by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 13, 2014 | Internet
The National Academies of Science recently confirmed that styrene is a carcinogenic chemical. Why do we care? Styrene is among the chemicals listed as a fragrance in Procter & Gamble products – but P&G doesn’t identify which products. So is styrene in...
by David Linton | Sep 12, 2014 | Internet, Men, Menstruation, PMS
re-blogging re:Cycling In celebration of our fifth anniversary, we are republishing some of our favorite posts. This post by David Linton originally appeared October 8, 2009. A lot of ideas get hatched in a bar over drinks with friends. Most don’t make it past the...
by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Sep 11, 2014 | Activism, Art, Media, Menstruation
Guest Post by Jen Lewis From inception to the present, my art project Beauty in Blood has been a positivity-fueled whirlwind. In the very early stages I shared my concept with just two people, my husband and one of my dearest feminist friends. The positive and open...
by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | May 21, 2014 | Film, Humor, Menopause, Menstruation
Saniya Lee Ghanoui and David Linton Cross-posted from Public Books We don’t know where the coy linguistic practice of using-while-not-using so-called offensive words by appending the term “word” after its initial letter and preceded by “the”—as in “the N-word”; “the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 10, 2014 | Internet
This video has been making the rounds on social media, supposedly illustrating why femcare ads use blue fluid instead of red. I thought I had a pretty good sense of humor, but I don’t understand why Johnny McNulty says, “I for one will keep my big dumb...