28th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony
// January 8th, 2011 // No Comments » // Re-rooters Day Ceremony, T.A.C.K.I.
Cape Cod Times, Jan 8, 2011, Ron Schloerb, photographer
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Miss Tampon Liberty appears in Chris Bobel’s book on menstruation
// June 29th, 2010 // No Comments » // My Blog, T.A.C.K.I.
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Miss Tampon Liberty in Chris Bobel's menstruation book
Chris Bobel’s new book on menstruation features Jay Critchley
// June 29th, 2010 // No Comments » // My Blog, T.A.C.K.I.
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/chris_bobel/NewBlood/NewBlood.html
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// April 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // T.A.C.K.I.
Tampon Applicator Creative Klubs International,TACKI, was established in 1984 to create awareness of plastic and pollution in the marine environment, and to “ban the sale and manufacture of non-biodegradable feminine hygiene products.” I began collecting these washed up “beach whistles” on Cape Cod and East Coast beaches in 1978. I sponsored legislation on Beacon Hill in Boston to ban them appearing in my Miss Tampon Liberty gown of 3,000 applicators at the hearing (and at the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty at Liberty State Park in 1986) but the tampon lobby scuttled the bill. One company even suggested that the applicators be made to sink out of sight, out of mind.
These beach whistles became the building blocks for a model of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument, which celebrates the first landing place of the Pilgrims in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and a series of sculptures and installations, including the TACKI Family. These various stick figures traveled with me for a few years, and were a hit at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant tour I made as president of the NRC, Nuclear Recycling Consultants.
I have the world’s largest collection of used plastic tampon applicators, and if they are banned, it could theoretically increase exponentially in value. That may be wishful thinking, since they will never degrade and will pop up in archeological digs for centuries. We may finally have to resort to cardboard applicators when the petroleum runs out. Will anyone be around?
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