by Editor | May 23, 2015 | Activism, Art, Birth Control, Health Care, Menstruation, Reproduction
Two workshops explore the menstrual health/awareness and reproductive justice connection on Saturday, June 6th at at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, June 4-6, 2015, Suffolk...
by Editor | May 16, 2015 | Birth Control, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
I’m looking forward to chairing this panel presentation exploring the intersections of contraception and menstrual health beliefs on Friday morning, June 5th, at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at The Center for Women’s...
by Laura Wershler | May 8, 2015 | Activism, Birth Control, Menstruation
Four takes on Fertility Control at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, June 4-6, 2015, Suffolk University, Boston Not A “Real” Period: Redefining Menstruation and Reconfiguring...
by Laura Wershler | Mar 6, 2015 | Birth Control, FemCare, Literature, Menstruation
In State of Wonder–Part 1, I mused as to why, in a novel revolving around the extended menstruation and fertility of the Lakashi tribe, only the menstrual cycles of the Brazilian women being studied are made visible to the reader. Why does author Ann Patchett...
by Laura Wershler | Feb 13, 2015 | Birth Control, Books, Film, Literature, Media, Sex, Studio Film, Virginity
Dear Readers: The following post first appeared on July 25, 2012, during the media think-piece flurry over the soaring popularity of E.L James’s Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. With the movie opening on Valentine’s Day, 2015, I can’t wait to find out...
