by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 15, 2012 | Internet
Poor, sad Dwight Schrute wishes he could menstruate — even though Jezebel hates menstruation and medical students don’t know about the menstrual cup. Knowing Menstruation Beyond PubMed: In which Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa tells of listening to a research...
by Laura Wershler | Dec 12, 2012 | Activism, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Girls, Health Care, Hormones, Politics
Throughout the contraceptive realm, LARCs are being heralded as the best thing since Cinderella’s glass slipper with little acknowledgement that for many women LARCs are more like Snow White’s poisoned apple. Nov. 25 to Dec. 1, 2012, was LARC Awareness...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 8, 2012 | Internet
Missed Your Period? Don’t Want to be Pregnant? There’s an App for That. One of the reasons it’s difficult to talk about menstruation is that it’s difficult to talk about vaginas. A federal appeals court ruled this week that the ban on so-called...
by Heather Dillaway | Dec 6, 2012 | Girls, Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation
The other day a Huffington Post article crossed my desk, titled, “Gift Guide 2012: What To Get The Menopausal Women In Your Life.” According to this article, here are some of the things menopausal women (read: perimenopausal women) might want this December: Coldfront...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 1, 2012 | Internet
Gilda’s Club, a cancer support group in Madison, Wisconsin, named for the late, great Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer at age 42 in 1989, is changing its name, because young women don’t know who Gilda Radner was. This makes me sad on so many...
