Britt Appleton’s previous work for The Toast can be found here.
Tags: Britt Appleton, cartoons, health, joy of periods, periods
Britt Appleton’s previous work for The Toast can be found here.
Tags: Britt Appleton, cartoons, health, joy of periods, periods
Why is there only one black woman in this fictional piece about made-up women, and why is she the athlete? Sigh.
i honestly thought that was a puporseful lampoon of the fact that black women are more likely to be quoted in these kinds of fauxspiration fluff pieces/put in lists of high-achieving women or whatever if they are atheletes, bc their contributions to other fields are overlooked by the general media.
Good point. It is a pretty spot-on example of #solidaryisforwhitewoman-type pieces.
I would add a faux Joan Jett type: “Periods are metal as shit.”
The first and third ones are actually pretty fantastic. I’ll be coming back to those.
These quotes are hilarious, and I love your illustrations! YAY PERIOD CLUB!
Sort of on-topic: send me your period vibes please! I have a gyno appointment scheduled in just over a week, so if I get my period in the next few days it’ll be done by then and I won’t have to reschedule it. But my period is doing that fake-out, “here’s some sore boobs and hips but ha ha! No bleeding for you,” and I am annoyed.
I just really hate having to make and reschedule appointments, if I can’t go to this one I might just… never go.
Does your gyno have a policy about that? There shouldn’t be any reason they can’t do your exam, unless you’re bleeding *extremely heavily.* That’s what my doctor told me when I called them with that question at some point. So unless there’s something else going on where they’ve specifically told you not to come in if you’re on your period, you’re probably fine.
I’ve always been told that it interferes with accuracy of the tests they do on the smear. It might depend on what you’re testing for.
Thanks for making me remember that I have my annual in… two hours. Huh. Should’ve probably remembered that sooner.
Awesome!
The astronaut one reminds me of this great Sally Ride story:
“NASA Engineers Offered Sally Ride 100 Tampons For A 7-Day Space Mission” http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/06/nasa-engineers-…
I want these as postcards I can give to my friends when they’re feeling down about their periods. Etsy maybe? Redbubble? This should happen.
That’s a great idea! Thanks! – Britt
The first one got me. It gets me any time, and the rest are hilarious as well.
Thank you for sharing these perfect quotes, and i would like to add my favorite quote,
“I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse’s for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye