by Elizabeth Kissling | May 8, 2010 | Internet
Your weekly links: Heather Corinna answers the question, what is feminist sex education? By all accounts, the Rethinking Virginity Conference held Monday at Harvard was outstanding. Here’s ten myths of sex and virginity that were de-bunked at the conference. In...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 5, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Internet, Menstruation
Guest Post by Nicole Luna, Marymount Manhattan College Elizabeth Kissling’s March 16 post on the launch of the U by Kotex campaign and the comments that followed touched on the implications of the “new” Kotex products and their accompanying empowerment crusade....
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 4, 2010 | Anatomy, Internet, magazines
Two provocative stories about ladybusiness today: Our friend, artist Alexandra Jacoby, was interviewed by Curve magazine [pdf] about her Vagina Vérité® photography project. The interview notes her surprise at how few of the women who’ve posed for v-portraits...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 3, 2010 | Activism, Art, DIY, Menstruation
Guest Post by Geneva Kachman, MOLT: The Museum of the Menovulatory Lifetime Back in 2000, when my Menstrual Monday journey began, an ever-reasonable friend had pointed out it took 13 years for Julia Ward Howe to establish Mother’s Day. Being a holidaymaker, and...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 1, 2010 | Internet
Here’s some recommended reading to start your weekend. So Rachel Carson and Margaret Sanger Walk into a Room…The 50th anniversary of The Pill is also the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Stefanie Weiss discusses the relationship between the two in her new book, ...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 26, 2010 | Menstruation, Newspapers, Television
The Jamaica Observer has published a list of menstrual myths, apparently as a public service to its readers. Among the fallacies: Do not go to a funeral and look at the dead while having your period as this will cause your bones to rot. If a menstruating woman cans...