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"I have never yearned to stay young, but rather to stay me. The me committed to embracing her uniqueness. The me who feels no shame in championing and cherishing herself. The me who accepts aging as a natural process, not a disease, and who says, 'thank you, thank you,' when I take care of myself." - Eartha Kitt

This photo series by @esterkeate highlights the experience of endometriosis sufferers. "Sometimes known as an invisible illness endometriosis has very few outward signs. With 10 close-up images, I gently highlight the women's surgical scars, the only outward signs that they suffer from a medical condition. For the majority of endometriosis sufferers, this surgery (known as a laparoscopy) is the only way to confirm their diagnosis and can be the only way to treat ...their symptoms. Surgery, however, is often not the end of the women’s ordeal. As the endometriosis lesions can grow back, repeated surgeries are often required to control the condition. Some of these surgical scars are only faintly visible to the viewer, yet they are the focal point of both the image and much of the subject’s life. These faint physical scars can often be dwarfed by the mental scars caused by infertility, chronic pain or feelings of disenfranchisement and neglect brought about by years of medical misunderstanding." - @esterkeate See more

"For Endometriosis Awareness Month, Swedish-British photographer Ester Keate took pictures of 18 women who've been living with the illness for her project W I T H I N."

Period Piece will consist of 36 monologues by 36 different playwrights performed over three different performances in April. https://toronto.citynews.ca//dozens-of-playwrights-actors/

FEELING SHAME ABOUT A BASIC INDICATOR OF OVERALL HEALTH THAT HAS EXISTED AS LONG AS HUMANITY ITSELF SHOULD GIVE US PAUSE. https://www.ellecanada.com//health-and-fi/go-with-the-flow

We had the chance to chat with Alyssa Bertram, Founder + CEO of easy. on ending stigma around around menstruation. Click to read about her journey as a business owner, go-to period cramp remedies, and insider information about the products we buy in store.