by Editor | Sep 21, 2015 | Girls, Menarche, Motherhood
Guest Post by Sheryl Mendlinger, PhD The impetus of my research on menstruation started many years ago when my daughter Yael was in her teens in the 1990s, and came home from school and told me that her friends said, “If you use tampons you could lose your virginity.”...
by Editor | Sep 16, 2015 | Menarche, Motherhood
From the book Schlopping: Developing Relationships, Self-Image & Memories comes another unique mother-daughter menarche story as follow up to Monday’s post by A daughter raised with body literacy. Though completely different in many respects, both...
by Editor | Aug 31, 2015 | Activism, Art, Humor, Literature, SMCR2015
#SMCR2015 Plenary Session Video Presentation Menstrual Poetry Open Mic The 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, June 4-6, 2015, Suffolk University, Boston concluded on Saturday night,...
by Editor | Aug 28, 2015 | Art, Menstruation, SMCR2015
#SMCR2015 Plenary Session Video Presentation Beyond “Menstruation Bathroom”: Stimulating Social Change Through Visualizations of Gendered Blood Can art change the way society sees, perceives and thinks about menstruation? Can visual art help expand the...
by Editor | Jul 16, 2015 | Art, Literature, Menstruation, SMCR2015
On June 6th, 2015, at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at the Centre for Women’s Health and Human Rights in Boston, conference participants celebrated with an Open Mic evening of Menstrual Poetry to close out #SMCR2015. This is...
