What makes it funny?
Readers of re:Cycling know that we love menstrual humor - we're always willing to mock femcare adverts and can even laugh at ourselves. But, honestly, what's funny about repeating the names of feminine hygiene products? It wasn't funny when SNL had their fake...
Are You a Creative Writer?
We're looking for a few creative works. We are seeking creative writing and art for inclusion in a special issue of Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal that focuses on social and cultural conceptualizations of menstruation. The issue will highlight research...
The Wandering Uterus
Guest Post By Elissa Stein Cross-posted at Wonders & Marvels While the uterus is a remarkable part of a woman’s anatomy—it can house a growing baby, then shrink back to its original size, work month after month for 40 or so years regenerating its lining, keeping...
Adenomyosis: Under-diagnosed cause of pelvic pain
A couple of months ago, we wrote about Kate Seear's research findings that menstrual etiquette is a frequent cause of delayed diagnosis of endometriosis. In related news, medical researchers writing in a recent issue of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology have...
It’s Always Funny to Joke About Tampons
Button by Insanitywear My friend, the poet and writer Andrea Scarpino, posted this brief essay on a blog she regularly contributes to--Steven Kuuisto's "Planet of the Blind." It is not a coincidence that a blog centering on disability (specifically the consequences of...
Marketing Slogans and Audience Analysis
It's common knowledge that international corporations use different slogans and sometimes different product names to sell the same items in different countries. Procter & Gamble's femcare products provide many good illustrations of this; as we noted some time ago,...
