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...
by David Linton | Sep 11, 2012 | History, Independent Film, Menstruation
If ever there was a woman in history deserving of more attention, certainly Hypatia of Alexandria is one. Not only was this fifth century (CE) scholar a noted mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (her father, Theon, was the last head of the Museum at Alexandria...
by Chris Bobel | Sep 3, 2012 | Activism, Celebrities, History, Language, Literature, Menstruation
In 1978, feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem penned a brilliant satire first appearing in Ms magazine and later in her collected essays Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. In it, she blew the lid off how gender ideology (read: sexism) shapes how we “do”...
by Laura Wershler | Aug 22, 2012 | Birth Control, Fertility, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pregnancy, Reproduction
Your fertility is not a deep, dark mystery only your doctor can unravel. It’s yours to own, understand and manage. Forget the ticking biological clock, it’s the wrong metaphor. Fertility ebbs and flows, like the phases of the moon. It’s about the...
by Chris Bobel | May 14, 2012 | Advertising, Communication, FemCare, Menstruation
What is worse? A problem unnamed or a problem named and denied as our own? In a recent class discussion, a (white) student shared that she while she was in high school (a racially diverse high school, she explained), “everybody got along and racism was not a problem.”...
