“The expectation of virginity requires war”

Calcalist 4.8.2022

https://www.calcalist.co.il/style/article/hyfsdwoac

Gynecologist Dr. Revital Arbel engages in vaginal mending for women whom society expects to marry as virgins, gender adjustment for transgenders and treatment of sexually abused children. She deals with the pain that her patients and she herself are experiencing through her art that tries to show “how from a small place like the vagina there is so much politics and injustice”

Dana Gillerman

Revital Arbel in the garden of her house next to works from her art project about suicide among transgender women.

“To help them I am doing something that is contrary to my worldview. Because in my view women should not »fix« their virginity nor marry as Virgins.”