by David Linton | Jun 27, 2013 | Activism, Celebrities, Menstruation
“I can’t tell you how glad I am that you exist.” —Gloria Steinem on the SMCR. A few weeks ago the SMCR presented its first Making Menstruation Matter Award to Gloria Steinem at its biennial conference at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. The full video of...
by David Linton | Jun 20, 2013 | Advertising, Media, Menstruation
If an argument still needs to be made that cultural attitudes toward the menstrual cycle vary tremendously from place to place, despite the biological universality of the phenomenon, perhaps the clearest source of proof lies in variations in advertising practices. For...
by David Linton | Jun 18, 2013 | Books, Language, Menstruation
Just out from Temple University Press is a new book edited by Jeffrey Bruen and Daniel Wilson titled Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity. I am honored to have a chapter in it about how menstruation has been socially constructed as a disabling...
by David Linton | May 21, 2013 | Activism, Language, Literature
The World’s First Menstrual Poetry Slam, The Red Moon Howl, will occur the closing night of the SMCR conference, June 7, at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. Featuring the works of noted poets such as Lucille Clifton, Sharon Olds, Anne Sexton, and Ntozake...
by David Linton | Mar 26, 2013 | Independent Film, Perimenopause, Television
(Spoiler alert: if you haven’t finished or intend to watch the show discussed here, you might wait to read this post until later.) The premises of the much-discussed new series House of Cards hosted on Netflix, are that no one in the world of politics can be trusted,...
