- Teach me how to breastfeed – while you Dougie.
- Art critic Brian Sherwin discusses sexism and the menstrala art movement in this article at FASO (Fine Art Studio Online).
- We don’t endorse Bryan Goldberg’s sexist comments about his new website, Bustle.com, but how great is it to see someone besides us doing this kind of analysis of how femcare products (and thus girls and women and menstruation) are represented in mainstream media?
- “All you need to know about IUDs” may not be everythingyou need to know, but certainly addresses the basic questions.
- A writer at xoJane defends her use of cycle-stopping contraceptives, in an article titled, “Please Don’t Judge me for Skipping My Period”.
- Hormones totally control our behavior, right down to what we wear. So if you want to know if you’re ovulating, just check and see what color blouse you’re wearing!
- Two members of SMCR have research published in the new issue (August 2013) of Feminism & Psychology: look for Theresa Jackson’s “Women wearing white: Discourses of menstruation and the experience of menarche” and Jane Ussher’s “It’s not all bad: Women’s construction and lived experience of positive premenstrual change”.
- A small pilot study published last month in European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology indicates that acupuncture may be just as effective as NSAIDs for dysmenorrhea.
