by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 16, 2013 | Internet
This video shows a brief talk by Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Special Raporteur, about menstrual hygiene as a human right. Hypatia’s rags and the history of menstruation. A study published last year in Urology, the official publication of The Société...
by David Linton | Feb 14, 2013 | Celebrities, Media, Menstruation, Music
Guest Post by Saniya Ghanoui, New York University Perhaps the most well-known song that addresses menstruation is Ani DiFranco’s “Blood in the Boardroom,” a nearly four-minute narrative about a woman getting her period while sitting in a male-dominated business...
by Kati Bicknell | Feb 12, 2013 | Anatomy, Birth Control, DIY, Fertility
In an older post I wrote, I talked about how to check your cervical fluid with a folded piece of toilet paper or your clean fingers. BUT! What if you’re doing that and not finding anything? What if you, like many women I talk to, think that they don’t have any...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 9, 2013 | Internet
Celebrity femcare flashback: Here’s Naomi Watts starring in a 1980s Australian Tampax ad. New research from Yale has identified genes related to aggressive endometrial cancer. Because Life Can’t Stop With A Period: An update on the fantastic work of Elizabeth...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 7, 2013 | Advertising, FemCare, Menstruation, Music, Reusable menstrual products
Guest Post by Chella Quint, Adventures in Menstruating So I like the new Mooncup ad for lots and lots of period positive reasons. Here it is again: I watched it, I enjoyed it, I shared it, but I couldn’t ignore this other blog post title forming in my head after the...