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20/05/2026

🌈JUNE 27th @ 12pm🌈

Celebrate pride browsing the stalls at the Va**na Museum Pearly Makers Market!

is a safe space and platform for q***r creatives to show off their work, establish their business and build community. At every event we aim to have at least one trader who is totally new to the scene, as well as well established market veterans! Please come and support q***r makers and buy some unique goodies!

13/05/2026

BIG NEWS

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Our opening hours are changing in June! We’re introducing later opening hours to make the most of those daylight hours.

So from 3rd June, the new hours will be: Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm to 7pm.

On display at the moment we have...

🔻 Lucy’s Gallery: Menopause - What’s Changed?
🔻 Betsey’s Gallery: From A to V
🔻 Anarcha’s Gallery: Before the Blood: Community and Belonging from Menarche to Migration

As always, the Museum is completely free to enter and open Wednesday to Sunday. If you’re extra keen or bringing a group of ten or more, please do book a free timeslot via our website.

Come see us in the flesh!

09/05/2026

Don’t miss out!

’s Textile Anatomy: Natural Dyeing Workshop still has open slots. Get your ticket before the sell out.

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Join artist, researcher, and founder of Redress Laboratory Auda Sakho for a hands-on workshop exploring the intersection of natural dyeing, textile storytelling, and bodily symbolism.

In this session, participants will experiment with plant and insect-based dyes — including madder root, cochineal, and hibiscus — to create expressive textile pieces inspired by organic forms and the colour spectrum of the body. Through guided techniques, you will learn how pH, mordants, and fibre interactions influence colour, producing a range of pinks, reds, and earthy tones.

The workshop explores how textiles can become a language for anatomy, identity, and care, connecting ancestral dye knowledge with contemporary conversations around the body and material culture.

Whether you are a textile enthusiast, designer, artist, or simply curious about natural colour and body-centred design, this workshop offers a welcoming space for learning, experimentation, and conversation.

📅 16th May
⏰ 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 Va**na Museum
💸 £55 per person (limited free slots for low income folks on request)

07/05/2026

Coinciding with World Menstrual Health Day on 28th May, join us to celebrate our collaboration with The Open University’s ‘Free to Bleed: Data Driven Advocacy and Art for Menstrual Justice Project.’

‘Free to Bleed’ brings together one of the UK’s largest polling exercises on menstruation, a powerful artistic intervention with artist Wee Nuls, and a programme of public and academic events aimed at transforming how society understands, sees, and legislates, for menstrual health.

So, what can you expect on the day?

🗣️Discussion of the project and key findings of our YouGov poll: The ‘Free to Bleed’ team commissioned a YouGov poll involving over two thousand participants. The survey explores attitudes towards menstrual product provision and public perceptions across a variety of intersections. We’ll be sharing our key findings and recommendations on the future of menstrual justice.

🎨 Wee Nuls discussing her art and practice: While legal changes are important, societal attitudes also need addressed, and in this project, we firmly believe in the power of art for social change. We are delighted to be working with Wee Nuls as our Artist in Residence to produce an artwork relating to key themes in ‘Free to Bleed.’

✨ The craic: We’ll be hosting a period themed craft session along with guest presentations/performances, free nibbles and a drinks reception and, importantly, hearing your views on menstrual (in)justice.

🩸Tickets are free for this hybrid event. Please note that bloody beautiful outfits are encouraged: think a tinge of pink, splash of red, or full out menstrual marvel.

📸: .nuls

06/05/2026

What do you wish you had known before you had your first period?

Across the world menstruation continues to be shrouded in stigma, shame, and silence. Millions of children face their menarche without knowing what it is, why it’s happening, what it’s called, or what to do. Too often, the answers to these questions are only found through an individual’s own experience.

Perpetuated by patriarchal and cisnormative myths and misconceptions, this shame and stigma affects girls and gender diverse children the most. Without the language to describe what’s happening to them, children grow up unable or ashamed to ask questions — to express curiosity or concern about their bodies. Naturally, this influences behaviour not just in childhood, but well into adulthood. And it affects all of us.

Menarche is a moment of change, of transformation. It shouldn’t be shamed or shrouded in secrecy. Talking about it can be scary, but it also opens a door to connection.

What do YOU wish you had known?

Before the Blood: Community and Belonging from Menarche to Migration is still on display, Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm.

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Nisaba is a grassroots organisation that provides holistic, trauma-informed, menstrual, s*xual and reproductive health and wellbeing services for migrants. Follow their work and donate if you can!

04/05/2026

Our online book club is on this month; join us on Thursday 21 May, 7.00pm to 8.30pm (UK time) on Zoom. We're reading Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi.

About the book:
Discover this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive new novel that's perfect for fans of Convenience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs.

'Incredibly thought-provoking... you'll love Yagi's writing' Stylist

'One of the most passionate cases I've ever read for female interiority, for women's creative pulse and rich inner life' The New Yorker

For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions...

Ms Shibata refuses to clear away the coffee and cigarette butts at work one day, because she's pregnant and can't bear the smell. The only thing is . . . Ms Shibata is not pregnant.

Being a mother-to-be isn't easy. Ms Shibata has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Before long, it becomes all-absorbing, and with the help of towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app that tracks every stage of her 'pregnancy', the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve.

