by Holly Grigg-Spall | Apr 8, 2014 | Amenorrhea, Birth Control, Celebrities, Coming off the pill, Communication, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Health Care, Menarche, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, Politics, Reusable menstrual products
A few weeks back I did an interview with Leslie Botha regarding the distribution of Depo Provera to women in developing countries. Recently Leslie shared with me an email she received from someone working in a family planning clinic in Karnataka, India. He described...
by Chris Bobel | Nov 26, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, Books, Celebrities, Coming off the pill, Communication, Disposable menstrual products, DIY, FemCare, Film, Independent Film, Literature, Men, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, Reusable menstrual products
The recent death of writer Doris Lessing led me to revisit her work a bit. * Author of more than 50 books as well as an opera, Lessing was brave. She spanned genres, refused to tow a singular ideological line and used her Nobel Prize moment to remind us that privilege...
by Holly Grigg-Spall | Nov 19, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, Books, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Humor, magazines, Media, Menstruation, Newspapers, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical, Reusable menstrual products
Recently I was fortunate enough to be asked to lend an excerpt of my recently released book to the UK Sunday Times Style magazine. The mostly fashion-centric Style magazine is not really known for its edginess or risk-taking (except perhaps in the realm of shoe and...
by Chris Bobel | Sep 30, 2013 | Activism, Communication, FemCare, Menstruation, Reusable menstrual products
Guest Post by Rachel Horn of Sustainable Cycles Last month, I returned to California after my friend Owen and I rode our bicycles from San Francisco to New York City. We rode 4,624 miles through 12 states over 3 months. We carried our essentials (about 70 lbs, bikes...
by Chris Bobel | Aug 5, 2013 | Anatomy, Celebrities, FemCare, Humor
The BODY POLICE just wrote us another ticket. Sweating through our workout clothes, is a big NO NO, that is, if the sweat shows up (whisper…blush…giggle…) down there. The “solution” to the non-problem du jour is U By Kotex’s Sports...
