Literary Menstruation
Given their first-hand awareness of the role it has played in their own lives, it is not surprising that women writers (and researchers) have included references to the menstrual cycle in their books. Even so, social taboos have probably tended to keep the subject...
Sweden’s Year of Menstruation – Is it the Menstrual Decade? Maybe the Menstrual Millennium?
Guest Post by Josefin Persdotter, Gothenburg University As I write this, it is only hours until the acclaimed Swedish television program Kobra airs an episode about menstruation in art, and as a growing social movement in Sweden. They’ve interviewed none other than...
Say Yes to Rick Scott Sanitary Napkins
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive For those who have yet to see, the College Republican National Committee has a new advertisement out that is intended to reach women, particularly younger women, to...
Ms. October—Menstruation Pin-Up
Guest Post by Jen Lewis Beauty in Blood Presents Ms. October: Sucked Away #2 Cycle: August 2013 Menstrual Designer: Jen Lewis Photographer: Rob Lewis
Winning the Menstrual Battle in the Abortion War
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVE9IGwG84 Last week, Loretta Ross, the pioneering women’s health activist, came to Boston for a public lecture. Ross will keynote at our upcoming "Menstrual Health and Reproductive Justice: Human Rights Across the Lifespan" (What?...
MOOCs, menstrual cups, and more weekend links
httpv://youtu.be/9IhgwCB14To If buying condoms was like getting birth control pills . . . The 20th World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility (COGI) meets in Paris, December 4-7, 2014. This year's meeting will feature a workshop on the...
