Gracias Oscar by Taki'h

Thank you Oscar. When we spent that summer together I was a young teenager full of ideas of how 'I should be', and not be. You taught me that I could just be natural. You taught me that my bleed was just natural. You taught me that it could even turn a man on. You shocked me by licking my yoni while I was bleeding. I remember asking you if you were crazy. I remember your face, the animal in you inviting the animal in me to come out of its conditioned c age. "No, I like it!" you responded.

I had been bleeding 3.5 years by then. I was 13 at the time. 31 years later, today, I share this publicly for the first time ever. I only realized this recently, through this project. That I have carried this imprint in me of not feeling ashamed of my bleed all this time, and that I have YOU to thank for that. You were the one and only person in my young life who showed me that my bleed could be something to revere. That I didn't have to hide it, that I didn't have to be ashamed of it, that I didn't have to avoid men during it, and that it could be a portal to my wild, natural, animal nature.
Con todo mi alma... Gracias Oscar! You changed my life and my destiny!
And thank you to all the men, the fathers, the brothers, the friends, the lovers, the teachers and coaches, who have supported us women to accept what is absolutely normal in us, our menstrual flow! It makes a difference!
In case you never heard it from her, like Oscar never heard it from me: Thank you Thank you Thank you

Taki'h, 44, La Paz, Bolivia