by Heather Dillaway | Jun 21, 2012 | Communication, Girls, Language, Men, Menarche, Menstruation, Philosophy
How do you tell a preschool-aged boy that he’ll never menstruate? I thought I was doing a great thing. Ever since my daughter was born I’ve spun a positive story about menstruation for her. Even when she was 2 and 3 years old I’d tell her it was the “good blood,” the...
by Alexandra Jacoby | Jun 8, 2012 | Art, Menstruation
THIS ONE is my favorite image among the “THERE WILL BE BLOOD” series of photographs by Emma Arvida Bystrom. It’s of a young woman, in a skirt, reading at a counter that faces a window; you can see blood staining her panties through the glass, and she’s...
by Chris Bobel | May 14, 2012 | Advertising, Communication, FemCare, Menstruation
What is worse? A problem unnamed or a problem named and denied as our own? In a recent class discussion, a (white) student shared that she while she was in high school (a racially diverse high school, she explained), “everybody got along and racism was not a problem.”...
by Alexandra Jacoby | May 11, 2012 | Menstruation, Philosophy
“How come we even have a Society for Menstrual Cycle Research? Don’t we already know how it all works?” That’s what my friend said to me when I was telling him something about something that came up related to the Society. Well, do we? —Already know how it all works....
by David Linton | May 8, 2012 | Communication, magazines, Media, Menstruation
Our recent Weekend Links post referred to a cheesy piece in Cosmopolitan magazine about stupid and offensive remarks that have been said to women by their ob/gyn. At about the same time, Redbook‘s May 2012, issue had an article by another ob/gyn, Dr. Hilda...
