http://speakingopenly.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:56:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://speakingopenly.com/?p=234 **Who's Your Women's Health Hero? Our Bodies Ourselves USA wants to know.*** Dear Collegues/Friends, Please can you register your vote/comment for me at Our Bodies – Ourselves Boston USA http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/04/women-can-kath-mazzella To vote: click yellow stars under my blog nomination. As you know I have lobbied for 15 years now to raise ... http://speakingopenly.com/?p=173 I am very pleased to announce that I have received an Order of Australia Medal honour for the Queen's Birthday celebrations. It is a complete honour and I feel very privileged to have my work recognised. I am hoping that this honour will help me to advance the cause of getting an ... http://speakingopenly.com/?p=219 I am really excited to share that Hayley Solich 0f Women Can International nominated me for Our Bodies Ourselves Womens Health Hero award. From this I was seleceted as one of 20 inductees for the Award for the  vision of an International Gyn Awareness Day 10 September annually.   Dear Kath, We are ... http://speakingopenly.com/?p=205 [slideshow id=1] http://speakingopenly.com/?p=197 I have been nominated for a Health Heroes Award from the Our Boides Ourselves, a program of the Boston Women's Collective. It is very important to me that I gain high exposure through this nomination to help me to get the International Gynae Awareness Day up and running worldwide. I would really ... http://speakingopenly.com/?p=185 [caption id="attachment_192" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Vagina Monologues - Performing the Flood - University WA"][/caption] Things are progressing at a rate of knots. Not as much rejection these days. Thank God for that. Here's a photo from Vulval Awareness Day. Em from 92.9 radio was blown away with the info she received from Doctors ... http://speakingopenly.com/?p=181 I presented at Vulval Awareness Day on Saturday. Em from 92.9 hosted and said she's realised she's been telling her daughters the incorrect terminology; vagina instead of vulva for the external genitalia. She said she was blown away by the information. (If only there were a thousand women there!) Following that ... http://speakingopenly.com/?p=146 For those who have watched the video clip on this site entitled  Mixed Media Art Journals: Vulva Love I would like to add this comment: It’s not all about “The Vulva” It’s about the “Power that Lies Within” If we get our focus right, we will be empowered. http://speakingopenly.com/?p=137 As seen on the Women's ENews Website: By Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem [caption id="attachment_131" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem"][/caption] WeNews commentator Millennium Development Goal No. 5--improving maternal health--is way off target. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem outlines the dimensions of the problem. Editor's Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not ... http://speakingopenly.com/?p=128