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There are so many of us who look at blood-drenched underwear and see nothing but hurt. Image: Thinkstock.

A Love Letter To Those Whose Periods Make Them Cry

[CN: pregnancy, miscarriage] Plenty of period-positive activists point out that the beauty of menstrual blood is that it’s the only blood that doesn’t arise out of trauma. What we discuss less often is the ability of menstrual blood to induce trauma.

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Happy Birthday, Malcolm X—What Can We Learn From His Legacy? 

Malcolm X left this world with compassion, as well as a desire for equality and peace between folks of all ethnicities.

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Urban Outfitters Continues Its Ugly Track Record Of Anti-Semitism And General Awfulness

The retailer has a long history of Jewish bias and hate. It's time to stop shopping there once and for all.

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Blood-Sucking Love: Nikki Reed Engaged To Ian Somerhalder

Hold on to your wooden stakes and garlic—vampire actors are

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Texas May Have Overreacted To 'Abandoned Fetus' In Girl's Bathroom

What looks like a miscarriage is being treated as a murder.

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When Scary Sex Games End in Death: The Sordid Tale of Le Cousins Dangeroux

A recent story involving ropes, alcohol, drugs and incest serves as a kinky sex cautionary tale.

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Science is Sweet: Turns Out Dinosaurs Were Somewhere Between Warm- and Cold-Blooded

It looks like dinosaurs built a bridge between the two camps, and now general classification is up in the air.

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Watch: Periods are a Disgusting Bloody Nightmare—Embrace It!

This parody ad shines light on a truth women know all too well: menstruation is repulsive. (But that's OK.)

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