by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 21, 2012 | Internet
When Marilyn Monroe had her appendix removed 28 April 1952, she was quite nervous. She was so worried that her surgeon would remove her ovaries while he was operating that after she was sedated and the doctors pulled back her gown, they found this note taped to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 18, 2012 | Birth Control, Law/Legal, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall How many of us read the inserts included in a packet of pills? How many decide not to take the pills on the basis of the information enclosed? The rapidly reeled-off list of side effects stated at the end of a televised advert...
by Chris Bobel | Apr 16, 2012 | Activism, Girls, Menarche, Menstruation
For the last decade or so, like so many others who read and write for this blog, I have been researching, reading and writing about how we think, talk and act (out) about menstruation. My particular interest is the various interventions that some brave activists make...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 14, 2012 | Internet
Cycle Harmony offers instructions for syncing your menstrual cycle with the cycle of the moon. Need more racism in your misogyny? Jezebel reports on products for vulva bleaching. An open letter, as only McSweeney’s can do an open letter: To the tiny white man...
by Alexandra Jacoby | Apr 12, 2012 | Communication, Menstruation
In last month’s blog post, I was thinking through why we weren’t supposed to talk about our bodies, and by the end of the post, it did seem to me that talking about our body-lives was a normal, sensible, useful, appropriate —just a big yes— thing to do. And, then it...
