by Laura Wershler | Aug 28, 2014 | Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Hormones
re-blogging re:Cycling In celebration of our fifth anniversary, we are republishing some of our favorite posts. This post by Laura Wershler originally appeared April 4, 2012, and has received nearly 600 comments. To avoid confusion, we have closed comments on this...
by Chris Bobel | Aug 25, 2014 | Communication, Language, Menstruation
re-blogging re:Cycling In celebration of our fifth anniversary, we are republishing some of our favorite posts. This post by Chris Bobel originally appeared October 1, 2012. Okay. Enough. I gotta say something. Because I am committed to various efforts to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 23, 2014 | Internet
1970s advertising flashback: Watch these ladies share a shameful secret, and pity them. Rebecca, regular contributor at xoJane, says she’s terrible at menstruating. She’s got a lot of company, as there are currently more than 400 comments. Here’s a...
by Heather Dillaway | Aug 22, 2014 | Hormones, magazines, Media, Men, Pharmaceutical
By now, everyone has probably seen this week’s TIME cover story. The magazine’s August 18th cover photo showed a topless, seemingly frumpy, middle-aged man worried about his loss of testosterone and (therefore) manhood under the title, “Manopause?! Aging, Insecurity...
by Breanne Fahs | Aug 19, 2014 | Activism, Media, Menstruation
On June 7, we posted a video of slam poet Dominique Christina performing a poem combating men’s shaming of women and their menstrual cycles. In the “Period Poem,” which she dedicated to her daughter, Christina encourages women who are confronted by men’s negativity...
