by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 12, 2013 | Internet
At right: In episode #3 of Pubertina, our titular heroine dreams of the day when she can swap bulky pads for the ultimate symbol of maturity and womanhood: Tampons. When menopause and menarche occupy the same household. Crankytown, the interactive website about...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 5, 2013 | Internet
It’s not too late for New Year’s Resolutions, and it’s never too late for Periodic Resolutions. re:Cycling readers outside of Melbourne can still hear Lauren Rosewarne’s radio show, The Fairer Sex, featuring interviews with SMCR members David...
by Heather Dillaway | Jan 3, 2013 | Communication, Media, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
Sometimes I think biomedical researchers and media spokespersons are just searching to find the pathology in our lives. Not that we don’t know this already, especially when it comes to women’s health. Because of how medicalization works, of course anything that...
by David Linton | Jan 1, 2013 | Books, Literature, Menstruation
One way of telling how comfortable a man is with the biological facts of women’s lives is how he responds to calls for him to go shopping for menstrual products or to have physical contact with a woman’s menses. Depictions of this challenge have occasionally...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 29, 2012 | Internet
Seven tips to help your cloth pads last longer, from Glad Rags. Increasing restrictions on abortion access have led to a rise in DIY abortions. The Great Wall of Vagina is pretty much what it sounds like: A nine-meter-long polyptych consisting of 400 plaster casts of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 28, 2012 | Media, Menstruation, Sex, Television
Guest Post by Lauren Rosewarne Courtney Cox shocked America in 1985 when she became the first person to say “period” on TV. Period, at least, in the context of menstruation and not punctuation. Tampax, 1985-style Flash forward a couple of decades and...
