by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 17, 2011 | Internet
Anthropologist Kate Clancy explains the myth of menotoxins and the scientific conclusion: Menstruation is just blood and tissue you ended up not using. Now that you’ve given up oral contraceptives, here’s a great way to re-purpose all those pills: this...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 16, 2011 | Activism, Celebrities, Girls, Health Care
The Village Voice has declared today, Friday, September 16, ‘Tweet That You Have Had HPV Day’. U.S. readers probably know that on Monday, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann upbraided Texas governor Rick Perry for requiring girls in his state to have the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 14, 2011 | Birth Control, Politics
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” Raise a glass – today is Margaret Sanger’s birthday. Learn about...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 10, 2011 | Internet
It’s not really about clitoral vs. vaginal orgasms: The Clitoris, the Vagina and Orgasm: Feelings and Frameworks. In a personal narrative at Feministing.com, blogger Jos explains what my Christian fundamentalist upbringing taught me about periods. Do not try...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 8, 2011 | Menstruation
Guest Post by Harriet Hall, M.D. When women live together, do their menstrual cycles tend to synchronize? It’s been a long time since I first heard that claim. I didn’t believe it, for a number of reasons. I had never observed it myself, I saw no plausible mechanism...