'A subversive, surreal read that will strike a cord' Red Magazine

'An insight into what it means to be a woman in our time... As a mode of resistance, Shibata's trick is perfect' Electric Literature

Translated from the Japanese by David Boyd and Lucy North

📧 Make sure you sign up to our Cliterature email list. The sign up link appears on each of our Cliterature event webpages.

🏪 Buy this book from our website or the shop. If you can't make it in person, try your local independent bookshop or library. This book is available digitally too.

💬 You are not expected to have finished the book, having read some of it helps you take part in our discussion.

🎟️ Tickets are pay what you can

➡️ Book online using the link in our bio.

📸 by niknakreads using Canva

02/05/2026

please stop sending us the top 1% va**na tweet. we have seen it. we are despairing. here’s thread from the archives that might answer some of the questions we all have right now.

At-home microbiome testing kits are increasingly popping up on the market, sold directly to consumers. There hasn’t been much research into them yet, so let’s take a look at a 2024 paper by Diane E. Hoffman et al to find out what’s known.

The va**nal microbiome is a name for the microorganisms that live in the va**na. The balance changes throughout life, and “good” bacteria help the va**na to self-clean and prevent infections. Imbalances can result in infections.

The way paid-for at-home microbiome test kits work for the consumer is that you take a sample from your va**na and send it off to a lab. You’ll then be sent a report, telling you if your microbiome is “healthy” or not.

In the lab, various techniques are used to analyse the sample. The sample is compared to a database using an algorithm, or relative prevalence of various microorganisms is analysed, also using an algorithm. Because the companies offering these tests are private, the algorithms and databases are usually proprietary, meaning there’s no way to scrutinise their computational techniques or datasets.

Because we know so little about the va**nal microbiome in general, datasets are, at best, as incomplete as the rest of science. For instance, they’re likely to be skewed specifically towards white populations.

At the end of the day, we don’t know enough about what a typical and healthy microbiome looks like, and it’s likely that this differs across populations anyway. There’s also a question over whether the test kits are genuinely establishing a disease that needs treating.

There are several reasons for this surge. First of all, there are likely lots of benefits to at-home testing for infections — there’s plenty of precedent for at-home STI & HPV testing, for instance. In the face of medical misogyny, at-home testing can also provide answers that feel hard to come by.

The science on this has a lot of catching up to do.

📸: Dr Graham Beards, used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

30/04/2026

Dear friends,

Issue 5 is finally here, and it’s all about s*x work!

Here at the Va**na Museum we are intimately concerned with the limits and possibilities of bodily autonomy. What does choice mean within a capitalist society? In what sense do we own our bodies? How do we exercise such ownership? In this, s*x work is a crucial frontier — at the very edges of our understanding of bodily autonomy. Popular discourse is usually preoccupied with the scandalous and salacious melodrama of it all. It is far less concerned with the minutiae of earning a living as a s*x worker, of navigating financial barriers and legal grey zones, of raising children or reporting abuse as a s*x worker.

For this Issue we solicited works that centre s*x workers and works that call for decriminalisation, putting the needs of s*x workers up front and centre. We are so excited to share an incredible collection of essays, stories, and visual works exploring the emergent tensions in the discourse, including works exploring gender, disability, motherhood, class, agency and safety. We invite you to pay attention when discomfort arises, to reflect inwards and challenge what that discomfort might reveal. We hope this Issue challenges and nourishes, reflects and projects, that it holds and takes space for some of the most vulnerable among us.

Get the Issue in print for £8 or as a digital download for £3, online or in-person. And, most importantly, share your thoughts! The zine is a labour of love, and it’s for YOU, so let us know what you think.

In love and solidarity,
Katja & Alex
Lip Service Editorial Team

25/04/2026

It happened! We held our very first Fanniversary Conference thanks to FLAG at and our media partners .

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On Tuesday 21st April we celebrated nine years of the Va**na Museum with our first annual conference.

Through the chill and the technical difficulties, we heard from researchers and organisers whose work explores gender, feminism, and justice in our reactionary present. We hope everyone who attended left feeling uplifted, and hopeful.

Times are tough, but it’s days like these that remind us why we do what we do. Thank you to everyone who made the conference possible and who came along.

There’s no better time to support your local feminist org than right now. Whether you follow or throw us a couple of quid, go to the next gig or celebrate Le***an Visibility Week with — every penny you can spare and ever minute you spend on community is a penny and a minute well spent.

24/04/2026

🚨 PRESALE ALERT 🚨

A new edition to our enamel pin collection is ready to preorder! Because what’s better than an enamel pin? A bis*xual flag enamel pin, and what’s even better than that? A bis*xual flag enamel pin with a v***a on it!

Soft enamel pin
25mm circular design showcasing a beautiful v***a on a bis*xual flag.
Black dye metal plating
Rubber clasp.

Image for illustration purposes only. Preorder yours now. We expect to dispatch this item on or after 8th May 2026.

*Please note if you select a preorder product along with other products currently in stock, your order will only be shipped once all items are available. If you wish to order other products and want them to arrive sooner, we recommend ordering the preorder products separately.

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