Blood clots, bush, premiere of Bloomers, and more weekend links
Bloomers, a new film-in-progress by independent Australian filmmakers about Stella getting her first period, makes its first festival appearance at FlickerFest, Wednesday, Jan 15, in Sydney. Bedsider puts the blood clot risk of hormonal contraception in perspective:...
Food. Fashion. Blood?
A month ago I was musing about what it might be like to blog about fun stuff like food, fashion or travel - you know, topics not quite so “fraught” as the menstrual cycle. Sometimes it feels like just so much work sharing facts and opinions about why body literacy...
Diary of a Mad Menstrual Metaphor
In 1967 a new novel, Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman, struck a chord with Boomer Generation women, the post-war era's cohort who were already the subject of Betty Friedan's 1963 The Feminine Mystique and who are characterized today in TV's Mad Men. The novel...
Female Founders & Women in STEM
Guest Post by Jennifer Aldoretta Women currently comprise approximately 46% of the workforce and 50% of college graduates in the United States. But if we look at the statistics for women holding “powerful” positions, we notice a stark difference: women make up 18.5%...
Recursiveness
A few years ago, in response to an article of mine on menopause, an editor encouraged me to think of women’s reproductive lives as “recursive”. Little did he know how much his comment would affect my thinking about women’s lives and life in general. Recursiveness is a...
Global Menstrual Progress
Nicholas D. Kristof has for some years been a regular contributor to the op-ed page of The New York Times where he frequently writes about sex trafficking, child abuse, and the lives of women around the world. In 2009 Kristof and his wife and writing partner, Sheryl...
