by David Linton | Dec 10, 2015 | Law/Legal, Media, Men, Newspapers
Much has been made of Donald Trump’s snarky remark about how the journalist Megan Kelly spoke to him at the Republican candidates’ debate on Aug. 6, 2015. And the news is dominated by stories about how social media are reshaping every aspect of our lives,...
by Editor | Dec 7, 2015 | Girls, Literature, Menarche
Guest Post by Jacqueline Thomas Having entered my Ph.D. program in English already aware of the general need to better prepare girls for menarche, I wrote Lizzy & the Light Below in the midst of my studies to give moms a tool for starting the conversation with...
by David Linton | Dec 3, 2015 | Media, Television
Perhaps one of the most useful barometers of the social status of the menstrual cycle is the frequency and nature of its representation in public media. In the 1950s the three major TV network forbade the airing of ads for menstrual products, or “catamenial devices,”...
by Jen Lewis | Dec 1, 2015 | Art, Menstruation
Beauty in Blood Presents Ms. December: Season’s Bleedings Year: 2015 Menstrual Designer: Jen Lewis Photographer: Rob Lewis...
by Laura Wershler | Nov 30, 2015 | Activism
In September, 2015, I participated in a panel on advocacy journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. As a journalism student there in 2010-2011, I became known as the women’s health writer, the one with a background in sexual and reproductive health....
