Pubic Hair Grooming Injuries, Menstrual Hygiene and Human Rights, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/UxEQvvgJb_M This video shows a brief talk by Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Special Raporteur, about menstrual hygiene as a human right. Hypatia's rags and the history of menstruation. A study published last year in Urology, the official publication...
It’s the only power that I possess: Ani DiFranco’s “Blood in the Boardroom”
Guest Post by Saniya Ghanoui, New York University Perhaps the most well-known song that addresses menstruation is Ani DiFranco’s “Blood in the Boardroom,” a nearly four-minute narrative about a woman getting her period while sitting in a male-dominated business...
How to Check Your Cervical Fluid When You Feel Like You Just Don’t Have Any
In an older post I wrote, I talked about how to check your cervical fluid with a folded piece of toilet paper or your clean fingers. BUT! What if you’re doing that and not finding anything? What if you, like many women I talk to, think that they don’t have any...
New research on endometrial cancer, LARCs, and pelvic pain, & more Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/jB_ZCX971aU Celebrity femcare flashback: Here's Naomi Watts starring in a 1980s Australian Tampax ad. New research from Yale has identified genes related to aggressive endometrial cancer. Because Life Can’t Stop With A Period: An update on the...
Shameless, Part 2
Guest Post by Chella Quint, Adventures in Menstruating So I like the new Mooncup ad for lots and lots of period positive reasons. Here it is again: I watched it, I enjoyed it, I shared it, but I couldn’t ignore this other blog post title forming in my head after the...
Does Depo-Provera work like a charm or a curse?
Author's Update, February 14, 2013: As clarified by Bedsider.org in the comments section below, the Works Like A Charm Contest mentioned in this post is not current but ended in 2011. The contest website pages are now inactive. If Bedsider.org sponsored a contest...
