by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 3, 2012 | Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Health Care, New Research
The pill is one of the most intensely studied drugs in history, and believed to be among the safest – safer than aspirin, as an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health noted twenty years ago. Yet young women seem to be quitting in droves, for a variety of...
by Chris Bobel | Oct 1, 2012 | Communication, Language, Menstruation
Okay. Enough. I gotta say something. Because I am committed to various efforts to reclaim the menstrual cycle as a vital sign and subvert the dominant narrative that menstruation is obsolete and/or a badge of shame, many people assume my periods are all drum...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 29, 2012 | Internet
“Now with wings!” Check out what tampons might look like, if they were designed by today’s Republican party, as imagined by SNL. Emily at Autostraddle made her own period playlist after hearing one in a movie. Commenters have added more songs. The...
by Kati Bicknell | Sep 25, 2012 | Fertility, Language
Cervical fluid, the sticky/creamy/stretchy/slippery substance produced by the cervix is arguably the most important substance on earth. Without it, the human race would be shortly extinct, yet not many people even know what it is. This is unacceptable, and you...
by Laura Wershler | Sep 21, 2012 | Activism, Birth Control, Menstruation
I was fuming. My Twitter feed had alerted me to a free online course called Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences. I opened the link to find this course syllabus: Week One: Introduction to Contraceptive Care Week Two: The Menstrual Cycle Week...
