The Blood Codes: Why Menstruation Was Once a Spell By Lucille Alabaster They made you ashamed of it. They taught you to hide it, plug it, sanitize it. But once—long before tampons and pharmaceutical hush—the blood that flowed from between a woman’s thighs was considered holy. Menstrual blood wasn’t a curse. It was a code. […]

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