i had a fabulous party thrown for me and got to hang with some totally rad (literally - radical) friends.
my favorite part for sure was hanging out with some of my younger, hip, beautiful lady-friends. i just think they are so smart, life-loving, and sweet.
the best part was all the talking about women's health issues.
we talked about some important topics:
- birth control pills
their possible risks, benefits, why susun weed condones their use
- baby-havin'
how one can both love and fear it and how it's a biological urge that must be respected.
- medical abortion
how one can respect, choose, and regret it. how it's definitely not our favorite option.
- Fertility Awareness Method
how it almost always works when you use it and almost always doesn't work when you don't. most of the young women i know who have had unplanned pregnancies in the past few years (including me) were "using" this method, but one of the wise women i used to live with has successfully used it for years and had no such unwanted pregnancy.
- menstrual extraction
where can we gain info on this? how do we find some people who were involved in the 1990s spread of the technique/ practice of it? wouldn't it be empowering if we could perform this on ourselves safely?
- herbal abortion
how we need to gather, dry, and distribute the readily available, relatively safe, native herbs we can use for these purposes. also, we need to learn how to propagate other non-native herbs.
- UTIs
herbal healing including another native herb: trailing arbetis, which has healed my chronic, tenacious, recurrent UTIs a couple of times when nothing else has worked.
it was awesome. i had a great time.
if anyone has any info or comments on any of these things, holler at me!
