Visit From A Friend
Guest post by Anastacia Kurylo, Marymount Manhattan College It’s been four years since I had my period. I did get a visit from my ‘friend’ for six months a couple of years ago but considering that I menstruated regularly for nearly twenty years before that six months...
Saturday Surfing: Your Weekly Reader
Advice from the LunaPad Ladies about the best menstrual products to use while swimming. Will the Pill make you fat? RH Reality Check says probably not. University of Texas researchers discover -- surprise! -- that race and ethnicity affect how women experience...
Finding what you’re looking for
It's always fascinating to look at perceptions of menstruation in societies other than one's own, but I'd really like to see the questionnaire used in this study of attitudes toward menstruation among young Pakistani women. Results: Out of 500 participants, 438...
Blood on Screen: Red Moon
Red Moon: Menstruation, Culture and the Politics of Gender may have crossed your path as The Moon Inside You (its original title prior to 2010 its current distribution through Media Education Foundation). It is a film that has enjoyed wide release, with exhibition on...
Saturday Surfing: Midsummer Edition
Two from Leslie Botha: Another method of period elimination, endometrial ablation, is marketed as easy-breezy menstrual suppression, claiming "64% reduction in women reporting pain" and "71% reduction in women reporting a lack of self-confidence". (Note the happy...
Reproductive Coercion
In our May 28 "Saturday Surfing" round-up of recommended reading, we highlighted Lynn Harris' essay for The Nation about new research on “reproductive coercion”: the alarming frequency with which young men try to get their partners pregnant, often by sabotaging birth...
