by Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | Advertising, FemCare, Girls, Media
Guest Post by Victoria Velding On a recent trip to the store I came across U by Kotex for Tweens. It seems this product has been on the market for a number of years, but since I don’t frequent the femcare aisle on a regular basis, I only recently discovered it....
by Editor | Dec 7, 2015 | Girls, Literature, Menarche
Guest Post by Jacqueline Thomas Having entered my Ph.D. program in English already aware of the general need to better prepare girls for menarche, I wrote Lizzy & the Light Below in the midst of my studies to give moms a tool for starting the conversation with...
by Editor | Nov 20, 2015 | Activism, Reusable menstrual products
Guest Post by Rosie Sheb’a From March to June, 2015, seven women from Sustainable Cycles rode across America to give workshops on reusable menstrual products, break menstrual taboos and stigmas, and present what they learned on the journey at the 21st Biennial...
by Editor | Nov 7, 2015 | Activism
This weekend we offer two extremely different examples of how menstruation is being referenced in social and political activism. 1. Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, is a menstrual activist. In an article for The Atlantic, headlined Let Girls Learn,...
by Editor | Nov 5, 2015 | Activism, Art
Guest Post by Diana Álvarez “Are you the girl who drank her period blood?” This was a frequent question I was asked during the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, held in June, 2015, at Suffolk University in Boston. I had the...
