The Uterus Project

Can you imagine a world where all bodies are treated with respect?

Where our changes are honored and understood?

Where the most complex organ – where we all originate – is venerated?

The UTERUS is grossly understudied.

We have a lot of work to do to understand and build more compassionate spaces of understanding and empathy.

On April 21, 2023 – the day the Supreme Court decided the lower court case to reverse the 25 year FDA ruling on the drug Mifepristone – I sat in meditation and had a vision.

Later that day, on the steps of the Supreme Court, I brought that vision to life in the form of my very first Uterus Art. As I placed each flower, I breathed into it a wish:

May all bodies be treated with respect.

When I finished, I'd create a full uterus from flowers, complete with fallopian tubes, ovaries and vagina.

A photographer from the Associated Press approached me as I was placing the final flowers. I was so deeply absorbed in the experience that I only became aware of her presence when I heard her say, “What is this?”

“Do you have any guesses?” I asked in return.

“I have no idea,” she responded.

I do not think this person is alone.
The organ from which we all originated is truly a mystery to most.

Perhaps by witnessing its beauty, we can dispel resistance and confusion, allowing more ease in conversations around menarche, menstruation, birth, and menopause; the myriad stages we tend to suppress and misunderstand.