by Laura Wershler | Aug 21, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Menstruation
Why are media-based discussions about menstrual cycle advocacy vs. menstrual suppression, or hormonal birth control (HBC) vs. non-hormonal birth control (NHBC), so often fraught with conflict, suspicion and untested assumptions? Because the opposing frames of...
by David Linton | Aug 13, 2013 | Activism, Menstruation
Just eight weeks after having been honored with the first Making Menstruation Matter Award by the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at its conference in New York City, the White House announced on Thursday, August 8, that President Obama will bestow the...
by Holly Grigg-Spall | Jul 30, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, FemCare, Health Care, History, Menstruation, Politics
The second week of July began with a post at The Daily Beast titled ‘Are Tampons Anti-Feminist’ and ended with my own post for Dame ‘5 Facts About Menstrual Suppression.’ In between there was ‘Not Everything is a Feminist Issue for Chissakes,’ and ‘I Do Not Think...
by Holly Grigg-Spall | Jul 2, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, Health Care
Recently, in a piece for the Ms. Magazine blog, re:Cycling’s Elizabeth Kissling remarked on the lack of media coverage of serious safety issues with the popular birth control pill brands Yaz and Yasmin. Of the coverage there has been, little has looked beyond the...
by David Linton | Jun 27, 2013 | Activism, Celebrities, Menstruation
“I can’t tell you how glad I am that you exist.” —Gloria Steinem on the SMCR. A few weeks ago the SMCR presented its first Making Menstruation Matter Award to Gloria Steinem at its biennial conference at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. The full video of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 25, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, History, Toxic Shock Syndrome
Don’t feel bad if you missed last week’s headline news about the deaths of 23 young women from their birth control. It was a top story for CBC news and a few other Canadian sources, but it was barely a blip on the radar of most U.S. news outlets. Yaz and Yasmin, two...
