by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Apr 28, 2014 | Activism, Girls, Health Care
Guest Post by Jennifer Aldoretta The things that consume my time are many and varied, but one of the most rewarding as of late has been volunteering for a local organization that aims to empower young women as they work through the many hardships of adolescence. Every...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 26, 2014 | Internet
Have you seen Mary Lambert’s new video, Body Love? Earlier this month, Jes Baker (The Militant Baker) and numerous partners and co-sponsors hosted the Body Love Conference at University of Arizona. This week, Lindsey Averill wrote about how she has been stalked,...
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 | Apr 19, 2014 | Internet
Have you had a pap smear recently? Listen to the pap rap, then schedule a smear. A new study of diagnostic practices for assessing PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) finds that only only 18.4% of physicians reported regular use of any type of daily symptom...