by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 22, 2012 | Internet
In this TEDx Women talk, Eve Ensler talks about One Billion Rising, her campaign to mobilize women in the fight to end gender violence. Lena Dunham shows off the tampon brooch she received as a Christmas gift from a friend. Understanding night sweats – at any...
by Kati Bicknell | Dec 18, 2012 | Fertility, Internet, Media, Music
I’m sure by now most of you have seen this video by Jonathan Mann and Ivory King, which went viral last week. Or at least I hope you have, because it is wonderful. I went to Bennington College with Jonathan and have been enjoying his music for years. He’s been writing...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 15, 2012 | Internet
Poor, sad Dwight Schrute wishes he could menstruate — even though Jezebel hates menstruation and medical students don’t know about the menstrual cup. Knowing Menstruation Beyond PubMed: In which Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa tells of listening to a research...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 8, 2012 | Internet
Missed Your Period? Don’t Want to be Pregnant? There’s an App for That. One of the reasons it’s difficult to talk about menstruation is that it’s difficult to talk about vaginas. A federal appeals court ruled this week that the ban on so-called...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 1, 2012 | Internet
Gilda’s Club, a cancer support group in Madison, Wisconsin, named for the late, great Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer at age 42 in 1989, is changing its name, because young women don’t know who Gilda Radner was. This makes me sad on so many...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 24, 2012 | Internet
A team of Australian filmmakers are working on a promising-looking comedy film, Bloomers, described as “Todd Solondz meets Freaks and Geeks meets menstrual blood”. Visit their Pozible site if you’d like to support the project. Some simple tips for...
