- After 15 years of providing outstanding support and resources for young people, the sex/sexuality education site Scarleteen is in financial crisis. If you can donate, please do so.
- Rose George has followed up on her 2012 New York Times piece about menstrual taboo in India with long read about menstruation, water management, and public health in Nepal and Kathmandu for Mosaic.
- KTVU News of San Francisco reports a story of one family that refused to participate in Merck’s settlement deal when their daughter/sister died from pulmonary embolism caused by her NuvaRing birth control.
- A new report from the American Institute for Cancer Research finds a correlation between weight and risk of ovarian cancer, and of course, news stories are illustrated with the infamous headless fatties trope.
- Mark your calendar: Saturday, April 12, our own Chris Bobel will give a presentation in New York about her ongoing research about menstrual health campaigns in the global South.
- The female condom, also known as the internal condom, “is being reinvented as the next big thing in safe sex”.
- March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. It’s an invisible illness that needs to be seen. Tell everyone.
- What do dudes know about menstruation? Next to nothing, according to research. Let’s change that, shall we?
