Saturday Surfing: Links to love
A few recommended reads: Lunapads queries the fence-sitters: Women tell why they've hesitated to use cloth pads for a chance to win free Lunapads. Heather Corinna explains how manipulating menstruation can mess with contraceptive effectiveness, if not done carefully....
Previously, in Kotex Advertising . . .
One of my Women's & Gender Studies graduates, who is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Gender & Sexuality Studies, recently sent me this Kotex ad from last fall. (She received it from one of her students -- don't you love how that chain works?) This ad predates Kotex's...
What’s Sick?
Today, there's a front page story in the New York Times about Astra-Zeneca's move to market their cholesterol pills (known as statins, and as the NYT reports, already the most prescribed drugs in the US) at healthy people in spite of unresolved concerns about risks,...
Menstrual Moments on Television: Parks and Recreation
I'm surely not the only fan of Amy Poehler and Parks and Recreation around here, am I? (Oh, Amy Poehler, have you been reading my mail? Leslie Knope is more like me than I care to admit.) As I've written elsewhere, menstruation is seldom mentioned or represented on...
Saturday Surfing: Link-a-riffic Reading
This week's recommended reading: Sex period: An excellent article from the always-awesome Scarleteen about sex during menstruation. Stem Cells in Menstrual Blood answers many of your questions about this. [via Glad Rags] Amanda Hess finds The Five Most Feminine...
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger
London newspaper The Telegraph reports on the development of a new medical treatment for dysmenorrhea, or painful periods. The article contains very little information about the new pill -- most of the article describes the variety of misery some women experience with...
