The State of Sex Ed in America
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...
Body Love and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/j3f1zii5skA 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...
Getting Congress on the Right Menstrual Track
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...
No Snack, Just Tampons
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...
A rap song for pap smears, Menstruation Barbie, and more weekend links
httpv://youtu.be/m595hMxXou0 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...
Traces of Feminist Rage
In the past few weeks, I’ve been reflecting quite a lot about feminist rage, in part because I recently participated in a panel at New York University about feminist rage with philosopher Avital Ronell, American Studies scholar Lisa Duggan, and performance artist...
