by Breanne Fahs | Oct 28, 2016 | Activism, Psychology
Excerpt from Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance, by Breanne Fahs SUNY Press, November, 2016 In 2012 Petra Collins, an outspoken artist and activist, designed a t-shirt for American Apparel that depicted a hairy menstruating vulva with fingers...
by Editor | Jul 19, 2016 | Activism, New Research
Chris Bobel, PhD (Urban Studies, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee), Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies, University of Massachusetts—Boston When and/or why did you join the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research? I gave a paper at a conference and in...
by Editor | May 31, 2016 | Communication, Media
Giuliana Serena critiques Newsweek’s period stigma cover story Note: This piece was first published on MoontimeRising.com. It has been edited for length for this repost at Menstruation Matters. I was pleasantly surprised and cautiously optimistic when I caught...
by David Linton | Feb 16, 2016 | FemCare, magazines, Media, Newspapers, Television
It seems we’ve reached a tipping point, as Malcolm Gladwell would put it, or perhaps a paradigm shift, as Thomas Kuhn might say, in the level of acceptance of menstrual cycle references in mainstream media. As re:Cycling demonstrated recently in the time line of...
by Editor | Feb 11, 2016 | Activism, Law/Legal, Psychology
A Feminist Psychological Scientist’s Musings on Evidence-Based Menstrual Justice Advocacy By Tomi-Ann Roberts, PhD My research explores the relationships between sexual objectification, self-objectification and negative attitudes toward women’s bodily selves,...