The Problem with Menstrual Ads: An Excerpt from The Cycle
Guest Post by Jennifer Aldoretta Since my upcoming book about menstrual stigmas and the symptothermal method of fertility awareness is getting close to launch, I thought today’s blog post would be the perfect opportunity to provide a short excerpt for your reading...
Morning-after Pills, Menstrual Leave, Gynecologists for Men, and More Weekend Links
Although it's well known that weight affects dosing of many medications, including birth control pills, new warnings about effectiveness of Plan B and similar morning-after pills made headlines this week when the European manufacturer of a similar drug announced that...
In Honor of (a Sampling of) our Brave Menstrual Champions!
The recent death of writer Doris Lessing led me to revisit her work a bit. * Author of more than 50 books as well as an opera, Lessing was brave. She spanned genres, refused to tow a singular ideological line and used her Nobel Prize moment to remind us that privilege...
Free the Tampons!, Cancer talk, Menarchy gifts, and more weekend links
U.S. television personality Amy Robach got a mammogram on the air and chose to have a double mastectomy based on the results, but there's another side to the story — both in terms of the inferences made to other women and in terms of journalism ethics. Speaking of...
Ms. November—Menstruation Pin-Up
Guest Post by Jen Lewis Beauty in Blood Presents Ms. November: Floral #1 Cycle: November 2012 - In honor of our 1 year anniversary! Menstrual Designer: Jen Lewis Photographer: Rob Lewis
“The Tampon that’s Right Even for Single Girls”
It's Throwback Thursday on social media, and we're joining in with this ad for Pursettes tampons that ran in Cosmpolitan (U.S.) magazine in 1966. Nearly 50 years on, little has changed in femcare marketing: Look at the familiar themes of medicalization of...
