by Ashley Ross | Dec 20, 2012 | Advertising, Communication, Media, Menopause, Perimenopause
No question – Poise’s Second Talk Campaign is undeniably courageous, taking on Menopause, the Previously Unmentionable. Call me impatient and unappreciative, but I just can’t help mourning the missed opportunity to REALLY empower women, instead of aligning with...
by Kati Bicknell | Dec 18, 2012 | Fertility, Internet, Media, Music
I’m sure by now most of you have seen this video by Jonathan Mann and Ivory King, which went viral last week. Or at least I hope you have, because it is wonderful. I went to Bennington College with Jonathan and have been enjoying his music for years. He’s been writing...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 15, 2012 | Internet
Poor, sad Dwight Schrute wishes he could menstruate — even though Jezebel hates menstruation and medical students don’t know about the menstrual cup. Knowing Menstruation Beyond PubMed: In which Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa tells of listening to a research...
by Laura Wershler | Dec 12, 2012 | Activism, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Girls, Health Care, Hormones, Politics
Throughout the contraceptive realm, LARCs are being heralded as the best thing since Cinderella’s glass slipper with little acknowledgement that for many women LARCs are more like Snow White’s poisoned apple. Nov. 25 to Dec. 1, 2012, was LARC Awareness...
by Paula Derry | Dec 10, 2012 | Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
We are unique individuals. Or, we are like everyone else. Which is it? For menstrual periods and the menopausal transition, as perhaps for most things, we’re a little bit of both. For me, keeping in mind that both are somehow true, and understanding the ways in which...