by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 20, 2013 | Girls, Health Care, Menstruation
You’re busy celebrating Women’s History Month, the Ides of March, Pi(e) Day, St. Patrick’s Day, not to mention Spring Break and numerous lesser known awareness days and months. But don’t let Endometriosis Awareness Month slip away....
by Chris Bobel | Mar 18, 2013 | Advertising, Birth Control, Communication, Film, Girls, Health Care, Humor, Independent Film, Internet, Language, Media, Pharmaceutical, Pregnancy, Reproduction
Seen this one yet? (or the (eerily) related “Birth Control on the Bottom“?) We posted “Sassy Girlz Candy Birth Control Pills” (written by Carissa Leone in 2011) in our regular installment Weekend Links on Feb 2. I had a mixed reaction. And when a...
by Kati Bicknell | Mar 12, 2013 | Health Care, Sex
Okay, the title of this post may have thrown you off, but hopefully it also lured you in so that you can hear me out. What’s the story here? Just that herpes is way more common than most people realize, and that you can get it from people who may or may not even know...
by Laura Wershler | Feb 6, 2013 | Activism, Amenorrhea, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Health Care, Hormones, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
Author’s Update, February 14, 2013: As clarified by Bedsider.org in the comments section below, the Works Like A Charm Contest mentioned in this post is not current but ended in 2011. The contest website pages are now inactive. If Bedsider.org sponsored a...
by Laura Wershler | Jan 9, 2013 | Activism, Amenorrhea, Birth Control, Communication, Health Care, Menstruation, Ovulation
As 2013 begins, I give thanks to each and every one of my colleagues at the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research and all my blogging buddies at re:Cycling. Without them I’d feel left out in the cold. I’ve been a menstrual cycle advocate since 1979 when,...
by Laura Wershler | Dec 12, 2012 | Activism, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Girls, Health Care, Hormones, Politics
Throughout the contraceptive realm, LARCs are being heralded as the best thing since Cinderella’s glass slipper with little acknowledgement that for many women LARCs are more like Snow White’s poisoned apple. Nov. 25 to Dec. 1, 2012, was LARC Awareness...