by Editor | May 1, 2015 | Activism, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Girls, Health Care, Reusable menstrual products
An international panel will lead a discussion at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, June 4-6, 2015, Suffolk University, Boston on Menstrual Hygiene Management Campaigns &...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 16, 2014 | Internet
What color is your menstrual blood? And what does it indicate about your cycle and your health? A newly published Swedish study reports the risk of combined hormonal contraception raises the risk of venous thromboembolism fivefold compared to the control group....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 11, 2014
2013 Conference Highlights At our 20th biennial meeting in New York, at Marymount Manhattan College, the first “Making Menstruation Matter” award was bestowed on Gloria Steinem, author of the classic piece, “If Men Could Menstruate.” Ms. Steinem not only received an...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 24, 2014 | Internet
In Friday’s Guardian, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett explores why so many young people aren’t using contraception. Nearly everyone she spoke with for the article is British – including SMCR’s Holly Grigg-Spall — but numbers are similar in the U.S. A study...
by Holly Grigg-Spall | May 14, 2014 | Activism, Anatomy, DIY, Health Care, Humor, Literature, Menstruation
In the past few weeks I have been meeting with women’s health activist Carol Downer to collaborate on a new book. She shared with me a work published in 1969 that was a catalyst for her development of the self-help movement and feminist women’s health clinics – ‘The...