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Equine enterolith. Bezoars or mustika pearls, also known as enteroliths, are stones that naturally occur in the digestive tracts of animals - usually within hollow organs and ducts. Typically, these stones are formed after an animal eats a substance that their bodies are unable to digest, and then accumulates and hardens as deposits along the abdominal tract.
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To explain something that was mentioned in the previous post: Since some people don’t know what female genital cutting is, here is a simple diagram, as well as an estimate of how widely practiced it is in Africa. It is also practiced in Indiana and parts of the middle east, and parts of Asia, but I didn’t see any charts available from a quick Google search.
I remember reading a excerpt from the book “Desert Flower” as a child, where the author had described being forced down while an old lady sawed off her genitals with a dull blade, and sewed everything shut to one tiny hole for both urine and menstruation to come out of, then bound her legs together. At first, the old lady didn’t cut off her clitoris, but then the grandmother said something like, “Cut that off too. Cut off all this filth. What is it good for anyway?” Or something like that. From then on, only droplets could come out of the one opening, so it took her several minutes just to pee, and she experienced major menstrual complications. After her circumcision, as they call it, her father tried to sell her to an old man in exchange for some farm animals. As an adult, having run away, she was able to get a surgery to open this hole and was able to pee normally, but she will never know sexual pleasure. Sex and childbirth must be excruciating, and life threatening, I would imagine.
“Female genital mutilation is classified into four groups. Type 1 is the excision of the clitoral hood, usually as well as the clitoris. Type 2 is the excision of the clitoris andinner labia. Type 3 is commonly called infibulation, which consists of cutting off all external genitalia, and then binding the girl’s legs together for 2-6 weeks so a scar will form over the opening of the vulva. Before this huge scar is formed, a twig is usually stuck in between the flesh to create a small hole for urine and menstrual blood to flow from. The hole that is produced is initially made small enough to prevent women from having sex, but this is problematic because the small opening obstructs blood and urine flow, which causes infection. When a girl who has infibulation is about to have sex the man either tries to force his penis through the hole, or has to cut it with a knife which frequently results in organ damage, urinary incontinence, obstetric fistula, and death. Type 4 includes the following damage to female genitalia: pricking, piercing, burning, cutting, applying corrosive substances to tighten it, and cutting into the vagina to widen it. FGM has many harmful effects such as: hemorrhaging, urinary infection, hepatitis, and HIV (due to unsterile tools), pelvic infections, epidermoid cysts, and infertility.”
“I didn’t come from your rib, you came from my uterus”
São Paulo, 26 May 2012 (see gallery at the link, article in Portuguese)
With all this ‘white feminist playing and making art with their period blood’ on my dashboard, I did some research and came across this South African artist who uses hers own menstrual blood to address the queerphobia and violence she has experienced with being a South African lesbian, Zanele Muholi.
Through her use of menstrual blood in her show Isilumo siyaluma (Period Pains, 2006-2011) in Cape Town, Muholi sought to tell the story of black lesbians in South Africa and represent “curative rape.” She wrote of the project in a press release for the exhibit:
Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain”. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”
At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with that secretive, feminine time of the month that has been reduced within Western patriarchal culture as dirty.
On a deeper level then, my menstrual blood is used as a vehicle and medium to begin to express and bridge the pain and loss I feel as I hear and become witness to the pain of ‘curative rapes’ that many of the girls and women in my black lesbian community bleed from their vaginas and their minds.
Between March – May 2011, three (3) young black lesbians under the age of 25 were brutally murdered in various townships [….] As we continue to live and survive in troubled times as black lesbians in South Africa and within the continent, where rampant hate crimes and brutal killings of same gender loving women is rife, this ongoing project is an activist/artist’s radical response to that violence.
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Plastic tampon applicators found on the beach in Brooklyn, NY.
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