by Chris Bobel | Oct 12, 2009 | Activism, Independent Film, Internet, Menstruation
Wow. Chella Quint, UK-based real live activist, posted this 40 seconds of brilliance [by filmmaker Lindsey Keith] on her blog recently. I caught the bug and hope to spread it around. No menstrual taboo? Uh…. Then why is this short film positively...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 12, 2009 | Communication, Health Care
Via Women’s Health News (a very useful blog maintained by medical librarian Rachel Walden), I learned of My OB said WHAT?!?. This site tracks appalling, offensive, and a few downright abusive things OB-GYN practitioners have said to their patients. A few...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 9, 2009 | Communication, Menstruation, New Research
It’s great that menstrual taboo and stigma is ‘over’, as Amanda Fortini informed us earlier this week (see Chris’ post about the menstrual activism shitstorm across several blogs this week). Now maybe all those women suffering from debilitating...
by Chris Hitchcock | Oct 8, 2009 | Birth Control, New Research, Pharmaceutical
In a review article in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, University of Sheffield researchers Alexandra Alvergne and Virpi Lummaa [1] present a range of evidence that using oral contraceptives influences women’s preferences for mates, and men’s sexual...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 8, 2009 | Internet, PMS
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College A lot of ideas get hatched in a bar over drinks with friends. Most don’t make it past the sober morning after. But a conversation in a Denver bistro in 2008 led to the creation of a new Internet service that...
