by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | May 28, 2014 | Activism, Communication, Health Care, Law/Legal, Menstruation
As I’m sure you’re well aware, today is Menstrual Hygiene Day and there are activities all across the globe to commemorate this day. The SMCR is excited to announce that it contributed to the day by endorsing the Robin Danielson Act of 2014, a legislation...
by Holly Grigg-Spall | May 14, 2014 | Activism, Anatomy, DIY, Health Care, Humor, Literature, Menstruation
In the past few weeks I have been meeting with women’s health activist Carol Downer to collaborate on a new book. She shared with me a work published in 1969 that was a catalyst for her development of the self-help movement and feminist women’s health clinics – ‘The...
by David Linton | Apr 25, 2014 | Activism, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Health Care
For nearly 20 years Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney has been working to have enacted into law a bill aimed at providing better quality control of tampon manufacture. Researchers have repeatedly raised alarms regarding the potential health risks women are exposed to due...
by Heather Dillaway | Apr 24, 2014 | Communication, Disposable menstrual products, Humor, magazines, Menstruation, Motherhood
I was flipping through the May 2014 issue of Working Mother Magazine the other day and landed upon a small article about a working mother’s recent “faux pas”: on a “crazed morning” she accidentally packed her bag of tampons in her 7-year-old son’s camp bag and took...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 21, 2013 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, magazines
It’s Throwback Thursday on social media, and we’re joining in with this ad for Pursettes tampons that ran in Cosmpolitan (U.S.) magazine in 1966. Nearly 50 years on, little has changed in femcare marketing: Look at the familiar themes of medicalization of...
