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10 Actual Stock Image Results for “Menstruation”

10 Actual Stock Image Results for “Menstruation”

Found during the real-life process of searching for images for this article.

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Oh me? Just sort of palpating the top of my left thigh. Yeah, and holding some flowers. What’s up with you, though?

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As long as nobody else wearing white shows up in this empty parking lot, I have this wet t-shirt contest in the bag

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I’m going to cover this tampon in Thousand Island dressing and eat it

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No…

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No Tampons, No Diva Cup, No Problem: Two Earth-Friendly Tampon Alternatives

No Tampons, No Diva Cup, No Problem: Two Earth-Friendly Tampon Alternatives

In a society that (largely) doesn’t talk about menstruation (and when it does talk about menstruation, it is often rife with body shaming/misogyny/the bullshit notion that bleeding makes you dirty, etc), it can feel radical when there are not only conversations about how to deal with bleeding and all of its complications, but when we are also provided with alternatives to the often toxic products…

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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes #5 May Be the Best One Yet!

Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes #5 May Be the Best One Yet!

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Ooo eee! Does Lumberjanes kick it up a notch this week or what? This was already one of my five favorite current comics, but with this issue, it shot to the very top of the list. This issue was funny, it was intense, the art was amazing, we saw some great relationship moments between the Janes and we got some really, really interesting looks into the deeper mythology of the…

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“It is supposed to feel like the end of the world right now. That… is how you know that it was worth it…That is how you know that you are growing up and are experiencing shit rather than living safely in risk-free choices…We are trained in this sappy fuck of a society…that all that matters is that you love each other. THIS IS NOT TRUE. Loving someone and making a life with them are separate spheres, they have nothing to do with each other. When you find someone where there is both, that’s when you win.”

28 Gay Girl Covers Of Straight Songs Because Everything’s Better When It’s Queered

28 Gay Girl Covers Of Straight Songs Because Everything’s Better When It’s Queered

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I thought that song “Rude” was kinda… you know… rude? Like why is this dude gonna marry that girl whether or not her Dad says it’s okay? Why is he even asking if he’s gonna marry her anyway? But then I heard a girl sing the song about marrying a girl and suddenly it became subversively delightful! Which got me thinking about how really there’s nothing I love more than a queer lady singing a…

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BPM: Everybody

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Artist: EVERYBODY
Cliffnotes: EVERYTHING
Same Aisle As: EVERYWHERE

Okay, full disclosure, I’ve been mad busy and dealing with some gnarly depression for the last few weeks so anything that hasn’t been my full-time job, related to my dog/girlfriend, or showering has taken a backseat.

I have, however, been listening to a LOT of music and come across a lot of great artists I’d like to share with you.…

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Vev Studios Highlights Every Woman’s Beauty

Vev Studios Highlights Every Woman’s Beauty

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Vev Studios, a photography studio based in Portland, Oregon, aims to provide something more than just glamour shots. Instead they seek truly unique experiences that make any woman, however she identifies along the gender spectrum, a true and honest portrait that reflects not only her beauty but her personality. Co-founder and owner Gia Goodrich describes it like this:

In starting a business…

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Make the Last Days of Summer Tastier with Swiss Oats and Chile Salt

Make the Last Days of Summer Tastier with Swiss Oats and Chile Salt

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I am never warm in Chicago. Like, ever. As a native desert-dweller, I am forever defrosting in this strange land of polar vortexes and “summer” days that barely break 60 degrees. And as I lust for the sauna of Arizona, shivering away in FUCKING BOOTS AND LONG SLEEVED SHIRTS IN AUGUST, I know that many of you are schvitzing away in other parts of the country, looking all cute in your tank tops and…

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Drinking My Way Through Texas: A Beer Diary of Sorts

Drinking My Way Through Texas: A Beer Diary of Sorts

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All through college I thought I didn’t like beer. I drank whiskey on ice like a champ, but beer made me gassy and I thought it tasted bad. Occasionally I’d drink whatever pisswater the party hosts put in the keg, but if given a choice I stuck with cider or liquor. When I moved to Nicaragua last year, I was constantly bombarded with Toña and Victoria, the two national beers. Over the course of a…

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Most Important Ugly: The Final Monsters

Most Important Ugly: The Final Monsters

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It’s time to introduce you to my last and final monsters. These were the people I had wanted from the very beginning, actually, they were pretty fully realized into their own identities — working with everyone else in the project involved pulling out their narratives a lot more to get what we wanted, but for these three… my muses! It was not so difficult. I don’t mean that the difficulty in the…

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Friends!

I’ll probably never do this again, but this week I’m including a piece by me, because writing it was like giving birth to a baby giraffe and then teaching it how to line dance, and I honestly can’t believe it’s up!

ALSO don’t miss: meeting our new Contributing Editors, TOEING, how...

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It smells like deep wet dirt when it rains in southern Arizona, where I live now. It’s a genuinely wonderful smell, don’t get me wrong. In Tennessee, though, it smells like trees are taking a shower — only you have to imagine that you feel the same way toward trees as you do your girlfriend. So imagine the way it smells when she takes a shower, but with trees. It’s how I know I’m here and that gravity exists and people love me, because the rain in Tennessee has always smelled like trees taking a shower, and it always will.

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Strap On First

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Strap On First

Welcome to NSFW Sunday!

Feature image via the nu project.

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+ If you’re into (or into trying) g-spot play, Kinkly has some advice:

“Some people find they’re not interested in G-spot stimulation, or don’t like how it feels. Other people will tell you it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to them. That’s what makes sexuality so fascinating (and experimenting so much fun!). So, just…

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Lately I've been looking into the whole A Camp thing and I was wondering what the Lumberjanes and Runaways are and how that fits into the camp thing, this is probably a really stupid question but it's been bugging me so yeah... thanks

at camp i split the campers into 15-17 cabins of 12-18 people each, and each cabin has a name and now that we’ve been through five camps, that’s like ummm… a lot of cabin names i’ve come up with!

the cabin that laneia and i are counselors for is always named The Runaways, which’s always new campers who are coming alone and in the same age range as each other (varies depending on the camp).

there were other cabin names we’ve repeated, but Lumberjanes was a new one that i used for taylor and grace’s cabin at may camp, inspired by the Lumberjanes comic book that grace writes! each cabin has its own vibe and style and i try to put together groups that will get along with each other. it’s not failproof, of course, but do my best!

other cabin names i’ve used: sharks, rubyfruit, wolf pack, the beats, the thundercats, little rascals, the con, heartthrob, tiger beat, golden girls, blue crush, blackhearts, cylons, outsiders, outlaws, rhythm nation, flashdance, 21 hump street, inferno, holograms, bomb girls, battlestars, wyld stallions, firestars, starjammers, ghost world, amazons, mockingjays, rockford peaches, cherry bomb, wildcats, littlefoot, troubletones, neverland, foxfire, vipers, valencia, the craft, the bangles, the foxes, the panthers, the free radicals, scissor sisters, toros, slayers, bombshells, hellcats, wild things, forever 21, jetpack, avengers, misfits, unicorns, snatch-22, girltrash, nighthawks, stormtroopers, the gossip, the firebrands, thunderbirds, my bloody valentine and hotel california.