Being A Lady

04/03/2026

A chuckle for this morning ❤️

04/02/2026

We want more!

Recent research is finally bridging the historical “gender gap” in medicine, uncovering that the female body operates with unique biological mechanisms rather than just being a variation of the male norm.

1. The “Xist” Breakthrough in Autoimmunity:

🗂️Scientists have long known that roughly 80% of autoimmune disease patients are women, but they didn’t know why. A 2024 landmark study found that Xist, a molecule only produced in female cells to manage X chromosomes, forms “oddball” protein complexes that can trigger a massive immune attack. This discovery provides a concrete biological target for new diagnostic tests and therapies.

2. The Brain-Cycle Connection: New neuroscience research shows that the menstrual cycle “dramatically reshapes” the brain every month.

🗂️Structural Changes: Hormonal fluctuations affect brain regions governing memory, emotion, and behavior.

🗂️Alzheimer’s Risk: Menopause is now viewed as a “critical window” for brain aging, with new initiatives like the CARE Initiative investigating why women are more susceptible to Alzheimer’s.

3. Redefining Heart Health & Menopause

🗂️Invisible Symptoms: Research confirms that women often experience heart attacks without chest pain, instead feeling nausea or shortness of breath, which frequently leads to misdiagnosis.

🗂️Hormone Therapy: In 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed long-standing “black box” warnings on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), acknowledging that previous fears were often based on misunderstood data.

🗂️New Tools: The first “cellular atlas” of the human o***y was mapped in 2024, allowing doctors to understand reproductive aging at a single-cell level for the first time.

Continued in comments.

07/05/2025

One of the most fearsome characters to the patriarchy was once the weaver-woman. The term spinster, used as a derogatory label for an unmarried older woman, originated in an effort to condemn the successfully self-employed woman who did not need financial support. Spinning and weaving were good trades, and these women did not need to marry in order to survive.

When women gathered to work, as they often would when weaving or spinning, such a gathering was feared by the overculture for its otherworldliness, for its hidden nature where anything could happen outside the watchful eye of male authority.

In From the Beast to the Blonde, Marina Warner writes, “Typical meeting places for women alone, like public laundries and spinning rooms, were feared to give rise to slander and intrigue and secret liaisons. Of all the professions, official and unofficial, those which allowed women to pass between worlds out of the control of native or marital family seemed to pose the greatest threat to apparent due order.”

To weave has always been the witch’s work, and witch’s work has always threatened the powers that be.”
~ Danielle Dulsky
www.danielledulsky.com

Art by Red K Elders
www.redkelders.com

19/02/2025

Amazing and thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️

Nearly all cases of cervical cancer—about 99%—are caused by high-risk HPV infections, a virus so common that 8 in 10 people will contract it at some point in their lives.

A bit of positive news? Mexican scientist Eva Ramón Gallegos is the first to eradicate the virus in 29 women. This is a major medical advancement and gives hope to the millions affected by the virus, 10% of whom are Hispanic women.

Gallegos is a global award-winning scientist and her massive breakthrough came after years of research and the use of photodynamic therapy that involves applying delta-aminolevulinic acid to the cervix. It then transforms into an active form and when exposed to laser light eliminates infected cells without damaging healthy tissue. Eradicated HPV viruses could be a drop in cervical cancer numbers.

14/02/2025

So pretty!

21/01/2025

You gotta have the right moves…

18/01/2025