by Heather Dillaway | Apr 24, 2014 | Communication, Disposable menstrual products, Humor, magazines, Menstruation, Motherhood
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...
by Breanne Fahs | Apr 18, 2014 | Activism, Books, Menstruation
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...
by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Apr 11, 2014 | Activism, Art, Media, Menstruation
Guest Post by Jen Lewis Beauty in Blood Presents Ms. April: Galaxy Cycle: April 2013 Menstrual Designer: Jen Lewis Photographer: Rob Lewis...
by Laura Wershler | Apr 2, 2014 | Activism, Menstruation, Motherhood
Guest Post by Lisa Leger Posing while pregnant in my pro-choice T-shirt in 1993 was a political statement, one I made with a huge sassy grin on my face. When I recreated the pose recently on my daughter’s 21st birthday, I found it easy to reprise the grin. First take,...
by David Linton | Mar 26, 2014 | Books, Health Care, History, Men
A previous post, The Subject of Sneers or Jests: Menstrual Education in the Service of Racism, examined the confluence of eugenic notions that conflated the effects of environmental factors like clothing, alcohol, and masturbation with heredity and health as expressed...
