

those sound marvelous! I'll have to try it out...

I was thinking of coating tampons with something clear...so they're not absorbent anymore...but, we'll see :)

and the guys always get the good white elephants!

thanks!

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

For some reason that reminds me that if you're ever in Detroit...and you're at the Detroit Institute of the Arts...head over to the modern/contemporary art wing. There's this giant painting that looks like a whole mess of colors with a giant 4 foot long bloody tampon in the middle of it. Of course, it's not SUPPOSED to be anything of that nature, but there's no mistaking the similarity.

[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

awesome! I go to school in MI...I'll be sure to check it out! thanks!

[tequilalemonade.livejournal.com]

check out vanessa tiegs.. spiralingmoon, very cool stuff

[lalalaloopy.livejournal.com]

thank you, I will!