- “Now with wings!” Check out what tampons might look like, if they were designed by today’s Republican party, as imagined by SNL.
- Emily at Autostraddle made her own period playlist after hearing one in a movie. Commenters have added more songs.
- The Lunette blog offers suggestions for teens using a menstrual cup for the first time.
- High school students in New York are able to get the morning-after pill (also known as Emergency Contraception, or E.C.) from school nurses. Meanwhile, California’s governor signed a new law this week that will make contraceptive access for all a little easier, as registered nurses will be able to “to dispense drugs and devices upon an order by a certified nurse-midwife, a nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant while functioning within specified clinic settings”.
- Are you tired of Naomi Wolf’s Vagina? Pretty much everyone else is: The Feminist Hate-Read Book Club Reads Naomi Wolf’s Vagina. For take-downs of the bad science, see here and here and here.
- Todd Akin, of Legitimate Rape and the Magic Uterus fame, isn’t doing so well at making it up to women voters. In an interview this week with the Kansas City Star, he said his opponent, Sen. Claire McCaskill, had been aggressive and not very ladylike in their recent debate.
