by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 5, 2011 | Activism, Advertising, DIY, FemCare, Humor
If you’ve been with us for a while, you might remember that we (and our fabulous readers) had a lot to say in the spring of 2010 when Kotex launched U by Kotex (or YOU.BUY.KOTEX, as we came to call it) and its “Break the Cycle” campaign. In digging...
by Heather Dillaway | Sep 15, 2011 | Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Menstruation
Menstruating while traveling is always interesting. It involves many in-the-moment decisions and also some significant planning at times (both before and during trips). But, it also means noticing various details about your surroundings. I was in a rest area bathroom...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 30, 2011 | Disposable menstrual products, Humor
Humorous tampon marketing of the kind we’ll probably never see in the U.S. [My apologies — I’ve lost track of the original source.] Thanks to reader NakedThoughts for providing a link to Red Wombat Studio, the creator of this idealistic tampon...
by David Linton | Aug 29, 2011 | Law/Legal, Media, Newspapers
In light of the recent scandals over the phone and email hacking practices of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper editors and reporters it is surprising that there has been so little mention of the fact that the most scandalous, damaging and far reaching hacking story...
by David Linton | Aug 22, 2011 | Communication, magazines, Media, Menstruation
Long before the current fad in Reality TV shows that trade in humiliation and embarrassment, the prevailing menstrual culture inculcated in women a feeling that exposure of the fact that a period was in progress was a social catastrophe. However, just as “The Biggest...
