by Elizabeth Kissling | May 4, 2013 | Internet
This open letter to Facebook from MotherWise is being circulated widely on the giant social network, protesting Facebook’s censorship of anatomical drawings of women’s bodies while objectifying representations of the same body parts and other violations of...
by Laura Wershler | May 1, 2013 | Communication, Girls, magazines, Menarche, Menstruation
How do girls learn about menstruation today? Who talks to them? Who do they talk to? Or do most girls rely on the Internet for information about periods? Take this article by Elizabeth (bylines are first names only) – What I Wish I Knew About My Period – posted last...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 27, 2013 | Internet
The video at right was made by the editor of the student newspaper, The Easterner, at Eastern Washington University, where I teach. I swear, I didn’t put her up to it! She made this video before I met her, when she came to interview me for the accompanying...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 20, 2013 | Internet
Some useful definitions: health literacy and e-health. It’s great that we can finally say the word vagina, but are we done with vagina jokes yet? Your breasts aren’t perfect until your nipples are exactly the right color — enter nipple tattooing, or...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 19, 2013 | Film, Independent Film, Menstruation
Menstruation appears far more frequently film and television than you might think — Lauren Rosewarne recently identified more than 200 scenes in her study, Periods in Pop Culture. Other scholars, including David Linton, Chris Bobel, and me, have also written...
by Chris Bobel | Apr 15, 2013 | Communication, FemCare, Health Care, Humor, Media, Menstruation
Oops! Somebody fell in it. And by it I mean the tired old WomenCan’tDoStuffBecauseTheyAreWomen pit–a veritable snake hole crawling with misogynists, essentialists, and old school protectionists. Terri Proud, a newly hired Administrative Assistant in the Arizona...
