“A Bleeding Shame” on BBC Radio 4 tackles period taboos
"Being period positive means you understand how the menstrual cycle works, and if you have one, you can chart your own cycle. You aren't afraid to ask questions about menstruation. It's not being afraid to leak and not picking on people if they happen to leak during...
SMCR Member Profile: Researching the menstrual cycle for four decades
Joan C. Chrisler, Ph.D., The Class of ’43 Professor of Psychology, Connecticut College, and Editor of SMCR’s journal Women's Reproductive Health When and/or why did you join the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research? I joined the Society in 1981 and attended my first...
A new name for PCOS, a biomarker for period pain, and other Weekend Links
Although only a few weeks into summer, reproductive health has been no stranger to the newswire and popular culture. Personal testimony is at the forefront of many of the headlines, drawing attention to the lived experience of being a menstruator and having a vagina....
SMCR Member Profile: Exploring attitudes towards menstruation
Jessica Barnack-Tavlaris, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey My PhD is in Experimental Health/Social Psychology, and I have a Master's Degree in Public Health Specializing in Epidemiology When did you join the Society for...
What Newsweek got wrong about menstruation in India and developing countries
COMMENTARY by Sinu Joseph, Managing Trustee, Mythri Speaks Trust We—activists, journalists, social workers and the new breed of social entrepreneurs who use menstruation to make a living—like to think that the work we do is very important, especially if it caters to...
SMCR Member Profile: Examining the “menstrual transaction”
David Linton, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Marymount Manhattan College When and/or why did you join the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research? As a scholar of communication and symbolic meaning, the social/cultural construction of the menstrual cycle is the most...
