by Elizabeth Kissling | May 4, 2013 | Internet
This open letter to Facebook from MotherWise is being circulated widely on the giant social network, protesting Facebook’s censorship of anatomical drawings of women’s bodies while objectifying representations of the same body parts and other violations of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 27, 2013 | Internet
The video at right was made by the editor of the student newspaper, The Easterner, at Eastern Washington University, where I teach. I swear, I didn’t put her up to it! She made this video before I met her, when she came to interview me for the accompanying...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 20, 2013 | Internet
Some useful definitions: health literacy and e-health. It’s great that we can finally say the word vagina, but are we done with vagina jokes yet? Your breasts aren’t perfect until your nipples are exactly the right color — enter nipple tattooing, or...
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 13, 2013 | Internet
Last week, we joined many other women’s health activists in celebrating the judicial ruling making emergency contraception finally available over-the-counter. But this week, Roni Caryn Rabin points out in the New York Times that it may very little effect:...
