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Petra Paul & Ophira Avisar

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from all big religions, except buddhism.
Blood is after theories of Julia Kristeva
(”The Powers of Horror. The Abject Body”)
abject. It is on the border between inside
and outside. ”It follows that jouissance
alone causes the abject to exist as such.”
The abjection is coextensive with the
social and symbolic order. Excrements and
menstrual blood are the uncleanest

abjects. Kristeva wrote, abject is: ”Not me.
Not that. But not nothing, either.” Using
menstrual blood for me is also
biographically, because it is my blood. I
was very long alone with this theme, but
2015, there was a change. Kiran Gandhi
ran a marathon in London, showing her
menstrual blood. There was a big
exhibition in Boston: ”Widening the Cycle:

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