by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 3, 2010 | Activism, FemCare, Humor, Independent Film, Internet, Men, Menstruation
We’ve had a couple of productive discussions recently here at re:Cycling about men and menstrual humor, so it seems a good time to introduce Vinnie D’Angelo, creator of Vinnie’s Tampon Case. Therese Shecter has graciously shared this clip from her...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 2, 2010 | Anatomy, Communication, Internet, New Research, Newspapers, Ovulation, Reproduction
There’s been quite a bit of internet buzz during the last week or so about a study conducted at University of St Andrews and Edinburgh University by Tom Kelsey, in which he and his colleagues develop a computer model of how a woman’s supply of eggs...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 29, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, Menopause, Menstruation, Music, PMS
That’s the report from this arts blogger at the New York Times. Yesterday, doctors from the Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine of the Methodist Hospital in Houston held a daylong symposium on the management of medical problems among musicians...
by Chris Bobel | Jan 28, 2010 | Humor, Internet, Men, Menstruation, Television
All this iPad humor has got us thinking about menstrual humor more generally–what’s funny (to some) what’s not (to others), why and why not. In the end, anything-menstruation is almost always met with either 1) a shudder and a swift topic shift OR 2)...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 27, 2010 | Communication, FemCare, Humor, Internet, Language, Television
Word on the street is that Apple is introducing their first tablet computer today. With their usual flourish, they’ve named it . . . wait for it . . . the iPad. ETA: The ladies at Jezebel have published more than one compilation of period-related iPad jokes. A...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 27, 2010 | Communication, Language, Media, Television
Guest Post by David Linton, Manhattan Marymount College A short item in the February 2010 issue of Harper’s Magazine captures, yet again, how nervous some folks are about any mention of matters menstrual. The piece referred to the publication of a list of words and...
