by David Linton | Oct 31, 2015 | Activism, magazines, Media
It looks like menstrual activism is springing up all over the continent. We at re: Cycling launched an exploration of social and political menstrual activism at the beginning of October, just weeks before Cosmopolitan magazine noted 2015 as “The Year the Period...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 24, 2014 | Activism, Language, Media, Menstruation
Guest Post by Josefin Persdotter, Gothenburg University As I write this, it is only hours until the acclaimed Swedish television program Kobra airs an episode about menstruation in art, and as a growing social movement in Sweden. They’ve interviewed none other than...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 19, 2013 | Film, Independent Film, Menstruation
Menstruation appears far more frequently film and television than you might think — Lauren Rosewarne recently identified more than 200 scenes in her study, Periods in Pop Culture. Other scholars, including David Linton, Chris Bobel, and me, have also written...