Some women euphemistically call it “red letter days,” but for those who suffer dysmenorrhea or menstrual cramps, the monthly period is a much-dreaded occurrence. According to the National Library of Medicine, 16 to 91 percent of women of reproductive age suffer from dysmenorrhea, with severe pain in up to 29 percent of the women studied. The pain, which ranges from mild discomfort to excruciating, is caused by the uterus contracting to shed its lining, and
ROXAS CITY, Capiz — To characterize environmental disasters and how people and governments respond to them, environmental humanities scholar Rob Nixon coined the term “slow violence,” which he defines as “violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all.” Nixon offered various examples of this kind of violence—from the toxic pollution from petrochemical infrastructure to the construction of mega dams—noting that these kinds of slow violence cannot match the political and emotional power of “falling bodies, burning
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