Women comics taking on menstruation
It used to be that menstrual humor amounted to men making crass remarks about PMS and the world of stand up comedy was dominated by male performers. Well, not any more. In the last few years there seems to have been an explosion of young women comics doing stand-up...
Writing Menopause, An Anthology: Preview #2
Writing Menopause, a diverse literary collection about menopause to be published in the spring of 2017 by Inanna Publications, was first introduced to the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research in a session presented at our June 2015 biennial conference in Boston. The...
Writing Menopause, An Anthology: Preview #1
Writing Menopause, a diverse literary collection about menopause to be published in the spring of 2017 by Inanna Publications, was first introduced to the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research in a session presented at our June 2015 biennial conference in Boston. The...
#MenstruationMatters to Newsweek
The menstrual advocacy movement splashes red all over the cover of Newsweek's upcoming April 29, 2016 edition. The story by Abigail Jones--The Fight to End Period Shaming is Going Mainstream--published online April 20, 2016, continues the mad rush of period stories...
When breast cancer treatment leads to early menopause
In the same month I went from menstrual cramps to hot flashes overnight. By Sheryl E. Mendlinger, PhD In 1994, at the age of 43, I was diagnosed with stage 1 invasive breast cancer. At that time, treatment options were very limited, it was more a "one size fits all,"...
Premenopause / Early Menopause / Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (or Failure) / Perimenopause / Menopause / Postmenopause: Why these names matter
Making sense of the many names for women’s reproductive aging by Dr. Jerilynn C. Prior Jerilynn C. Prior BA, MD, FRCPC, ABIM, ABEM is a Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. She is the founder (2002) and...
