Tampons and Transphobia
Guest post by Lauren Ingram Libra is the Australian and New Zealand arm of an international brand of women's 'feminine hygiene' products. So basically, they sell tampons, pads, and other femcare products. I've never tended to pay much attention to their...
Making Money from Menopause
No, I don’t mean all those drugs aimed at relieving the “symptoms” associated with the hormonal shifts that sometimes trigger a variety of physical or mood changes nor even the expenses that accompany joining a Red Hat Society (somebody’s making a little change...
Looking Back – Best of 2011 at re:Cycling
This site is tracked by Google Analytics, WordPress' StatPress, and at least one other web tracker. But instead of digging through all of our statistics of most commented, most linked, most page loads, etc., when I was recently asked about the best posts of 2011, I...
Why Women Menstruate, Yeast Infection Myths, and Other Weekend Links
PZ Meyers at Pharyngula summarizes a fascinating new proposal to explain why women (and a few other animals) menstruate: Emera, Romero, and Wagner, the authors of the paper, suggest the question to explained is decidualization, the production of a thickened...
On Menopause Definitions
Guest Post by Paula S. Derry, Ph.D. In a recent blog post, Heather Dillaway commented on the uncertainty, confusion, and frustration she felt as a menopause researcher, given the lack of consensus about the most basic aspects of the menopause transition. Researchers...
Everything you need to know about the menstrual cycle in less than 3000 words
What happens when get a bunch of interdisciplinary menstrual cycle researchers together and give them each a topic or two and a word count? You get a pithy document called “The Menstrual Cycle: A Feminist Lifespan Perspective” available to anyone who needs to...
