by Chris Bobel | Sep 2, 2013 | Anatomy, Birth Control, Fertility, Health Care, Menstruation, Ovulation, Reproduction
Guest Post by Amy Sedgwick, HRHP, Red Tent Sisters While there are no shortage of apps designed to help women track their periods, finding an app that meets the needs of women who are practicing fertility awareness methods (FAM) for birth control or conception can be...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 31, 2013 | Internet
Cliteracy 101: Artist Sophia Wallace‘s mixed media art installation is designed to educate about the clitoris, emphasizing the paradox of our obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality. Tracy Moore of...
by Alice Dan | Aug 29, 2013 | Activism, Menstruation
Menstruation is a topic of particular interest for feminist research, because women’s experiences of it are so overlaid with myth, rumor and hearsay. It’s very strange to be studying and writing about something we can’t bring up in polite company. It’s disorienting,...
by Breanne Fahs | Aug 23, 2013 | Activism, Communication, Menstruation
Language has an uncanny ability to contain the trappings of power. I have recently become increasingly irritated by the way that the phrase “bullying” has come to overshadow the politicized, identity-based nature of homophobia. Somehow, CNN, Glee, and other major...
by Laura Wershler | Aug 21, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Menstruation
Why are media-based discussions about menstrual cycle advocacy vs. menstrual suppression, or hormonal birth control (HBC) vs. non-hormonal birth control (NHBC), so often fraught with conflict, suspicion and untested assumptions? Because the opposing frames of...
