Have come to the conclusion it’s a site specific installation that actually cost millions more than a nice, clean, toilet

<<podcast klaxon>> 👇 Some great listening here for anyone who wants to find out more about how periods affect singers’ voices.

I’m a pianist so I sign off all my emails with “Vingt Regards”

A really gentle reminder to anyone wanting to be a writer: WRITE. Love the craft. Take it slowly. Enjoy art and the world around you. Make good work. The rest will come. Focusing on being agented or published is a mistake. With love, S x

When words become music… ! Congratulations @katemolleson. This will be brilliantly ear-opening, I'm sure.

Periods and menopause for singers are topics that aren’t discussed openly or enough, bravo Sophie Bevan

Excellent and hugely important piece by Rebecca Franks in The Times about the affects that periods have on opera singers and their voices. It’s so great to see this finally being discussed openly and publicly.

This is the brilliant podcast about the menstrual cycle by India Rakusen that I mentioned in my feature yesterday. Highly recommend listening to it: bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p…

Some great first lines here. Really enjoying reading them.

A fascinating piece by the brilliant Rebecca Franks about the impacts of periods on opera singers and the adjustments they must make because of the physical impact on their voices and bodies.
thetimes.co.uk/article/4dcda6…

Really interesting and important article.

About time we started talking about this ⬇️

Finally, the conversation is starting properly! Thanks for the useful article and putting this information out there.

For vocalists who menstruate, this is FASCINATING

Big props to Rebecca Franks for opening up this conversation. It's long past time to break this particular taboo.

This is absolutely fascinating and needs more research! Massive kudos to Sophie Bevan for bringing the issue of how menstruation affects women's singing voices into the spotlight -- of interest, Jennifer Gunter ?

A brilliant article and insight to all female singers actually, this reads very accurately!

“Considering that menstruation is what makes human life possible and about half the world’s population will menstruate at some point, I think [the discussion] is important.” Amen Laura van der Heijden!

My uterus and I were honored to contribute to this piece in The Times and The Sunday Times! 🩸♥️ Thank you Rebecca Franks for creating a space to chat periods re: performing, Sophie Bevan for spearheading the conversation, and Laura van der Heijden for summing it all up…
thetimes.co.uk/article/seeing…

If you read anything today, please read this by That's Anne with a Plesiosaur. It is SO hard to make a proper income as an author.

And as mentioned in the comments, advances and royalties have not gone up, but cost of living has.

We literally get pennies per book IF our book earns out.