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RULING THE WEEK
“I’m so sick and tired of all of these men,” Senator Mazie Hirono told me when I called her last week. She was talking specifically about sexual harassment, and how it continues to be a source of scandal for prominent national politicians, but her recently published memoir,
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Cherie Vu is surprised she hasn’t ruined her liver from all the Tylenol she was taking, just so she might tolerate the pain of her periods.
The recent Georgetown University graduate said she wouldn’t be able to sit through class without a 5-pound hot water bottle, along with pain-relieving patches her “go-to” for the pelvic and back pain she persistently felt.
As a high-schooler, artist and writer Rowan Walsh would regularly miss a week of school because of their periods, which brought debilitating migraines and nausea, as well as an abnormal amount of bleeding. At one point, Walsh experienced a gynecological hemorrhage; the bleeding was so severe their mother thought Walsh had a miscarriage.