by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Mar 13, 2015 | Anatomy, DIY, FemCare, Fertility, Health Care, Menstruation
Guest Post by Dr. Lara Briden My new book Period Repair Manual begins with some warm words about Period Apps. I’m talking about the smart phone applications that let us tap in data about our period start date, bleed duration, and symptoms such as spotting,...
by Chris Bobel | Oct 15, 2014 | Activism, DIY, Health Care, History, Menstruation, Politics, Pregnancy, Reproduction
Last week, Loretta Ross, the pioneering women’s health activist, came to Boston for a public lecture. Ross will keynote at our upcoming “Menstrual Health and Reproductive Justice: Human Rights Across the Lifespan” (What? You didn’t hear?). Hearing...
by Chris Bobel | Jun 16, 2014 | Activism, Anatomy, Birth Control, Books, Celebrities, Coming off the pill, Communication, DIY, FemCare, Fertility, Girls, Health Care, History, Hormones, Humor, Language, Law/Legal, Media, Men, Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, Meta, Motherhood, New Research, Objects, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical, Philosophy, PMS, Politics, Pregnancy, Religion/Spirituality, Reproduction, Sex, Sports, Theater, Toxic Shock Syndrome
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by Holly Grigg-Spall | May 14, 2014 | Activism, Anatomy, DIY, Health Care, Humor, Literature, Menstruation
In the past few weeks I have been meeting with women’s health activist Carol Downer to collaborate on a new book. She shared with me a work published in 1969 that was a catalyst for her development of the self-help movement and feminist women’s health clinics – ‘The...
by Chris Bobel | Nov 26, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, Books, Celebrities, Coming off the pill, Communication, Disposable menstrual products, DIY, FemCare, Film, Independent Film, Literature, Men, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, Reusable menstrual products
The recent death of writer Doris Lessing led me to revisit her work a bit. * Author of more than 50 books as well as an opera, Lessing was brave. She spanned genres, refused to tow a singular ideological line and used her Nobel Prize moment to remind us that privilege...
by Kati Bicknell | Feb 12, 2013 | Anatomy, Birth Control, DIY, Fertility
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...
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