Getting Cozy with Tampon Cozies
Guest post by Michael Yazujian -- Marymount Manhattan College Caitlin Weigel knits and sells tampon cozies on her Etsy site, a website where people can sell crafts that they make. These cozies are perfect for women who are trying to avoid humiliation who are also fans...
Weekend Links
Aunt B uses SCIENCE to explain why no one is getting buzzed from vodka-soaked tampons. Our blogger Laura Wershler reported on Tuesday about the news that Canadian researchers have discovered a possible link between birth control pills and prostate cancer -- and it's...
“When it comes to their balls, guys just don’t seem to have any”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPk5mtLMv94 I've spent so many years as a professor of Women's Studies telling students that feminism is about equality, and that being pro-woman doesn't mean being anti-men. I thought perhaps we'd moved past that 1990s meme of seeing...
Does the Pill cause prostate cancer?
Of the growing list of reasons why women might want to reconsider using birth control pills, this could well be the strangest. Researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto published a study on Nov. 15 in the BMJ Open Journal in which they found a “strong...
Kotex Tampons Recalled Due to Bacterial Contamination
From parenting.com: If you've got Kotex tampons at home, check your boxes: Kimberly-Clark, Kotex's parent company, has recalled the brand's Natural Balance Security Unscented Tampons (Regular Absorbency) in both the 18- and 36-count boxes, reports the U.S. Food and...
Feeling Uncertainty, Confusion, and Frustration about Menopause
Last Friday I attended a conference on autoethnography and was privileged enough to listen to Carolyn Ellis give the keynote speech on this new and upcoming qualitative methodology. Sitting there and listening to Ellis talk about the need for all of us to be...
