This is a Vulva is here to bring you your monthly Period Party, raising money for the ever brilliant Bloody Good Period and making all the vulvas on the first Monday of every month.
An evening of making vulvas, chatting about labia and generally just having a bloody brilliant time. We'll be talking about all the things you never learnt in the sex education you got at school.
Urm, why would I spend my Monday night making a vulva?
1. It's heaps of fun
2. It helps smash the shame around female genitalia.
Vulvas all look different. Different sizes, shapes and colours. Labia can be asymmetrical, barely there, quite smooth, gloriously wrinkly, soft and plump or multicoloured.
Whatever they look like, they are wonderfully normal.
Yet many people don't see it this way. Many people are ashamed, embarrassed or disgusted by their vulva, believing there is something abnormal about their genitals.
This affects our mental health, self image, sex life and can even stop us visiting doctors or having smear tests.
And that's where Period Parties come in. I'll give you:
A bit of sex education and myth busting
A lot of love for vulvas of all descriptions
A Period Pub Quiz
And lots of vulva making
And hopefully you'll walk out the door with a greater understanding of vulvas and a feeling of love and acceptance towards your vulva (or vulvas in general).
Previous vulva makers have left saying "you've made me realise I'm normal" and "I had no idea vulvas all looked so different".
No arts skills or creativity needed. All materials are provided (expect to go home a bit glittery) and money raised goes straight to Bloody Good Period, the people giving menstrual products to those that need them. People like asylum seekers, refugees and homeless women.
This monthly vulva celebration is held at the fabulous Colours, in Hoxton. They have a no and low alcohol menu and a sober space, gender neutral toilets, is wheelchair accessible and is completely queer friendly. They also serve food.
Absolutely everybody is welcome - you do not need to have a vulva to attend.
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