Big thanks to Anna Krypczyk a true #FertilitySister for all her support, in so many ways. And Cedar House counselling - talking to someone outside of my family & friends was so important in making it through #IWD #womensupportingwomen

I am so proud that Amanda Sage created this #anasyrma image after reading my book The Story of V - the first to bring together accounts of this ancient #FemalePower gesture. Now reissued as Raising the Skirt: the Unsung Power of the Vagina.

Hares are the most amazing #fertility symbol. We now know it’s appropriate symbolism as they are the only mammal confirmed to be able to conceive again while pregnant, a #FemalePower known as superfoetation or superconception. Our ancestors knew.

The sun goddess retreated to the cave after her brother wounded her #vagina & pooed in her palace. It took #anasyrma - goddess Ama-no-Uzume deliberately revealing her #vulva - to shock Amaterasu into leaving the cave & bringing light & harmony back to the world. #MythologyMonday

Woman of the Day geneticist Dr Nettie Stevens of Vermont died OTD 1912 at 50. In 1905 she identified what we now know as X and Y chromosomes. As a woman, she was often excluded from scientific dialogue and so the credit went to a man who later admitted she had made the discovery.

So proud to be heading to Media City this morning to be on the BBC Breakfast sofa as interim chief exec of Fertility Network discussing the need for fair access to NHS #fertility treatment.

Thank you for the shout out and so proud to see #RaisingTheSkirt with Katy Hessel magnificent #TheStoryofArtWithoutMen #FemalePower

Stunning find: woman's burial at Valencina, S. Spain, 3200–2200 bce: "the most socially prominent person was not male, as previously thought, but female... a leading social figure at a time where no male attained a remotely comparable social position. nature.com/articles/s4159…

The expression “call a spade a spade” comes from the work of Plutarch, who originally wrote “call a fig a fig & a trough a trough.” Figs & troughs were crude slang for the Vulva, so what Plutarch meant was “call a c*nt a c*nt”. When Erasmus (1466-1536) translated Plutarch’s work

"Pattern Recognition: Across Space and Time." Recurring patterns / continuities in the cultural record over long stretches of time. For example: clay house shrines with horned crests, in the Cucuteni-Trypillia and (much later) Etruscan culture. And more! sourcememory.net/veleda/?p=932

‘You could argue that over the eons, mitochondria built an infrastructure—the human body—to feed themselves.’ Fascinating article.

Well done Fertifa and Fertility Network on delivering the UK's largest ever survey on fertility in the workplace. No better way to cap off National Fertility Awareness Week and underscore the need for workplace policies and support of fertility and reproductive health more broadly

Fantastic to be able to produce this important piece of research with Fertifa Eileen Burbidge It is vital that reproductive health issues are recognised and supported properly in the workplace Fertility Network is committed to helping firms support staff facing #fertility issues