by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 21, 2011 | Celebrities, Humor, Menstruation, Studio Film
I’m not really a fan of Ashton Kutcher (and I haven’t seen this movie) but a boy who made a period mixtape for me would definitely have a chance. From the film No Strings...
by Chris Hitchcock | Mar 17, 2011 | Activism, Birth Control, Health Care, Humor, Internet
Here’s an interesting political approach. While there are hairs to split (do all women have vaginas? do all people with vaginas consider themselves women? and what about those of us with no sexual partners, or sexual partners without penises?), there’s...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 10, 2011 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, magazines, Media
Kotex still wants us to “break the cycle“. But every time I see these ads, I think of Chella Quint‘s message to Kotex: We’re only gonna stop feeling the shame when we take ownership of our periods. And we’re taking it back from you, dude. So you...
by David Linton | Mar 3, 2011 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Language, Literature, Menstruation
In the late 1920s, at the peak of the Flapper Era, a series of Kotex ads made extravagant use of images of attractive young women in couture outfits in sophisticated settings. The most intriguing and subtle ad in the series was published in 1929. It shows two slender...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 28, 2011 | Anatomy, Television
“If you’d told me three months ago that I’d let a plastic surgeon examine my froufrou, that I’d show it to another woman (who wasn’t a doctor) and then allow an artist to take a cast of my Mary, I’d have laughed you out of the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 26, 2011 | Internet
Snow on the ground and subzero temperatures this week, so I’m doing nothing but reading: I’ll Show You Mine: Wrenna Robertson responds to the increasing popularity of labiaplasty with a new book featuring close-up, color photographs of women’s vulvas...
