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Do You Have the Courage to Bleed?
Reclaiming the story of creation and rebranding menstruation as the sacred portal it has always been
Daughter, I am the river that flows through you. I am quite literally the wisdom of your ancestors. You were taught to hide me, to curse me, to feel shame when I arrive. But I come bearing messages older than empire.
I have bled through caves, temples, and cornfields. I have sustained lineages and marked time long before clocks and borders. I am your connection to every woman who came before you.
Your great-grandmothers whispered over me in the moonlight. They sang songs to me. Some feared me. Some honored me. But they all knew me.
A lineage older than empire
They may not teach you this in school, but I speak with the voice of your sixth vital sign. Alongside your pulse, your temperature, your blood pressure, respiratory rate, and the oxygen saturation levels of your blood, I will let you know if your body is in harmony or distress.
Do not ignore me. If I come too soon or not at all, or if I am too heavy or too light —. I am here to be your ally, and I speak to you in the language of health.
