Periods: A Human Oddity
What does it mean to have menstrual periods? This is an intensely personal question, but it is also a scientific and a cultural one. The menstrual cycle can, of course, be described in terms of a woman’s personal experience of menstrual flow. It can also be described...
Candy Birth Control Pills, Taking Your Temperature, and Other Weekend Links
httpv://vimeo.com/31029364 At right: Candy Birth Control Pills, written by Carissa Leone & directed by Brian Goetz. Teaching a daughter with developmental delay about menstruation: Developmental Delay, Menstruation and Denial. A new study published in Acta...
Shameless. Or, How To Make An Ethical Femcare Ad.
Guest Post by Chella Quint, Adventures in Menstruating I saw a femcare ad that I actually liked. I know, right? I don’t even know who I am anymore. I’m kidding. I’m exactly the same person. It’s the ad that’s different. Now. I don’t promote individual femcare...
Big Breasts, Menopause, and Helena Bonham Carter
Another sign of menopause to add to the list: big breasts. Or so Helena Bonham Carter suggests in a recent interview. She suggests that she did not have big breasts until menopause and that it is “the one benefit of menopause.” But before this comment, she said that...
The Netflix of Menstruation
httpv://vimeo.com/55141186 It was probably inevitable that the success of Amazon, I-Tunes, Domino's Pizza, and a plethora of home delivery and on-demand food services would spawn a menstrual product service industry. And here it is, the NetFlix of menstruation: Le...
Saying Goodbye to Menstruation — and to the pill — and more Weekend Links
ICYMI: We shared this on Facebook earlier this week, but it's too funny not to share again here — It's Laura Wershler's worst nightmare: Birth control on the bottom! Suzan wrote a personal, honest goodbye letter to menstruation this week at Period Wise. In the New...
