by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 25, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, Newspapers
The New York Times published an op-ed piece a few days ago about making the birth control pill available without a prescription. Kelly Blanchard, president of Ibis Reproductive Health, offers the following rationale: Women don’t need a doctor to tell them whether they...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 25, 2010 | Activism, Birth Control, Books, Pharmaceutical
Only a latter-day Rip Van Winkle could avoid knowing that this month marks the 50th anniversary of the FDA’s approval of Enovid, the world’s first birth control pill. Hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles have marked this anniversary. Many incorrectly credit the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 5, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Internet, Menstruation
Guest Post by Nicole Luna, Marymount Manhattan College Elizabeth Kissling’s March 16 post on the launch of the U by Kotex campaign and the comments that followed touched on the implications of the “new” Kotex products and their accompanying empowerment crusade....
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 3, 2010 | Activism, Art, DIY, Menstruation
Guest Post by Geneva Kachman, MOLT: The Museum of the Menovulatory Lifetime Back in 2000, when my Menstrual Monday journey began, an ever-reasonable friend had pointed out it took 13 years for Julia Ward Howe to establish Mother’s Day. Being a holidaymaker, and...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 20, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Menstruation
Guest Post by Chella Quint, Adventures in Menstruating Okay, Kotex? Here’s the deal: We’re only gonna stop feeling the shame when we take ownership of our periods. And we’re taking it back from you, dude. So you can’t reclaim our periods for us. You’re some of the...
