by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 26, 2013 | Internet
ICYMI: We shared this on Facebook earlier this week, but it’s too funny not to share again here — It’s Laura Wershler’s worst nightmare: Birth control on the bottom! Suzan wrote a personal, honest goodbye letter to menstruation this week at Period...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 29, 2012 | Internet
Seven tips to help your cloth pads last longer, from Glad Rags. Increasing restrictions on abortion access have led to a rise in DIY abortions. The Great Wall of Vagina is pretty much what it sounds like: A nine-meter-long polyptych consisting of 400 plaster casts of...
by David Linton | Oct 9, 2012 | Advertising, FemCare, Menstruation
Recently menstrual shame made the front page of the New York Times in paragraph one of an article titled, “For Women in Street Stops, Deeper Humiliation.” The piece reported on an ongoing debate about the “stop and frisk” policies of the police...
by Laura Wershler | Mar 10, 2012 | Activism, Birth Control, Health Care, Menstruation, Politics, Religion/Spirituality, Reproduction, Sex
Research by SMCR members Tomi-Ann Roberts and Nicki Dunnavan garnered a lot of attention this week. Stories showed up at Live Science – Why Why Women Should Bring Their Periods ‘Out of the Closet, popular ladyblog Jezebel – Your Period Is a Time for Deep...
by David Linton | Feb 27, 2012 | Literature, Men, Menstruation
The menstrual cycle has been of interest to novelists from time to time and some of their work has received critical attention by scholars, most notably in Dana Medoro’s Bleeding in America, a seminal study that assesses the menstrual elements in the novels of...