by Chris Bobel | Apr 15, 2013 | Communication, FemCare, Health Care, Humor, Media, Menstruation
Oops! Somebody fell in it. And by it I mean the tired old WomenCan’tDoStuffBecauseTheyAreWomen pit–a veritable snake hole crawling with misogynists, essentialists, and old school protectionists. Terri Proud, a newly hired Administrative Assistant in the Arizona...
by Chris Bobel | Mar 18, 2013 | Advertising, Birth Control, Communication, Film, Girls, Health Care, Humor, Independent Film, Internet, Language, Media, Pharmaceutical, Pregnancy, Reproduction
Seen this one yet? (or the (eerily) related “Birth Control on the Bottom“?) We posted “Sassy Girlz Candy Birth Control Pills” (written by Carissa Leone in 2011) in our regular installment Weekend Links on Feb 2. I had a mixed reaction. And when a...
by Chris Bobel | Jan 21, 2013 | Activism, Communication, Film, Independent Film, Internet, Media
I am demoralized. The gang rapes in Delhi India and Steubenville Ohio and EVERYHERE, ALL THE TIME, have me feeling hopeless and fatigued. Soon, I will face 30 undergraduates in my introductory Women’s Studies class, and I will, again, attempt to contextualize rape and...
by Chris Bobel | Dec 24, 2012 | Activism, Communication, Menstruation, Politics, Reproduction
Rejection stings. A couple weeks ago, I received the following ‘thanks, but no’ to a proposal I sent to a reproductive justice conference, Dear Chris Bobel, Thank you for submitting your proposal, “How Menstruation Matters to the Reproductive Justice...
by Chris Bobel | Nov 26, 2012 | Activism, Communication, FemCare, Humor, Language
His mother told me she was in the shower and when she came out, there he was. “He kept pushing them through the applicator and saying, ‘A flower!’ and then trying to sniff them,” she explained (and the t-shirt, by the way, is just a wonderful coincidence). So why is...
