Kegels, Vagina T-shirt, Shark Week Rap, and More Weekend Links
Shark Week: Perhaps the greatest rap song ever about the menstrual cycle, although our commenters on Facebook have noted the lyrics aren't biologically correct. The New York Metro Parents magazine offers advice for helping daughters with special needs prepare for...
On (bull)shit and menstrual solidarity
As a point of contention and as a reaction to my previous claims that women should more often engage in “menstrual outing,” some critics have responded by saying that disclosing one’s menstrual status is similar to women disclosing that they have just urinated,...
“Prescribing the pill has become ‘standard-of-care’ for being a girl”
I had the privilege of writing the foreword for Holly Grigg-Spall's recently published book Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control. It's astounding to me that more than 30 years ago, before Holly was born, I was asking some of the same...
Brisdelle for Hot Flashes
The North American Menopause Society held its annual meeting Oct. 9 to 12. An article posted a few days earlier stated that hot flashes would be “extensively discussed” at the meeting because “temperature control is such a preoccupation for menopause.” There would be...
Powerful Red
Red is my favorite color by far. Autumn is my favorite season. Autumn brings out the true essence of red. As I watch the leaves start to turn it’s hard not to think about the true power of the color. It symbolizes transitions and cycles, regardless of whether...
Girl Tips, Menstrual Migraine, Pinkwashing Webinar, and More Weekend Links
Check out Kendra Wells' ongoing series, Girl Tips, excerpted at right, at The Toast. What is the One Key Question that doctors should ask to transform women's health care? It's that time of year again—October, when everything around us is covered in cotton candy pink....
