A month without makeup
19/03/2024
For a month no makeup. That's the challenge I'm going through with a hope for greater self- acceptance.
It's NOT GRAND campaign
#notgrand
The patron of the campaign - a legendary Irish pirate queen Grace O'Malley. A fierce leader at sea and on land.
The campaign is an expression of frustration with the Irish government that has for a long time and consistently neglected the basic needs of its citizens. The government should serve to its citizens. The government should represent all of its citizens. Otherwise the government doesn't deserve people's vote. Otherwise it's a scam. And to be in service to its citizens means not only to be of service to multinational corporations and to a tiny elite. It's self-imposed crisis because of shortsighted incompetent decisions and restricted investment into infrastructure services and people. But without people - there's not such thing as a state and there's no economy either. The state needs its citizens and the government needs votes from its citizens, economy needs people to be buying and selling and running the economic show. The massive under investment into its citizens even during time of economical growth is causing a huge inequality and classism and actually also stopping the economical growth. And civilised developed society shouldn't want to go this direction. Something that Ireland should know about because of its experience with the English rule and being second class citizens . It's something that Ireland definitely shouldn't perpetuate against its own people.
Asylum seekers are the catalyst of showing on the surface the scarcity atmosphere about basic resources like housing and public services. Asylum seekers are not the cause. And the fences are the monument of a complete incompetence of the Irish government.
GOVERNMENT, show GRACE!
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* Your healthy & joyful period * Womanhood * Feminine rising *
Your period, your flow. Menstrual cycle awareness. Art focused on women's cyclic nature and feminism.
I am an artist, opera singer (soprano), massage therapist and ceremonialist.
Massage rituals, Tea ceremony.
Also political commentary. Because recent political development around the World is worrying me a lot.
Based in Dublin, Ireland
Guilt & Shame healing
Female body and sex is being shamed and seen as impure for many and many centuries. It is a deep and collective trauma. And a way to control people, families and the whole society.
Obsession with female virginity and purity ("mother virgin" as the only acceptable female archetype), Fallen women. Witch-hunt. These things still live through our collective trauma and need to be healed. Till this date it shapes societal unrealistic expectations on women.
Mental load, also commonly referred as "worry work", the invisible labor that stereotypically do especially women. Managing household and family. Preparing, organising and anticipating everything, emotional and practical , that needs to get done to make life flow. 24h project manager with no salary and sporadic acknowledgment and respect for the invisible work done. There's a really good feminist comic book about this issue called " You should've asked" created by a french comic artist Emma.
Are you feeling overwhelmed and desperate for relaxation? Self care should be a norm especially for high performers like women. Data show that men get more massages in year than women. Data also show that men spent a bigger portion of the day engaging in leisure pursuits than women.
Self care is important and reasonable thing to do to be able to get through and overcome a rut and stress. Self care is empowering and we should not feel guilty prioritising ourselves.
Tao Tea massage ceremony for women.
The Period Monologues - Join our virtual women's circles, read and share your stories of menstruation, ovulation, menopause, and more. Let's embrace our cycles and support each other by sharing our stories. You are not alone. There are other women feeling the similar way as you do, so let them know.
Please, send your story to: aruna.divya.shamanka@gmail.com
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Caoimhe - Endometriosis - 13.2.24
13/02/2024
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