Have you met your cervix?

The week I learnt that the cervix actually looks like, and is almost indecipherable from, a glazed donut, every O-shape would remind me of it. And I liked knowing that detail about my cervix, thinking what it would look like if I held it in the middle of my palm: squished, puffy, odd small hole, a mouth or tiny dimple, pale pink. I was seventeen and I was mad because I had never known that my cervix looked like a glazed donut until then. I had zero clue. I am twenty-two now and this very minute, after four and a half glasses of Shiraz, I am thinking about it again and how if more women knew about the donut cervix reference point, it might encourage more shared smiles in public, sly remarks like, ‘What do you think your donut looks like ??’ It could even lessen the female experience of the loneliness epidemic a fraction.

This blog will morph and take shape over time to represent multiple ideas, trains of thought, and candid reactions to women's health research (including what has been omitted, sidestepped, selectively edited out of that research) as Lucy and I progressively venture to write it. What we do want is for it to be a collection of research notes, stories, anecdotes. Details that do and don’t ‘matter’, that are and aren’t ‘groundbreaking’ to our world. Because we think, or, we hope, that it will make our female readers think about their details, experiences, touches of pain, and what it matters to them, what it might matter to all of us.

Lucy is the knowledgeable women’s health researcher and she started Snooks. I like to write and I am curious to learn, to feel my way around as this project evolves. Here we go.