- Always, the popular P&G pads, released a new empowerment video this week, asking us to re-think the phrase “like a girl”. The video is nice, but I really like Emily Hauser and Imani Gandy’s (a.k.a. Angry Black Lady) plan to make “like a girl” mean “like a boss”.
- Parenting magazine provides a brief introduction to how to read cervical fluid to predict fertility.
- Is menstrual hygiene management the new “it” project for NGOs and social entrepreneurs? Our upcoming conference is cited as part of the evidence of the trendiness of menstruation.
- The story of how Aditi Gupta responded to the menstrual shame she was taught by creating Menstrupedia.
- Increasing numbers of British women are quitting the pill.
- Researchers have begun to experiment with collecting birth-canal bacteria and wiping them onto babies after birth, to explore whether it might help babies delivered by C-section to restore some of the vaginal bacteria that they would have been exposed to if they’d gone through the birth canal.
- Meghan Murphy says body hair is in fashion again — not just pubic hair, but legs and underarms, too.
- Experiencing grad school with gynecological conditions, as told by a second year PhD student in History at Queen’s University, Belfast.
- Those of us with migraine disease have been promised for years that there’s relief after menopause. New research says we should expect a hell of a storm before the calm: “In women who have migraine, headaches increase by 50 to 60 percent when they go through the perimenopause”.
- Women over 50 like sex. True story.
- Hannah Ransom continues her mission of correcting misinformation about the menstrual on the internet.
