I will never forget the 22-year-old girl who came to my office with a long list of procedures she had already undergone: Fraxel (fractional laser), HIFU (lifting and modelling treatment), injections...
The cup should not leak. Period. A well-chosen cup does not leak at all and may be used for up to 12 hours, depending on the intensity of menstruation An interview with Sylwia Sikorska, author of the...
If Jane Austen had used sanitary pads, they would still be decomposing
"I've been stuck in a loop for years. Subconsciously, I was so addicted to a difficult situation that motivated me to act that I brought down disasters upon myself." An interview with Karolina...
I woke up, grabbed my stomach and, terrified, asked my husband: "Did they cut everything out?" Mermaids, or women suffering from cervical cancer, exchange stories and establish relationships
What do we miss now, what are we waiting for, what can help us survive? And why, instead of repeating: "It's gonna be beautiful, it's gonna be normal again," we'd be better off just singing: "Don't...
Forced into sex work, Nigerian women hear from their torturers that terrible things will happen to their families if they do not obey and pay their "debt". Thus, during the ritual with the use of...
If a government says: we'll give you free sanitary pads, it's really saying: girls are important. Maja Hawranek talks to Emily Wilson, founder and president of Irise International, working for...
Growing a garden was supposed to keep them busy. When I called them to see how it was going, they said the flowers were growing so beautifully that they were sorry to have to cut them. For the first...
Your pelvis is too small, the baby is too big or incorrectly positioned - you will find out about this long before giving birth, in a comfortable clinic. Millions of women learn this when labour...
Children no longer talk about feeling hurt, but not because they are used to it. Talking still requires some energy. And they no longer have it.
Masculinity was contained in the slogan: Although I don't know how to live, no one will tell me how to live.
In our culture, we have the figures of constantly dissatisfied missies and fussy princesses, whereas male wet blankets are impossible to come by in fairy tales, jokes and language, although we all...
There are thousands of opportunities to do so. Girls speak in whispers about menstruation, it's a kind of mystery. A secret that boys shouldn't know about.
Her aunt takes a piece of elastic and measures Magda's thigh. "You can't be that fat," she says. Magda is then ashamed of her legs all her life.
Tell someone that you're in pain. What will a Pole do? Deluge you with advice and ready-made solutions. Dominika Wantuch talks to Ma³gorzata Majewska.
"If somebody leaves something in the wrong place, I let it go. I take the glass and put it in the right place. It won't hurt me and it'll be easier for everybody". Such behaviour comes easier to men.
We often feel that talking about money is not very romantic and that it's a contradiction of love or trust. This is how problems arise and women get into financial trouble. An interview with Kamila...
Polish schools are a place where you do not talk about menstruation.
My students would have a piece of cloth in their underwear - they were uncomfortable. They would sit in the corner slumped in their seats becoming apathetic, absent. Some of them did not come because...
The worst cases of religious superstition are when menstruating girls are driven out of their homes to so-called menstrual huts, where they can easily fall victim to wildlife and male violence.
I would like to point out that I have periods too. As a human. As a woman. Just like that. It affects more people than hunger, lack of access to water, or more recently the coronavirus, which has...
Where do I go when I want to talk to my friend who calls me in tears? Where should I go to concentrate on replying to an important e-mail?
I reach for a like as I would for the virtual equivalent of heat. Like the little match girl who reached for a match. She didn't believe it was going to keep her warm permanently, but she needed to...
We should not be slaves to stereotypes and myths. Let's free bodies and thoughts. Courage, charisma, brilliance are skills that need to be practiced.
I have to tell you one thing: if it weren't for the pandemic and this sense of fleetingness, I probably wouldn't have spoken to my loved one with whom I broke off four years ago. I tried to forget,...
There will always be those I cannot catch up with. There will always be someone with more abilities, gifts and talents. Interview with Iwona Sikorska, PhD*
"It is the duty of adults to sort out the chaos and - let's face it - to prepare children for the return of the lockdown." Interview with Iwona Chmura-Rutkowska, PhD, educator and sociologist
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