Blood on Screen: The Runaways
Last July we posted photos from an unnamed film set where Dakota Fanning stood, ready for camera, with blood running down her thighs and a blood stain on the back of her skirt. Were these menstrual markings or the next era of horror film misogyny? The answer can be...
Menstrual Tracking 2.0
I haven't studied every online tool for period tracking but this one appears to be the most sophisticated yet: MikvahCalendar.com helps observant Jewish women track their cycles, including her niddah (ritually impure) time. It automatically calculates sunrise and...
Kotex Anti-Ads, Round Two
Over the last week, I thought I had participated in enough discussions of Kotex's new "Break the Cycle" campaign; we had a lengthy discussion here at re:Cycling, and I've joined in the comments at several other ladyblogs, as have my co-bloggers. But then I discovered...
Saturday Surfing: Linktastic Recommendations
Here are some highlights from our reading this week in women's health: Poor Bart Stupak. Trying to restrict abortion access has been a "living hell.' Now he knows a little of what it's like to be an abortion provider. (via Physicians for Reproductive Choice and...
So the pill won’t kill me; what’s the point?
Women on the pill live longer. So touts a March 12, 2010 Reuters news story out of London, England reporting on a study published March 11 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). A misleading headline if ever there was one. The study followed 46, 000 women for up to 40...
And now a femcare ad campaign that’s not afraid to say VAGINA
Or coochie, or bajingo, or vajayjay, or any other term for female genitalia. The big news in U.S. femcare this week is the launch of Kotex's new "Break the Cycle" campaign, and the refusal of American television to air commercials that use the word vagina. As Amanda...
