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5 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Some of our faves include:
Nae Hair On't by Robert Burns
Cunt/The Female Genitals by Gwerful Mechain
And of course, The Devil of Pope-Fig Island by Jean de la Fontaine, which we've been kind of obsessed with lately.
If you'd like to listen to Nae Hair On't read properly and as gloriously Scottishly as it should be, you can find it at the end of our "Hair and Back Again: A Pube's Tale" podcast episode vaginamuseum.co.uk/podcast/hair-a…
And here's our volunteer Rhubi reading Gwerful Mechain's vagina poem, delightfully Welshly.
And finally, our thread on The Devil of Pope-Fig Island
Warning: the first two do kind of contain a little bit of rude words (specifically, "cunt", which is a perfectly nice word).

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