Did you . . . did you make me a period mix?
I'm not really a fan of Ashton Kutcher (and I haven't seen this movie) but a boy who made a period mixtape for me would definitely have a chance. From the film No Strings Attached
For those with Vaginas
Here's an interesting political approach. While there are hairs to split (do all women have vaginas? do all people with vaginas consider themselves women? and what about those of us with no sexual partners, or sexual partners without penises?), there's something to be...
New Collection of Research on Menstruation and Representation
A special issue of the scholarly journal Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal has just been published, featuring several pieces about menstruation, media representation, and the ways we talk about it. You can see the table of contents here, as well as...
Shed the Shame
Kotex still wants us to "break the cycle". But every time I see these ads, I think of Chella Quint's message to Kotex: We’re only gonna stop feeling the shame when we take ownership of our periods. And we’re taking it back from you, dude. So you can’t reclaim our...
Weekend Links
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (England) recommends that women contemplating pregnancy termination be told that abortion is generally safer than continuing a pregnancy to term. Will Depo-Provera be the next subject of medical class action suits...
KOTEX: The Antidepressant of the Ancients
In the late 1920s, at the peak of the Flapper Era, a series of Kotex ads made extravagant use of images of attractive young women in couture outfits in sophisticated settings. The most intriguing and subtle ad in the series was published in 1929. It shows two slender...
