by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 23, 2014 | Internet
1970s advertising flashback: Watch these ladies share a shameful secret, and pity them. Rebecca, regular contributor at xoJane, says she’s terrible at menstruating. She’s got a lot of company, as there are currently more than 400 comments. Here’s a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 16, 2014 | Internet
What color is your menstrual blood? And what does it indicate about your cycle and your health? A newly published Swedish study reports the risk of combined hormonal contraception raises the risk of venous thromboembolism fivefold compared to the control group....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 14, 2014 | Celebrities, Film, Media, Menstruation, Studio Film
re-blogging re:Cycling In celebration of our fifth anniversary, we are republishing some of our favorite posts. This post originally appeared July 2, 2009. As I’ve written elsewhere, entertainment media in the U.S. aren’t squeamish about showing us blood:...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 9, 2014 | Internet
re:Cycling contributor Holly Grigg-Spall is also a contributor at Lady Clever. Her first post there deals with lessons we as a society don’t seem to be learning from repeated public debates about access to birth control. Holly Grigg-Spall also wrote this essay...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 2, 2014 | Internet
Andrea Donsky of Naturally Savvy (remember this video?) has started a petition to Bob McDonald, CEO of Procter & Gamble, asking him to disclose fully the ingredients of their tampons and padson the packaging. Things that make you go hmmm . . . . Many women...
