This week’s recommended reading:
- Is your period late? Or are you just counting days incorrectly? Heather Corrina @Scarleteen explains. (For more about how to track your cycle, CeMCOR offers Structured Daily Diary forms, and how-to instructions.)
- You’re not a feminist, but . . . what?! Yes, you are a feminist. Say so, says Chloe Angyal.
- Ethics of commodification of human eggs – Morganne Rosenhaus at RH Reality Check asks what is the real cost of eggs for sale?
- Via reader Betsy Lavolette, we learn that the Hawai’ian island named Ka-hoʻolawe translates into English as “bright vagina”. Does anyone know the story behind that name?
More info than you need – but, at Hawaiian-English dictionary link for island name, “Kohe-mālamalama / Ancient name for Ka-ho’olawe” – “kohe” means many things besides vagina…
https://tinyurl.com/ydqjkog
n.
1. Mortise; crease, as in the center of the crown of a hat; groove in wood; corner in a pandanus mat; fork at the lower ends of house rafters (the under side of the fork was cut back as far as the commencement of the fork or further to form the ʻauwae). Cf. koʻa kohe. hoʻo.kohe To fold pandanus matting to form a corner; to form a crease, groove, etc.
2. Vagina. (PCP to(f,s)e.)
3. Inside barb of a fishhook.
the “mālamalama” part of the island name refers to light in various manifestations (it lists 5):
https://tinyurl.com/y8ak79w
Just a cautionary note, not to assume English language’s single-meaning word “vagina,” has a Hawaiian language single-meaning equivalent …looked at aerial view of island, does look like a shining vagina…er, vulva 🙂 – but long ago, people didn’t have an aerial view????
https://coralreefs.wr.usgs.gov/kahoolawe.html
Website says – “NOTE: Due to unexploded ordinance in the surrounding waters, unauthorized entry to the island and to waters within two miles of the island is prohibited (H.A.R. §13-260).
Coral growth on Kaho‘olawe is limited to scattered coral communities at deeper depths. Due to the deforestation of the island, there is a significant problem with erosion and sediment run-off into the nearshore environment. The USGS is assisting the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission in these efforts. Check back here for details as the project evolves.”
Maybe Ensler could get involved in a campaign – SAVE THE SHINING VAGINA 🙂
Thanks for all the research, G.K. I hope Betsy Lavolette sees your comment – this information would probably be useful in her project on Hawai’i.
Thanks – through the wonder of the Internet, I just emailed her directly 🙂