by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 20, 2010 | Activism, Menstruation
Today is Love Your Body Day, a program instigated by NOW to counter the media-fostered ideal of slender, white, long-haired, able-bodied, perpetually happy femininity. We here at re:Cycling are all about self-love, Health At Every Size, and fat acceptance, but...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 13, 2010 | Activism, DIY, FemCare, Girls, Menstruation, Philosophy
Check out the new video about the latest developments from Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE). (Previously at re:Cycling — SHE featured in Marie Claire; Girls, Periods, and Missing School II: Breaking the...
by Heather Dillaway | Oct 11, 2010 | Activism, Art, New Research
19th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Chatham University June 2, 2011 – June 4, 2011 The 19th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (SMCR) will be hosted in Pittsburgh’s East End at the Woodland Campus of...
by Laura Wershler | Oct 1, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, Communication, Health Care, magazines
It’s October again: breast cancer awareness month. Women’s magazines are featuring stories about breast cancer, charitable events all over North America are raising money for breast cancer research, and retailers are urging you to shop to cure breast...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 23, 2010 | Activism, Anatomy, DIY, Humor, Objects
Have you ever wanted to make a uterus piñata? Say, for a baby shower or a menarche party? Liz Henry explains how. Ms. Henry notes that the symbolism is not as violent as it might first appear: Now you might think of this as perturbingly violent or promoting the idea...
by Heather Dillaway | Sep 13, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, Menopause
September is Menopause Awareness Month. If you do a web search on “Menopause Awareness Month,” the first things that pop up are about hormone therapies, pain, cramps, eye floaters, and other terrible symptoms that should probably be commemorated this month….or maybe...
