by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 15, 2010 | Internet
re:Cycling is one year old today! We began with a few warm-up posts in the summer of 2009, but we launched officially (and sent out a press release to damn near everyone in the feminist blogosphere) on September 15. In that year, we’ve had more than 300 posts...
by David Linton | Sep 14, 2010 | Advertising, Internet, Media, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, Television
The challenge that advertisers face when promoting the sale of menstrual products is how to visually demonstrate how the product works or the aspects of the cycle that product addresses without showing actual menstrual blood or a woman’s anatomy. One well established...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 11, 2010 | Internet
What we’re reading this week – Fumbling in the Feminine Aisle: What to look for on menstrual product packaging to find the closest approximation to your U.S. brand when you’re in China. Gayle Sulik’s new book, Pink Ribbon Blues, is available....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 5, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Internet, Media, Menstruation
Guest Post by Chella Quint, Adventures in Menstruating So Johnson & Johnson’s Canadian division’s just launched a new Stayfree campaign that I found out about when a Toronto reporter contacted me for an article she was writing. The campain is a series of viral...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 4, 2010 | Internet
How did September sneak in here?!? I wasn’t finished with August. Do you miss Sarah Haskins as much as we do? Listen to her talk about pregnancy and the Apocalypse. Melissa McEwan tells it like it is: Grown-ups aren’t embarrassed to buy tampons. Even when...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 31, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Humor, Internet, Media
Via Tracy Clark-Flory at Broadsheet, I learned of this new internet campaign from Stayfree. At last, my girlish fantasies realized! I have always dreamed of a man who would have dinner almost ready when I got home, and then mansplain the intricacies of feminine...