The Last Snowflake
My kids and I read a book about “the last snowflake” a few years ago. The book was a story about how the last snowflake felt as it hit the ground each winter – lonely because his friends were ahead of him and probably melted already, or maybe carefree and floating on...
Health Literacy, the End of Vagina Jokes, Greening Your Period, and More Weekend Links
Some useful definitions: health literacy and e-health. It's great that we can finally say the word vagina, but are we done with vagina jokes yet? Your breasts aren't perfect until your nipples are exactly the right color — enter nipple tattooing, or tittooing, if you...
It Had to Be Done
httpv://youtu.be/gdRHmy6O6yU Menstruation appears far more frequently film and television than you might think — Lauren Rosewarne recently identified more than 200 scenes in her study, Periods in Pop Culture. Other scholars, including David Linton, Chris Bobel, and...
Menstruation, Consciously?
In Heather Dillaway’s re:Cycling post of March 28, “The Physical Body and the Lived Body”, she invited a conversation about the importance of understanding the “lived bodily experience” when we examine menstruation. She suggests that “we cannot comprehend menstruation...
#Making Menstruation Matter—For All the Wrong Reasons
Oops! Somebody fell in it. And by it I mean the tired old WomenCan’tDoStuffBecauseTheyAreWomen pit--a veritable snake hole crawling with misogynists, essentialists, and old school protectionists. Terri Proud, a newly hired Administrative Assistant in the Arizona...
Pseudoacademia, Tossing away bras, and more weekend links
Last week, we joined many other women's health activists in celebrating the judicial ruling making emergency contraception finally available over-the-counter. But this week, Roni Caryn Rabin points out in the New York Times that it may very little effect: "Studies...
