Noopur Nowakowski

…be won or evils to be defeated; oppressive morality is completely absent, as are authority figures. Instead of heroes, sexy dancing. Instead of dads, sexy dancing. Instead of telling the story of why the king is the king, sexy dancing. While most people would acknowledge that Campbell’s idea of the hero is outdated and ossified, it h…

…rly-13, I was the last of my friends to earn the privilege of ruining pair after pair of underwear. Ever since, I have been one of the few and fortunate women whose menstrual cycle is literally 28 days to the hour. I can trace every moment of my cycle from the first drop of blood to the visceral, all-consuming, unmistakable increase in libido before ovulation to the one-sided cramp during ovulation (mittelschmerz, bitches. I am the 20%), to the oh-god-I’m-crying-again-my-tits-hurt-I’m-bloated-someone-come-pour-salt-down-my-throat of PMS. (If you want to get graphic, discharge tells a similarly easy to interpret tale. Y’all already know…