by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 28, 2010 | Media, Menopause, New Research, Newspapers
Guest Post by Heather Dillaway, Wayne State University I keep seeing news articles about a “new Iranian study” that hopes to better predict “age at menopause” for women, and the authors of this study supposedly discovered a “blood test” that will be able to “predict...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 13, 2010 | Anatomy, magazines, Menopause, New Research
Guest Post by Jerilynn Prior, M.D., Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research Yes! I’m sure you can hear my whoop of excitement and vindication. Finally, something negative about estrogen and positive about progesterone in the mainstream media. According to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 5, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Internet, Menstruation
Guest Post by Nicole Luna, Marymount Manhattan College Elizabeth Kissling’s March 16 post on the launch of the U by Kotex campaign and the comments that followed touched on the implications of the “new” Kotex products and their accompanying empowerment crusade....
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 3, 2010 | Activism, Art, DIY, Menstruation
Guest Post by Geneva Kachman, MOLT: The Museum of the Menovulatory Lifetime Back in 2000, when my Menstrual Monday journey began, an ever-reasonable friend had pointed out it took 13 years for Julia Ward Howe to establish Mother’s Day. Being a holidaymaker, and...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 20, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Menstruation
Guest Post by Chella Quint, Adventures in Menstruating Okay, Kotex? Here’s the deal: We’re only gonna stop feeling the shame when we take ownership of our periods. And we’re taking it back from you, dude. So you can’t reclaim our periods for us. You’re some of the...