Let it Flow 2024
It's been just over 3 weeks since our wonderful Let it Flow 2024 event as part of Menstrual Hygiene Day, and I'm still totally overwhelmed.
WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW
The feeling of WOW, did that really happen? Have so many of you really spoken so openly and without shame about your experiences with your period? Have I really seen and listened to my daughter (10) as she simply introduced her besties to sustainable menstrual products and showed them what they are and how they work? Have so many of you really grappled with the simple and yet so difficult question: Can you draw a VULVA?, overcome your fears and perhaps or certainly drawn your first VULVA and then printed it in beautiful neon colors and made it visible? And then took it home?
It is really overwhelming to see what can happen in a (not even planned but then suddenly) safe space, what conversations develop, how exchanges happen and, above all, the feeling that it is also good to talk to others about their menstrual experiences. To ask questions, to touch products and to understand how they work, to see children/teens who are engrossed in devouring beautiful educational books and the works of all of you have conjured up even more colour and energy in this event. And the best thing: the youngest participants, most of whom drew vulvas with so little shame! I celebrate that! Something really went right there! These little people grow up with a completely different relationship and mindset to the sexual organs. They drew a vulva at the age of 5 or 6 or 8. No matter whether roughly, with a lot or little detail, outlines, abstract or already with detailed knowledge of what the female sexual organ looks like (too).
We can learn a lot from this and use it as an incentive to educate ourselves, think outside the box and be ready to explore new territory!
Thank you all! Whether it was the questions you asked each other or to us. Whether it was the beautiful vulvas that you all drew and then printed. Whether it was the interaction in the studio that was brand new among each other: it was magical!
And a big thank you to all of you who left a small donation. Since we organized this event on a voluntary basis and did not want to charge admission because the day and the topic were so important to us, we are all the more pleased about your donations. Because they covered the costs of the space to make this event possible. In addition, BOLDred, as a social enterprise, donates to an NGO/association that fights against period poverty.
be BOLD about your red & own it!