by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 14, 2010 | Advertising, Celebrities, Disposable menstrual products, Internet, Menstruation
U by Kotex, which launched last month in the US, has started the next phase of the campaign featuring reality television stars the Kardashian sisters, Kim and Khloe. I’ve seen two press releases about this so far today. The sisters and their mother, Kris Jenner,...
by Giovanna Chesler | Apr 14, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, FemCare, Humor, Menstruation, Reusable menstrual products, zine
Last Sunday evening, at the Lower East Side bookstore (and feminist Mecca) Bluestockings, Chella Quint attempted to begin her 5th installment of a performance built from her zine Adventures in Menstruating. However this piece, Here’s The Science Bit, was quite...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 5, 2010 | Advertising
This catalog showed up in my office mailbox today. Do I need to say any more than Think Before You Pink? In other breast cancer news, Rachel at Our Bodies, Our Blog has a good summary (with lots of links) of the recently announced federal court decision to invalidate...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 2, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, magazines, Menstruation
One of my Women’s & Gender Studies graduates, who is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Gender & Sexuality Studies, recently sent me this Kotex ad from last fall. (She received it from one of her students — don’t you love how that chain works?) This ad...
by Chris Bobel | Mar 31, 2010 | Advertising, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Today, there’s a front page story in the New York Times about Astra-Zeneca’s move to market their cholesterol pills (known as statins, and as the NYT reports, already the most prescribed drugs in the US) at healthy people in spite of unresolved concerns...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 21, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Humor, Internet, Media, Menstruation
Over the last week, I thought I had participated in enough discussions of Kotex’s new “Break the Cycle” campaign; we had a lengthy discussion here at re:Cycling, and I’ve joined in the comments at several other ladyblogs, as have my...
