by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 16, 2012 | Internet
Anthropologist Beverly Strassmann’s research on the role of menstrual huts in the Dogon religion suggests that the practice of menstrual isolation may have developed as means to assure paternity — or as the popular press has been covering the story, to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 9, 2012 | Internet
Margie Profet is well known among membership of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, and lots of other folks, too: her controversial 1993 article in the Quarterly Review of Biology proposed an adaptive value of menstruation that attracted a lot of popular press...
by Alexandra Jacoby | Jun 8, 2012 | Art, Menstruation
THIS ONE is my favorite image among the “THERE WILL BE BLOOD” series of photographs by Emma Arvida Bystrom. It’s of a young woman, in a skirt, reading at a counter that faces a window; you can see blood staining her panties through the glass, and she’s...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 6, 2012 | Anatomy, Birth Control, Ovulation, Television
Guest Post by Lisa Leger Yesterday (June 4) on MSNBC-TV, my girl Rachel Maddow interviewed New York Times columnist Gail Collins, author of the new book, As Texas Goes. The book criticizes the state’s politics and morality laws and their impact on the rest of the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 2, 2012 | Internet
Dr. Jen Gunter explains some of the reasons why women who do it at home die even when abortion is free and legal. Virginia Sole-Smith wrote a frank and touching post about endometrial cysts, and why it’s important to talk about these things. Margaret Cho longs...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 1, 2012 | Advertising, Anatomy, Language
My friend and colleague Patty Chantrill loves clever menstrual puns as much as I do, and recently snapped this picture of an area billboard from her car. I’ve edited the photo to try to highlight the sign, but there’s only so much one can do with a...
