by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Jun 17, 2014 | Birth Control, Communication, Health Care
Guest Post by Jennifer Aldoretta There seems to be a growing disconnect in recent years between physicians and their patients, and women are especially susceptible to this given our reliance on doctors for information about contraception. When compared to the...
by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | May 21, 2014 | Film, Humor, Menopause, Menstruation
Saniya Lee Ghanoui and David Linton Cross-posted from Public Books We don’t know where the coy linguistic practice of using-while-not-using so-called offensive words by appending the term “word” after its initial letter and preceded by “the”—as in “the N-word”; “the...
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 David Linton | Mar 20, 2014 | Books, Girls, Health Care, History, Menstruation
Sometimes, when it seems that progress toward the elimination of harmful menstrual stereotypes, myths, and misinformation is slow or even stalled, it is bracing to take a look back at the kinds of educational materials, marriage manuals, and sources of advice that...
by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Feb 3, 2014 | Activism, Language, Menstruation
Guest Post by Jennifer Aldoretta When I read Chris Bobel’s recent post about silent menstrual suffering, I was instantly drawn in. Although her experiences are independent of my own, this particular experience felt familiar, as though I was reading a story about my...
