Saturday Surfing: It’s link-tastic!
Here are some recommended reads from around the web this week. Girls' world - new campaign in Kenya provides re-usable cloth pads to keep in girls in school. Doc Gurley, creator of the absolutely brilliant Lost Tampon video, answers follow-up questions from a reader....
Do we need more plastic objects shaped like female body parts?
Andy Kurovets, the designer who brought us those lovely maxi-pad shelves is displaying a new item: The G-spot computer mouse. When you find the secret spot, the computer automatically goes to your favorite thing online, whether it's your email application or your...
The Eco-Vag: Natural Lubricant with Umbra
Umbra Fisk is a character developed at Grist TV (and performed by Jennifer Prediger) who brings a surprising smile to a movement more familiar with a Green grimace. Her Ask Umbra videos appear often enough to remind us how to bike to work safely or enlighten us on...
In fairness, in freshness: Why Men Love Whisper
It's not news that menstrual products are marketed with claims of how well they conceal menstruation. But usually from whom must it be concealed is implied, rather than made explicit. Not so in this new campaign for Whisper in southeast Asia. (Whisper maxi pads are...
Charlie’s Tampon
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Four years ago I published an article in Sex Roles (March 2006) about the twists and turns of the media coverage of a scandal that came to be known as "Camillagate." It concerned the publication of a...
Scenes from Vulvagraphics
If you've been with us for a while, you may recall that last fall our friend and colleague Alexandra Jacoby participated in Vulvagraphics: An Intervention in Honor of Female Genital Diversity, sponsored by the New View Campaign challenging the medicalization of sex....
