Notices by Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai), page 2

The first use of the "cis" prefix referring to gender comes from a 1914 text by German physician and sexologist Ernst Burchard. He used "Cisvestitismus" to describe the inclination to wear clothing which conforms with a person's gender - the opposite of "Transvestitismus" (transvestism), the inclination to wear gender non-conforming clothes.

We're going to post something that isn't allowed on Twitter: a brief history of the term "cisgender"...

Our crowdfunding campaign stands at £82,000 - only £3000 to go! It looks like, with your help, we'll make it.

But if we don't, and we have to wind up, these lovely bits of Vagina Museum merch in our gift shop are about to become collectors' items...

Also, you get 10% off everything in our shop with the code GETUSANEWHOME https://bit.ly/437g72V

We're hearing from some of our followers that Twitter are sticking sensitive content warnings when they share our fundraising page! This is completely unacceptable - there is nothing dirty or shameful about vaginas. Half the world has one, and most of us came out of one!

Twitter has (historically, at least) been pretty good on allowing discussion of vaginas and vulvas, but it looks like they've changed their mind on being a space for these crucial conversations. We're very disappointed indeed that they're censoring our fundraising campaign, and very glad that we're in the fedi, which isn't at the mercy of a capricious billionaire!

It's time for our monthly #VulvaDiversity thread! This month we'll be talking about COLOURS!

As always, do not engage in any vulva-shaming or sexualised remarks in the replies, or we'll block you. Also, this thread includes photos of human vulvas. If you've disabled content wrappers, you might want to switch them back on.

Vulvas come in a lot of different colours. A vulva isn't always the same colour as the surrounding skin, and while the colour of the vulva is slightly related to overall skin tone, it's not always the same colour at all!

Pinks, purples, peach, browns and even close to black are perfectly normal colours for a vulva to be.

Sometimes the skin of the vulva on the labia majora (outer lips) and labia minora (inner lips) is a very similar colour to the surrounding skin of the thighs.

Sometimes the labia minora will be noticeably darker than the skin of the labia majora.

Sometimes the labia majora will be a noticeably darker colour than the surrounding skin.

As well as varying in colour between labia majora and minora, and various relationships to surrounding skin, some vulvas may more parts in different colours - such as hood and labia minora being different, or darker tips to the labia minora.

Certain life events can cause the vulva to change colour. At puberty, the labia often become darker than surrounding skin. At menopause, the vulva may become darker or paler due to hormone changes. Medication that affects hormones may also change the colour.

During pregnancy, labia may become darker, and sometimes take on a bluish or purple-ish tone, due to hormones affecting blood flow to the vulva.

However, if you notice any unexplained changes to the colour of your vulva, or patches of discolouration, speak to a medical professional. Remember to look at your vulva in a mirror from time to time!

There is a whole rainbow of colours that vulvas can be. Yours will be unique to you, at the same time as being perfectly normal.

All images in this thread courtesy of the wonderful Gynodiversity project. Explore their gallery of vulvas here: https://gynodiversity.com/

This #TransDayOfVisibility, we want to share some of the incredible art produced by trans and non-binary artists and showcase their creativity. We hope you'll discover some new artists as well as well as some favourites, and you're inspired to learn more...

A milestone! We've had our first "well why isn't there a penis museum" since joining the fedi!

It is with a heavy heart that we must tap the sign.

OLD THREAD REPOST

This #InternationalWomensDay we're going to talk about trans women in history. We had to turn replies off when we posted this on twitter, because we know some people would prefer these stories to be erased and silenced.

In this thread, we use the gender-neutral term "people" because it's precise. Trans men and nonbinary people with uteruses are affected by endometriosis, and there's a multiple case studies of cisgender men who have it! (it's very rare in cis men though).

We're going to unpick this a bit more because it surprises a lot of people (including doctors!) that endometriosis can occur in people who don't have periods, and even occurs in people who don't have uteruses.
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