by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 20, 2009 | Health Care, New Research
When a link to this study, which found that the higher a patient’s BMI, the lower their physician’s respect for them, showed up in my Twitter feed yesterday (thanks, Michelle), I started connecting some dots. Women delay seeking treatment for menstrual...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 14, 2009
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Priorities for Women’s Health Research Prepared Testimony to Office of Research on Women’s Health at NIH, Chicago – October 4, 2009 This document is also available as a PDF. I. Preface: The Society for Menstrual Cycle...
by Chris Bobel | Oct 12, 2009 | Activism, Independent Film, Internet, Menstruation
Wow. Chella Quint, UK-based real live activist, posted this 40 seconds of brilliance [by filmmaker Lindsey Keith] on her blog recently. I caught the bug and hope to spread it around. No menstrual taboo? Uh…. Then why is this short film positively...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 9, 2009 | Communication, Menstruation, New Research
It’s great that menstrual taboo and stigma is ‘over’, as Amanda Fortini informed us earlier this week (see Chris’ post about the menstrual activism shitstorm across several blogs this week). Now maybe all those women suffering from debilitating...
by Chris Bobel | Oct 7, 2009 | Activism, Communication, Internet, Media, Menstruation, New Research
3 features in 4 days 160 comments plus another 120 plus another 39 and still they post... MENSTRUAL ACTIVISM has hit a nerve! On Friday, The Guardian published a story on menstrual activism which featured a photograph of a woman with *menstrual blood* on her lips (a...
