Reversing Female Circumcision: The Cut That Heals | VICE News

On the International Day for Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, VICE News reports on a little-known surgery that restores sexual function to the clitoris for women who had their genitals mutilated as children. We meet and follow a 32-year-old prospective patient who was mutilated at the age of six in Somalia, and who now lives and works as a nurse in the United States. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a cultural tradition that affects millions of women worldwide. Sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital cutting, the practice varies in severity depending on where it is performed. The procedure can range from minor nicks to the clitoris to the total removal of the clitoris and labia. In its severest form, the two sides of the vulva are sewn together, leaving only a small hole for menstruation and urination.

Reversing Female Circumcision: The Cut That Heals | VICE News

Opening a new online store for our items.

Trying to expand some from Etsy. I'm not getting rid of the Etsy shop, this is just supplementing it, at least for a while.

There will probably be many changes over the course of the next month or so, and items will be put in place slowly, so please be patient.

There are some nice things that I can do, such as offer discounts for bulk orders, so that should be interesting.

Currently, I'm in the process of putting all of the atheism related tees up.

The new shop can be found at http://thewitsend.aliboom.com.

The Etsy shop is still available at https://thewitsend.etsy.com

The Top 20 Reasons Why Every Mother Should Cover Up When Breastfeeding — Medium

Look, I get it. It’s natural. It’s beautiful. It’s some sort of biological norm. But all this indecent exposure has got to stop. So, here, to settle the controversy once and for all is the definitive list of why you breastfeeding nazis need to cover up.



The Top 20 Reasons Why Every Mother Should Cover Up When Breastfeeding — Medium

Inspired Illustration, "FEMINISM AT WORK," Pays Tribute To Pioneers Who Moved Women’s History Forward

In honor of Women’s History Month, Women You Should Know commissioned award-winning cartoonist, author and illustrator, David Trumble to execute our vision for an original piece of art that would pay tribute to some of history’s most courageous women; fearless females who went out on a limb to speak out, to stand up, and to act in the fight for women’s rights and equality; pioneers who moved women’s history forward and thought leaders who continue to carry that torch. We are so proud to present… Feminism At Work.

Inspired Illustration, "FEMINISM AT WORK," Pays Tribute To Pioneers Who Moved Women’s History Forward

Tomorrow is the last day of the sale on military shirts

Did you know that you could potentially save about 63% on these shirts?  The offers can be combined.  If you take the sale price, the buy three and get one free, and one of the 20% off coupon codes like TWE20OFF, a shirt was was originally $15.99 would effectively cost $5.99.
Visit the military view of our shop and check them out

All five armed forces represented,
veteran and retiree shirts coming soon
and can be specially requested now.

Liberal, Progressive, and Atheist
are currently available.

There are some military slang shirts
available too.

Stop on by and check them out. 

I sure would like to figure out the pattern.

Running an Etsy shop is interesting. I do screen printed tee shirts and onesies, and I never know, from month to month, how things are going to go.

Take February, for example. It was one of my best months ever, it tied December, which had all of the Christmas sales. Yet that was only through the 24th.

Then take March, which at the moment, is the worst month I've had since the very first month that the shop was open. I had one sale between February 25th and March 8th, when I would normally have  had something in the range of 10-15 (the beginning of the month is when I get the majority of my sales.

I have tweeted one of the shirts and have gotten four sales off of that tweet. Two days ago, I tweeted the same shirt, the tweet got over thirty favorites and was retweeted twenty-six times; to a potential audience of over 165,000 people (yes, I know, the audience is not really anywhere near that big) and not a single sale. I would have been thrilled to get 1/100th of one percent of that audience!

A little while ago, I was doing a brisk business in Atari related shirts. I decided to run a sale, which would have really given people an excellent break on the price. That was a bad move; I have not had a single sale on Atari related shirts in a month and a half now, ever since the day the sale started.

I'm really just curious about how this all works. I love that people like my items, and buy them. However, being on a fixed income, I also look forward to the sales to help me stretch my money through the month. Understanding how it works would help ease my stress.

New sections up in the shop

In order to make it easier to find things as our inventory of designs grow, we have started putting sections up in the shop:

For tees related to atheism, visit View Atheism.

Example from the Atheist section.

For tees related to Atari computers, visit View Atari.

Example from the Atari section.

For tees related to the military (with a liberal bent), visit View Military. There are quite a few new shirts up in this section.

Example from the Military section.

All of the other tees are currently uncategorized.  There are also sections for onesies, tote bags, bumper stickers, etc..