Reading Time: < 1 minute The rains come in April, in May Re-birth happens. In June you are rejuvenated enough to have pride. June is Pride Month! And we are excited to open up our theme: Exist, Resist, Persist. Submit your art pieces, articles, poetry and music and let us know how you exist, resist and Persist. It’s pride month, …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Second Year And Still Going. People!!! Gemini Spice Magazine is now in our second year! What a journey this has been! I can’t begin to express how amazing this venture has been! I look at the Gemini Spice Magazine website and I am drawn to tears. I remember as a young child, innocent, naive, full …
Gemini Spice At 2, Wambui Ochieng’ at 27. So Far, So Goddess! Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes But to what extent do you know that the pain you are feeling during your menstruation is not normal and could be a pointer to something else, say, Endometriosis?
Reading Time: 3 minutes PCOS, Endometriosis, Fibroids, Amenorrhea, Oligomenorrhea, PMS, PMDD. Do these sound familiar to you?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Before I Was Blakk I spoke my grandfather’s language, I enjoyed grandma ‘s food — hence my fear of salt And, I want gold grills. Before I Was Blakk I was regal — a status symbol, I walked tall I now sit behind a cold desk, littered to the brim I call it — I know a Place Where Dreams Go …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chocking on the taste of my blood I’ve fought to stay above surface for so long in out of sorts and my energy is all gone Like a pen gives purpose to paper you’re the reason that I live Im Holding on to straws write a letter on a reed but the tides moving faster …
Reading Time: < 1 minute Its 3am in the morning I can’t sleep My mind can’t let me The chaos,the memories unfolding Floating in this flood Yearns to eat me alive They said, “if you pray this will go away” Do you think I want this? my best efforts to explain fall on deaf ears The pillow knows my tears …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Am close to the end of this article and am thinking, periods are not shameful, it’s the fact that society thinks they are shameful, that is shameful!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Heeey! We are having so much fun with this Month’s theme! We started this month with a discussion of menstrual instruments. We gave you a brief on the evolution of the sanitary pad from that achaic pad made from goat or sheep wool which makes me glad that I was born in this era. While …
“Women Don’t Hate Their Period, It’s the Management”. Menstrual Instruments of Choice Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute A little history lesson of the evolution of the sanitary pad. Pads are the most used menstrual management instruments. They are easy to use and accessible in most places. The current ones we use are made up of synthetic but they were not always like that. References to menstrual pads tell the story of women …
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