Recording from "The Bleeding Edge of Culture"
A Conversation about the menstrual cycle for men (with women) for Limicon
Ok, so this was a gamble.
I wanted to offer Limicon an irreverent and thought-provoking session. I also think that men need to be part of conversations exploring the cyclical nature of female physiology so they can more fully understand modern culture's impact on women’s bodies and their creative potential.
With that in mind, I created “The Bleeding Edge of Culture” and had no idea who would show up.
When I opened my Zoom what I saw made me laugh out loud! You will see that in the video.
There it was… a small (and powerful!) group of…
WOMEN!
I’m sure it would still have been super interesting and fun if it stayed like that but, fortunately, in keeping with the intention behind the session, a couple of men joined.
The session was super rich as small sessions tend to be.
If you watch this session and feel excited about the potential of more conversations such as this, please comment below or reach out.
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Would fathers of girls like to join me and other women at a special session for dads?
I like the reminder of what I had an inkling to.
I described the right of passage to my youngest, her 16th birthday was last week, so it was an apology of sorts.
This then also allowed the menopause topic to generate some questions of what we are subjected to as a family.
There was a little surprise involved when I described some details that wouldn’t normally be discussed, at least it wasn’t in my own growing up and knowing it was an out of territory discussion.
But my experience has been years of experience in art school, predominantly female because of the ‘giving up’ of parents who don’t know what to do with their daughters, but then art is ‘because I know what is needed’ to embrace change with beauty, understanding, meaning and social confidence.
Social confidence is not in any way extrovert, extroversion is a meme of a forcing function of another’s ego.
The should.
What was acceptance after our discussion was to be invited to sit among all my youngest daughter’s close friends around a camp fire.