by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 19, 2009 | Communication, Girls, magazines
Guest Post by Therese Shechter, filmmaker (Trixie Films) Alert: Links are Not Safe for Work German teen magazine Bravo, known for it’s explicit information on sexuality and sexual health has done it again with their feature: Vulva-Galerie: Schau, welche...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 14, 2009 | Dysmenorrhea, Girls, Menstruation, New Research, PMS
A recently published population-based study of teens in Australia found that menstrual pain is the norm among young women: Typical menstruation in adolescence includes pain (93%), cramping (71%), premenstrual symptoms (96%) and mood disturbance (73%). This surprises...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 11, 2009 | Girls, Health Care, Law/Legal, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Today I want to point to two important articles about women’s health from our friends at Women’s eNews: Yesterday, they published a story about Myriad Genetics and their firm grasp on the patents for diagnostics tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 1, 2009 | Activism, DIY, Girls, Menstruation
In Rwanda, Harvard Business School Fellow Elizabeth Scharpf is breaking menstrual silence and challenging female poverty with the Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) program. SHE helps local women in developing countries “jump-start their own businesses to...
by Giovanna Chesler | Oct 14, 2009 | Film, Girls, Independent Film, Menarche
The third film in the Blood on Screen series is Camille Holder Brown’s award winning A Period Piece (2005). I know of at least two other films and one sculptural artwork that use this title. Yet despite the ubiquitous pun, each work has an equally clever take on the...
by Chris Bobel | Sep 21, 2009 | FemCare, Girls, Menstruation, New Research
Ever-alert Liz Kissling drew my attention to this post on Nicholas Kristof’s blog (he’s the co-author of Half the Sky – check it out) Kristof picked up on the does-menstruation-keep-girls-out-of-school buzz that researchers and on-the-ground...
