jolyners

what if we all explode

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

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This shit reads like a tumblr post

so yea, i made a blog and now i need to post stuff XD

Awesome

Happy Pride

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

And now I do regular size but I get the plastic one because it feels better

i have vaginismus and vulvodynia. i got my first pap smear at 23 and even with these conditions and my chronic spasms, it was not painful. my gyno switched to smaller tools and used a plastic, regular sized cervical swab. i have been going to the gyno for years for ultrasounds and tests to get to the bottom of my irregular periods and check on my cysts and the pap smear was quick & painless, even with my conditions. a good gyno will understand how daunting it is, especially because people make it seem like the worst thing ever. my own anxiety and nervousness worsened my vaginismus and it ended up feeling like less than a tampon (which i've only been able to use recently because of pelvic floor therapy). pap smears have saved my mom and are now part of my routine checks to ensure that i am not dealing with my family's history with various vaginal conditions. it is intimidating, but like mammograms, they are absolutely necessary when it comes to maintaining your health & can be a matter of life or death, especially if you have a history of cysts, benign tumors that must be monitored, or any vaginal conditions that might not be easy to catch on an ultrasound (especially external ones). pap smears can suck, but making them seem like something horrific when they have been a massive part in understanding my own conditions and vaginal health is really saddening!!

literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)