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Sep 23, 2022 12 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Happy #BiVisibilityDay! We have a lot of bi+ members of the Vagina Museum team, so we're going to introduce you to some of our lovely bi, pan and queer eager beavers!
"I'm Rhi, I'm queer/pansexual. I volunteer at the Vagina Museum and I work in disability access in the music and live events industry. In my spare time I paint and hang out with my cat." Photograph of Rhi, a Vagina...
This is volunteer Ki (per/per/person): "Queer, polyamorous, bisexual activist.  Microscopist in biomedical research to pay the bills.  Avid crafter - I sew, crochet, and am currently learning embroidery! Love cats!" Image
Here's Emma @emmarcviolet (she/her). "When not volunteering at the vagina museum I do photography/listing for another charity. In my spare time I create photography about chronic illness and feminist issues." Photo of Emma in a hothouse
This is our duty manger and purchasing agent Angela (she/they), also known as Lucie Liquor. Outside of the VM she’s a burlesque artist, pole dancer and cat fanatic. Photo of Angela in burlesqu...
This is volunteer Amy (she/her) "Outside the Vagina Museum I’m a mum of two boys, autism advocate, dressmaker & proud ginger northerner." Photo of Amy
This is duty manager Alex (she/her): "I am a neurodivergent performance artist and associate lecturer. I’m currently doing my PhD at East 15, Acting school in theatre and performance and my research looks at gender, sexuality and the representation of vulvas in contemporary... Photograph of Alex
"...performance. So when I’m not in the vagina museum, I’m still writing about them and I fucking love it!"
This is Dara @dididrama (she/her) "I’m a vagina museum volunteer. I love social history, especially the history of sex and sexuality and history of women. I’m married to a man and we have two cats." Photo of Dara
And last but not least, our founder and director @floschechter: "I'm bi and here's a photo of me at the museum in a top by @JayHulmePoet. I like starting museums, TTRPG, cats (even though I'm allergic which is an ironic tragedy), listening to the same song on repeat and carbs." Photo of Florence in the mu...
We promise you don't have to be bi+ and like cats to work here, but it helps...
All right, one more, since she really wanted to be included. Here's duty manager Madeleine (she/her). When she’s not at the vagina museum she’s working in theatre or exploring ruined castles. Photo of Madeleine

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Mar 13
The Cholmondeley Ladies (circa 1600-1610) is a painting raising many questions. Today we're not going to talk about the puzzle in pegging down the identities of the women - we will focus on a different, more mundane puzzle...

Image courtesy of Tate Britain. Painting of two women holding babies lying side by side in bed. Both women wear grand attire with large, richly decorated collars. Each baby is wrapped in red. The women and babies look identical at first glance, but have subtle differences in the patterns on their clothing and eye colour. The poses are awkward and stiff.
The Cholmondeley Ladies painting is accompanied by an inscription, which says "Two Ladies of the Cholmondeley Family, Who were born the same day, Married the same day, And brought to Bed the same day."
Many scholars have explored the identities of these ladies, who are unknown, wondered who the unknown artist who painted it was. Even the donor who gave the painting to the Tate is anonymous.
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Feb 7
A hundred years ago, there was a research centre, archive, clinic and museum space dedicated to sexuality whose work might seem ahead of its time, even now.

This is the story of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexology #LGBTHistoryMonth
Founder of the Institute of Sexology Magnus Hirschfeld was a German Jewish gay man, a qualified doctor. Born in 1868, Hirschfeld's interest in using his skills to advocate for LGBT+ rights was sparked when he noticed many of his gay patients were dying by suicide.
In the late 19th century, Hirschfeld began researching sex and sexuality across cultures. He was especially interested in homosexuality in his early research.
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Jan 22
Have you ever wondered what's going on in there during penis-in-vagina sex? Where do the pelvic organs go? What stretches where?

Scientists have. At length. And here's what they thought and how they finally found out.
One of the first scientists to take a guess at what's going on anatomically during PiV sex was Leonardo da Vinci himself, who drew this anatomically incorrect diagram in around 1493.

Image courtesy of the Royal Collection. Illustration of a couple in cross section engaged in penis in vagina sex. The woman is depicted as a headless torso. The penis enters the vagina. Above it is a vein leading to the woman's breasts.
You'll notice most of the pelvic organs on the woman are missing in da Vinci's diagram. You also may notice a weird vein leading up to the breasts. That's the vein that brings period blood up to the breasts to turn into milk. This is not how anything works.
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Jan 16
Okay muff-lovers, you'll probably know the answer to this one. How many holes are there in the vulva?

The answer may surprise you. Yes, even you.
The hole you'll definitely know about if you follow us is the vaginal entrance, which leads to the vagina. That one's easy.
Next up - and not everybody knows this one - is the entrance to the urethra. Pee doesn't come out of the vagina, it comes out of the urethra. The urethra is positioned above the vagina and below the clitoral glans.
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Dec 5, 2023
Reindeer are a little unusual among deer. In most species, only males grow antlers, but in reindeer, these big old head bones are a perfectly normal feature for females, too! And how and why they grow antlers is rather interesting...
Antlers in reindeer are deciduous. They're not a permanent fixture on the head of the animal, but rather, antlers grow and are cast in cycles.
In male reindeer, the antlers start growing in around April, and are shed in late December. In females, antlers grow in May, and are cast at around that time the next year.
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Oct 9, 2023
We do our best to make the Vagina Museum accessible for all. Let's talk a bit about accessibility in our new home at Poyser Street, and what we're trying to do to create a welcoming space.
Our new home is across two floors. We have an upstairs and a downstairs. We're getting a lift installed so our visitors can access both levels, but it won't be ready by 4th November. Because of this, we're not opening our upstairs galleries to the public until the lift is in.
If people who can't use stairs can't access our upstairs galleries, we've decided that to be fair, these galleries will not be open until the lift is installed.
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