by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | May 27, 2014 | Activism, FemCare, Girls, Health Care, Menstruation
Guest post by Danielle Keiser Summary: Menstrual Hygiene Day is not only about the biological process of growing up into a woman, but also about addressing the challenges that exist in many developing countries with regards to managing menstruation safely and...
by Chris Bobel | May 26, 2014 | Activism, Health Care, Internet, Menstruation
Breaking the Bloody Taboo: The 28th of May is Menstrual Hygiene Day Let´s Start the Conversation About Menstruation! On May 28th – the first global Menstrual Hygiene Day – more than 90 international and local organizations are coming together to break the silence...
by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | May 21, 2014 | Film, Humor, Menopause, Menstruation
Saniya Lee Ghanoui and David Linton Cross-posted from Public Books We don’t know where the coy linguistic practice of using-while-not-using so-called offensive words by appending the term “word” after its initial letter and preceded by “the”—as in “the N-word”; “the...
by Holly Grigg-Spall | May 14, 2014 | Activism, Anatomy, DIY, Health Care, Humor, Literature, Menstruation
In the past few weeks I have been meeting with women’s health activist Carol Downer to collaborate on a new book. She shared with me a work published in 1969 that was a catalyst for her development of the self-help movement and feminist women’s health clinics – ‘The...
by David Linton | Apr 25, 2014 | Activism, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Health Care
For nearly 20 years Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney has been working to have enacted into law a bill aimed at providing better quality control of tampon manufacture. Researchers have repeatedly raised alarms regarding the potential health risks women are exposed to due...
