by Alexandra Jacoby | Mar 15, 2012 | Anatomy, Communication, Menstruation
Tell me again, why can’t we talk about body stuff? Your body is your home. It’s your medium of self-expression — your voice spoken and written, your hands gesturing, making things, touching someone, legs walking toward, running away from, hips dancing, butt sitting,...
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 Laura Wershler | Mar 7, 2012 | Activism, Amenorrhea, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Communication, Dysmenorrhea, Health Care, Hormones, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical, PMS, Reproduction
Everybody can use a good map to help them get to where they’re going. Why not women heading to the land of non-hormonal contraception? In my post on January 11, 2012 I asked if coming off the pill was a growing trend. I proposed to write a series of posts about...
by Heather Dillaway | Mar 1, 2012 | Communication, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
The results are in: if you talk to your friends more during menopause, then your menopausal symptoms will bother you less. A study reported in The Telegraph last week suggests that talking either lessens women’s symptoms or helps them cope better (or both). In one...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 29, 2012 | Film, Independent Film, Literature, Menstruation
Guest Post by Lydia Aponte — Marymount Manhattan College In Professor David Linton’s Social Construction and Images of Menstruation course, our class watched two documentaries involving menstruation and menstrual suppression. Both Period: The End of...