by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 31, 2013 | Internet
Cliteracy 101: Artist Sophia Wallace‘s mixed media art installation is designed to educate about the clitoris, emphasizing the paradox of our obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality. Tracy Moore of...
by Holly Grigg-Spall | Aug 26, 2013 | Activism, Advertising, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Health Care, History, Hormones, Media, Men, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, PMS
My forthcoming book ‘Sweetening the Pill or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control’ began to take shape on the pages of this blog and much of the process of its development was spurred on by the work of members of SMCR. As such, it seems only fitting,...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 17, 2013 | Internet
Teach me how to breastfeed – while you Dougie. Art critic Brian Sherwin discusses sexism and the menstrala art movement in this article at FASO (Fine Art Studio Online). We don’t endorse Bryan Goldberg’s sexist comments about his new website,...
by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Aug 7, 2013 | Humor, Menstruation, Television
The IT Crowd is a British sitcom that centers on three IT workers and their daily misadventures. Maurice Moss, an intelligent but geeky technician who is quite socially awkward; his friend, Roy, who goes to lengths to avoid working; and Jen, the “Relationship...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 3, 2013 | Internet
This is an excerpt of Goodnight, Vagina, an eight-minute film about labiaplasty starring Cheryl Hines. But it is Brie Turner-O’Banion, the actor who plays her sister (and co-author of the piece) who has the best line: “Why don’t you just give the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 27, 2013 | Internet
On her show last weekend, Melissa Harris-Perry donned a pair of homemade tampon earrings, in honor of the Texas women who were barred from bringing tampons into the state Capitol building when protesting their state’s restrictive abortion legislation....
