by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 29, 2012 | Film, Independent Film, Literature, Menstruation
Guest Post by Lydia Aponte — Marymount Manhattan College In Professor David Linton’s Social Construction and Images of Menstruation course, our class watched two documentaries involving menstruation and menstrual suppression. Both Period: The End of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 4, 2011 | Film, Girls, Independent Film, Menstruation
So says 15-year-old Judy to her boyfriend Johnny on the occasion of her first period, in this vintage film about menstruation, Linda’s Film About Menstruation. This 18-minute treasure was produced in 1974 by the Creative Artists Public Service Program of the New...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 30, 2011 | Communication, Humor, Independent Film
Guest Post by Michael Yazujian, Marymount Manhattan College I found this sketch the other day when I was on www.ucbcomedy.com. It is by a sketch duo called Klepper and Grey, who are originally from Chicago, but now live in NYC. It is very similar to the “Her...
by David Linton | Sep 1, 2011 | Film, Independent Film, Literature, Men, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Sex
The taboos against menstrual sex are ancient and deep-seated. Despite the well established fact that sexual intercourse during the period is not medically counter-indicated nor somehow debilitating to women and, furthermore, that some women find the experience more...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 31, 2011 | DIY, Humor, Independent Film, Menstruation
Reel Grrls produced this animated vision of what watching television might be like in a world where Gloria Steinem’s classic essay “If Men Could Menstruate” wasn’t fiction. (Via Lunapads twitter...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 4, 2010 | DIY, FemCare, Independent Film, Menstruation
Vanessa Tolkin Meyer recently published her thesis film on Vimeo: it’s a short film about the menstrual cup. It’s also about attitudes toward menstruation and how we talk about it....
