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Tips for boys on their period

1. Don't put a pad on boxers! It doesn't work and makes a mess

2. To feel more masculine wear boxers over your //pad holding underwear//

3. Don't beat yourself up, you are totally rad and cool, you're body is doing something, but that's okay, it's not your fault and it doesn't make you less valid!

4. If your (chest) starts to hurt, don't bind, some guys get tender breast tissue when it's that time of the month, listen to your body, don't push yourself!

5. Treat yourself to some chocolate!

6. Tea!!! It's so good!!!! And green tea can help with cramps! End ID].

“I’m losing my uterus soon. I say ‘losing’ instead of, for example, ‘having removed’ because it feels like a loss,” Anna Holmes writes. Read her full essay: http://nyer.cm/zIgh0o2

What could be sweeter than free peace of mind? 😌 CHOICES is currently giving away FREE emergency contraceptives - aka the "morning after" pill!

Stop by our Memphis or Carbondale clinic and grab what you need from the front desk. No questions asked!

Queen Anne's Lace

Classified by many states in the US as a noxious w**d , it is interesting to note how valuable this plant once was to us.
Daucus carota or Queen Anne's lace or wild carrot is a biennial plant that grows a rosette of leaves in the spring and summer, while building up the stout taproot that stores large amounts of sugars for the plant to flower in the second year.
Soon after germination, carrot seedlings show a distinct demarcation between the taproot and the hypocotyl. The latter is thicker and lacks lateral roots. At the upper end of the hypocotyl is the seed leaf. The first true leaf appears about 10–15 days after germination. Subsequent leaves, produced from the stem nodes, are alternating (with a single leaf attached to a node, and the leaves growing in alternate directions) and compound, and arranged in a spiral. The leaf blades are pinnate.
Queen Anne’s lace earned its common name from a legend that tells of Queen Anne of England (1665-1714) pricking her finger and a drop of blood landed on white lace she was sewing. Belonging to the carrot family, Queen Anne’s lace is a biennial that is also known as wild carrot. Early Europeans cultivated Queen Anne’s lace, and the Romans ate it as a vegetable. American colonists boiled the taproots, sometimes in wine as a treat. Interestingly, Queen Anne’s lace is high in sugar (second only to the beet among root vegetables) and sometimes it was used among the Irish, Hindus and Jews to sweeten puddings and other foods.

The Queen Anne's lace flower resembles lace, and oftentimes the flower has a solitary purple dot in the centre. In addition the root smells like carrots!

Queen Anne’s lace flowers have a flat-topped white umbel, sometimes with a solitary purple flower in the center. These flowers bloom from late spring until mid-fall. Each flower cluster is made up of numerous tiny white flowers. The flower cluster start out curled up and opens to allow pollination. The cluster then rolls itself shut again, like a reverse umbrella when it goes to seed at the end of the season.
Feathery leaves resemble those of the domestic carrot. The bases of leafstalks are broad and flat. Queen Anne’s lace leaves also closely resemble the leaves of the poison hemlock, fool’s parsley and water hemlocks, all poisonous cousins of Queen Anne’s lace.
Wild carrot can grow tall, most average about 1 metre tall.
Queen Anne’s lace is found in fields, meadows, waste areas, roadsides and disturbed habitats. They are very hardy and thrive in a dry environment.
Using first year Queen Anne’s lace plants are recommended. Roots are long, pale, woody, and are finger-thin and are used in soups, stews and in making tea. First year leaves can be chopped and tossed into a salad. Flower clusters can be ‘french-fried’ or fresh flowers can be tossed into a salad. The aromatic seed is used as a flavoring in stews and soups.
Herbal warning
Interesting to note that women have used the seeds from Daucus carota for centuries as a contraceptive, the earliest written reference dates back to the late 5th or 4th century B.C. appearing in a work written by Hippocrates. John Riddle writes in Eve's Herbs, that queen anne's lace (QAL) seeds are one of the more potent antifertility agents available, and a common plant in many regions of the world. "The seeds, harvested in the fall, are a strong contraceptive if taken orally immediately after coitus."

Research on small animals has shown that extracts of the seeds disrupt the implantation process, or if a fertilized egg has implanted for only a short period, will cause it to be released. There has been some research done on wild carrot seeds mostly in other countries, the results of those experiments have been encouraging. The Chinese view QAL as a promising post-coital agent, "recent evidence suggests that terpenoids in the seed block crucial progesterone synthesis in pregnant animals." When asked about the contraceptive effects of wild carrot, some herbalists have described it as having the effect of making the uterus "slippery" so the egg is unable to implant.

Based on one of those "let autocomplete finish it" things I did today

Just confirming what we already know

Abortion associated with lower psychological distress compared to both adoption and unwanted birth, study finds New research from Archives of Women's Mental Health examines the psychological effects associated with different pregnancy outcomes. Study author Natsu Sasaki and her colleagues at The University of Tokyo compared four potential outcomes of pregnancy: wanted birth, abortion, adoption, or unwanted bi...

We see you and stand with you!

As we welcome the Winter Solstice, with a colder day and darker night, we hold fast to the warmth of community and the return of the sun, illuminating a moment to recognize all that we’ve learned, moved through and worked towards in the past year.

We take a moment to honor the natural rhythms of life, apart from the hustle and bustle of man-made stresses and technology. We remember we are all connected, and are just one small yet necessary part of the whole.

In the stillness of this season, we hope you can take a moment to rest and revel in the power and purpose of our movements, keeping a keen eye on a future that continues to uplift Indigenous brilliance, power and regeneration.

We send our prayers to you and your loved ones as you ease into the end of 2022 and step into the new year.

Happy , Relatives.