by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 22, 2013 | Internet
Japan’s health ministry has issued a nationwide notice, withdrawing the recommendation of HPV vaccines for girls due to adverse reactions. Suzan at PeriodWise wonders how the NFLs new rule that fans are permitted to bring only clear handbags into the stands for...
by David Linton | Jun 18, 2013 | Books, Language, Menstruation
Just out from Temple University Press is a new book edited by Jeffrey Bruen and Daniel Wilson titled Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity. I am honored to have a chapter in it about how menstruation has been socially constructed as a disabling...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 15, 2013 | Internet
Is it possible to get throat cancer from oral sex? Yes. Is it probable? Or even likely? No. Separate the hype from the facts, and ask why “the one sexual act that gives women pleasure and does not cause pregnancy is now being described as harmful to men”,...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 13, 2013 | Activism
As our regular readers now know, the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research held its 20th biennial meeting last week in New York. Over the next few weeks, you can expect to see several posts about new research and other exciting events of that conference (yes, the Red...
by Chris Bobel | Jun 10, 2013 | Activism, Menstruation
Guest Post by Danielle I. Keiser, WASH United gGmbH/Berlin, Germany From May #MENSTRAVAGANZA to Menstrual Hygiene Day: WASH United is Turning Up the Volume and Helping Breaking the Silence Did you hear about May #MENSTRAVAGANZA? It was truly menstravagant. It was the...
