A woman put her period blood in a jar of moon water. Something green started growing. The comments called it a miracle. I called it absolutely not. And then I made the mistake of actually looking, and these women kept being a little bit right.

What started as me doom scrolling turned into a full bloody rabbit hole. Blood that really can feed a plant. Animals that really do make babies with no male. Tumors that grow hair, bone, and teeth. Stem cells that scientists genuinely want out of a woman's body. Periods that may actually drift with the moon. Witch trials. A 600 year old book nobody on Earth can read. Mitochondrial Eve. And one Black woman whose cells changed all of modern medicine while her name got shrunk down to four letters.

Some of it is internet woo woo. Some of it is real. And the real stuff is so much weirder than what Ti ...