Birth control trends, menstrual leave, and more weekend links
httpv://youtu.be/fz86g-S3OJI In Friday's Guardian, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett explores why so many young people aren't using contraception. Nearly everyone she spoke with for the article is British – including SMCR's Holly Grigg-Spall — but numbers are similar in the U.S....
We Bring Our Bodies to Work
A recent study by researchers at La Trobe University and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, suggests that working women “need more managerial support [while] going through menopause.” This “Women at Work” study explored the health and wellbeing of working...
The M Word—In Multiplex
Saniya Lee Ghanoui and David Linton Cross-posted from Public Books We don’t know where the coy linguistic practice of using-while-not-using so-called offensive words by appending the term “word” after its initial letter and preceded by “the”—as in “the N-word”; “the...
“Home Made Menstrual Period for Game-Playing With Doctors”
In the past few weeks I have been meeting with women’s health activist Carol Downer to collaborate on a new book. She shared with me a work published in 1969 that was a catalyst for her development of the self-help movement and feminist women’s health clinics – ‘The...
That Mysterious Blue Fluid, Ovarian Cycle Syndrome, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/EufLuiy2ANc This video has been making the rounds on social media, supposedly illustrating why femcare ads use blue fluid instead of red. I thought I had a pretty good sense of humor, but I don't understand why Johnny McNulty says, "I for one will...
Ms. May—Menstruation Pin-Up
Guest Post by Jen Lewis Beauty in Blood Presents Ms. May: Blood & Bubbles Cycle: May 2013 Menstrual Designer: Jen Lewis Photographer: Rob Lewis
