Jezebel: Beads

Get Your Beads Away From My Vagina

Erin Gloria Ryan — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:00:00 EDT

A new product called CycleBeads purports to help women become the overlords of their ovaries by charting their menstrual cycles using a necklace and a rubber ring. Every which way I turn, someone company somewhere is trying to get their bead-shaped product near my vagina. Please stop this. Please get those beads away from my vagina. More »

Woman Alive: More Crafts For Fun

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

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It must've been a weird time for crafting back in the early-'70s. Women were trying to shed the stereotypical role of housewifery, and lumped in with that were those crafts — womanly arts — that were closely associated with being a woman, like knitting and sewing. But at the same time, a D.I.Y. movement was burgeoning. So what was a feminist to do? According to this volume of Woman Alive, the answer was to engage in alternative crafts that didn't have the "stigma" of femininity attached. So a host of different crafts became popular in the '70s…and they pretty much stayed there. Do you know anyone weaves baskets or creates "natural collages" out of beans and seeds just for shits and giggles? After the jump, we look at some crafts that time forgot (because they were too ugly to remember). More »

Good Beads

Maria — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:40:00 EDT

Deborah Potter runs the Village Earth Bead Market in Philadelphia, where she does more than simply help her customers make beaded projects, she also helps Kenyan girls go to school. Potter works in conjunction with Beads for Education, a nonprofit group that sends almost 300 Masai girls to school in a country (Kenya) where rural girls often get little education. Potter supports them by selling beaded products that are made by members of Beads for Education and giving the money earned back to the organization. Who knew beads could help so many young women? [Philadelphia Inquirer] More »