Weekend Links
It's Halloween weekend! Our Bodies, Ourselves is collecting personal stories about women's relationships with the text for their 40th anniversary edition, due next year. The yoga pose known as the lotus can help ease menstrual cramps. Alarm about how use of estrogen...
Waiting
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the words we use when we’re talking about menstruation or reproductive experiences more generally. I’ve been noticing lately that we use the word “waiting” quite a bit. I have a friend who is “still waiting” for her menstrual...
Menstruation Can Lead to Shopping Sprees
Guest Post by Kitty Holman Make no mistake, there are some women who absolutely love to shop. And why not? Shopping has long been described as being a therapeutic activity because it has the uncanny ability to lift the spirit. After all, bringing home a new pair of...
Weekend Links
Here's a sample of our late October reading: Researchers at University of Calgary discuss why monkeys don't go through menopause. Tracy Clark-Flory considers the Wall Street Journal's report about women who don't consistently take their birth control pills when...
And the Bad News about Hormone Therapies Continues to Accumulate…
Yes, the hormone therapies prescribed for women in perimenopause and beyond have already been suspect. Especially after the initial Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trial results in 2002 (but even before that), researchers documented the health risks associated with...
Love Your Cycle
Today is Love Your Body Day, a program instigated by NOW to counter the media-fostered ideal of slender, white, long-haired, able-bodied, perpetually happy femininity. We here at re:Cycling are all about self-love, Health At Every Size, and fat acceptance, but we'd...
