Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross

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Did you know you can recycle your pee? Apparently it's pretty useful for composting woodchips and leaves, or deterring pests if you pee, or pour your collected, diluted pee, around (but not on) your garden. I just read a little article about this today.

And since I'm on my 'shark week' it got me thinking about collecting menstrual blood, and whether that would be at all useful. A quick google search tells me that you can collect it for future possible stem cell therapy, or to donate it. And apparently some of those crazy wiccan kids use it for "spells" and just keep their "moon blood" in jars and such in their fridge for the heck of it. I read that you could also put it in a box and dry it out, then cut it into pieces.

I saw, like everyone else does, in my early observations of how sex works most often in our culture that a woman's menstrual cycle is a time of shunning women in one form or another, and definitely no sex. I saw the looks on women's faces, the sound in their voices. It was a mix on a spectrum of hurt from the treatment and coping by holding her menstrual time in as much contempt, if not more, than men around her did. Then there were other women who always said, "What's the big deal?" Like they were oblivious to the issue. Of course, we've heard lots of quips on PMS from men. The trauma most women go through as adolescents when their periods start. At every turn it's a negative. Something in me wanted to see if that could be reversed with different perspectives.