Cycle-tracking apps, a new period mixtape, and more weekend links
Shark Week from BitchTapes on 8tracks Radio. Bitch Media has a period mixtape for you - "28 minutes of vag-tastic music". Menstrual cycle apps were everywhere this week, even the New York Times. At Be Prepared Period, Jennifer Aldoretta offers the Top Five Reasons to...
Making Room for Menstrual Shame
This fall, our family TV indulgence was Master Chef Junior. My 10 year old, a master of scrambled eggs, pancakes and experimental smoothies, was into it, her enthusiasm contagious. So once a week, we sat on the couch-- Mom, Dad, and Kid—and watched a dwindling number...
Fertility awareness, sperm antibodies, Facebook, and more weekend links
httpv://youtu.be/l9ZqXlHl65g If you're a Facebook user, please watch this video about how Facebook determines what you see – and don't see - and why we need you to "like" posts from re:Cycling. We currently have 369 friends, but a typical post is seen by fewer than 30...
Ms. January—Menstruation Pin-Up
Guest Post by Jen Lewis Beauty in Blood Presents Ms. January: Right Side Up #2 Cycle: January 2013 - Cycle #2 Menstrual Designer: Jen Lewis Photographer: Rob Lewis
The Devil Made Her Menstruate
In 1967, the same year as the previously discussed Diary of a Mad Housewife, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby was published and eventually climbed to Number Seven on the Best Seller list for that year. It then went on to become a successful feature film in 1968 directed by...
Lookin’ for them reds everywhere – on menstrual leave
Last year Russian lawmaker and LDPR party member Mikhail Degtyaryov proposed that women have two days paid leave from their work when they are menstruating. “During that period [of menstruation], most women experience psychological and physiological discomfort,” said...
