by Chris Bobel | Mar 18, 2013 | Advertising, Birth Control, Communication, Film, Girls, Health Care, Humor, Independent Film, Internet, Language, Media, Pharmaceutical, Pregnancy, Reproduction
Seen this one yet? (or the (eerily) related “Birth Control on the Bottom“?) We posted “Sassy Girlz Candy Birth Control Pills” (written by Carissa Leone in 2011) in our regular installment Weekend Links on Feb 2. I had a mixed reaction. And when a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 16, 2013 | Internet
Did any of our readers happen to catch this talk at USC? No Need to Bleed: How Menstrual Suppression Redefined Menstruation A blog essay we recently cross-posted with Ms. magazine’s blog about why it’s valuable to use the word menstruator instead of women...
by Breanne Fahs | Mar 14, 2013 | Fertility, Menstruation
The repetition of all-things-pink=all-things-related-to-women’s-health has started to seriously irritate me. First, we had pink containers for birth control pills, followed by the pink repackaging of Prozac (renamed Sarafem) to treat “Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder”...
by Kati Bicknell | Mar 12, 2013 | Health Care, Sex
Okay, the title of this post may have thrown you off, but hopefully it also lured you in so that you can hear me out. What’s the story here? Just that herpes is way more common than most people realize, and that you can get it from people who may or may not even know...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 9, 2013 | Internet
It’s OK to say vagina in TV sitcoms, but you still can’t say it in tampon ads! Like women who are pregnant, women who use synthetic progesterone birth control injections (such as Depo-Provera) are more vulnerable to certain infections including malaria,...
