Complicated Emotions
Anyone who has ever loved anyone and existed in any kind of intimate relationship, or raised a kid, or negotiated with their parent as their parent ages knows that you can both love someone and also be very frustrated -- even feel like hating them -- at the very same...
A Review of Selene: A New Cycle-Tracking App
Guest Post by Amy Sedgwick, HRHP, Red Tent Sisters While there are no shortage of apps designed to help women track their periods, finding an app that meets the needs of women who are practicing fertility awareness methods (FAM) for birth control or conception can be...
Cliteracy, Period Sex, Menstruation in Space, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/u54YSnkog5U Cliteracy 101: Artist Sophia Wallace's mixed media art installation is designed to educate about the clitoris, emphasizing the paradox of our obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female...
Menstrual experience from the inside out
Menstruation is a topic of particular interest for feminist research, because women’s experiences of it are so overlaid with myth, rumor and hearsay. It’s very strange to be studying and writing about something we can’t bring up in polite company. It’s disorienting,...
Essentialism and experience
My forthcoming book 'Sweetening the Pill or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control' began to take shape on the pages of this blog and much of the process of its development was spurred on by the work of members of SMCR. As such, it seems only fitting, with the...
A matter of semantics
Language has an uncanny ability to contain the trappings of power. I have recently become increasingly irritated by the way that the phrase “bullying” has come to overshadow the politicized, identity-based nature of homophobia. Somehow, CNN, Glee, and other major...
