by Chris Bobel | Oct 28, 2009 | Activism, Advertising, FemCare, Internet, Men, Menstruation
I don’t know how it happened, but somehow, I missed the viral web-based marketing campaign “Men with Cramps” launched in 2006 by Dandelion for P&G’s ThermaCare. (Dandelion, by the way, calls themselves a “brand-sponsored storytelling company”. I. Am....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 16, 2009 | FemCare, Internet
Proctor and Gamble has just launched a new internet campaign in Singapore for their menstrual pads. The flash-heavy website tells why girls are Happy It’s Here : Happy, confident, and loving life. You know what you want and where you want to go next. You feel...
by Chris Bobel | Oct 12, 2009 | Activism, Independent Film, Internet, Menstruation
Wow. Chella Quint, UK-based real live activist, posted this 40 seconds of brilliance [by filmmaker Lindsey Keith] on her blog recently. I caught the bug and hope to spread it around. No menstrual taboo? Uh…. Then why is this short film positively...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 8, 2009 | Internet, PMS
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College A lot of ideas get hatched in a bar over drinks with friends. Most don’t make it past the sober morning after. But a conversation in a Denver bistro in 2008 led to the creation of a new Internet service that...
by Chris Bobel | Oct 7, 2009 | Activism, Communication, Internet, Media, Menstruation, New Research
3 features in 4 days 160 comments plus another 120 plus another 39 and still they post... MENSTRUAL ACTIVISM has hit a nerve! On Friday, The Guardian published a story on menstrual activism which featured a photograph of a woman with *menstrual blood* on her lips (a...