by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 24, 2014 | Activism, Language, Media, Menstruation
Guest Post by Josefin Persdotter, Gothenburg University As I write this, it is only hours until the acclaimed Swedish television program Kobra airs an episode about menstruation in art, and as a growing social movement in Sweden. They’ve interviewed none other than...
by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Sep 11, 2014 | Activism, Art, Media, Menstruation
Guest Post by Jen Lewis From inception to the present, my art project Beauty in Blood has been a positivity-fueled whirlwind. In the very early stages I shared my concept with just two people, my husband and one of my dearest feminist friends. The positive and open...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 28, 2014 | Internet
Always, the popular P&G pads, released a new empowerment video this week, asking us to re-think the phrase “like a girl”. The video is nice, but I really like Emily Hauser and Imani Gandy’s (a.k.a. Angry Black Lady) plan to make “like a...
by David Linton | Jun 23, 2014 | Books, History, Menstruation
A noteworthy addition to the menstrual canon was published last year by Sara Read, a professor in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University in England, titled Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan). As the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 21, 2014 | Internet
A new study in the journal Sex Education focuses on mothers’ reactions to their daughters’ menarche, revealing such meta-narratives as secrecy, sorrow, a lack of competency and knowledge, power, gender and motherhood. The researchers conclude that,...
