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This morning.

More than 30,000 women in the United Kingdom have reported that their periods were disrupted after getting a COVID-19 vaccine

Via Sky News:

Dr Victoria Male, a lecturer in reproductive immunology at Imperial College London, said most women return to normal after a single cycle and there was no evidence that vaccination affected fertility.

In an opinion piece in the British Medical Journal, she said the changes were not confined to a single type of vaccine, with reports among women who had received the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines.

If there is a link between vaccines and period disruption, she said “it is likely to be a result of the immune response to vaccination rather than a specific vaccine component”.

She said research into this possible reaction is needed to understand why it might be happening.

COVID-19 vaccine ‘disrupted the periods of thousands of women’ – but changes ‘short-lived’ (Sky)

Meanwhile…

Nicki Minaj swollen testicles claim ‘wasted’ Trinidad health officials’ time (BBC)

Pic via Sky

This article (at link below) suggests that the use of menstrual blood in resisting the state is an act so subversive that it effectively disrupted staunchly entrenched gender norms in Northern Irish society prior to the height of the conflict. This in turn provoked the rise of a distinct form of feminism rooted within the republican movement.

Menstrual Blood as a Weapon of Resistance (Therese O’Keefe)

Yesterday: Complaints over ‘offensive’ Tampax tampon advert upheld (Irish Times)