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 Elizabeth Kissling | May 24, 2014 | Internet
In Friday’s Guardian, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett explores why so many young people aren’t using contraception. Nearly everyone she spoke with for the article is British – including SMCR’s Holly Grigg-Spall — but numbers are similar in the U.S. A study...
by Heather Dillaway | May 23, 2014 | Communication, Menopause, New Research, Perimenopause, Philosophy
A recent study by researchers at La Trobe University and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, suggests that working women “need more managerial support [while] going through menopause.” This “Women at Work” study explored the health and wellbeing of working...
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...