by Giovanna Chesler | Mar 12, 2010 | Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea, Film, Health Care, Independent Film, Menarche, Menstruation
(This post also published at the blog g6pix.) I’ll try not to sound too fan-girlish here as I write about the documentary Scrambled: A Journey through PCOS by Randi Cecchine, but admittedly, it is a difficult task. For in this film, which chronicles Cecchine’s...
by Giovanna Chesler | Feb 12, 2010 | DIY, Humor, Menstruation, Sex
Umbra Fisk is a character developed at Grist TV (and performed by Jennifer Prediger) who brings a surprising smile to a movement more familiar with a Green grimace. Her Ask Umbra videos appear often enough to remind us how to bike to work safely or enlighten us on...
by Giovanna Chesler | Nov 4, 2009 | Film, Independent Film, Men, Menstruation
I often hear women state that men would be uncomfortable if they overheard our discussion of menstruation. Many women work to keep men out of the menstruation conversation. But… surprise! Men are ready to participate. And very often, I hear men say that they...
by Giovanna Chesler | Oct 14, 2009 | Film, Girls, Independent Film, Menarche
The third film in the Blood on Screen series is Camille Holder Brown’s award winning A Period Piece (2005). I know of at least two other films and one sculptural artwork that use this title. Yet despite the ubiquitous pun, each work has an equally clever take on the...
by Giovanna Chesler | Sep 23, 2009 | Film, Independent Film
Surprisingly this isn’t a post on Madonna, but another media artist interested in gender: Francois Ozon. His short film Truth or Dare (1994) welcomes us into the inner circle of four teenagers engaged in the game. As the two boys and two girls challenge each...
