by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 15, 2012 | Internet
Poor, sad Dwight Schrute wishes he could menstruate — even though Jezebel hates menstruation and medical students don’t know about the menstrual cup. Knowing Menstruation Beyond PubMed: In which Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa tells of listening to a research...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 8, 2012 | Internet
Missed Your Period? Don’t Want to be Pregnant? There’s an App for That. One of the reasons it’s difficult to talk about menstruation is that it’s difficult to talk about vaginas. A federal appeals court ruled this week that the ban on so-called...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 1, 2012 | Internet
Gilda’s Club, a cancer support group in Madison, Wisconsin, named for the late, great Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer at age 42 in 1989, is changing its name, because young women don’t know who Gilda Radner was. This makes me sad on so many...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 28, 2012 | Activism, Menstruation
The Occupy movement is about equality. Its primary aim is to create a more just world economically, but socially, too, for economic justice and social justice are inextricably linked. The specific focus of each local group may be somewhat different, but Occupiers...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 24, 2012 | Internet
A team of Australian filmmakers are working on a promising-looking comedy film, Bloomers, described as “Todd Solondz meets Freaks and Geeks meets menstrual blood”. Visit their Pozible site if you’d like to support the project. Some simple tips for...