by Alice Dan | Aug 29, 2013 | Activism, Menstruation
Menstruation is a topic of particular interest for feminist research, because women’s experiences of it are so overlaid with myth, rumor and hearsay. It’s very strange to be studying and writing about something we can’t bring up in polite company. It’s disorienting,...
by Breanne Fahs | Jul 27, 2012 | History, Menarche, Menstruation
Last year, the media focused much attention on the Smithsonian’s decision to pull the David Wojnarowicz video, “A Fire in My Belly,” from an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., entitled, “Hide/Seek”. The museum apologized for the piece’s...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 30, 2011 | Communication, Humor, Independent Film
Guest Post by Michael Yazujian, Marymount Manhattan College I found this sketch the other day when I was on www.ucbcomedy.com. It is by a sketch duo called Klepper and Grey, who are originally from Chicago, but now live in NYC. It is very similar to the “Her...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 14, 2010 | Communication, Objects, Religion/Spirituality
Female visitors to Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand) are faced with a difficult moral dilemma regarding the taonga Maori collection included in an upcoming tour. An invitation for regional museum staff to go on a behind-the-scenes tour of some of Te Papa’s...
by Chris Bobel | Mar 3, 2010 | Activism, Art, Menstruation
Tina Turner didn’t sing THOSE lyrics, but what if? Those that follow re:Cycling may recall-with a grin and a cringe–how Ingrid Berthon-Moine’s portraits of women wearing their menstrual blood as lipstick sent many Guardian and Salon Broadsheet...