by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 30, 2012 | Internet
What do menstruation & gender equality have in common? Check out this video from The Crimson Campaign to learn more, and how five minutes can change the world. Jezebel blogger Lindy West knows the difference and doesn’t care: It’s all vagina to me....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 23, 2012 | Internet
Those lovely images at right are life-sized replicas of a non-menstruating uterus and a menstruating uterus, called Wombs for Wisdom, hand-made by Megan Assaf. Contact her for more information if you’d like your own set. Do women prefer more complex music around...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 16, 2012 | Internet
Anthropologist Beverly Strassmann’s research on the role of menstrual huts in the Dogon religion suggests that the practice of menstrual isolation may have developed as means to assure paternity — or as the popular press has been covering the story, to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 9, 2012 | Internet
Margie Profet is well known among membership of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, and lots of other folks, too: her controversial 1993 article in the Quarterly Review of Biology proposed an adaptive value of menstruation that attracted a lot of popular press...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 2, 2012 | Internet
Dr. Jen Gunter explains some of the reasons why women who do it at home die even when abortion is free and legal. Virginia Sole-Smith wrote a frank and touching post about endometrial cysts, and why it’s important to talk about these things. Margaret Cho longs...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 26, 2012 | Internet
Sir Richard’s Vagina Rules is an ad for ‘chemical-free’ condoms. Peggy Orenstein delivers a sharply worded memo to the “Hippest Town in NJ:” Please Stop Painting Yourself Pink. I’m wary of anything The New York Times calls a trend, but The Week...
