Do You Trust Women?
Do you see the connections between menstrual health awareness and reproductive justice? At re: Cycling, we sure do, because being critical of how menstruation is regarded (and managed)—from menarche forward—is one way we loosen the social control of women’s bodies. My...
Bleeding at Work, Pubic Hair, Cervical Cancer, and other Weekend Links
Persephone magazine hosts a discussion about dealing with menstruation in the workplace: Ladybleeding on the job. Alex Cranz at FemPop reminds everyone: Male novelists really have no excuse for not knowing about menstruation. They can look it up on Wikipedia, talk...
The pill, reduced period pain and the ongoing delusion
Is there a woman over the age of 18 anywhere who doesn’t know that taking the birth control pill can make her periods lighter and less painful? Most women know this, but not many know why. The news stories swirling around a new study about the pill and period pain...
Alongside Scientists Exploring Why Women Menstruate
I read a blog post about a paper (that I have not read). The post is "Why do women menstruate?" by PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, blogging at Pharyngula. The paper is "The evolution of menstruation: A new model...
Figure Girl Fertility
Guest Post by Lianne McTavish -- University of Alberta (aka Feminist Figure Girl) While working out at the gym yesterday—something I do on a daily basis—I felt a strangely familiar pressure in my lower abdomen and noticed that it was protruding, despite the strong...
Childhood abuse and menarcheal age
Last month I wrote about menarcheal age in Ethiopian girls, and that food insecurity leads to a delay in the onset of menstruation. This fits with the general response of the reproductive system to energetic stress - low energy leads to suppression of the...
